Its a Cause Study for SCCM 2012

1. Microsoft System Center 2012
Partner Solution Case Study
ISV Uses Virtualization Solution to Speed
Development, Optimize Cloud Investments
“Once we saw how System Center Virtual Machine
Partner: Uni Micro Manager 2012 could help us increase data center
Website:www.unimicro.no
Partner Size:60 employees
automation and support a more agile development
Country or Region: Norway process, it was a simple decision to upgrade.”
Industry: Software engineering
Kristian Nese, Chief Information Officer, Uni Micro
Partner Profile Uni Micro, a Norway-based software development firm, needed
Norway-based Uni Micro is an
independent software vendorthat
to increase its capacity to respond to new market opportunities.
specializes in developing business After successfully using Microsoft virtualization tools to trim
management solutions. The company has
60 employees and 6,000 customers.
operating costs and reduce its IT staff’s workload, the company
seized the opportunity to adopt Microsoft System Center Virtual
Software and Services
Microsoft Server Product Portfolio
Machine Manager 2012. Now, Uni Micro can use dynamic
− Windows Server 2008 resource pooling and unified cloud management capabilities to
− Microsoft System Center App
Controller 2012
boost business agility.
− Microsoft System Center Virtual Business Needs of hours each month applying security
Machine Manager 2012 To keep its competitive edge, Uni Micro— updates and performing data backup
Windows Azure an independent software vendor (ISV) and operations on these machines. They also
Technologies member of the Microsoft Partner noted that administrators spent a
− Hyper-V Network—depends on its ability to rapidly substantial amount of time responding to
develop new business management requests from developers for access to
software while keeping its operating costs infrastructure resources.
low. “We only have 60 employees, but we
serve a large customer base, so we need to In 2008, Nese led an initiative to pare
adopt an agile methodology in everything down the company’s investment in server
we do,” says Kristian Nese, Chief hardware through the use of virtualization
Information Officer at Uni Micro. software. The company used the Hyper-V
technology in the Windows Server 2008
The company’s agile approach to operating system alongside VMware
management starts with its data center vSphere Hypervisor technology to move
environment. Previously, the company from 35 physical servers to four host
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maintained 35 physical servers. Executives systems. Uni Micro used Microsoft System
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www.microsoft.com/casestudies found that IT administrators spent dozens Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008,

2. together with System Center Operations As a Microsoft Cloud Accelerate Partner, as fast as it could before. “We only have to
Manager 2007, to manage its Hyper-V Uni Micro had already adopted Windows mount the servers into the rack in our data
clusters. Azure, the Microsoft cloud development, center and we can count on System Center
hosting, and management environment. Virtual Machine Manager 2012 to handle
The company sought to continue building With System Center Virtual Machine just about everything else,” says Nese.
on the time and cost savings it realized after Manager 2012, the company plans to take
reducing its server hardware by 90 percent. full advantage of the ability to create Increases Agility for Application
It looked to further increase automation of private clouds. By using Microsoft System Development
essential administrative tasks, including Center App Controller 2012, together with Because administrators can dynamically
provisioning, updating, and monitoring Virtual Machine Manager 2012, Uni Micro allocate cloud infrastructure resources
virtual machine clusters. Uni Micro also will have the ability to move application through the use of service templates, they
wanted to make it easier for developers to components fluidly between cloud can help developers at Uni Micro build,
access storage, compute, and network environments while accessing a single, test, and deploy applications faster.
resources. And, it wanted the ability to use a consolidated view of service performance. “Before, we assigned a fixed set of storage,
single tool to monitor services that used network, and compute resources for each
both public and private cloud infrastructure. Uni Micro can also empower its developers project, which limited flexibility,” says
by giving them more control in managing Nese. “Now, we can use resource pooling,
Solution the configuration and deployment of so if we want to create a new product to
Nese, who is a Microsoft Most Valuable services. Administrators can delegate respond to a market opportunity, we can
Professional (MVP) for System Center service templates with predefined resource do all of the development and testing in
Virtual Machine Manager, was excited to utilization values, which developers can the cloud. And, with the elasticity that the
gain prerelease access to the latest version then tailor to specific project requirements. cloud provides, we can meet demand in a
of the technology. “Once we saw how “Our developers see the orientation much more agile way.”
System Center Virtual Machine Manager toward managing services instead of
2012 could help us increase data center servers in System Center Virtual Machine Optimizes Virtualization Investments,
automation and support a more agile Manager 2012 as a leap forward,” says Creates New Cloud Opportunities
development process, it was a simple Nese. “The configurable templates and By adopting System Center Virtual
decision to upgrade,” says Nese. other self-service tools give them the Machine Manager 2012, Uni Micro is able
power to focus on building applications, to extend the value of its existing
Uni Micro was eager to explore the fabric instead of worrying about setting up investments in Microsoft virtualization
management and private cloud infrastructure.” technology and manage cross-platform
administration capabilities in System Center data center components—all through a
Virtual Machine Manager. In particular, Benefits single solution. In conjunction with System
Nese appreciated the ability to provision By upgrading to System Center Virtual Center App Controller 2012, the company
bare-metal machines for use in a virtualized Machine Manager 2012, Uni Micro has can use the solution with Windows Azure
cluster. The company eventually plans to experienced the following benefits: to explore the benefits of moving
standardize its data center on Hyper-V applications between cloud environments.
technology. “We made some earlier Deploys Virtualized Infrastructure 100 “With System Center Virtual Machine
investments in VMware Workstation,” says Percent Faster Manager 2012, we have all the tools we
Nese. “Because of the enhancements to Uni Micro can now deploy Hyper-V need to make the most of the cloud, based
Virtual Machine Manager 2012, we’ve clusters to bare-metal machines and on the changing needs of our customers
decided to convert all of our VMware virtual automate critical management functions, and our business,” says Nese.
machines to Hyper-V, and we plan to only such as updating host servers and
use Hyper-V in production going forward.” applying resource optimization, and can
set up new virtualized infrastructure twice
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Document published November 2011