Hahnfeld Hoffer Stanford
Hahnfeld Hoffer Stanford architectural firm needed to refresh its systems to improve performance, so it deployed a virtualized server infrastructure with Dell PowerEdge servers and Dell EqualLogic iSCSI storage arrays.
Date
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11/30/2011
One of our goals is to leverage technology to keep us at the forefront of architecture firms in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Dell and Consuro are helping to make this possible.
Jason M. Adams, Director of Information Technology,Hahnfeld Hoffer Stanford, United States
Challenge
With file shares filling up and an aging server infrastructure, Hahnfeld Hoffer Stanford needed to refresh its systems to improve performance, availability and scalability while keeping costs down.Solution
The firm decided to use technology to differentiate itself from the competition, and engaged local Dell Partner Consuro to help deploy a virtualized server infrastructure based on Dell PowerEdge™ servers, Dell EqualLogic™ iSCSI storage arrays and Microsoft® Hyper-V™. A Dell KACE™ Management Appliance allows a single IT employee to manage all client systems from a single Web-based interface.Benefits
• 50 percent cost savings vs. physical server refresh• 40 percent less IT staff time spent managing servers
• 50–60 percent decrease in planned downtime
• 4,000 productivity hours reclaimed annually for architects
• 7-fold improvement in recovery point objective/RPO (24 hours vs. 1 week)
• Recovery time objective/RTO reduced from days to hours
• Off-host backups run nondisruptively during the day
