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- Dell Servers, Dell Desktops, a Dell/EMC SAN, and a Boatload of Dell Services and Support Ensure That Life in the IT Department at Royal Resorts Is Just Another Day at the Beach
- Founded in 1974, Royal Resorts now operates eight timeshare locations throughout Mexico and the Caribbean. Due to geographic challenges and impromptu organizational habits, the state of the IT infrastructure at Royal Resorts inhibited the success of its growing business. In order to improve organizational efficiency, and therefore expand member services,...
- Tags: Desktop, Dell Computer Corp., Information Technology, SAN, EMC Corp., Dell Server, Servers, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Hardware, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software
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- Dell Servers and Storage Help Liberty University Deliver Education With a Higher Purpose
- Founded in 1971 as a Christian academic community in the tradition of evangelical institutions of higher education, Liberty University has witnessed a booming five-year enrollment growth of around 124 percent - a doubling in size since 2000. Located in Lynchburg, Virginia, Liberty currently has around 9,600 enrolled students, and it...
- Tags: Education, Dell Computer Corp., University, Dell Server, E-learning, Storage, Servers, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware
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- Dell Servers, Storage, and Services Supercharge the National Center for Supercomputing Applications
- Developed in the 1990s by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications NCSA is located at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The Center needed to build massive computing clusters to provide computing cycles to the academic research community - on budget and in record time. The solution deployed includes Dell...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Dell Server, InfiniBand, Servers, Storage, Processors, Networking, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components
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- Dell Servers and Storage Improve Library Services in Adelaide, Australia
- Adelaide, Australia, the capital of the state of South Australia, is a quaint but bustling urban center. As far back as 1995, the Adelaide City Council determined that IT would be a necessity for improving city services and enabling growth. To meet its goal of providing services to not only...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Adelaide, Council, Storage, Dell Server, Servers, Hardware
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- Golden Gate University Standardizes on Dell Servers and Switches to Help Give Students a Technologically Rich Educational Experience
- Golden Gate University GGU is California's fifth-largest private university, with more than 6,500 graduate and undergraduate students. GGU needed to provide reliable, robust IT services to an adult, professional student population; construct a fast, dependable network backbone for multimedia content, offer reliable services for e-business processes, and build in scalability...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Dell PowerEdge, Dell Server, Gate University, Golden Gate University, Servers, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Hardware
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- BET Interactive Selects Dell Servers, Switches, Desktops, and Notebooks in a Major IT Overhaul
- BET Interactive runs BET.com, the premier online Web portal for the African-American community. The organization needed a fast, high-performance system that could support all of the media-rich features on the BET.com Web site. At the same time, the infrastructure had to be well prepared for growth to accommodate an ever-expanding...
- Tags: Desktop, Notebook, Dell Computer Corp., Information Technology, Dell Server, Servers, E-mail, Leadership, Processors, Hardware, Online Communications, Management, Semiconductors, Components
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- Nine Systems Achieves a State of Network Nirvana Thanks to an IT Infrastructure Powered by Dell Servers
- Nine Systems was presented with an ugly reality - the end-of-life for its servers. With the ambitious agenda of replacing a large number of its servers, Nine Systems set about evaluating potential vendors. It did not take long before the company realized that Dell offered the optimal server products. Since...
- Tags: IT Infrastructure, Dell Computer Corp., Network, Information Technology, Dell Server, Servers, Hardware
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- K & N Kenanga Provides Brokers With a One-Stop Information Resource by Using Dell Servers and Storage
- K & N Kenanga Bhd is among the top three stockbroker firms in Malaysia and has offices in Peninsula and East Malaysia. Faced with the challenge of providing real-time information to its remisiers - licensed dealer representatives who work on a part-commission basis - K & N Kenanga needed the...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Storage, Dell Server, Portals, Web Technology, Servers, Internet, Hardware
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- A Complete Portfolio of Dell Servers, Storage, Personal Computers, and Services Sends GSD&M on Its Excellent Ad Venture
- Austin, Texas, is a long way from Madison Avenue, but that has not stopped GSD&M from rising to the top of the ad game. For more than a decade GSD&M has been leading the charge for the intelligent deployment of IT to support creative endeavors. Prior to selecting Dell as...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Advertisement, PC, Storage, Dell Server, Computer, GSD&M, Servers, Hardware
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- The School of Computing at the National University of Singapore Gains Supercomputing Performance by Building a Cluster of Linux-Based Dell Servers Running Intel Processors
- The National University of Singapore is a leading global university with 10 departments offering undergraduate and graduate programs. The school wanted to break the vicious cycle of buying and upgrading expensive proprietary platforms, so it decided to deploy an open platform that ran open source software powered by industry-standard processors....
