VMware Infrastructure 3 Drives Server Consolidation and Optimization While Ensuring Simple Management and Increased Availability

Aspen Pharmacare is Africa's largest pharmaceutical manufacturer and a major supplier of branded pharmaceutical, healthcare and nutritional products to southern Africa and selected international markets. To continue to succeed in the global marketplace and comply with Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) regulations, Williams needed to address the following challenges: management of servers in widely distributed geographical locations, low average CPU utilization, complex and time consuming disaster recovery practices and improving the cost-effectiveness of IT operations. With the consulting advice of Workgroup, a specialist distributor of software products in the southern and South African IT markets, Williams chose to implement VMware Infrastructure 3 Enterprise Edition for server consolidation and optimization, as well as reliable disaster recovery and management capabilities.