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Leading Financial Institution Realizes Significant Cost Savings and Preservation of Internal Resources by Investing in VIRTERA's Vendor Neutral Virtualization Professional Services
VIRTERA Provides Virtualization Consulting, Implementation and Support Services for Avidia Bank
| Source: VIRTERA
NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - October 23, 2008) - VIRTERA, a leading virtualization professional
services and consulting firm specializing in maximizing virtualization ROI,
announced today that Avidia Bank
has selected its Green
IT/Consolidation, Remote
Office Optimization and Security and
Compliance services to reduce IT costs and increase operational
efficiencies through data center virtualization.
Avidia Bank was formed in 2007 by a merger between two Massachusetts
financial institutions, Hudson Savings Bank and Westborough Bank. Today,
Avidia has approximately $1 billion in assets and nine offices located in
seven towns in central Massachusetts: Hudson, Westborough, Clinton,
Leominster, Marlborough, Northborough and Shrewsbury. This rapid growth led
the institution to explore the benefits of data center virtualization to
cut IT costs, increase storage capabilities, become more environmentally
responsible and free up time and resources for the bank's IT staff.
"When we changed providers for our core back office services, it became
clear that we required additional servers to support third-party services,
as well as new specialized software applications to serve the increasing
needs of the bank's individual departments," explained Kevin Wheeler,
network technician for Avidia Bank. "Furthermore, one of the biggest
obstacles to managing our growth was to ensure we had a solid backup plan.
We used single tape backup, and that was sufficient to meet our needs at
first. However, as we grew we realized we needed more storage."
Avidia Bank selected VIRTERA for the job based on the company's
multi-vendor experience, expertise and focus on customer service. "VIRTERA
offered us a singular point of contact for our virtualization project,"
Wheeler said. "They not only offered their hands-on services and the
expertise to set up our infrastructure, but they also were able to walk us
through the entire process and, after the fact, help us to maintain the
system at a high level. That was a huge benefit to us."
VIRTERA began the process by transitioning ten of the bank's 20 servers
from physical to virtual with input from Wheeler on which existing servers
should be virtualized. VIRTERA's staff even demonstrated to Wheeler how to
use third-party virtual tools to maintain the quality and performance of
the virtualized network. This knowledge transfer has empowered Wheeler and
his small IT staff to stay informed and ahead of any firmware changes
required down the road as the bank continues its growth.
"The savings that we've realized from virtualizing our environment can be
best summed up by the example of how it used to take me at least a half
day, sometimes more, just to create a server. Getting that same server up
and running now takes 10 minutes or less," Wheeler explained. "That's a
huge savings, and as we grow and inevitably add more servers, it's nice to
know we can bring servers online that quickly and responsively for the
benefit of the business."
"We are very pleased that our unique, collaborative approach to consulting,
along with our best-of-breed suite of virtualization professional services
is enabling companies like Avidia Bank to realize the full spectrum of
benefits that virtualization provides," said Howard Pavony, CEO of VIRTERA.
"VIRTERA's core mission is to bring virtualization solutions to our valued
customers while helping them to understand its many advantages, and we look
forward to furthering our vision of maximizing virtualization ROI for
mid-enterprise organizations nationwide."
About Avidia Bank
Avidia Bank was created by a merger between Hudson Savings Bank and
Westborough Bank. Avidia Bank opened for business on October 22, 2007.
Avidia Bank has nine offices located in seven towns in central
Massachusetts: Hudson, Westborough, Clinton, Leominster, Marlborough,
Northborough and Shrewsbury. Avidia has approximately $1 billion in assets.
For more information, visit www.avidiabank.com.
About VIRTERA
VIRTERA is a vendor agnostic, independent Information Technology (IT)
professional services and consulting firm delivering virtualization
technology solutions and services to companies nationwide. VIRTERA's proven
vSpectrum consulting methodology uniquely ensures successful and rapid
adoption of virtualization technologies while delivering an optimum return
on organizations' IT investments. VIRTERA's team of certified solution
architects and consultants develop, deploy and manage Virtual
Infrastructure (VI) solutions designed to solve today's most challenging IT
issues while its industry-unique Strategy group tests and analyzes
virtualization trends across the entire virtual ecosystem. VIRTERA was
founded in 2007 and maintains its corporate headquarters in New York, NY.
For more information, visit www.virteratech.com.