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"At our expected growth rate, we could pay back the entire cost of the Dell virtualization project within a year or so. Add the other sources of cost savings, and I must say that this project has delivered outstanding financial benefits to our school." |
Challenge | Solution | Benefit |
The ever-increasing demand for IT services at the university put significant stress on IT staff and data center capacity. Ryerson University wanted to speed server provisioning; reduce space, power, and cooling needs; and implement rapid disaster recovery. | Dell Infrastructure Consulting Services led a project to identify underutilized servers and consolidate onto Dell PowerEdge blade servers running VMware Infrastructure 3 and mirrored Dell/EMC storage area networks. | Consolidating 130 servers onto 13 physical hosts frees data center space for future expansion. Flexible management tools help cut server provisioning time from weeks to minutes. Centralized storage enables simplified backup and mirroring, helping ensure continuity of school operations. |
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