VMware vSphere ROI
it_user171321
Sr. System Engineer VMW Specialist at a government with 501-1,000 employees
We did not assess the ROI. But, as a system engineer, it is huge.
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Brian Kirsch
Instructor at Milwaukee Area Technical College
Given that we spin up and down hundreds of VMs, we physically couldn't do that with physical hardware. It would just be financially impossible. Having a virtualized infrastructure and being able to bring up Windows, Linux, and VMware within a virtualized environment brings more technology into the classroom. Without it, we couldn't do what we do.
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Senior Systems Analyst at Manufacturing Organization
It's hard to calculate the ROI but I know that in our main, corporate data center we have gone from 700-plus Hewlett Packard servers down to fewer than 50 physical servers for the Hypervisor. We still have some legacy physicals that have not been virtualized yet but, over the course of this current refresh and into next year, those should go away.
In addition, in our paper mills and pulp mills we have heavily adopted virtualization, and in our box plants, where we make container boxes for shipments, we have seen a ratio of five servers down to one, and that's over a couple of hundred sites.
While an actual ROI number is hard to calculate, if you think about the yearly maintenance on all of those systems, it's very vast and deep. It also allows us the portability to expand rapidly and add virtual machines with virtually no overhead, once the initial architecture has been built.
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VMware vSphere
March 2024
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Zack Baraci
Systems Engeneer at Wurth Australia Pty. Ltd.
I believe the biggest return on investment stemmed from significantly reduced deployment time frames. Commissioning and deploying systems and accommodating growth became much faster—measured in days rather than months. This efficiency and consolidation efforts resulted in a high long-term ROI.
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Sameer Gusain
Technical Lead at Sopra Steria
The product helps us save around 20% to 30% of costs.
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AllanTrambouze
Consultant senior en technologie de l'information at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The ROI is very fast due to virtualization, perhaps a couple of months.
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Francis KACOU
Head of Service and Storage Infrastructure at GS2E
Yes, I have seen a return on investment, but I am not the appropriate person to tell you about it. Our company is large in size. There are people working on it, doing economic studies to see if we can get a return on investment. What I can tell you is that there is a return on investment. But I can't tell you the specifics right now.
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Jason Hong-Turney
Lead IT Systems Engineer at a tech consulting company with 10,001+ employees
Moving to 6.7, like I said, has standardized a lot of our environment for us so we have definitely seen a reduction in the amount of time we are spending trying to troubleshoot things. It's very consistent. Everything has performed exactly how we expected it to.
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Stephen Parker
Systems Engineer at BYU Idaho
The biggest ROI has been technical. Technically, it's much easier to deploy, much easier for the end-user to use, we have much happier end-users. As they manage their systems, they're much happier without having to install a client, which takes time, takes resources on their machine. They can do it from any device, anywhere, at any time, which is very nice for them.
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Michael Huset
Senior Systems Administrator at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Performance is somewhat relative, but an overall return on investment comes from not having multiple physical servers and from helping to aggregate a lot of the processors and RAM, and being able to use them more efficiently. We're not really worried about speed but about more efficiency.
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Datacenter Manager at a healthcare company with 501-1,000 employees
We expect to save in the $100,000 range after only one year since we virtualized more servers.
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HemantJoshi2
TEM Practice at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
The biggest benefit we had with VMware vSphere is that we could provide effective service to our end customers. I was able to support multiple operating systems on VMware, which was the biggest value of the product.
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reviewer939042
Chief Technology Officer at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
As far as our ROI goes, vSphere actually reduces time to set up a server by a ton. By a server, I mean a virtual machine. In the past, you'd have to order in hardware, wait weeks for it to come in, and then install Windows, patch it, and actually go deploy it at the customer location. Now, if the customer's already running vSphere, all we have to do is log in to that, build the VM, and install Windows and we're good to go. We've gone from days to an hour, probably.
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Brandon Morris
System Administrator at City of Sioux Falls
For return on investment, I don't know that I can give you any real hard and fast numbers on things, but I can tell you, from a time perspective, what vSphere has been able to do for us. When I started out, provisioning servers was a very long and drawn out process. Now, we're to a point where literally, from the moment I decide I want a server to the time that Windows is up and running is less than ten minutes, and that's fantastic to me too.
It saves me a lot of time because I'm now provisioning several servers a week and that's just par for the course. All that time that you do that repetitive, tedious type work, is time that you're not being able to deliver meaningful, value-added work for the company.
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Luis Arencibia
IT Operations Services Manager at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
It keeps together a lot of different environments, making it easier and faster to work. It definitely has a good turn around.
