Migrates hosting customers from 50 Physical Servers to 10.

Seneca, a Dutch web developer with 125 employees, today announced that it is virtualising its hosting environment at hosting provider LeaseWeb with VMware. The company says that it hopes to complete the full hosting migration of all its customers within a year. 'By that time, the current 50 physical servers will have made way for a maximum of 10 physical servers,' adds the company.

"LeaseWeb has offered us the opportunity to set up a VMware-based virtualisation platform at the modern, CO2-neutral Dutch data centre EvoSwitch," says Jeroen Bezemer, who is responsible for Seneca's hosting department. "LeaseWeb has supplied the facilities at the data centre and helped us conceive and build the hosting solution. This collaboration resulted in a virtualised hosting environment based on VMware's ESX platform. Once all of our customers have been transferred, we will need a maximum of 10 physical dedicated servers, whereas in the past, we needed 50!"