custo m er s n apshot

PR O D U C T DATA S H E E T

As a startup software company focused on meeting the broad needs

of the Fortune 1000, its important for us to maximize our hardware
investments. VMware software allows us to get maximum productivity
out of our IT infrastructureand it lets us do so very easily. The software
is incredibly straightforward.
Eden Shochat
CTO, VP Strategic Planning, Aternity, Inc.

KEY HIGHLIGHTS
ind u str y : technolog y

CHALLENGE
Reduce time required for software development and
solution deployment in diverse IT environments

SOLUTION
VMware Server and VMware Infrastructure 3 allow
software to be tested and deployed on ready-to-run
virtual machines, streamlining processes.

V M w a r e at Wo r k
VMware Infrastructure 3 Enterprise, featuring:
ESX Server 3 with VMFS
High Availability
Distributed Resource Scheduling
VirtualCenter 2
VMware Server

d eplo y ment envi r onment

ESX Server running on IBM Dual Core, Dual
Processor X3650. IBM Blade System, featuring 12
Blades and 3TB of SAN storage
Guest operating systems: Windows 2003 Server,
Windows XP, Linux Red Hat Enterprise 4
Applications: Aternitys Web-based applications,
including its performance monitoring software

Aternity, Inc.
Aternity, Inc. is the leader in Frontline Performance Intelligence for
Global 1000 enterprises. Aternity arms business managers and IT
departments with precise information on how Frontline users experiences impact business results, and gives them a path to constant
business improvement.
Two of the biggest challenges Aternity faces as a software developer
are: 1) testing its software in different IT environments; and 2) deploying its software at customer sites. A lot of companies have rules
against outside hardware, says Eden Shochat, CTO and vice president
of strategic planning at Aternity. So, if we were planning to run our
software on a server that wed brought to the customer site, we could
be out of luckthey might require us to go through a formal server
acquisition process, which can take weeks.
Fortunately, VMware software was able to address both these challenges. Using VMware Server, Aternity is able to streamline software
development and testing at its overseas test lab in Israel. Being able
to easily create multiple environments with different operating
systems on the same server saves them having to make a large investment in an overseas data center. Additionally, solution deployments
at customer sites are much quicker, thanks to VMware Infrastructure 3,
which allows Aternity to easily push out solutions to customers.

Results
Achieved 4-to-1 server consolidation. Wed need 40 physical
machines to accomplish what were currently accomplishing with
10 machines and VMware software, says Shochat. Avoiding those
hardware costs allows us to focus more resources on our core
business.
Reduced time required for solution deployments by days.
Rather than dragging a physical server to a customer site, I can
produce a VMware image in our environment, hand it off to the
customer and have our solution up and running in 25 minutes, says
Shochat. That streamlines the deployment process by many hours, if
not days.
Chopped rack space costs in half. When it comes to rack space,
the goal is to keep only as much as you need, and no more, says
Shochat. If we didnt have VMware software, wed need to double
our rack space, at a cost of several thousand dollars per rack.
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