Dell’s focus on helping our customers “Do More..” was reinforced over the last two weeks as we opened new “Solution Centers” in Sydney and New York City. Interest in these two centers has been huge since we first announced these locations and we already have numerous engagement requests from customers and partners who want to see and test how Dell solutions can meet their unique requirements.
Each center was launched with an event attended by customers, alliance partners, channel partners and media. In New York, we were also delighted to meet with several industry analysts. Our guests were invited to tour the centers and experience a diverse range of industry and technology solutions that were demonstrated by our teams of solution experts. These included banking & securities, education, healthcare, cloud including “big data”, storage, business intelligence and end user computing solutions.
Dell Solution Center Sydney
On Tuesday May 1st we opened our Sydney Solution Center. Steve Schuckenbrock President Dell Services and Joe Kremer Managing Director Dell Austrailia/New Zealand (ANZ), formally opened the center at an event that kicked off with a reception for customers, press and partners, Feedback on the center has been really fantastic as a valuable tool to help ensure solution implementation success.
Located in our French’s Forest campus outside Sydney, the Solution Center is the first to open in Australia and will support a diverse range of customers from across the ANZ region.
Dell Solution Center New York
Thursday, May 10th, saw the grand opening of our New York solutions center. We were delighted to be joined by Mary Young, VP Large Enterprise segment, Bob Barris, Vice President, G500 Banking & Securities and Jan Uhrich, Vice President Services and Solutions Group, who officially opened the center in front of 60 guests.
The New York Solution Center is located on the 29th floor of One Penn Plaza, perfectly situated in midtown Manhattan with excellent transportation links for customers along the east coast.
Dell Solution Centers
Dell Solution Centers enable customers to explore and prove solutions unique to their specific requirements leveraging dedicated infrastructure, supported by our team of solution experts. We have opened eleven centers in the past year and have engaged with thousands of customers on proof of concept engagements, architectural design sessions and technical briefings. Our twelfth center will open late summer on our Silicon Valley campus. Our centers are connected via a global network that supports both remote access, as well as providing a fantastic test bed to validate multi-site solution requirements.
You can learn more at www.dell.com/solutioncenters. Talk to your account team today if you feel a solution center engagement could help you to find the right solution to meet your business requirements.
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Photos:
TOP: Sydney (ribbon cutting) :
L-R:: Jan Uhrich, Mary Young, William Collins, Bob Barris, Lee Morgan
BOTTOM: Sydney (5 men standing)
L-R: Evan Williams (Microsoft), Joe Kremer, Steve Schuckenbrock, Lee Man Wei and Lachlan Botticchio