Bill-Payer Cuts its Own Bills

“The Dell blades offer exceptional performance and have more than enough memory and storage capacity for the applications we need to run.”

- Sean Mullins, Manager of Network Operations, Cass Information Systems

Cass Information Systems needed to consolidate physical servers to avoid a costly expansion of the power and cooling infrastructure in its data center. Through virtualization, Cass also sought to simplify server administration tasks and replication, as well as save staff time in hardware upgrades, testing and troubleshooting.

Cass deployed a combination of Dell^TM  PowerEdge^TM  servers, Dell PowerVault^TM  storage, and virtualization software from VMware^® , as well as Dell OptiPlex^TM  desktops and Latitude^TM  notebooks for its end users—all backed by Dell Enterprise Support Services.

• Run IT Better: Approximately 75% faster server recovery time objective; Approximately 88% time savings in hardware upgrades
• Grow IT Smarter: 72% reduction in physical server count; 71% footprint reduction; Approximately 99% more efficient testing environment; Up to an estimated 700% increase in CPU utilization rates; $90,000 cost avoidance on air handler replacement;Deferred spending an estimated $70,000 on power distributions