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Chief Technology Officer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The ROI on virtualization platform isn't always necessarily completely obvious at first glance, as the initial cost to implement it is typically fairly high. However, keeping in mind the soft costs, it would easily prove to be more economical than traditional solutions. Not only that, but it also will require less engineers to manage the system, as all the management tools are built-in within vCenter, to create a unified solution that would ultimately reduce management cost.
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SeniorSyb3f0
Senior Systems Administrator at a consultancy with 5,001-10,000 employees
One of the things I think a lot of people are inherently bad about is assuming ROI and never quantifying it. Where I am, we've done a pretty good job of quantifying over the years. We've not only studied everything down to the number of Velcro ties used but the number of cores, the cost per core for network, even power cords, and including the consumption of water.
We've been able to quantify virtualizing everything we can, instead of just assuming it, for ROI. We have been able to show quite a bit of good discipline around that. Again, on behalf of tax-payer dollars, I feel confident that with our shift to virtualization over a decade ago, we can definitely quantify our ROI. It's really simple.
Data-centers grow in a different direction now. They grow smaller and they become very dense, very lean, and that, unto itself, shows an ROI. There's really not a whole lot of assuming at this point that needs to be done. It's just there. You can quantify it very easily.
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Sid Sharma
Lead QA Analyst at Loomis Express
We have definitely seen a return on investment. Previously, if a plant's PC goes down 4,000 kilometers away, we had to ship that machine to our head office to repair it and then send it back. We don't have to do that now because we are using vSphere. We just can upgrade all of our software with ThinApps.
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Udom In
Information Technology Manager at The Olympia Medical hub
This solution has kept our business operating and has saved us money.
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Allan Trambouze
Senior Consultant at Cofomo
Our ROI is good.
There is an average performance boost, especially if you use VM encryption inside the VMware with another product, like McAfee. You will see great improvement in these cases.
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Daniel Pietrasanta
IT Systems Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
We see a high return on investment, precisely because of the higher density hardware. We're using fewer hypervisors, which results in some return. We also have more virtual servers and less cost. Everything goes hand-in-hand.
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reviewer924948
Senior Manager Systems/Network, Global Information Systems at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We are spending less on buying bigger machines, which are overprovisioned. Thus, the ROI is found in consolidation and cost savings.
There are a lot of management and soft skills that we end up being able to save on. For example, my engineers in Canada could watch over systems in China, California, and Phoenix. Thus, it gives us the flexibility of administration.
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reviewer924351
Director, Windows Server Infrastructure at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
I don't know that I can give you a number, but our ROI has been significant.
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IT Representative at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees
Well I am not in the accounting office, but I would "guestimate" that it pays for itself with the increase in efficiency, the ability to circumvent the need to have a ratio of 1 machine for every server, and it doesn't crash.
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DesktopS0c59
Desktop Support Supervisor at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees
Our ROI comes from being able to replace a lot of our endpoints, mostly on the Horizon side. But using vSphere with all the endpoints, replacing all of our physical machines as well with Dell EMC's wide clients, it has almost been invaluable to us. The cost savings have been great there: buying $300 machines instead of $1,000 PCs.
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MUKUNDKULKARNI
IT Manager at KIRLOSKAR PNEUMATIC CO. LTD.
When you spend on this solution you will get it back.
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David Grimes
VP of Product Engineering at Navisite
- Compared to deploying traditional infrastructure models, like bare metal, and the ability to virtualize and maximize the utilization of the physical infrastructure speaks well for ROI.
- In today's market, agility is the new currency. Without virtualization, and vSphere in particular, we wouldn't have the level of agility in the business that we have today. Frankly, it's needed by pretty much any industry. Regardless of whether you're technology-centric or not, you are a technology company.
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Domingos Francisco
IT Administrator at a healthcare company with 201-500 employees
We have saved money from reducing the number of systems needed, the time it takes for someone to do implementations, and the electricity used for the systems.
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Trevor Napier
System Administrator at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
ROI is tough to quantify once you are already in bed with VMware. However, I did a comparison between physical server to virtual. There was a point in time where we would size out a virtual server to be a massive size, then we'd buy a physical server of the equivalence. We saved somewhere around 20 percent going virtual, as opposed to the physical equivalent.
I have seen a performance boost in a sense that we have provided better utilization of system resources within vSphere. However, I don't have an actual percentage to provide.
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Robert Cox
Systems Engineer at Vestmark inc
When I first started at Vestmark, a little over four years ago, everything was physical. We had a row of about seven to ten racks - I forget the exact number - of just physical machines. After going virtual, using VMware, vCenter on Cisco UCS, we dropped that down to two racks.
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Ayodeji Ariyo
Senior Network Engineer with 1,001-5,000 employees
We see a tremendous return on investment.
