Data Protection and Storage.

Data Protection
and Storage.
Simplify backup. Increase savings.
Dell is taking data protection
to the next level.
Across the globe, a number of industries are
experiencing improved efficiency and increased
resilience by bringing data protection solutions
and storage hardware together for an all-inone backup approach. By taking proactive
steps to simplify storage and data protection,
organizations are empowered to navigate the
dynamic nature of information management
and are poised for sustainable growth.
On the following pages, explore examples of how
organizations like yours have leveraged Dell’s
cost-effective and scalable data protection in
conjunction with Dell’s dynamic storage solutions.
Join the movement toward smarter backup,
and uncover ways to spend less money,
get time back in your day, and operate
your business with greater agility.
Build a smarter backup by selecting
from Dell’s robust suite of data
protection and storage solutions.
With Dell deduplication appliances,
increase the backup speeds of
your existing backup software while
reducing storage space requirements.
Protect and restore your organization’s
rapidly expanding body of data without
disrupting the flow of work.
Dell data protection and storage solutions offer a
comprehensive alternative to the costly option of upgrading
time-intensive legacy backup systems. Benefits include:
Effectiveness
Efficiency
Innovation
With a single endto-end IT solutions
provider, expand
storage and staff
capacity, as needed,
to meet the changing
needs of customers
and drive growth.
Cut technology
costs of storage
ownership and data
recovery time while
maintaining and
improving services.
Transition toward
a simplified IT
infrastructure that
provides continuous
system availability to
enable management
to shift focus toward
higher-level priorities.
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Investment firm reduces risk, increases
customer confidence
Benefits
Dell Solutions
Critical systems can
be fully recovered
in four hours
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Data Protection
Configuration Services
Data Security
Deployment Services
• Disaster Recovery
• End-User Computing
• Network Security
Proactive steps ensure reliable service for finance clients
Scheduled snapshots
are taken every hour
3:1 compression ratio
makes deduplication
fast and efficient
Improved data
protection and
reduced client risk
Built on the principle of trust and dependability, Ashford
Capital Management, a family-owned and managed finance
company founded in 1979, provides investment advisory
services to individuals and organizations in multiple countries
and prides itself on prioritizing personal relationships
with customers. In an effort to ensure its critical client
information is well protected and accessible when needed,
the company knew they needed the right technology
to maintain continuous system reliability for analysts.
As a preventative measure, the company reached out to
Dell, long a trusted partner, for counsel in selecting a new
backup and disaster recovery solution to ensure faster,
more secure safeguarding of customer data. The simple
solution was based on Dell AppAssure, Dell SonicWALL
firewalls, and a Dell EqualLogic storage array. The IT
upgrade resulted in the improved disaster response time to
recover critical systems within the four-hour RTO, enabling
continued access to its Microsoft SQL server-based portfolio
accounting system, where client trades are made.
View the full Ashford Capital Management case study here.
Customer Profile
Company
Ashford Capital Management
Industry
Banking & Investment
Country
United States
Employees 31 employees supported
Website
ashfordcapital.com
I don’t have to worry about backup
“ and
recovery, because Dell AppAssure
just works. And so it leverages my
time to prepare for an actual disaster.
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Growing manufacturing company elevates focus
and achieves flexibility with simple solution
Benefits
Dell Solutions
Days instead of months
for server provisioning
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Data Protection
Networking
Server
Storage
Reduction in backup time leads to faster
delivery of solutions to customers
$250,000 saved
Exchange Server
environment is
backed up in one day
rather than weeks
Faster delivery of
solutions to customers
Capacity demands and inefficient backup processes
threatened to stymie the quick growth ATMI, a
semiconductor solutions manufacturing company, was
experiencing. Refining its focus, the company set out
to find a faster way to build and provision servers to
meet internal demand and to reduce system backup
times. Committed to promptly providing services that
increase customers’ efficiencies, the company turned
to Dell to simplify storage, reduce system backup times,
and streamline their technology infrastructure.
