| | December 201819 CIOReviewBipin JayarajMake-A-Wish Data Center, the VPDC and with our Cloud Infrastructure provider. We also have VMWare solutions implemented across our 110+ Chapter office locations across the United States. VMWare solutions such as VMWare vCenter, vSphere Enterprise, and vCloud director, continue to allow Make-A-Wish to manage available server clusters from a centralized management pane. This was both useful and beneficial when the Make-A-Wish National team needed to execute the transition of the servers. All the 62 chapters across the nation at all 110+ locations experienced minimal downtime during the transition. This was due to the centralized server cluster. The cluster could "collate" all the different systems into a single management console. Both vCenter and vCloud were leveraged during this time. Along with the minimal downtime, the whole move was cost-effective because the National team didn't have to replicate all physical machines at the enterprise. These types of use cases and cost savings prove that any organization could see the same results. For Make-A-Wish America, the organization was able to seamlessly enable the Enterprise model architecture. At the same time, the organization was able to save a significant amount of money. Those saved dollars were ploughed back to the core business model, their mission: creating life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses. Not a day goes by where decisions like these are made without the Make-A-Wish mission as a priority. It is crucial that Make-A-Wish is able to enable and achieve its goal of reaching Every Eligible Child. To obtain that goal, the organization must remain nimble and innovative enough to support all strategies across the nation. Hence, cost control and cost reduction are both consistent measure of high importance. Keeping our mission our priority is in tandem with balancing the digital transformation that Make-A-Wish is embarking on. This transformation will enhance productivity and enable more service offerings. VMWare's vCloud Director provides a perfect administration pane. This allows Make-A-Wish to manage a multi-tenant cloud Infrastructure with a very lean team. The Virtual Edge Security Appliances provided the needed Enterprise security cadence. It is this security cadence that secures the entire tech ecosystem, from the Make-A-Wish Data Center to the Make-A-Wish cloud Infrastructure. The next steps Make-A-Wish will take will be exploring other VMWare solutions. For example, the Horizon view to embark on the whole desktop virtualization journey. The Horizon tool will provide a significant benefit in support of our business model. A lot of the back-office work and front office support is provided by volunteers and part-time/intern workforce. This type of solution eliminates the need to manage a huge inventory of capital desktop/laptop resources and move them between office locations whenever a workforce entity joins or leaves the organization. The cost savings from these solutions and initiatives can fund additional innovative solutions to further the Make-A-Wish mission. Make-A-Wish America deploys a variety of VMware solutions as part of the Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure
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