The Business of Success

“Dell EqualLogic delivers Fibre Channel performance in an iSCSI SAN at a quarter of the cost. If you factor in the software features, the cost advantage is awesome.”

- Joe Cruz, senior IT project leader, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

The Wharton School needed to refresh its IT infrastructure with ultra-dense servers and storage to minimize its footprint and maximize its compute and storage capabilities in a new data center.

Wharton consolidated existing IBM BladeCenter and storage infrastructure onto the leaner, more powerful Dell^TM  PowerEdge^TM  M1000e blade enclosure with ultra-dense Dell PowerEdge M600 blade servers running Dell^TM  OpenManage^TM  and Dell EqualLogic^TM  PS5000X iSCSI SAN arrays.

• Get IT Faster: Dell blade system arrived in less than 2 weeks; Deployed the 40 TB Dell EqualLogic SAN in 4 hours
• Run IT Better: Reduced number of servers to manage by half (from 8 to 4); Projected server performance gains beyond expectations; iSCSI SAN delivers high performance at one-quarter the cost of a Fibre Channel SAN
• Grow IT Smarter: Minimized power and cooling needs; Ability to provide user base with productivity-boosting computing opportunities