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Enterprise IT, Featured, News - Wednesday, May 2, 2012 17:15 - 7 Comments
Pacific swaps out VMware for Hyper-V
news Clothing and homewares manufacturer Pacific Brands has revealed it switched out VMware’s market-dominating virtualisation platform over the past several years, installing Microsoft’s rival Hyper-V system instead as it sought to take more advantage of virtualisation in its operations.
According to the company’s technical services lead Brent England, the company’s virtualisation journey started in 2007. Pacific was initially using VMware’s ESX 3 platform to virtualise its central server infrastructure, which it eventually upgraded to version 3.5. The company kept on using the software for the next several years, but by the time 2010 rolled around, the situation had started getting a little uncomfortable. England says by that time, Pacific was experiencing a number of performance issues which were causing some of its staff running its business applications to complain.








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