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Raden Evangelista
Systems Engineerineering Manager at a wholesaler/distributor with 51-200 employees
Most of our current customers are pretty happy. They don't utilize VMware, but we just sell the software for them. Internally, we use VMware for support.
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Senior Vice President at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees
This is always an issue. The ROI is heavily laden with soft dollar savings on an existing environment. Look two to three years out and make this a strategic decision rather than a tactical one and the ROI will be realized.
Chris Childerhose
Lead Infrastructure Architect at ThinkON
Has allowed us to run our HPE DL580 G7 servers still without issues so spend on hardware has been next to nothing.
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Stephen Krujelskis
Senior System Administrator at a university with 501-1,000 employees
Straying a little bit from vSphere, but on vROps, the ROI that we're getting from that is that we're able to reclaim a lot of idle and oversized VMs, and we're actually saving money or actually giving ourselves more time with the resources we have, before we have to purchase new stuff. So that's an ROI.
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Rob Pease
IT Director at Jewish Family Service
Our ROI is huge. We put, in hardware and software, probably $80,000 dollars into the solution and have never spent another penny in the last five years, other than for support. Compare that to a budget of $30,000 a year, we'd be at $150,000 in those five years. So, the return on investment is huge.
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Muhammad Tanvir Ashraf
Systems and Network Administrator at Gulf Precast Concrete Co. LLC at Gulf Precast Concrete Co. LLC
It took quite a long time, but in the end, I think that it benefits us in terms of ROI.
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Luis Gomez
Server Engineer at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees
I honestly don't know what our ROI is, but it's a lot.
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ITAnalysac7f
IT Analyst at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
The business is able to gain in faster services because you are provisioning the ends more quickly due to templates. Thus, the provisioning is quite good.
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Blake Grover
System Admin at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
I'm not very good at ROIs, but I know that it has improved the management of the VMs, and being able to help customers more easily and faster has been an improvement with this release.
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SystemAd3999
System Administrator at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
Our ROI is the ease of use for users.
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NetworkAa4a7
Network Administrator at a educational organization with 5,001-10,000 employees
I don't really deal with the budget so it would be hard for me to say what our ROI is, but my boss does the budget and he seems happy. We keep getting more resources and more things are being virtualized.
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Works at a energy/utilities company with 501-1,000 employees
It is superb. Level of hardware investment went down. Scalability and power is superb. Next am deploying BI and warehousing on DELL poweredge using VMware and later a 4 tier (a true 4 tier) datacenter in Kenya.
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Stevenson University Systems Administrator at a university with 501-1,000 employees
Our ROI is incalculable. We are a university and a university is its data. We can only afford to trust the very best. VMware has a reputation for being the "big player" for a reason, they really do the best. Hyper-V has come a long, long way since its first release, but it still has catching up to do.
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reviewer1173861
Global IT Infrastructure Architect at a wholesaler/distributor with 5,001-10,000 employees
With respect to our return on investment, this product is definitely worth it. It is not cheap and there is a cost associated with additional licenses, but there are not very many options.
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Walmik Wankhede
Manager IT at a healthcare company with 201-500 employees
As per our requirements and usability, the product is good.
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Sajag Chaturvedi
IT Infrastructure Architect at a retailer
In the past six months, we have saved around 110TBs of storage, which is almost equivalent to $200,000 USD. That is a huge savings.
We have seen a tremendous performance boost. From when we started this VMware engagement in 2016 until now, we have seen around a 70 percent performance boost. This is a good number.
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CIO9dd5
CIO at a library with 201-500 employees
On the server side, we have definitely seen ROI. If servers fail we just restart them, if a piece of hardware fails we just move it. We haven't saved any money but we have been able to double our load without adding any more staff. That's our ROI.
In real terms, because of the cost of the product, I don't know that we really save anything. We're a public institution and we tend to have very long time frames for holding onto hardware, not like a corporation. I would say it's a wash on a pure ROI, unless we can look into the future and say, “I'm going to be able to do increased stuff without adding any money.”
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SrEngineer672
Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
For clients, they can purchase less hardware than what they would require if they did not take advantage of vSphere. Even a small company would have 4 or 5 required servers for applications (Authentication, Email, SQL/Application, and File & Print). Purchasing a single copy of vSphere Essentials or Essentials Plus is less than a server.
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Huy Le Quang
Cloud Professional Architect at FPT Software
I think VMware is a good investment. We use VMware to maintain our internal system.
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Network Architect at a tech company with 10,001+ employees
ROI is hard to measure because it depends upon the customer's relationship with the solution and how much they spent on it.
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Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Considering the consolidation and virtualisation portion of it, for a Greenfield, very good. For brownfield and considering license costs and removing the benefits of virtualisation, it is an ROI nightmare, but focusing on the product itself vSphere delivers a good ROI, lower than competitors but still OK.
