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Another VMware Cloud: Charles River Laboratories Runs Their Hybrid Cloud on VMware

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Channel: VMware · 2012 · Science & Technology

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http://ow.ly/aGstI -- Steve Speirs, Chief Technology Officer at Charles River Labs, shares how the VMware hybrid cloud model has enabled the company to seamlessly manage the transition of resources between their on-premise infrastructure and the cloud, resulting in improved agility, flexibility and cost-savings. More info on the vCloud blog: http://ow.ly/aGstI

Charles River Labs virtualized business critical help desk application that typically handles 100-200 tickets per day. First application to prove concept of public cloud deployment of business critical applications. Business impact was mainly for Capex reduction: capping internal datacenter spending and to deploy new systems on the public cloud & migrate others over the next few years. Able to co-exist with existing VMware environment and taking existing apps to public cloud without re-writing.

"I see Cloud being key to our overall strategy moving forward. The days of us investing heavily all of our capital into building hardware and infrastructure are past now. With the options that are available now from cloud partners, they bring agility, flexibility and in some case cost savings as well, for using that model."
-- Steven Spiers, CTO, Charles River Labs

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