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25 Cornerstone's IT infrastructure. The comprehensive dashboard includes health, risk, and efficiency scores, so managers quickly understand IT service levels and workload capacities. Since implementing vSphere with Operations Management, Cornerstone can now better identify capacity shortfalls, stressed workloads, and over-provi- sioned servers. These insights allow the company to optimize the use of its existing resources and make IT investment decisions with certainty. Reducing hardware costs The switch from physical to virtual servers has resulted in hardware cost savings close to 70 per cent. 'We're no longer spending four or five thousand dollars per physical server. We can now leverage the virtual hardware we have in place for a third of the cost,' added Caldwell. In addition, Cornerstone has reduced operating expenses since virtualized infrastructure require less power and cooling. Business Impact ✓ Comprehensive insight into IT ✓ Improved resource planning to better inform IT invest- ments and decision making ✓ 70 per cent reduction in hardware costs ✓ Ensured uptime with reliable virtualized infrastructure ✓ Reduced time spent on identifying and resolving system issues