Customer Stories

Franklin County Municipal Court

Date : 8/1/2010
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Improving efficiencies in our technology infrastructure ranks at the top of the list. By working with Dell to enhance our server configuration we have realized significant benefit in both cost and process measures.

— Lori M. Tyack, clerk of court, Franklin County Municipal Court, United States

Challenge
Franklin County Municipal Court had outdated IT equipment which slowed down the processing of reports, consumed excess power and floor space, and exposed the court to the risk of downtime with single points of failure.
Solution
The court consolidated and virtualized 26 physical servers onto three Dell™ PowerEdge™ blade servers with Intel® Xeon® processors and implemented a Dell/EMC storage attached network (SAN) with Enterprise Flash Drives to accelerate performance. Dell consulting services did the initial assessment and performed HP-UX® to Red Hat® Linux® migration and a database upgrade from Oracle® 8i to Oracle 10g.
Benefits
  • 50 percent reduction in data center footprint
  • 40 percent projected reduction in power consumption
  • 32 times faster report generation (from 8 hours to 15 minutes)
  • 24 times faster backups (from 6–8 hours to 15–20 minutes)
  • 100 percent availability since deployment
  • 1-hour recovery point objective vs. days previously