Pembina Trails School Division
Date
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2/1/2011
We have a strong, long-term relationship with Dell. They’re not just selling us equipment, they’re assessing our needs and working with us to design integrated long-term solutions.
Don Reece, IT Director, Pembina Trails School Division, Canada
Challenge
The Pembina Trails School Division wanted to reduce IT costs and streamline administration while expanding the robust technology services offered to students, faculty and staff.Solution
The IT group migrated physical servers located at individual schools to a single virtualized environment running on Dell PowerEdge™ servers. Dell PowerConnect™ switches deliver the bandwidth for running services from a central data center.Benefits
• Consolidated servers by 90 percent, saving 75 percent on acquisition, power, cooling and maintenance costs• Increased network performance by 20 times, from 1 to 20 Gbps, providing outstanding application performance and redundancy without requiring additional fiber networking
• Cut the IT administration budget by two-thirds
• Scaled storage by 30 percent to prepare for additional growth
