Optimized Deployment
Reduce Deployment Costs by up to 55 Percent¹
Imagine that you could roll out new PCs across your entire enterprise while reducing desk-side setup time by up to 88 percent² and saving up to 55 percent on associated IT labor costs. And that your deployment process could diminish spikes in network traffic and minimize disruption to end-user productivity.
Your entire IT staff could spend more time on making your business run at top speed.
With Dell Services, you can do all this and more. The process starts with a comprehensive assessment of your environment, in which we evaluate your readiness to migrate or deploy, and we identify any key infrastructure components that should be updated or put in service to enable a fully automated OS (operating system) migration or system deployment.
Based on this insight, we can design a detailed plan to implement a fully automated Dell Optimized Deployment that will reduce cost, save time and mitigate risk. We simplify logistics by prestaging all content required on each PC's hard drive during the factory build. This means that any PC can be delivered to any user and then automatically configured for that user’s exact requirements, thus eliminating the need to track a specific PC from the factory to a specific end user’s desk.
Dell uses patent-pending tools and processes to increase automation, which eliminates manual steps that often contribute to variability and errors. This also reduces desk-side technician time by up to 88 percent. Dell Automated Deployment also enables the transfer of images, applications, settings and data at the end user’s desk, which can eliminate an estimated 70 percent of the network bandwidth required for OS migration or PC deployments.
The KACE K2000 makes it easy to manage and send updated gold master images to the factory for initial deployment. Once the machines are received, the K2000 validates the factory images, and handles any user state migration tasks and any post deployment tasks. The K2000 drag and drop interface makes it especially easy to quickly add or remove tasks from any deployment and allows IT admins to easily and quickly distribute different software configurations within their organizations. In this way, the base image and the applications are managed separately.
¹ IDC White Paper sponsored by Dell, Dell PC Optimized Deployment Model, Document #223437, June 2010. IDC found that a company with optimized practices in all deployment activities would spend $337 less (55 percent) in IT labor per PC than a company executing each activity at the basic level.
² Based on an October 2009 Dell assessment of select customers’ general use of automated deployment tools.
