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ESX Plus WAN Optimization: How Lantmännen Will Save 17M Million in Data Center Costs and Help Protect the Environment

Lantmännen, one of the largest groups in the food, energy, and agricultural industries in the Nordic region, is active in every part of the value chain from farmland to table. Its 'Standardize Workplace' initiative is a comprehensive and strategic mandate to drive cost savings and consolidation of hundreds branch offices into a virtualized VMware environment and just two Data Centers. There are three key elements of the program: standardization of end user hardware and software across all of its holdings, server virtualization and application acceleration.
How has Lantmännen consolidated and centralized data center infrastructure and management? With WAN links of varying speeds connecting its branch offices worldwide, how is the company guaranteeing LAN-like application performance for all users, regardless of their location? Finally, in an industry that accounts for 25% of all carbon dioxide emissions, what steps is Lantmannen taking to significantly reduce its environmental footprint?
In this session, Lantmännen will detail and highlight the benefits of:
-VMware ESX as the consolidation platform in the datacenter
-Riverbed Technology's Steelhead WAN Optimization appliances to eliminate latency and bandwidth issues and deliver LAN-like performance to all users.
-Consolidating physical to virtual infrastructure.

Desktop Virtualization

Technical Session

ESX Plus WAN Optimization, Data Center, consolidation

1 Hour

Dennis Jansson Manager, Network and Security
Lantmannen