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Challenge
Located in the heart of Microsoft’s Redmond, Washington campus, the Microsoft
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Partner Solutions Center (MPSC) offers enterprise customers, partners, and
business units a state-of-the-art IT facility to test and demonstrate hardware and
software solutions for a wide range of scenarios. Helping ensure that sales teams
have access to the resources and hosting capability that they need to present the
right first impression is not only critical to business growth, but also important for
building strategic partnerships with key vendors.
business units a state-of-the-art IT facility to test and demonstrate hardware and
software solutions for a wide range of scenarios. Helping ensure that sales teams
have access to the resources and hosting capability that they need to present the
right first impression is not only critical to business growth, but also important for
building strategic partnerships with key vendors.
The MPSC’s early adoption of data center virtualization has served as a model for
other customer engagement projects, and set the foundation for delivering private
cloud platforms. When the leases on the organization’s previous servers were up for
renewal, the data center team felt that it was the perfect time to refresh its approach
to virtualization. “Each time we do a hardware refresh with a partner, our goal is to
implement an operational practice that is at least two years ahead of standard market
installations,” says David Hayes, Senior Director at the MPSC.
other customer engagement projects, and set the foundation for delivering private
cloud platforms. When the leases on the organization’s previous servers were up for
renewal, the data center team felt that it was the perfect time to refresh its approach
to virtualization. “Each time we do a hardware refresh with a partner, our goal is to
implement an operational practice that is at least two years ahead of standard market
installations,” says David Hayes, Senior Director at the MPSC.
In particular, the MPSC wanted a new platform that could optimize processor
memory, density, and availability, while decreasing its physical footprint even more.
Additionally, the solution had to improve virtualization services and scale easily.
memory, density, and availability, while decreasing its physical footprint even more.
Additionally, the solution had to improve virtualization services and scale easily.
The only challenge was in finding a vendor whose products would be compatible with
Microsoft’s own set of applications, specifically Microsoft System Center. “The MPSC
lab environment runs end to end with System Center, Virtual Machine Manager and
other Microsoft products, and our entire data center operations are managed by just
four staff members, so the ability to manage the entire system through a single Systems
Center-compatible console was a key factor in our decision process,” says Hayes.
Microsoft’s own set of applications, specifically Microsoft System Center. “The MPSC
lab environment runs end to end with System Center, Virtual Machine Manager and
other Microsoft products, and our entire data center operations are managed by just
four staff members, so the ability to manage the entire system through a single Systems
Center-compatible console was a key factor in our decision process,” says Hayes.
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Executive Summary
Customer Name:
Microsoft Corporation
Industry:
Technology
Location:
Redmond, Washington
Number of Employees:
90,412
Challenge
• Enhance virtualization infrastructure
with new, advanced server platform
• Update processor and memory
availability, and decrease data center
footprint
• Improve virtualized services and
create private cloud
Solution
• Cisco Unified Computing System
provides full management platform
and virtual machine automation
• Cisco Nexus 7000 and 5000 Series
Switches provide 10GigE connectivity
• Cisco Services helps the Microsoft
Partner Solutions Center (MPSC)
migrate to Cisco UCS in just one day
Results
• Streamlined data center operations
with fully automated provisioning
• Reduced deployment time for host
servers from day to less than hour
• Lowered power usage by 66 percent,
resulting in major cost savings
Customer Case Study
Private Cloud Enhances
Service Delivery