C A S E S T U DY / 1 S P R I NGSOURCE, A DI VISION OF VMWARE City Of Chicago Keeps City Services Running With SpringSource Hyperic City of Chicago Chicago’s Department of Innovation and Technology (DoIT) is the central IT organization for the city, providing services to more than 35 government departments as well as residents, businesses and tourists. DoIT is in charge of www.cityofchicago.org, the city’s official website, and a large, heterogeneous IT environment comprised of thousands of PCs and more than 500 servers running on Linux, Windows and UNIX. Because the city is responsible for a variety of critical services supported by these systems, application and server availability and performance are a top priority. Challenge Prior to deploying Hyperic, the City of Chicago u

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