Dell Flexible Computing Solutions

Making Today’s Challenges, Yesterday’s News

IT teams are consistently faced with the challenge of doing more with less. Nowhere is this truer than when it comes to supporting your end-users, while maintaining the IT control you need. Today’s challenges include:

• Seamless, fast support for end-users that could be across the street or across the globe


• Ensuring the security of corporate data (an ordinary drive can hold data with an estimated value between $1M and $8M)*


• Quickly and efficiently driving out the never-ending string of security and application patches


• Increasing device utilization, so that no compute power or dollar investment is wasted


• Meeting increasing SLA expectations without adding new resources


• Reducing power consumption across the board

Today there is a new answer to these challenges. With Dell’s Flexible Computing Solutions you can get enterprise-class desktop control, while delivering the flexibility your end-users need.

See overview of new FX160

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jM4j_NznUE

Source: Dell

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You vs. Downturn - Smart IT Spending for Recovery

CIO Prescription: How IT Is Riding Out The Recession

Some companies are cutting their IT budgets in response to the recession, while others are focusing on smart spending to be ready for the recovery.

Think small, quick, and impactful. That's the current mind-set of CIOs when it comes to IT spending and project planning amid the ongoing economic uncertainty.
CIOs aren't throwing Big Vision out the window, but they're under intense pressure to move up the priority list any work that can deliver returns quickly. For some companies, that means drastically cutting IT budgets, but that approach isn't universal--the companies we surveyed in November were exactly split, with a third cutting, a third maintaining, and a third increasing their IT spending.

More important is what gets done with the IT budgets companies have--only 16% of survey respondents say fewer new projects are coming through. Regardless of what's happening to the budget, demand for IT is up (see more data).

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Source: Information Week

Healthcare Workstation Challenges

Desktop Provisioning

Deployment of new desktop images and hardware for clinicians as well as consultants, contractors, and other temporary workers can be a costly and time-consuming process.

Application Migration and Updates

Clinical workstation. Nursing stations. Doctors mobile devices. As applications become more central to business operations, IT organizations are increasingly concerned with application stability, reliability and availability. What happens when a medical center’s main (EMR) application goes down? How do patients get the help they need if nurses can’t access the medical records? Disruption resulting from application migrations and updates can have a severe impact on quality of service and the bottom line.

Control and Manage Remote Servers & Desktops

From a Central Location Remote sites such as regional clinics, medical centers, and physician practices present unique challenges for IT organizations. Management complexity, inadequate infrastructure and a lack of administrative resources can make it difficult for companies to deliver consistent and scalable IT services to their remote offices in a timely manner.Operating Systems Migration, Migrating to a new OS like Vista or XP can overwhelm unprepared IT departments. With a traditional machine-based licensing model, hardware, applications and operating systems have been tightly coupled, leading to compatibility issues during OS upgrades or migration.

Has VDI (Virtual Desktop Technology) solved some of these issues?

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