Dell and the Commonwealth Medical College — Building From the Ground Up
Date
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8/21/2009
We have more confidence in Dell support than we had in the other vendor we were evaluating. To the other vendor, we were just small. But Dell understood that we were growing. That has made all the difference.
— Doug Carroll, director of technology infrastructure, The Commonwealth Medical College, United States
Challenge
The Commonwealth Medical College needed to build a new IT infrastructure that meets future needs with flexible and scalable equipment without expanding its IT team too fast.Solution
The college builds research, teaching and administrative environments by using Dell™ PowerEdge™ blade servers to create a cluster that can grow for research. The college also provides employees with reliable Dell OptiPlex™ desktops and Dell Latitude™ laptops. A Dell/EMC® storage area network (SAN) provides centralized storage that can flexibly grow to accommodate future large-volume storage needs. Dell ProSupport for IT keeps the infrastructure running 24x7 all year long.Benefits
The solution provides the following benefits:
- Get IT faster — Save time every week with the ease and speed of Dell procurement.
- Run IT better — Remotely manage and secure PCs with Intel vPro technology built into Dell desktops and laptops. Expand IT team needs more slowly than a conventional server environment requires. Speed up research with high-performance cluster performance.
- Grow IT smarter — Save space, power and cooling with 60 percent greater density of Dell blade servers. Add servers with Fibre Channel connectivity for performance and Internet SCSI (iSCSI) connectivity for cost-effective storage.
