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Blackboard Builds Innovative Education Tools on Dell Foundation

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Overview Since 1997, Washington D.C.-based Blackboard, Inc. has been a leading enterprise software company for education. The company wanted to implement hardware and services infrastructure that supports the five pillars of Blackboard ASP- reliability, security, scalability, fully managed service and cost control. Blackboard data centers populated with more than 1500 Dell PowerEdge servers supporting applications and databases for hosting client systems with the Blackboard Academic Suite. In addition to rack dense servers, the solution includes Dell blade servers for space-saving, efficient, dense computing without compromising performance. Plus, Dell Services provides expert maintenance support.

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Publisher	Dell	File Format	PDF
Date Published	December 2006
Format	Case Studies
Topics	Application Servers, Blades

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Servers
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Desktops

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