For Munder Capital Management, server virtualization was all about improving their disaster recovery operations and ensuring that failed servers could be brought back online quickly.
"One of the biggest things we focused on with virtualization was disaster recovery between disparate locations," says Mike Dufek, director of information systems for Munder Capital, a $30 billion financial services firm based in Birmingham, Mich.
EMC last week released its much-awaited Clariion CX4 Series array.
The CX4 family consists of the CX4-120, CX4-240, CX4-480 and CX4-960 -- each distinguished by the number of drives it holds. The CX4-120 features 120 drives, 6GB cache memory and from 4 to 16 Fibre Channel and iSCSI connections. The CX4-240 is a more powerful machine than the CX4-120 -- it features up to 240 drives, 8GB cache and from 4 to 20 Fibre Channel and iSCSI connections.
John Mount's attitude toward server and desktop virtualization couldn't be more enthusiastic.
"If we can virtualize it, we will," says Mount, senior director of IS infrastructure for Schwan's Foods, a multibillion-dollar, privately-held frozen foods company with 22,000 employees, headquartered in Marshall, Minn.
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