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whitepaper Business Intelligence Software and Services Provider Turns to Dell to Improve Training Facilities2006-11-28 Dell
  SAS Institute is a leader in business intelligence software and services. It employs more than 10,000 staff in more than 400 offices around the world. To help customers understand its Business Intelligence platform better, The South African branch of SAS Institute needed a cost-effective solution offering outstanding performance levels to run its training applications. SAS Institute has turned to Dell and Dell Precision workstations to fulfill the power-hungry requirements of its training facilities. The SAS Institute purchased an additional 17 Dell Precision 470 work-stations to boost its training capacities and support three new training facilities.

Tags: Workstations		   
whitepaper Business Management Solution Supports Virtual Manufacturing, Streamlines Production0000-00-00 Microsoft
  Microsoft Home and Entertainment Division (HED) needed to minimize the time and money spent developing Microsoft Xbox 360. To meet this goal, HED brought some research and design tasks in house, forming the Silicon Operations (SiOps) group to oversee development of the Graphics Processor Unit (GPU) Manufacturing would remain outsourced, so the team needed visibility of the supply-chain management process and access to real-time data from existing Microsoft and contract manufacturers' systems. The SiOps group implemented Microsoft Dynamics AX and, with Microsoft partner Fullscope, developed Microsoft Dynamics AX for High Tech Industries.

Tags: Supply Chain Management, Collaboration Tools		   
whitepaper MGM MIRAGE Server Consolidation Beats a Full House0000-00-00 Microsoft
  MGM MIRAGE, one of the world's leading and most respected hotel and gaming companies, sought to reduce the associated costs of purchasing and maintaining an increasing number of servers by consolidating over 125 Microsoft SQL Server 2000 databases while improving manageability and providing future expandability. MGM MIRAGE deployed two eight-processor Unisys ES7000 Aries Model 410 servers employing 1.3 GigaHertz (GHz) Intel Itanium 2 processors and running in a Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition and SQL Server 2000 - based environment. The company eliminated 30 servers - with more to come - resulting in decreased costs. The consolidated environment improved the time-to-deployment for new applications.

Tags: Application Servers, Database Management		   
whitepaper FUJIFILM Supports Multi-Terabyte SAP Deployment With Microsoft SQL Server 20050000-00-00 Microsoft
  FUJIFILM Group is a leader in manufacturing and marketing a range of products for imaging information, and document solutions. FUJIFILM Computer System Company (FFCS), a subsidiary of FUJIFILM Corporation, serves the entire FUJIFILM Group with IT expertise. As FUJIFILM Group prepares for its 75th anniversary in 2009, FFCS was tasked with enhancing data integration across the group's 220 companies. Building upon the success of an earlier deployment of SAP running on Microsoft SQL Server 2000, chose SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition (64-bit) for its Global SAP System. When SAP has been fully deployed to all organizations within FUJIFILM Group, SQL Server 2005 will be supporting several terabytes of data.

Tags: Application Servers, Database Management		   
whitepaper South Plains College Relies on Dell Professional Services Expertise to Implement Multi-Campus Network Access and Messaging Solution2006-11-01 Dell
  South Plains College (SPC) serves fifteen counties in the High Plains region of West Texas with an average enrollment of more than 9,000 college-credit students and more than 5,000 continuing education students. The Information Technology team at South Plains College wanted to facilitate collaboration between staff, faculty and students with reliable and secure network functionality as well as easily accessible e-mail capabilities. South Plains College enlisted the help of Dell Professional Services to conduct an assessment to implement Microsoft Active Directory and Microsoft Exchange. Dell Professional Services also implemented the equipment and software throughout its four campuses.

Tags: Application Servers, Directory Services		   
whitepaper Making a Global Law Practice More Practical2006-09-01 Dell
  Founded in Seattle in 1912, Perkins Coie LLP is one of the largest law firms in the Pacific Northwest. To be included among the world's premier law firms, they must ensure that their attorneys are able to work for their clients all day, every day. To help their attorneys succeed, the IT group needs to provide a professionally managed, highly reliable infrastructure. The Perkins Coie IT group selected Dell PowerEdge 2850 servers, each configured with two dual-core 64-bit Intel Xeon processors; VMware ESX Server virtualization software; Dell/EMC CX700 and CX500 storage systems; Dell OptiPlex desktop computers and Dell Latitude notebook computers; Dell Gold Enterprise Support.

Tags: Application Servers, Virtualization		   
whitepaper Dell Infrastructure Is Helping Connectria Streamline Operations and Inspire Customer Confidence2006-09-01 Dell
  Founded in 1996, Connectria originally focused on Internet infrastructure consulting but later widened its scope to include hosting and outsourcing. Connectria wanted to satisfy the needs of Web-hosting customers for multifunctional, high-performance, highly available servers. The challenge was to help Connectria respond to explosive customer growth with a business-smart IT strategy. As a solution Connectria created a data center based on Dell PowerEdge 1850, PowerEdge 2850, PowerEdge 850, and new-generation PowerEdge 1950 and PowerEdge 2950 servers with Intel Xeon processors running a wide variety of applications and operating systems.

Tags: Application Servers, Data Center		   
whitepaper Theatrical Drapery Manufacturer Sew What? Gives a standing Ovation to the Dell PowerEdge 860 Server2006-09-01 Dell
  Sew What? Inc. is the ultimate entertainment and event industries resource for theatrical draperies and fabrics. Theatrical drapery manufacturer Sew What? needed to increase server power and capacity in order to meet increasing customer and staff requirements. Sew What? Inc. deployed Dell PowerEdge 860 server with an Intel Xeon processor running the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 operating system and Intuit QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions Manufacturing and Wholesale Edition accounting software. The company also used an additional single-socket Dell PowerEdge server running Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and custom drapery applications; Dell OptiPlex GX520 and Dell Dimension 5150 desktops.

Tags: Windows NT - 2000 - 2003		   
whitepaper Dell Precision Workstations Help SolidWorks Developers and Customers Make the Most of Industry-Leading 3D CAD Software2006-08-01 Dell
  SolidWorks Corporation needed to maximize the productivity of its software developers in order to enhance its industry-leading 3D Computer-Aided Design (CAD) software. The company also wanted to recommend a high-performance hardware platform for its software to its customers worldwide. SolidWorks upgraded developer machines to Dell Precision 670 workstations with 64-bit dual-core Intel Xeon processors and NVIDIA Quadro FX 3400 and NVIDIA Quadro FX 1400 graphics cards running the Microsoft Windows XP operating system; certify the SolidWorks 3D CAD application on Dell Precision workstations.

Tags: Workstations, CAD		   
whitepaper Investment in 64-Bit Intel Itanium 2 Servers Pays Returns for CommSec2006-07-17 Microsoft
  As Australia's largest online financial services provider, Commonwealth Securities Limited (CommSec) needs to ensure that the internal and external Web sites it maintains, which receive more than 27 million hits a day, are providing the fastest and most effective user experience possible. This requires regular analysis of server performance logs, but a log analysis system proved unable to provide results quickly enough to support business decisions. A 4-way Intel Architecture server running 1.5GHz Intel Itanium 2 processors and Microsoft SQL Server 2005 manages the logging, processing, storage and analysis of Web user logs relating to 40 million weekly hits served up by dozens of Web servers running CommSec's many internal and external transactional sites.

Tags: Servers, Database Management