Case Study
Cochise County Virtualizes with Web-Scale IT and Hyper-V
Background Cochise County is located in the U.S. state of Arizona. It has a population of about 132,000 and spans more than 4 million acres. It includes the historic city of Tombstone and is often referred to as the “Land of Legends”. The county government provides many different public and safety services such as; law enforcement, courts, social welfare, housing, highway maintenance, schools and libraries. Visit www.cochise.az.gov for more information. The Need for a Virtualization Environment from Ground Up At the time Tyson Mock joined Cochise County as IT Director, his team faced the challenge of developing a plan to replace approximately 50 aging physical servers, many of which were more than 10 years old. The servers hosted all of the county’s critical applications. Replacin