Laying Down the Law

"With VMware software and the Windows Unified Data Storage Server OS that the PowerVault NX1950 uses, one technician easily manages the virtual machines and storage."

- Jon DeAngelo, chief information officer, Chautauqua County.

Chautauqua County needed to migrate its law enforcement records management system (RMS) to cost-effective servers that could deliver the performance and reliability required for those vital functions. The county also needed a way to address a rising number of new requests for other county services without having to purchase a new server for each new application.

The county created two computing environments based on Dell hardware: it migrated its RMS to Dell^TM  PowerEdge^TM  servers and created a scalable, virtualized server environment with a Dell PowerEdge server, Dell PowerVault^TM  storage, and VMware^®  Server software for other county applications.

Increased reliability, flexibility, and scalability; 60 percent cost savings for the RMS, compared with upgrading the county’s proprietary server; Saved the cost of three physical servers by creating a virtualized environment; Accelerated the time to provide new services, from one month to two hours; Accelerated new application deployment by 99.7 percent