A SIMPLEMIGRATIONA STRONGERINFRASTRUCTURECREATE A MORE FLEXIBLE LINUX DATA CENTERWITH DELL™ PROCONSULT™ SERVICES

DELL DOES MORE WITH YOUR DATA CENTERSO YOU CAN DO MORE WITH YOUR BUDGET

The move from UNIX to Linux makes sense in almost any

organization’s environment. With costs rising and budgets

shrinking, moving away from legacy operating systems

with proprietary applications and hardware helps improve

manageability and scalability. Dell’s ProConsult™ Migration

Services offer a comprehensive set of tools, services,

guidelines, and other resources to help your organization

effectively migrate from RISC-based systems. Together with

Intel® and the power of Linux, Dell can help lower your data

center’s TCO and allow for the adoption of virtualization and

other future technologies.

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Maintenance costs, software licensing,

power consumption, and fl oor space all

contribute to the disproportionate share of

the UNIX data center budget. Yet migration

to a more fl exible Linux system has often

been perceived as a substantial risk. With

Dell, that perception no longer exists.

With a new generation of standards-based

systems platforms available, Dell™ ProConsult

Services can provide the same or better

performance, reliability, and security than

the latest UNIX platforms – with lower

acquisition cost and, more importantly,

lower TCO. A Linux operating environment

on an x86 infrastructure can enable your

IT staff to develop and deploy software in

collaboration with a worldwide development

community on a variety of platforms.

With a new systems platform in place,

your organization can regain control of

data center TCO.

In addition to better performance, a Linux

migration can also help organizations

reduce TCO by:

THE ONLY RISKIS NOT LOWERING TCO

• LEvEraging ExiSting it SKiLLS frOM yOur prEviOuS unix EnvirOnMEnt

• StanDarDiZing thE EnvirOnMEnt

• EnhanCing SyStEM SECurity anD SCaLabiLity

• rEDuCing EnErgy COnSuMptiOn anD fLOOr SpaCE

• COnSOLiDating tO a virtuaLiZED it infraStruCturE

FPO

A STRONGER FOUNDATIONWITH DELL x86 ARCHITECTURE

Dell’s x86 PowerEdge™ servers are designed

to provide your data center with fl exible

confi gurations and comprehensive services

that adapt to the growth of your organization.

These high-performance servers provide an

ideal virtualization environment to consolidate

business-critical applications, along with

infrastructure applications, to provide the best

resource utilization. This can ultimately increase

your organization’s fl exibility and serviceability.

Dell’s x86 PowerEdge™ high-performance

servers provide an ideal virtualization

environment to consolidate businesscritical

applications, along with infrastructure

applications, to provide the best resource

utilization. Throughout deployment and

installation, Dell’s Business Ready confi gurations

help minimize risk and overall cost. With our

exclusive Business Ready confi gurations, only

Dell can simplify your transition to virtualization

by engineering architected pre-built

confi gurations designed to help build a dynamic

virtualized environment.

The operating cost for proprietary infrastructures

can signifi cantly restrict the growth of your data

center. Migrating to Linux can help your data center

eliminate the reliance on costly proprietary systems

and can eliminate your organization’s vendor lock-in.

This ultimately allows for total retention and control

of your infrastructure. Like UNIX, Linux comes with

a vast variety of built-in applications to provide the

high-level functionality that the enterprise data

center has come to expect from the proprietary

UNIX operating systems.

THE END OFPROPRIETARY DEPENDENCE

Linux enhancements in functionality, performance,

reliability, and security can take years to develop

in a proprietary environment. However with Dell’s

x86 architecture supporting multiple enterprise

Linux variants, your data center can take advantage

of a rapidly evolving open-source development

model to meet the changing needs of

your organization.

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THE DELL PROCONSULTMETHODOLOGYOur Linux migration goes farther than

hardware and software. Dell ProConsult

offers a portfolio of services that can help

you assess, design, and implement a Linux

solution that meets your budget’s needs.

