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The Wharton School Beefs Up Data Center with Blade Servers
6/30/2008
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"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, in a prepared statement. "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."
The new technology will help the school consolidate its IBM BladeCenter infrastructure, and allow their IT pros to set up the new M1000e blade enclosures in about one sixth the time it took with the previous hardware. As an added benefit, the Dell enclosures arrive in a single box per unit, as opposed to approximately 60 boxes with the prior setup, cutting both time investment and waste.
Additionally, the school has implemented PowerEdge R900 servers for their Microsoft Exchange 2007 environment, intended to decrease the equipment footprint while increasing the available computing power.
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