The Schwan Food Company Uses Intel Processor - Based Servers to Extend Virtualization to New Applications, Cut Power Consumption by 13 Percent, and Reduce the Hardware Footprint by 30 Percent

From its humble beginnings 57 years ago as an ice cream home-delivery service in Minnesota, The Schwan Food Company (Schwan) has grown to become a multibillion-dollar enterprise that relies on IT to sell its frozen foods from traditional delivery trucks, in grocery-store freezers, online, and in the foodservice industry. In 2001, the company began virtualizing its IT infrastructure to improve response time and cut costs, while migrating mission-critical applications from a mainframe to Intel processor - based servers. Over the last two years, continued virtualization with the Intel Xeon processor 5500 and 7400 series has helped the company reduce power and cooling by 13 percent, decrease server real estate by 30 percent, and extend virtualization to new applications across the enterprise.