Holding Company Enhances Availability and IT Services, Cuts Costs With Virtualization

Founded in 1834, Ayala Corporation is a renowned, highly diversified holding company based in the Philippines. Committed to using advanced technologies to help maximize business investments and enhance employee productivity, the company's IT staff sought a cost-effective way to streamline IT management tasks and optimize application and server availability. Using the Windows Server 2008 Datacenter operating system with Hyper-V technology and several Microsoft System Center products, Ayala consolidated physical servers by more than 60 percent and reduced server rack space requirements by half.