User Stories
Vates Virtualization Platform can be used in a wide range of areas. Whether you need to administer a datacenter, manage an on premise infrastructure or deploy machines in the edge, your needs are covered. The people who tell it best are our users! Discover all our user stories in this section.
Fujifilm MicroChannel: What a well-planned migration can change
2026-03-19
Fujifilm Microchannel migrated from VMware to Vates VMS, simplifying licensing and eliminating vendor lock-in. The transition caused minimal disruption and now delivers stable, scalable performance for both internal and hosted workloads.
How DRAC Grand Est modernized its infrastructure while reducing vendor lock-in
2026-03-16
The Regional Directorate for Cultural Affairs of Grand Est manages nearly 1,000 employees. Under the leadership of Jean-Charles Specht, the IT department had to balance a limited budget, avoid vendor lock-in, and meet very strict compliance requirements. Licenses for proprietary solutions absorbed a significant portion of the budget, while technological sovereignty had become an essential priority.
How the world’s most iconic film event modernized its virtualization stack with Vates VMS
2025-12-16
The Festival de Cannes is constantly evolving, both in its cultural role and in the technology that supports it. As the infrastructure becomes more modern and resilient, Vates VMS provides a foundation the team can rely on. The combination of Open Source transparency, operational stability and continuous innovation gives them room to grow without being locked into rigid tools.
How Playtonic Games modernized its infrastructure with XCP-ng and Xen Orchestra
2025-12-09
Playtonic Games is an independent game studio with a compact but highly technical team. Their virtualized environment supports development pipelines, internal services, testing workflows and day-to-day collaboration. VMware was the default choice… until it wasn’t.
What Sovereign IT looks like in practice: the Exodata Use Case with Vates
2025-10-29
Exodata’s story illustrates how sovereignty and performance can go hand in hand. By combining strategic vision, solid execution, and the right partnership, the company successfully transitioned to a fully open and sovereign virtualization platform, without compromise on reliability or service quality.
Vates VMS in massive & scalable internal cloud
2024-10-08
A global online travel company, renowned for its comprehensive search and booking services, faced the challenge of scaling its IT infrastructure to meet rapidly growing demand. In 2018, they adopted XCP-ng and Xen Orchestra to build their own internal cloud. By utilizing the Xen Orchestra (XO) API as a central point for managing all XCP-ng hosts, they streamlined automation and embraced a philosophy of disposable hardware.
Seamless transition: Collaborative Health Studies Center moves from VMware to Vates VMS
2023-10-18
The Collaborative Health Studies Coordinating Center (CHSCC) at the University of Washington successfully transitioned their VMware 7 virtual infrastructure to Vates VMS. The migration process, completed over the past few months, has been handled in a fast and efficient way. An experience we are happy to share today.
Leading the Pack: MANI Indústrias Plásticas SA' Journey with Vates VMS
2023-05-15
For nearly six decades, MANI SA has been a trendsetter to produce plastic packaging for the home meal replacement industry. By harnessing the sophisticated capabilities of the Vates Virtualization Management Stack, MANI has not only streamlined its processes but also significantly bolstered its resilience
Empowering Nor-Cal Controls: A Success Story in the Power Generation Sector
2023-04-06
Nor-Cal Controls ES, Inc. is a professional, customer‐focused company offering consulting, engineering, and training services to the United States power generation utility sector. They choose Vates Virtualization Management Stack for their infrastructure because of the inherent value of the solution when compared to competitors.
BedRock Streaming: A solid on-prem infrastructure
2022-04-13
BedRock Streaming develops Streaming video platform for their customers. They have 45M users in 5 different countries. They choose to migrate their on-premise infrastructure from VMware to XCP-ng and managed to do so seamlessly
ImplyIT: Delivering services to medium and small companies
2022-01-11
Imply I.T. main focus is delivering IT services to Small and Medium sized businesses, that rely on outsourcing their IT & Telephony Support. They choose to migrate from VMware to XCP-ng to accomplish their mission.
Vates Virtualization platform and public infrastructure
2021-09-27
XCP-ng is used by a wide variety of users in many different industries. Among our users, we also have public infrastructure operators, such as cities or universities. Challans city is a public infrastructure with a reasonnable size running on our solutions.
Aquaray: Tier IV Datacenter relies on XCP-ng
2021-02-26
Aquaray has one of the only data centers in France with a tier IV certification. This means that their infrastructure is particularly resilient and protected. They chose to rely on XCP-ng and Xen Orchestra to build this virtual infrastructure.
Vates production infrastructure
2020-08-13
Of course, at Vates we use our own tools. In this article you can learn more about our own production environment and how we created a secure and performing virtual infrastructure with XCP-ng and Xen Orchestra.
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In a world where more and more systems connect to the network, secure virtualization and infrastructure management are key elements for successful deployments of IT within manufacturing, energy and more generally contexts rely on computing the edge of the network.
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