Setting the Pace

“With help from Dell, we’ve been able to head off potential data center space and power supply problems. That gives us room to grow while saving energy and reducing costs.”

- Dan Traynor, IT infrastructure director, Southern Company, United States

Rapid business growth creates server sprawl, threatening to outstrip the available space in Southern Company’s data centers and driving up costs by consuming more energy each year.

Virtualizing and consolidating on Dell^TM  PowerEdge^TM  servers enables the Southern Company IT team to save data center space, reduce costs, and increase energy efficiency.

• Get IT Faster: Dell virtual infrastructure helps speed new server deployment time by a week
• Grow IT Smarter: Dell virtual infrastructure enables IT to accommodate future growth while slowing the pace of energy consumption; Dell PowerEdge servers enable up to 26:1 server consolidation to save data center space; Southern Company avoids over 2 million kilowatt hours with virtualized Dell servers; consolidating on Dell servers enables IT to avoid an estimated US$1.3 million in capital expenditures