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I Customer Snapshot “A marginal investment in VMware technology

can result in huge gains in terms of productivity
or competitive advantage—and having Intel
technology helps ensure that you can get the
most out of the investment you make.”

Scott Goldman
IT Manager, Lodgen, Lacher, Golditch,
HIGHLIGHTS Sardi, Saunders, & Howard, LLP

CHALLENGE
 PA Firm Finds That the Numbers Add
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Physical IT infrastructure hinders growth
of small firm
Up with Virtualization
Lodgen, Lacher, Golditch, Sardi, Saunders, & Howard, LLP (LLGSSH CPA) is a Los Angeles-based CPA firm with
SOLUTION
60 employees.
VMware® and Intel® technology creates
a scalable IT platform that simplifies IT
To support its operations, the firm had historically relied on physical servers to host its critical accounting
administration and improves availability
of critical applications applications and Windows-based infrastructure. Unfortunately, the firm reached a point where new applications
were creating conflicts with applications already on the server. “As a small to midsized business, we don’t have
VMWARE AND INTEL AT WORK unlimited resources,” says Scott Goldman, IT Manager at LLGSSH CPA. “We can’t have a physical server for
VMware vSphere 4, featuring: each application.”
• VMware ESX Server
™

°° Dell 2950 servers with Intel Xeon 5300 Virtualization provided an effective way for LLGSSH CPA to tackle this challenge. The firm deployed
and 5400 processors attached to a Dell
MD3000i SAN VMware vSphere 4—the most trusted and reliable virtualization platform in the industry—onto servers with
• VMware VirtualCenter 4.0 the latest Intel Xeon processors. “I like how Intel has integrated and enabled features within their chipset to
• VMware VMotion™ work with VMware technology,” says Goldman. “For example, I can use enhanced VMware VMotion to live-

• V Mware Distributed Resource migrate machines amongst different physical boxes—even if they have different generations of Intel CPUs.”
Scheduler (DRS)
• VMware High Availability (HA) Having a virtual infrastructure in place has enabled LLGSSH to quickly and easily provision dedicated Windows
servers for new accounting applications, eliminating potential system conflicts and simplifying IT administration.
DEPLOYMENT ENVIRONMENT “With virtualization, we are able to better compete against other CPA firms by deploying servers and additional
•  uest operating systems: Windows 2003,
G services that we otherwise would not have been able to,” concludes Goldman.
Windows 2008

• V irtualized Applications: SQL Server 2005,

Microsoft Exchange 2007, QuickBooks,
Quicken, Blackberry Enterprise Server, RESULTS
Prosystem fx Tax, Prosystem fx Engage-
Provide greater reliability for busi-
ment, Prosystem fx Practice, Multiple
ness-critical applications. “We’re
versions of QuickBooks and Quicken,
an accounting firm—if we don’t
multiple tax applications, DNS, DHCP,
have access to our applications, our
domain controllers
accountants can’t do their work,”
says Goldman. “It’s reassuring to
know that features like VMware
High Availability, VMware Distribut-
ed Resource Scheduler, and VMware
vMotion can work across all of our
Intel-based machines.”
Avoid $10k in storage costs. “The new
Thin Provisioning feature of vSphere
ensures that our virtual machines only
take up as much storage space as they
actually need,” says Goldman. “That
has allowed us to defer a $10,000
SAN purchase for the time being.”
Save tens of thousands of dollars in
server costs. “We estimate $7000
in savings for each Windows 2003
instance deployed as a virtual
machine instead of a physical box,”
says Goldman. “And the power in
Intel’s processors means that we
can keep on adding virtual machines
onto our VMware ESX hypervisors
and still get all the performance we
need out of our applications.”

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