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reviewer1016370
System Administrator at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
Considering that this solution has cut down on the number of real machines that I have, I would expect there to have been cost savings.
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Deputy Director at a government with 501-1,000 employees
We did not calculate the ROI because we are a non-profit organization. As a state enterprise, our primary mission is to implement, administrate, and maintain information systems in the agricultural sector.
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Systems Support Analyst at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
This solution is recommended for environments considered medium and above (in the number of servers and hosts). If you are intending deploy this solution to small environments, the cost-benefit is not worth it. VMware provides a free license to be put in small environments, but all the good features of the systems will be disabled. For smaller businesses, I would recommend another solution.
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ITInfras287c
IT Infrastructure Architect at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The biggest ROI is the decrease of the physical server in our data center. By reducing that physical server, we're able to reduce our network infrastructure, we're able to reduce the footprint in the data center, and that allows us to recover costs in just operating that data center.
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IS Director at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
As a small organization, we don't track specific ROI. What I can say is that we most definitely would have spent a significant amount more money and time if we continued using physical servers instead of virtual servers.
it_user313893
Operations Director at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
None as of yet but hopefully we will see one.
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Senior Manager of Network at a tech company with 51-200 employees
Reduced Electricity Bills, reduced hardware and warranty costs. Reduced server implementation time. Increased management and availability of corporate services.
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it_user938985
Customer Engineer at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees
Being a field engineer, it's a little more difficult for me because I'm not involved with the finances of the company. But we know that we're getting a strong ROI because the amount of money that we're spending on external assets seems to come down every year. We're getting by with what we have longer and making more efficient use of it.
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SystemsAe086
Systems Administrator at a pharma/biotech company with 51-200 employees
We're a small, privately held company, so ROI is not something we concentrate a lot on. But just from the surface appearance, it has really helped us.
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Senior System Analyst at a hospitality company with 1,001-5,000 employees
No attempt to calculate ROI has been made on the current environment.
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Senior Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The ROI is much better with the VSOM.
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IT Administrator and Sr. VMware Engineer at a retailer with 501-1,000 employees
Our ROI was 6-12 months. The budget required to mount our virtual infrastructure was high at first glance, but the ROI was more quick than expected.
We are very happy with this and consolidation that VMware offers.
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VMware Consultant at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees
From my position, it means lot less administration, and better ease of use. It also allows us to have fewer physical servers.
it_user281973
Storage and VMware Expert at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
Our ROI is high because we have 800 virtual servers spread across 22 physical ones.
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System Administrator at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
It is very high.
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NetworkA3fbb
Network Administrator at a mining and metals company with 201-500 employees
It's huge. It has been a big return on investment for us. It saves us money because we don't have to buy as many physical servers. VMware seems to be the future of computing.
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Operations Support Analyst at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
For the company very good, as they run loads of different applications at the same time
it_user280956
Virtualization and Cloud Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
I have learned a lot and am still learning.
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System Administrator at a cloud provider with 51-200 employees
For every Euro we sold in infrastructure, we gained five to seven Euros in services, because we have less operation costs, a good time to market, and more infrastructure agility.
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Senior System Engineer with 1,001-5,000 employees
Very high as each new virtual server saves us thousands budget wise.
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IT Director with 501-1,000 employees
It's the best product on the market. I have never had anything that saved me more money than vSphere. I had 300 servers, each one cost us 15 thousand dollars, but now it’s much cheaper. Moreover, thanks to dynamic distribution I am able to maximize the servers' CPU usage.
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Stephen Murcott
System Administrator at j5 Software South Africa
Great flexible infrastructure
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Engineer353
VMware Engineer at a tech company with 501-1,000 employees
We made an ROI after three years of using the solution.
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CEO with 51-200 employees
Using the vCloud Air Network program, we are in a usage based program. So no upfront investments are made for licenses.
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ITManageb049
IT Manager at a construction company with 51-200 employees
Our ROI is time management savings.
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Executive Vice President at a construction company with 501-1,000 employees
We can't quantify the ROI.
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Senior IT Engineer at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees
It's saved electricity costs for us as well as costs on unnecessary equipment procurements.
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IT Infrastructure Engineer at a consumer goods company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I don’t have a specific number on the ROI, but it has been very good.
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System Engineer with 501-1,000 employees
I think it’s quite expensive.
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virtuali332868
Virtualization Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
My customers ROI lies between three and nine months.
it_user280935
IT Systems Administrator at a tech company with 10,001+ employees
All I am able to say is that our SLAs have been achieved over the last two years.
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IT Systems Administrator II at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We haven't calculated an ROI.
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