System Automation Corporation is using SWsoft Virtuozzo to save money, while providing a flexible testing platform that’s easy to convert into production for the government agencies that purchase its MyLicense Suite software. Now, it takes minutes to set up virtual environments, and the MyLicense software can be updated across virtual environments in a matter of minutes, which previously had been impossible.

System Automation develops MyLicense Suite software that is used by more than 400 government entities in 23 states to manage, for example, hunting and nursing licenses. The company is realizing cost savings of about $2,000 per server by replacing physical servers with virtual servers created with SWsoft Virtuozzo software.

System Automation is also saving money by reducing the time required to manage the virtual data center. A full-time administrator now spends only a quarter of their time managing the virtual environments by taking advantage of the Virtuozzo management tools function. Now, with Virtuozzo a change can be made and deployed across all of the virtual environments at once using the template function.

Today, System Automation has multiple physical servers running Virtuozzo. One Windows server currently runs 18 Virtuozzo virtual servers and Callan estimates that the server has capacity for a total of 40 virtual servers. The server is used by the applications delivery group to run MyLicense test servers for clients.

Before the Virtuozzo server virtualization implementation, there were often delays setting up testing trials because equipment simply wasn't available -- either because elaborate configurations were required or the equipment hadn't arrived yet, or both. That is no longer an issue because new virtual servers can be created instantaneously.