Case Study: MLS Property Information Network (MLS PIN) achieves 60% infrastructure cost reduction and improved availability with Vision Solutions

MLS PIN - Customer Case Study

MLS Property Information Network (MLS PIN), New England’s largest multiple‑listing service serving about 30,000 real‑estate professionals and 60,000 active listings, was burdened by seasonal server sprawl, heterogeneous hardware, limited storage scalability, high operating costs, and insufficient fault tolerance that threatened availability during peak demand.

MLS PIN consolidated to 20 HP servers running Windows Server 2008 Datacenter with Hyper‑V, iSCSI storage and the Sanbolic Melio clustered file system, managed with Microsoft System Center, and now runs dozens of virtual machines across clustered hosts. The virtualized environment delivers near‑100% uptime, faster provisioning, improved agility, and significant savings — about 60% lower infrastructure costs and roughly 30% lower total ownership costs (with operational reductions of up to 40% in slow periods).

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