Small is Beautiful

“We evaluated the c-Class HP BladeSystem and also looked at other server providers, and we found that the tenth-generation Dell blades offered good performance per watt. The power consumption was much less.”

- Rene Yang, IT director, Claremont University Consortium

Claremont University Consortium needed a scalable, highly available server and storage infrastructure that would make the most of limited space in its new data center and help support a green initiative by minimizing power and cooling requirements.

After evaluating blade offerings from the competition, CUC decided to implement tenth-generation Dell blades in a redundant configuration with VMware^®  virtualization software and a Dell^TM  iSCSI SAN array.

• Get IT Faster: Quick, seamless remote installation of blade solution (less than 2 hours vs. 4-6 hours)
• Run IT Better: Projected 99.9% availability for critical applications; good price-performance per watt compared to other server choices; high availability and scalability without the cost of a Fibre Channel SAN
• Grow IT Smarter: Estimated 75% reduction in data center footprint; scalable storage to accommodate data growth