Dell Blade Servers

Simplify  their IT they turned to dell services  and the dell PowerEdge m600 the fully  modular power-efficient blade solution  what it do all the parts already yank  everything apart we just feel free to  stop me at any point it's kind of gone run through and makes sure that you're comfortable in the box itself and we've answered all your questions.  Blue Cross Blue Shield of western New  York is the region's leading health  insurance provider we serve over 800,000  members in the western New York area we  have hundreds of thousands of claims  that go through our system on a regular  basis and that makes mighty very  critical to the organization we faced a  lot of challenges around the sprawl of  servers in the environment and that's  what led us down to the refurbished blade servers solution  we looked at HP technology as well as  IBM what Lowe's stores Dell was saving  on environmental manageability also a  relationship with Dell on a local level  which was real important for that only  the implementation with the long term  support of the solution  with the ever-changing economy we're  looking at cost avoidance as well as  justifying upgrading or existing  environment we're migrating our current  Dell server environment to power edge  and 1,000 enclosures using m600 blades  what we installed is four enclosures  completely populated 16 blades per  enclosure give us a total of 64 blade servers  boss using the blade enclosure system  variables that realize at ten to twenty  percent savings over using traditional  to you and one use server architecture  when we look at how we manage all of the  physical servers today versus how we'll  manage the blades in the future we saw a  tremendous amount of cost savings and  time savings you see a fifty to sixty  percent increase in efficiency over the  current PowerEdge servers by being more  efficient we have the lower our costs of  doing business we did a comparison of  physical deployment versus virtual  deployment  so a typical physical server and our  the world would take anywhere from one day  to a day and a half from start to finish  with the blades, it will be ours versus  days to get that done  sixty-four servers reacting into four  hours you don't apply any power to the server until. we definitely saw a significant cost  savings from a power consumption  standpoint using the dowel used blade servers we  expect to see a energy savings of  hundreds of megawatts per year  having the Dell implementation and the  Tiger teams on-site for the plate installation was a great thing for my staff Belle came in to really build a  solution from the ground up and to teach while they were building it was important for us to have our engineers and learn from Dells engineers and to pass that knowledge on to make sure that this project was a success we really don't have the experience and implementing the blades in this environment or any environment it was as close to a turnkey solution as you can get teaching the technical staff was just an added benefit Dell continues to provide not only the front end sales support but the back end technology support.