Company Background Richter is a financial consulting firm based in Montreal and Toronto. Founded in 1926, Richter currently employs more than 500 partners, professionals, and administrative employees and is ranked among the top-ten independent accounting and business advisory firms in Canada. IT Challenges Nearly all of Richter’s production environments had been virtualized, using VMware vSphere 5.5, ESX servers and a legacy storage platform. The company’s largest Microsoft Exchange and SQL Server environments had not been virtualized yet, due to limited performance of the existing storage and server environment. “We were encountering significant performance issues that were quite typical with the traditional storage model,” noted Greg Eamer, director of information technolog

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