The Wharton School Simplifies New Data Center with Dell
Technology Refresh Featuring Blade Servers and Dell EqualLogic Storage
Enables School to Enhance Computing Capability, Improve Efficiency
and Space Usage
ROUND ROCK, Texas (Business Wire EON/PRWEB ) June 26, 2008 --
The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania is using Dell
technology, including PowerEdge
M600 blade servers and Dell
EqualLogic PS5000X storage arrays, as the foundation of a new data
center designed to support students, faculty and academic research.
The enhanced capabilities of the new data center will provide the
Wharton School researchers the ability to operate a Linux grid cluster
powered by Dell blade servers, and expanded mailbox storage for students
and faculty. The Wharton School is raising its mailbox quota from 300
megabytes to 1 gigabyte for all staff and tripling the storage capacity
available to students and faculty.
“The demands on the Wharton School’s
network are increasing and with our continued growth, we are committed
to developing an infrastructure that is flexible and efficient,”
said Dan Alig, senior IT director of Wharton
Computing. “Dell blade servers and Dell
EqualLogic storage will allow us to do more with less and manage our
budget as effectively as we manage our technology resources.”
In the process of consolidating existing IBM BladeCenter infrastructure
onto Dell technology, Wharton Computing IT professionals were able to
unload and set up one of the Dell M1000e blade enclosures in four hours,
compared with a 24-hour process using the previous hardware. The Dell
enclosure was delivered in one box, replacing technology that previously
arrived in about 60 boxes, a reduction of approximately 45 cubic feet of
packaging material.
The Wharton School also has implemented
PowerEdge R900 servers that are providing a small hardware footprint
and intended to deliver stronger performance than the previous
generation of servers, with the goal of quintupling the computing power
per node in Wharton’s Microsoft®
Exchange 2007 environment. And Wharton has chosen Dell ProSupport for IT.
“The Wharton School has been focused on
maximizing its technology investment to free up financial and human
resources,” said John Mullen, Dell vice
president of higher education. “Dell’s
approach to simplifying IT
enables customers to reclaim the time, money, and personnel needed to
drive true innovation into daily business processes.”
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