We can help plan, create, and implement a

fi rst-time migration or optimize an existing

one. The following chart provides an in-depth

look at Dell’s ProConsult resources.

• Explore Potential Benefi ts

• Current State Discovery

• Infrastructure Analysis

• Application Dependency Mapping

• Project Planning

• Business Case

• Scientifi c Tools Accelerating Process

• Future State Planning

• Schedules / Processes

• Capacity

• PMO

• SLAs

• Portal

• Reporting

• Migration

• Virtualization Factory

• Staff Augmentation

• Full Knowledge Transfer

• Validation Testing

wOrKShOp aSSESSMEnt DESign iMpLEMEntatiOn ManagE/StOragE

Dell™ PowerEdge servers are designed

to be a more viable alternative to UNIX on

RISC for the deployment of enterprise and

mission-critical scale-up applications

and scale-out workloads such as Web,

database servers, and IT infrastructure.

From tower server to a rack-dense

server for the data center or an ultra-dense

blade server to maximize floor

space, PowerEdge servers are setting

the industry standard for simplifying

operations and maximizing ROI.

EMPOWER YOURINFRASTRUCTURE

Dell™ Services and Dell ProSupport™ options can

provide factory, on-site, remote, modular, and

specialized services to fit your needs and budget.

We can also deliver workshops designed to bring

your staff up to speed on new technology. By rapidly

responding to your needs and helping to protect your

investment, Dell aligns its services with the productivity

of your organization’s technology.

DELIVER STRONGER SUPPORT WITH STRONGER TOOLS

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Dell has a long successful history with RISC migration.

When Utah State University needed to consolidate

servers and storage to save money, reduce power

and cooling requirements, and provide a redundant,

scalable infrastructure, they chose Dell. Once the

university deployed Dell PowerEdge™ servers,

a Dell/EMC storage area network (SAN) array, and

software from VMware® and Oracle®, thEy wErE abLE tO aChiEvE 99%

uptiME anD rEDuCE thE aSSOCiatED it fOOtprint by 50 pErCEnt.

To learn more about how USU was able to triple projected hosting capacity

without increasing budget, visit DELL.COM/CaseStudies to read the

entire case study.

Dell practices what it produces. Our central back-office

system that supported the processing of incoming

customer orders for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa

(EMEA) was a powerful UNIX-based server — but

it was not powerful enough for our rapidly growing

business. By migrating to a grid architecture based on

standard Intel®-based Dell PowerEdge servers, running

Oracle Database 10g with Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC), Oracle

E-Business Suite 11i, and Red Hat Linux®, wE havE rEDuCED tOtaL COSt Of

it OwnErShip by 75%. To learn more about how Dell’s own Linux infrastructure

keeps its international orders flowing smoothly, visit DELL.COM/CaseStudies to

read the entire case study.

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DELL raiSES thrOughput by 100% with thE wOrLD’S LargESt Linux/OraCLE DatabaSE

As previously mentioned, the continued operation

of a proprietary, legacy environment can increase

data center costs with ongoing replacement,

maintenance, and power consumption expenses.

But what is the best Linux variant for your data

center? With Dell, Intel, and Linux, your

organization is connected to a team that can

tackle these questions by providing your

infrastructure with tailored platforms and services

CONNECT YOURDATA CENTERTO YOUR FUTURE

required for successful migrations. Dell’s strategy

for migration is to simplify the process with a

commitment to standards. These standards

apply to both the hardware and software aspects

of the solution, with reliance on Dell’s PowerEdge™

family of servers to deliver a mission-critical

operating environment.

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THE TIME TO MODERNIZE YOUR DATA CENTER WITH A STANDARDS-

BASED LINUX PLATFORM IS NOW. DELL PROCONSULT OFFERS THE

COMPLETE MIGRATION SOLUTION THAT HELPS REGAIN CONTROL

OF DATA CENTER TCO.