Agile virtualized infrastructure maximizes visibility for benefits provider

Industry: Health and Wellness Services

Location: San Diego, California

Website: www.acispecialtybenefits.com

Data Center Partner: ScaleMatrix

Storage:Dell EqualLogic

VMware Solution: vSphere® with Operations Management™

Benefits

• 55% increase in performance, allowing 250 more connections per second per server

• 20% CapEx savings • 50% increase in consolidation ratios• Ability to scale proactively• 25% decrease in time spent on diagnostics and

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Solution/Implementation

ACI migrated to a virtualized datacenter and implemented VMware vSphere with Operations Management to provide visibility into resource utilization through a single pane of glass dashboard, and to enable proactive management and scalability.

“With VMware, our uptime, our speeds, and our CPU numbers have just gone through the roof, and that’s exciting performance. I also am more confident now that we have a view of where we are today and what we’ll need for the future.”

Erin Krehbiel, President, ACI Specialty Benefits.

Challenge

• Improve agility and scalability of IT platform to support growth

• Gain insight into IT to improve decision making • Drive down IT costs

ACI Specialty Benefits provides Employee Assistance and Workplace Wellness programs, concierge services, student assistance and counseling to customers worldwide. The privately owned company has grown to become one of the nation’s top ten providers of employee assistance programs, covering over seven million people.