Mansfield Oil Uses VMware vSphere With Operations Management to Help Streamline Energy Supply Chain

PALO ALTO, CA--(Marketwired - March 08, 2016) -  VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) today announced that Mansfield Oil, a national leader in the dynamic energy supply, logistics and services enterprise, relies on VMware vSphere® with Operations Management™ to virtualize its assets and help it continue to supply energy across the United States and Canada.

"Our goal from a technology perspective is to remain asset light to mirror our business, so we've focused heavily on virtualization," said Hercu Rabsatt, director, Infrastructure & Service Management, Mansfield Oil. "The flexibility and scalability we have gained from virtualization enables us to be a true partner to the business and support the organization's overall objectives. From an IT perspective, we wanted to build a core foundation that the business could stand upon, and VMware is that essential foundation."

Visibility into System Utilizations Aligns IT with the Business

Based in Gainesville, Ga., Mansfield Oil provides fuel and energy to more than 3,700 commercial customers, 440 school districts, 770 counties, 590 cities, and 800 state and province locations across the United States and Canada. The company supports every level of the energy supply and management process -- from purchasing and operations, to finance and equipment maintenance, designing a customized program to support organization's energy needs, every step of the way.

Mansfield Oil adopted virtualization more than five years ago and has virtualized 98 percent of its environment, according to its IT staff. Prior to VMware vSphere with Operations Management, Mansfield Oil did not have full visibility into system capacity and utilization. Since implementing VMware vSphere with Operations Management, Mansfield Oil has seen dramatic improvements in its environment by gaining insight into utilization rates, identifying underutilized resources and reclaiming them as needed, and achieving clear visibility into capacity along with the ability to forecast the need for additional IT resources over time. Currently, their virtualized environment supports business-critical applications including their ERP system, databases, web servers and more.