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Transport Organisation Achieves 99 Per Cent Availability With Refreshed Datacentre From Dell

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Overview Nexus wanted to deliver higher application availability to improve business continuity. In addition, it wanted to simplify system management, freeing up staff for more strategic work. Nexus worked with Dell consultants to design and deploy virtualized servers and consolidated storage, with a Microsoft operating system. The environment is supported by Dell ProSupport for IT Mission Critical.

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Publisher	Dell	File Format	PDF
Date Published	August 2009
Format	Case Studies
Topics	Storage Management, Storage Consolidation, Virtualization

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