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Server Consolidation Solutions
As resource requirements grow, server farms and their associated costs grow along with them, highlighting the necessity for server consolidation. Server consolidation is a strategy for reducing costs, increasing utilisation and improving the control of IT infrastructure by standardising system management procedures, reducing the number of data centres, or reducing the number of servers. The Dell approach is to assist customers with server consolidation through logical, physical, workload and application consolidation. Dell has forged an alliance with VMware to help deliver these resource-optimising capabilities to customers, deploying servers linked in “scale-out” or scalable enterprise architectures.
If you are currently experiencing any of the following issues, contact Dell to discuss our approach to server consolidation:
Are you challenged with reducing operational costs? Do you need to make your IT resources more efficient? Are you struggling with the proliferation of servers? Have you recently undergone a merger or acquisition? Do you want to reduce system management complexity and overhead? Do you need to improve systems’ availability and security? Are you planning an upgrade to Windows 2003 or Exchange 2003 server? Are you considering storage consolidation? How does legislation affect your disaster recovery and business continuance plans? Benefits of Dell Server Consolidation • Uses well-defined and field tested processes and best practices to ensure predictable deployment, performance and enterprise capability • Streamlines the purchasing process, decreases costs, and lowers server management costs through standardisation • Increases security against internal and external threats through stricter policies and tools • Expands server capacity quickly as your business grows and evolves • Decreases planned and unplanned downtime. Dell will work closely with your team to develop and implement the most suitable solution for your organisation. Drawing on years of experience, Dell Professional Services consultants utilise proven methodology and project management expertise to provide timely, efficient and effective solutions. The consultants work with you to gain an understanding of your business objectives and IT strategies, then design plans that are flexible enough to adapt to current environments and structured to deliver desired results.
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What does Dell have to offer?
Server Consolidation Solutions
Infrastructure Readiness Assessment – assists customers in determining the viability, necessity and the value of moving to a consolidated server and storage infrastructure Consolidation Planning and Validation – Dell Professional Services uses well defined and field tested processes and best practices to validate the solutions we design to ensure predictable deployment, performance and enterprise connectivity Virtualisation – Dell Professional Services can implement a VMware solution, indicating how non-compatible applications can run on a single server to support server consolidation Proof of Concept – pilot activities provide customers with the assurance that the new environment will scale effectively. Dell delivers flexible standards-based solutions to help customers towards improved utilisation of computing resources and low-cost. VMware on Dell assists customers to consolidate workloads across distributed server environments, increase availability and build architectures that are more responsive to business needs.
The Dell Difference
Dell Professional Services combine affordability with an in-depth understanding and expertise in implementing standards-based systems. Dell complements these strengths by providing a single point of accountability that makes it easy to obtain the service you need. To help you determine the viability and value of moving to a consolidated server environment, Dell Professional Services can offer an Infrastructure Readiness Assessment, and pilot the introduction of virtualisation in your IT environment.
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Dell Professional Services are part of Dell’s $4billion worldwide services business, which applies a 360° approach to lifecycle support to achieve scalable enterprise computing. Dell Professional Services are integrated with the other solutions in the Dell Services portfolio, which helps customers at every stage of the lifecycle from initial infrastructure consulting, through application testing to desktop value recovery and recycling.
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