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Overview Country or Region: The Netherlands Industry: Telecommunications services—Web hosting Customer Profile Recently named the fastest growing Web-hosting company in the world, LeaseWeb provides a broad range of Web-hosting services to small and large clients worldwide. LeaseWeb has 80 employees. Business Situation LeaseWeb needs to balance its continued fast growth, technological innovation, and affordable, high-quality customer service levels with increased performance and a reduced environmental footprint. Solution LeaseWeb turned to Hyper-V? and Microsoft? System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 to virtualize its servers, reducing its running costs and addressing demand for “green” hosting. Benefits Expedites customer service Lowers total cost of ownership Reduces environmental footprint “Deploying a Web server on Hyper-V is faster and less expensive than deploying it on a physical server, reduces the total cost of ownership, and helps to ensure LeaseWeb’s long-term success.” Jaap Wesselius, Senior Consultant, LeaseWeb According to HostReview magazine, Netherlands-based LeaseWeb is the world’s fastest growing Web-hosting company, having doubled its employees and its hosting network capacity during 2007. The company is also Dell’s largest Internet partner in Europe and a leader in “green” hosting. LeaseWeb continually evaluates state-of-the-art technology to improve the quality, range, and cost-effectiveness of its customer services and to reduce its environmental footprint. In 2008, it turned to virtualization and Microsoft? Virtualization technology to help meet its goals and ensure continued strong growth. While participating in the Rapid Deployment Program for Hyper-V? (part of Windows Server? 2008) and Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008, LeaseWeb found that Microsoft software was easier to implement and cost less than rival offerings, and enabled it to meet its goals. Situation Formed in 1997 in Amsterdam, L