ATMI began implementing Dell servers, storage, and
networking solutions, starting with Dell PowerEdge R620
and R820 rack servers. Following the server deployment, the
company implemented Dell Networking S4810 switches in
its data center and launched several Dell Compellent storage
area networks (SANs). ATMI started using Dell AppAssure
software for tapeless backup of its database and Exchange
Server environments and installed Dell Networking switches
at remote sites. ATMI now saves thousands in operating
costs while better meeting the growing needs of business.
View the full ATMI case study here.
Customer Profile
CompanyATMI
IndustryManufacturing
Country
United States
Employees 640
Website
atmi.com
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Simplified IT
management and
administration
can build and provision servers in just
“ We
a few days, compared with up to three
months previously, thanks to the efficiency
the Dell solutions give us and the advantage
of using one vendor - Dell - for everything.
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District schools’ technology marches
forward despite lean resources
Benefits
Dell Solutions
Doubled storage
capacity, reducing
storage TCO by
38 percent
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Data Protection
Data Center Virtualization
Data Migration Services
Storage
• Support Services
Twenty-year technology partnership
leveraged for sustainable operations
Server recovery in
minutes; disaster
recover in a day
72-hour recovery point
objective for home
directories has been
reduced to near zero
80 percent less
storage management
time required
Experiencing the results of national school district budget
cuts, Bay District Schools — a Dell server customer
since the mid-1990s — sought to cut technology costs
while maintaining and improving services. Bay District
Schools turned to Dell to secure a technology solution
that could provide better support, simplify management,
and lower the total cost of ownership for storage.
Bay District Schools migrated its file shares, Citrix
XenServer virtual machines, and Microsoft SQL Server
databases to two Dell Compellent Storage Center SANs
with two Dell PowerVault MD1200 direct attached
storage arrays and Dell AppAssure backup and recovery
software, with assistance from Dell Data Migration
Services, to increase storage capacity and improve
recovery objectives. The software allows administrators
to provision any size virtual volume upfront and consume
disk space only when data is written. The district now
has an elegant data protection and disaster recovery
architecture that requires very little manual intervention.
View the full Bay District Schools case study here.
Customer Profile
Company
IndustryEducation
Country
United States
Employees
26,000
Faculty/Staff 3,426
Website
Zero storage
downtime; no data loss
Bay District Schools
bay.k12.fl.us
can recover servers in a matter of
“ We
minutes. That means increased productivity
for students, faculty and staff.
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Embracing scalable technology benefits
a historically analog company
Benefits
Dell Solutions
Recovery time
objective improved
98% to one hour
• Data Protection
• Storage
• Networking
Reduced downtime for data retrieval
results in notable savings
Recovery point
objective improved
92% to two hours
Greater productivity
with faster data recovery,
and no backup over runs
On-premise solution
is 54% less costly
than competing cloud
service providers
Publisher MPS Limited built its business on service
excellence. In order to keep up with the rapidly
changing landscape in the industry, the company took
note of any roadblocks to providing quality customer
care. Tape-based data backups and recovery slowed
down the company’s capability for sustainability as
backup over runs were commonplace, and each day
of lost data resulted in upwards of a $24,000 loss.
The company deployed an on-premise solution based
on the Dell DL4000 backup and recovery appliance,
running on Dell AppAssure with Dell NetVault Backup.
The company, along with Dell Support Services,
elected to support the virtualized environment with
Dell PowerEdge M1000e servers, Dell EqualLogic
PS6100E storage, and the Dell PowerVault MD1200.
Dell Networking switches was used by IT to manage
data traffic. Upgrading and streamlining the company’s
protection of business-critical and older data, allows for
agility and substantial cost savings in dynamic markets.
View the full MPS Limited case study here.
Savings of up to U.S.
$24k per day of lost data
Customer Profile
Company
MPS Limited
IndustryPublishing
CountryIndia
Employees 2,500
Website
adi-mps.com
Personnel see data returned quickly
“ and
stay on top of their workloads
and customers are better served.
