FT500 #172 company and #74 in the Green List – how they use VMware to save $23M

Who would that be?  Well EMC of course :-)

• Our Fortune 500 standing: http://www.hoovers.com/company/EMC_Corporation/rfcsri-1.html
• Our Newsweek “The Green List” ranking: http://greenrankings.newsweek.com/companies/view/emc

We have a VERY aggressive use of technology within our own IT shop to hit efficiency, cost savings, and flexibility goals.   If you’re interested – join this webcast on Thursday!

Thursday, December 10, 2009 - 8 am PT / 11 am ET
Learn More: http://info.emc.com/mk/get/DBM5457-1923_raf_lp?reg_src=WEB

Topic: Exclusive, inside look at EMC's virtualization status—from challenges faced, lessons learned and best practices developed, to future plans. Leverage EMC's own project to transform your data center. Paul Divittorio, Director of IT Enterprise Systems and Application Hosting Architecture at EMC, hosts this technical webcast and Q&A session.

Paul Divitorrio is great, frank, and blunt.   How we use all the stuff we talk about is a fascinating story.  It’s not all sunshine, rainbows and unicorns – there’s good/bad/learning.  The good thing is EMC IT consumes products about 6 months prior to GA.    They help find and fix issues, and also and influence product direction.  

We’re undertaking our large-scale View 4 rollout now (have been doing a VDI pilot for a while), so that’s a relatively new thing, along with Vblock deployment.   Ask him about our mission-critical apps on vSphere 4!