Pacific Sunwear of California, Inc.
Date
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8/1/2010
When Dell says four-hour service, it means just that. Dell ProSupport helps us avoid downtime because they really perform in terms of service response.
— Ira Ham, director of Network and Information Security, Pacific Sunwear of California, Inc., United States
Challenge
Pacific Sunwear relies on IT to keep up with business growth and rapidly changing customer demand. The company needed to refresh its infrastructure to improve availability, reduce costs, simplify management and enhance business agility.Solution
Pacific Sunwear created a virtualized data center by deploying VMware® vSphere™ virtualization software on Dell™ PowerEdge™ blade servers and a Dell EqualLogic™ storage area network (SAN).Benefits
- Increased business agility by reducing new application deployment time from days to minutes
- Reduced system downtime by creating a virtualized environment on reliable Dell hardware, backed by Dell ProSupport™
- Decreased operating expenses by eliminating more than 100 servers through virtualization
- Simplified storage management, saving 20 percent in administrative time
