Slumberland Saved $368,000 in Capital Costs and Dramatically Reduced Management Costs
SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwire - October 13, 2010) - Slumberland, Inc., a home furnishings retailer with stores throughout the Midwest, has selected Cisco (
Slumberland engaged Cisco Advanced Services to help determine the best design and integration options for optimal performance, enabling the company to save $368,000 in capital costs compared to the cost of upgrading its legacy platform, and reduce per-server management costs from $1575 to $80. Slumberland also improved the end user experience with a five-times improvement in user logon time and an eight-times improvement in each user session performance, which means employees and partners experience faster and more responsive access to business data. In addition, the Unified Computing System is more efficient, delivering a four-times improvement in virtual desktop user sessions, with 160 sessions per server (compared to 40 on its previous legacy system).
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"Furniture retail is a highly competitive commercial environment, and in order to stay ahead of the game we have to continually cut costs while increasing operational efficiency and most important: improving the customer experience," said Jamie Page, CIO at Slumberland. "Cisco UCS saved us over $368,000 in capital costs, dramatically reduced the time needed to provision and manage our infrastructure, and helped us to create an agile, responsive environment that better supports our end users and our business. For us, there are no IT challenges, only business challenges, and Cisco UCS is helping us address those head-on."
"Because Cisco's Unified Computing System was purposefully designed to optimize virtualized environments and integrate computing, networking, virtualization and storage access, customers like Slumberland have been able to realize significant cost reductions and efficiencies," said Soni Jiandani, VP in Cisco's Server Access and Virtualization Group. "Our solutions have helped Slumberland transform their data center into an infrastructure that adapts quickly to changing business requirements. We look forward to our continued partnership with Slumberland as they adopt this same cost-effective, flexible infrastructure in their secondary data center."
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