Pivotal delivers the following business benefits to Southwest
Airlines:
Reduced Provisioning Time
Southwest IT went from zero-to-40% globally virtualized in less
than two years. This reduced time to provision servers from six
days to one hour.
Performance and Reliability for Business Critical Applications
Southwest uses tools like Pivotal GemFire to run critical
applications such as Exchange, SAP, SQL Server and Southwest’s
online portal, which accounts for more than 80% of total business.