Fortune 500 Company CH2M HILL Switches to Microsoft from VMware to Save Millions

Microsoft today announced that CH2M HILL switched to Microsoft virtualization and management software from VMware Inc. software, projecting cost savings of more than $3.2 million during the next three to five years. The company also expects to reduce server administration work by 30 percent so it can focus on more strategic work like branch office virtualizing, infrastructure upgrading and architecture planning.

“The company was cutting costs across the board, and we wanted to push forward with virtualizing more servers, especially in our field offices, but we just couldn’t do it with VMware,” said Greg Barton, senior analyst, Enterprise Systems Group, CH2M HILL. “By switching to Microsoft from VMware, we will save $280,000 in software fees. Plus, we can now afford to tackle our 600 field servers and are aiming to virtualize 20 percent of these computers each year. At $5,000 a server, that’s a savings of $3 million over the next three to five years.”

Read more about CH2M HILL on Microsoft’s News Center, and stay tuned to STB News Bytes and the Virtualization Team Blog next week as Microsoft heads to VMworld 2010 in San Francisco, CA.