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Stabilized costs for IT administration result in
continued growth for healthcare organization
Benefits
Dell Solutions
Sub-50 millisecond
recovery time to meet
required database
response times
Fast access to
patient data for 4500
technicians connected
to Advanced servers
Quickly triage correct
outcomes to speed
patient journey
Fast, reliable, and highly
scalable solution
Single end-to-end
IT solution provider
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Data Center
Client Solutions
Data Protection
Information Management
• Network Security
• Storage
• Systems Management
Data center embraces trend toward
enhanced IT to reduce spend
Advanced Health & Care was on a mission to meet the
changing needs of patients, clinicians, and healthcare
providers in the U.K., including answering customer
requirements and delivering solutions to many providers
within the NHS and private healthcare. Noticing an increase
in data loading, the company was prompted to analyze
the existing IT infrastructure to ensure any new solution
was designed for optimum deployment and embraced
latest best practices. After a two-decade partnership,
Advanced selected Dell as its single end-to-end IT solution
partner to provide guidance toward sustainable growth.
To minimize management overhead with simplified
administration and maximize performance with expert
support services, Advanced deployed Dell PowerEdge
servers, Dell EqualLogic storage, Dell Compellent SC8000
storage controllers, Dell SonicWALL next-generation firewalls
to support clinical data solutions, Dell Networking S60 and
S4810 switches, and Dell DR4100 disk backup appliances
between two data centers that support Advanced services.
With the reliable and highly scalable data center and onpremise solutions, Advanced is able to provide fast access
to patient data to 4500 technicians and reduced database
response times for 85 percent of 111 providers in England.
View the full Advanced Health & Care case study here.
Customer Profile
Company
Advanced Health & Care (Advanced)
Industry
Health and Care Technology
Country
United Kingdom
Employees 290
Website
advancedcomputersoftware.com/ahc
ability to manage the system from a
“ The
central place has enabled faster completion of
maintenance tasks, freeing up time for other
work - and, of course, savings on staff training.
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Tech company leverages dependable IT
infrastructure for worldwide expansion
Benefits
Dell Solutions
Enhances client
services with increased
developer productivity
Fast backups and
restores empower
company to drive
international expansion
Employee IT support
improved with 30%
reduction in time
dedicated to admin
Boosts backup
efficiency, and cuts
costs with up to 80%
deduplication
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Data Protection
Data Recovery
Server
Storage
• Networking
• Deployment Services
• Support Services
Data deduplication solution boosts business
and customer relationship capabilities
With 12 branches worldwide, Cadac Group was poised to
continue their market expansion into Asia Pacific, Europe,
and the U.S. To grow sustainably, the company understood
the importance of a dependable infrastructure to safely back
up and quickly restore critical data. Before the partnership
with Dell Support Services, not only was the company
losing time with slow restore processes and losing space to
duplicated backups, there was also the risk of losing critical
data in an emergency with the existing, outdated solution.
To stabilize their footing, the company increased
productivity, while reducing administrative costs, by
deploying two Dell PowerEdge R720xd servers with
Intel Xeon processors, the highly scalable softwarebased solution Dell AppAssure, and Dell PowerEdge
M620 servers running on the Dell PowerEdge VRTX
integrated infrastructure. The Chassis Management
Controller makes the Dell PowerEdge VRTX a complete
solution by supporting remote administration and
management of the infrastructure. With remote access
to a portable and reliable infrastructure, IT was then free
to redirect their focus and position the company’s efforts
toward best-in-class service and worldwide growth.
Customer Profile
Company
Cadac Group
Industry
Technology
Country
The Netherlands
Employees 250
Website
cadac.com
View the full Cadac Group case study here.
more productive and our developer
“ We’re
teams can work a lot more efficiently
because we can restore specific clouds for
projects in hours instead of days or weeks.
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With Dell’s storage and data protection offerings, backup is streamlined and automated
to support the growing needs of your organization and customers. Shifting toward a
new system is simplified with proven solutions to help increase developer productivity,
quickly restore databases and other critical data, and enhance customer care.
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