[ Thanks to doloresp for this link.
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“Nationwide Insurance and Financial Services, a $21 billion
company with 30,000 employees, has turned to virtual servers
running Linux to gain more control over computing power and
expenditures.“Last year, Nationwide’s chief architect Guru Vasudeva tested
Nationwide’s Unix and Windows servers and found that they were only
using about 10% of the available CPU capacity. Multiple hundreds of
servers meant high maintenance costs and lots of floor space that
was being wasted. Adding to the problem was Vasudeva’s expectation
that with Web site upgrades and growing internal business
processes, he’d need another 400-500 servers by the end of
2006…”