Overview T o deliver quality and reliable water and waste- water service to approximately 16 million people, American Water required an extremely stable environment for its mission-critical applications. Challenge American Water employs more than 7,000 dedicated professionals whose mission is to deliver drinking water, wastewater services and other related services to approximately 16 mil- lion people in 35 states as well as Ontario and Manitoba, Canada. “We require an extremely stable environment for our mission-critical ap- plications. If the hardware we’re running is no longer supported, we can’t meet the high level of service we guarantee to our users,” said Matthew Larson, virtual infrastructure specialist for American Water. “The size of our data center has quadrupled ov

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