High Approval Rating

“We scheduled three days for the implementation, but we only needed a day and a half. The plan that Dell Services proposed was thorough and straightforward, the hardware arrived ready to go, and the Dell consultant was efficient and knowledgeable. The entire system worked perfectly on the first try.”

- Joe Walling, network administrator, Gallup

Server downtime and maintenance at global consultancy Gallup interfered with sensitive projects and strained the limits of the ultra-lean IT administration team.

A virtual server farm using VMware^® Infrastructure 3 on Dell^TM  PowerEdge^TM  2900 servers and an Internet SCSI (iSCSI) storage area network (SAN) using Dell EqualLogic^TM PS3900 and PS-84E devices was designed to eliminate downtime and simplify or eradicate many maintenance tasks.

• Get IT Faster: Dell Infrastructure Consulting Services helps implement the solution 50 percent faster than anticipated; Dell virtual infrastructure helps reduce server deployment time to 45 minutes
• Run IT Better: Gallup team achieves zero downtime goal with virtualized servers; Virtual server farm running on Dell PowerEdge servers helps simplify IT administration
• Grow IT Smarter: Virtualization helps eliminate an estimated US$72,000 in server purchases each year