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Published on: January 05, 2012
Type of content: CASE STUDY
Format: Unknown
Length: 4 pages
Price: FREE

Overview:

Kelley Blue Book is a leading vehicle valuation and information source relied upon by both consumers and the auto industry. Launched in 1995, the company's kbb.com web site provides constantly-changing market and trade-in values. It comes as no surprise, then, that keeping the site's content up to date and available requires a complex and high-performance IT infrastructure.

This case study outlines the company's journey to virtualize the kbb.com infrastructure to enable more frequent updates and faster deployment of code changes. In this paper you'll learn about the solutions Kelley Blue Book implemented to not only improve virtual performance and efficiency, but also to reduce the burden on the company's IT staff. Read on to learn about the solution that kbb.com implemented, and how it brought the company the following benefits:

• Full installation in 3 hours


• Support 2x more sessions per VM


• Deliver 2x the performance in same footprint


• Performance-tune 90% faster


• Deploy code 92% faster