Dominion Enterprises, a marketing services company that provides cloud-based advertising and management software and magazines for multiple industries, recently moved from a siloed infrastructure to a shared IT infrastructure based on NetApp® (NASDAQ: NTAP), Cisco®, and VMware® technologies.

By using a shared IT infrastructure, Dominion was able to cut out inefficient systems in their data center, reduce costs, and improve the company's ability to quickly adapt to changing business needs.

With 4,500 employees in 40 states and 5 countries, Dominion hosts thousands of Web sites and 280 magazines that reach over 50 million consumers each month. The company has grown organically as well as through numerous strategic acquisitions, each of which came with its own IT infrastructure. As the company grew, communication and interaction among groups became increasingly cumbersome, inefficient, and costly. The company’s IT infrastructure was burdened by overprovisioned, underutilized, and nonoptimized resources that, in turn, made it difficult for Dominion to free untapped capacity, react quickly to new opportunities, and streamline coordination among businesses. That’s when Dominion turned to NetApp Star Partner PLANIT Technology Group to design an internal cloud infrastructure based on the FlexPod for VMware reference architecture that would be more flexible and efficient than its existing jumble of disparate systems.

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