Lionbridge Reduces Costs, Enhances Security

By deploying Microsoft virtualization and infrastructure software,
Lionbridge Technologies Inc., a $461 million (U.S.) translation,
development and testing services company, was able to save more than
$200,000 last year, enhance security and accelerate the use of
customer services, Microsoft Corp. announced today.

Lionbridge services enable global organizations to develop and release
products and content in international markets. In today's challenging
economic environment, companies are relying on Lionbridge outsourcing
services to reduce costs and optimize their operations for long-term
efficiency. In addition, many of Lionbridge's customers derive more
than half their revenue from international markets with continued
growth in emerging economies. To help meet these customer demands,
Lionbridge created and deployed Virtual Cloud Lab, a globally
accessible datacenter that is shared by engineers in any of the
company's sites, as well as by the company's independent network of
25,000 partners who are located in more than 100 countries.

Virtual Cloud Lab is an internal, cloud computing-based datacenter.
Lionbridge uses Microsoft's server and presentation virtualization
software, and systems management tools for centralized control of both
physical and virtual assets, and directory and remote desktop
computing services for more secure access to internal data and
resources. The virtualized infrastructure and centralized management
enables all workers to access vital internal resources, and the 100
percent virtual footprint has completely removed all physical hardware
requirements from branch office sites. Lionbridge has replaced
hundreds of servers and desktops with virtual machines hosted in its
internal cloud computing datacenter.

"Most of the Lionbridge core infrastructure has been migrated to
Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V technology. Moving our local labs
onto Hyper-V and the Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine
Manager-based cloud platform has saved us time and money," said Oyvind
Kaldestad, vice president of Corporate IT for Lionbridge Technologies.
"We chose the Microsoft solution versus others in the market because
it was the most affordable, met the existing skills of our employees
and was enterprise ready. Moving to a virtualized environment enabled
us to save hundreds of thousands of dollars in 2008 alone due to
reductions in hardware costs, as well as associated power, cooling and
manual labor costs."