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19 A recent Management Insights study found that effective operations management can provide additional benefits on top of the gains that virtualized data centers have already achieved, including: ✓ 34% Increase in capacity utilization ✓ 36% Increase in consolidation ratios ✓ 30% Increase in hardware savings ✓ 26% Decrease in diagnostic & problem resolution time How it's done: Millennium Pharmacy optimized IT resources with VMware Like most healthcare organizations, Millennium Pharmacy Systems faced increasing economic pres- sures that were also felt by its client nursing care facili- ties. This drove Millennium to develop a lean IT service and infrastructure model that could better meet its own needs and pass on cost savings to customers. To achieve this, Millennium sought a vendor that could deliver a more cohesive virtual environment managed with fewer resources and provide maximum insight into data center health and utilization. After having successfully virtualized three server farms containing 25 physical machines on VMware vSphere® software, VMware was the natural choice for these next steps in the company's virtualization journey. After piloting VMware vSphere® with Operations Management™ in a proof of concept deployment, Millennium realized the value of upgrading to a virtual- ization platform that provided insight into workload capacity and health, including opportunities to