Virtualization Case Studies

Dell has helped thousands of customers use virtualization to help solve a variety of challenges. Many started by implementing a server consolidation strategy to reduce costs related to server hardware acquisition and management, power and cooling, and data center real estate. While cost reduction is often the starting point, the benefits extend well beyond total cost of ownership (TCO). 

Dell virtualization services and solutions have helped these customers speed development cycles, deploy new resources faster and implement easier-to-manage, more cost-effective, high-availability and disaster-recovery strategies. Learn how we have partnered with our customers to lay the foundation for an automated, agile infrastructure. 
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  1. Video: Dell vStart Fast-Tracks IT Growth for TS TECH

    Video: Dell vStart Fast-Tracks IT Growth for TS TECH

    2 out of 5

    Bill Sommer of auto supplier TS TECH North America discusses how a prebuilt Dell vStart solution accelerated his organization's ERP platform migration and provided a new paradigm for future IT growth.

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    Accelerate and secure data replication with F5 WAN optimization

    18 Jun 2010

    4 out of 5

    Combining Dell EqualLogic PS Series storage with F5 BIG-IP application delivery systems and WAN Optimization Module technology can have significant performance and security benefits for data replication over WANs, helping reduce WAN-related costs.

  3. Northamptonshire County Council

    Northamptonshire County Council

    01 Jun 2010

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    The Northamptonshire County Council boosts collaboration, cuts IT maintenance time and improves staff mobility with Dell flexible computing solution.

  4. Município de Oeiras (CM-Oeiras)

    Município de Oeiras (CM-Oeiras)

    01 Jun 2010

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    Dell consultants help Portuguese authority Município de Oeiras expand IT in schools and improve server performance by around 300 percent.

  5. Improving Efficiency Through Virtualization

    City of Austin Water Utility

    28 Feb 2010

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    Dell servers help City of Austin Water Utility prune 90 percent from power and cooling while boosting testing and development tenfold.

  6. Forrester TEI Study

    The Total Economic Impact™ of Dell’s Server Virtualization Solutions

    18 Feb 2009

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    Forrester Research examined the potential return on investment (ROI) enterprises may realize by adopting Dell’s server virtualization solutions with VMware's ESX server and virtualization platform.

  7. Healthy IT Infrastructure

    Healthy IT Infrastructure

    01 Nov 2008

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    Dell PowerEdge blade and rack servers provide the foundation of a high-density virtualized infrastructure at ALERT Life Sciences Computing — supporting simplified management, high performance and rapid deployment.

  8. Oil Firm Grows Business While Trimming Servers by 80 Percent

    09 Sep 2008

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    Maxol used Windows Server 2008 Enterprise OS featuring Hyper-V virtualization technology to consolidate 22 servers to six servers, an 80 percent reduction.

  9. Hosting Provider Uses Virtualization to Expand Services, Reduce Costs

    09 Sep 2008

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    Using Hyper-V, hosting services provider NetBenefit is maximizing data center space, reducing server management work and enhancing customer data security.

  10. HotSchedules

    09 Sep 2008

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    HotSchedules deployed Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V virtualization technology to consolidate its server environment, reduce costs and maximize network performance.