Case Study

Case Study: Graybar Electric Builds Virtualization Into The DNA Of Its Infrastructure

Galen Schreck
Rachel A. Dines
 and  one contributors
May 14, 2009

Summary

Five years ago, the supply chain management services giant Graybar Electric began to dabble in virtualization technologies. Today, it has a large and successful virtual server and storage environment and has not added a watt to its data center in two years despite growing the infrastructure by 35%. How did they do it? In short, Graybar's success can mainly be attributed to the attitude that its infrastructure and operations (I&O) department adopted with respect to virtualization.

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