Case Study: MSC Software achieves 53% ROI and 90% virtualization with VMware

MSC leveraged VMware to expand its virtualization footprint from 5% to 90% of its infrastructure for high availability, scalability, and reliability

MSC Software, a global simulation-software company serving manufacturing customers, faced high infrastructure costs and fragmentation after mergers and acquisitions. With only ~5% of its environment virtualized, legacy physical systems struggled to support 30% annual growth, scale beyond 1,000 VMs when the business required up to 8,000 VMs per week, consolidate multiple data centers, and provide centralized monitoring—while cramped data‑center space and heavy demo laptops hindered operations.

Partnering with VMware (vCloud Suite, NSX, Horizon, vCenter), MSC moved to roughly 90% virtualization, consolidated multiple sites into a single datacenter, and enabled rapid provisioning and scaling of thousands of VMs. The initiative delivered a 53% ROI, cut data‑center footprint from thousands of square feet to about 600 sq. ft., improved availability and time‑to‑market, saved roughly two hours per developer per day across 400 developers, and allowed sales to demo 3D software from tablets.

MSC Software

Abhijit Kokane

Director - Global IT