KVM Case Studies

A wide-ranging assortment of case studies explaining how organizations have successfully implemented KVM for business advantage is available. 

Case studies include:

• Bloombase, an ISV that has built a virtual appliance on KVM for PureFlex;
• Spanish start-up eyeOS which built its new web desktop on KVM; Helsana, the leading Swiss provider of health and accident insurance, which wanted to drive up profitability by boosting efficiency and slashing IT costs;
• London-based i-Layer, which wanted to expand its IBM hardware and software resale business to meet growing customer need for cloud solutions and hosted cloud services;
• New Institute for Urban Planning of the Republic of Srpska, a government agency in Bosnia and Herzegovina specializing in urban planning, architecture, road and infrastructure planning, and ecological studies;
• op5, a member of the Open Virtualization Alliance, which has developed a KVM plug-in to monitor KVM virtualization infrastructure;
• Radware, which delivered the first virtual Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) solution for KVM;
• Rural Credit Banks Funds Clearing Center in Beijing, which implemented Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization on IBM BladeCenter with IBM Storage to consolidate physical space, cut costs and increase availability and scalability;
• Scale Computing, which launched the first and only hyper-converged infrastructure based on KVM into the marketplace; and
• Vidyo, which has eliminated the proprietary hardware components that constrain both the scalability and quality of video conferencing.

Detailed case studies, as well as information about KVM can be found here.