Founded in 1905, Anchor Hocking is a leading marketer and manufacturer of a comprehensive line of glass products including beverageware, candle containers, servingware, ovenware, storageware, lighting components and other glass products sold under various brand names or as customized solutions for private label lines. Anchor Hocking is the second largest supplier of glassware in the United States. Its glassware products cross all price points through the retail, specialty (business-to-business), and hospitality channels.
Of the 1,500 people located in Anchor Hocking’s two primary production centers in Lancaster and Monaca PA, about 450 office workers depend upon their IT environment to support their use of the Microsoft suite, including Exchange 2010 as well as their Oracle ERP system to conduct their business.
HD Supply is a leading wholesale distribution company, providing a broad range of products and services to professional customers in the infrastructure and energy, maintenance, repair and improvement and specialty construction markets. With a diverse portfolio of industry-leading businesses, HD Supply is one of the largest diversified wholesale distributors in North America, with approximately 765 locations.
HD Supply Director of Information Technology Bradford Cowles oversees two enterprise data centers with 540 VMs running on 53 physical ESX hosts, as well as four additional sites with another 20 hosts and 200 VMs for HA.
Indiana University is a major multi-campus public research institution, grounded in the liberal arts and sciences, and a world leader in professional, medical, and technological education. Indiana University’s mission is to provide broad access to undergraduate, graduate, and continuing education for students throughout Indiana, the United States, and the world, as well as outstanding academic and cultural programs and student services.
In 2003, Indiana University made a strategic decision to find an x86 virtualization solution. Robert Reynolds, now the lead virtualization architect, was part of the University’s mainframe server administration group responsible for exploring new technologies that could help them transition to a distributed environment.
L-3 Communications has grown very quickly into the sixth largest defense company in the United States, and is a leader and prime defense contractor in Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR), secure communications, government services, training and simulation and aircraft modernization and maintenance. The company also is a leading merchant supplier of guidance and navigation products and systems, sensors, scanners, fuzes, data links, propulsion systems, avionics, electro optics, satellite communications, electrical power equipment, encryption products, signal intelligence, antennas and microwave products.
L-3's Lead Virtualization Architect David Snow manages systems for about 4,000 L3 users spread across several states. Split between production and development, Snow estimates that he has about 140 VMs running on 11 physical servers which run everything from SQL-based applications to Microsoft Exchange for the enterprise.