Healthy IT Infrastructure

Challenge
 
With the IT infrastructure at ALERT Life Sciences Computing growing by more than 100 percent annually, the IT department needed to take action to avoid running out of rack space or spending increasing amounts of time on basic server management.

Solution
 
ALERT deployed a Dell™ PowerEdge™ M1000e modular blade enclosure with PowerEdge M600 blade servers to support its internal IT infrastructure. The company connected the enclosure to a Dell/EMC CX3-10c storage area network (SAN) and implemented PowerEdge R805 servers to run VMware® virtualization software.

Benefits

• The new PowerEdge M1000e enclosure, which can be installed by Dell engineers in just over one hour
• Virtual machines that can be deployed up to 75 percent faster than non-virtualized physical servers
• Simplified management tools that help reduce reboot time from 15 minutes to less than a minute
• Two virtualized servers that can do the work of 20 non-virtualized physical servers
• Dell ProSupport — for IT — that can help protect investments with rapid support