Organization Profile
Hamilton Farm Bureau (HFB), based in Hamilton, Michigan, serves agricultural producers, consumers, and builders by offering a variety of products and services. It has 140 employees.
Business Situation
HFB was experiencing rapid business growth. It needed a way to boost the availability and reliability of IT systems that had grown faster than the ability of the IT department to maintain and upgrade them.
Solution
HFB consolidated 14 server computers to 4 by adopting the Microsoft virtualization technology in Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V.
Benefits
- Boosts availability to 99.999 percent
Is expected to lower cost of ownership by 30 percent - Delivers an expected 250 percent ROI
- Speeds IT response to business needs