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Printing Firm Accesses Data 80 Per Cent Faster With Fully Scalable Solution

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Overview A complex IT infrastructure and insufficient capacity had placed a constraint on the business of this Frankfurt-based printer. The company needed a fast, highly available, cost-effective and reliable server and storage system that could be scaled to meet future demand. Dell advised the IT team on a new infrastructure that would set the company up for the future. Based on Dell's advice, the IT team purchased 11 new Dell PowerEdge 2950 servers and a Dell/EMC CX3-10C Storage Area Network (SAN) with a Dell PowerVault TL4000 tape library.

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Publisher	Dell	File Format	PDF
Date Published	October 2008
Format	Case Studies
Topics	Application Servers, Storage Management, SANs

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