- Tags: Processor, Dell Computer Corp., Server, Computing, Dell Server, Intel Corp., Supercomputing, Linux, Operating Systems, Software
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- Dell Servers and Workstations Enable Go Daddy to Boost Infrastructure Growth and Meet Surges in Demand
- GoDaddy.com became an ICANN-accredited registrar in 2000 and debuted its domain name registration services at prices 70 percent less than those of the industry leader. Go Daddy has experienced yearly double-digit and even triple-digit growth since it burst onto the scene in 2000. Staying ahead of this exponential growth has...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Workstation, Domain Name Registration, Server, Dell Server, Domain Names, Internet
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- Energy-Efficient Dell Servers and Notebooks Help Parks Victoria Meet Its Green Mandate by Slashing Electricity Consumption by 50 Percent
- Parks Victoria was required to operate in an environmentally sound manner and needed to further reduce its energy consumption. It also wanted to increase the amount of time its staff could spend out in the field rather than sitting at desks. Parks Victoria replaced 44 servers with four energy-efficient Dell...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Dell Server, Notebooks, Servers, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets
- Case studies 2008-01-18
- New Virtualized Dell Infrastructure Helps Firm Increase Overall Work Output While Increasing Server Utilization by an Estimated 70 Percent
- RVM needed an IT infrastructure that could keep up with a rapidly expanding volume of business while minimizing costly data center space requirements. The company deployed Dell servers, switches, and workstations and virtualized servers to consolidate data center real estate. New Dell servers, switches, and workstations helped boost overall work...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Dell Server, Data Centers, Servers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- Case studies 2007-12-01
- A Virtualized Dell Server Environment and Dell Storage Help a California School System Safeguard Data With a 72x Improvement in Failover and Recovery Time
- California school wanted to protect vital school data and operations against potential natural disasters and human error, while working with limited data center space and tight budgets. The school deployed a Dell/EMC storage area network to consolidate the storage environment and replicate data at a disaster recovery site; virtualize the...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Recovery, Environment, Failover, Dell Server, Data Centers, Storage, Disaster Recovery, Servers, Hardware, Data Management
- Case studies 2007-10-01
- Dell Servers, Switches, and Storage Help Hosted Solutions Provide Its Local Customer Base With a Breadth of Services and Rock-Solid Reliability
- Hosted Solutions offers managed hosting services through data centers in North Carolina and Massachusetts. A Web hosting company faced problems related to sourcing computing products from a variety of vendors, which caused a lack of standardization, slowed the rollout of services, and hindered manageability. Hosted Solutions deployed Dell PowerEdge servers...
- Tags: Managed Hosting, Dell Computer Corp., Storage, Dell Server, Web Hosting, Purchasing & Procurement, It Services, Servers, Strategy, Internet, Business Operations, Hardware, Management
- Case studies 2007-04-01
- TechNet Webcast: Optimize Your Data Center Using PlateSpin Solutions, Dell Servers, and Microsoft Virtual Server (Level 200)
- The attendee of this webcast will learn how PlateSpin enables the adoption, growth, and extension of virtualization in the data center with Dell servers and Microsoft virtual technologies. It also show how PlateSpin solutions reduce operational costs and help solve most critical data center challenges including server consolidation, hardware migration,...
- Tags: PlateSpin Inc., Microsoft Virtual Server, Dell Computer Corp., Data Center, Webcast, Virtual Server, Microsoft Corp., Dell Server, Microsoft TechNet, Data Centers, Storage, Servers, Hardware, Data Management
- Webcasts 2007-11-01
- With Help From Dell Services, Industrial Lubricant Manufacturer Houghton International Standardizes on Dell Servers, Storage, and Computers
- Unstable server platform resulted in frequent crashes - imperiling the effectiveness of the company's Enterprise Resource Planning ERP and messaging infrastructure; server and storage environments lacked disaster recovery capabilities. As a solution Houghton International migrated Oracle database and Microsoft Exchange e-mail systems to Dell PowerEdge servers; consolidate application servers on...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Dell Server, Computer, Servers, Storage, Hardware
- Case studies 2006-06-01
- Welch's Recipe for Success Calls for Oracle ERP Software Running on a Dell PowerEdge Server Platform, a Dell/EMC SAN, and a Whole Bushel of Dell Servers and Services
- Founded in 1869 by physician and dentist Dr. Thomas Bramwell Welch, the company possesses a rich tradition of innovation. Welch's wanted to replace antiquated mainframe environment in order to get rid of inefficient spreadsheet-based supply chain processes. The company deployed an Oracle 9g database and Oracle Apps 11i.5.10 running on...
- Tags: Software, Dell PowerEdge Server, Dell Computer Corp., Oracle Corp., SAN, Dell PowerEdge, EMC Corp., Dell Server, Welch, Servers, Storage, Hardware
- Case studies 2006-01-01
- UK Internet Service Provider Drives Continued Growth Using Dell Server Solution
- UK Internet Service Provider ISP RapidSwitch is achieving continued growth through a service offering that is highly flexible and reliable. To ensure that RapidSwitch achieves its business goals, managers depend on a 1,100-strong server estate delivering a variety of services, including online radio, from a hosted data-centre based in London....
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Dell PowerEdge, Internet Service, Dell Server, Servers, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Hardware, Internet
- Case studies 2006-06-14
- A Kentucky School District Adopts Powerful Dell Servers and Dell/EMC Storage to Bring Low Administrative Costs and High Resiliency
- Bardstown school district launched one of the first school Web sites in the state of Kentucky - giving parent's online access to school resources, administration personnel, and teachers. As the workload on the Bardstown IT infrastructure grew, server and storage capacity began to lag behind the needs of users. In...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., EMC Corp., Dell Server, Kentucky School District, Servers, Microsoft Windows, Storage, Operating Systems, Hardware, Software
- Case studies 2006-02-01
