Case Studies and Awards

Business growth and a fast-paced product development cycle require the Dell IT team to accelerate deployment of new servers and applications—without exceeding data center space and within power constraints.

Virtualizing on Dell™ PowerEdge™ servers enables the Dell IT team to speed new server deployment, use data centers more efficiently, and dramatically reduce server costs.

Get IT Faster: The Dell IT team partnered with the Dell Infrastructure Consulting Services (ICS) virtualization practice to jump-start the solution by identifying the best servers to virtualize first; The IT team is now able to deploy virtual servers and new applications to meet internal demand approximately 90 percent
faster than before virtualization
Run IT Better: Virtualization improves server processor utilization by approximately 30 percent
Grow IT Smarter: Dell PowerEdge servers double data center processing density; Dell saves an estimated US$29 million on new hardware purchases, reduced space, and power costs; The IT team achieves consolidation ratios of up to 20:1 to save data center space; The Dell IT team expects to virtualize an additional 3,000 to 4,000 servers by 2009, for a total of more than 8,000 servers