A Cure for Server Sprawl

“It would have been fiscally and environmentally irresponsible to continue running servers with such low utilization and high relative power consumption. This virtualized environment will help us greatly reduce our total cost of ownership.”

- Mark Trocino, chief information officer, DeKalb Medical

Design and deploy a virtualized server environment that can deliver accelerated application provisioning, improved resource utilization, and decreased downtime while reducing power, cooling, and real estate costs.

Dell Infrastructure Consulting Services assessed the medical center’s needs and helped design and deploy a virtual server environment using Dell^TM  PowerEdge^TM  servers and VMware^®  virtualization software.

• Get IT Faster: Accelerated new application deployment from six weeks to one day
• Run IT Better: Reduced power consumption by an anticipated 20 percent; decreased downtime from hours to minutes; increased server component resource utilization from 20 to 80 percent
• Grow IT Smarter: Freed up power, cooling, and real estate resources for continued growth