Case Study
City of Melrose Turns to VMware vCloud Hybrid Service to Transform Data Center into Profit Center
Industry Government Locat Ion Melrose, Massachusetts Key c haLL enges • Expand IT infrastructure to meet rapidly growing demands of citizens. • Augment existing data center with hybrid cloud to offer IT services to other municipalities. • Improve disaster recovery and business continuity capabilities. s o Lut Ion The City of Melrose chose VMware vCloud® Hybrid ServiceTM to quickly and seamlessly extend its VMware- based data center into a hybrid cloud that allows it to sell IT infrastructure capacity to other local municipalities. Bus Iness BenefI ts • Enabled new revenue streams for the city • Enabled the city to grow its business model quickly to support more municipalities vmware case study Melrose is a small city located approximately seven miles north of Boston, with