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Building Careers with Better It SOlutiONS • Backup/RecoveRy/aRchiving • DeSkTop/LapTop ReFReSh • gReen compuTing • moBiLiTy • SecuRiTy BUILDING CustOMer PROFILE CAREERS WITH COUNTRY: Waterville, ME (USA) INDUSTRY: Education FOUNDED: 1894 NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES: BETTER IT 1,100 student users; 150 staff users WEB ADDRESS: www.thomas.edu Thomas College provides cutting-edge technology to students with Dell hardware and Microsoft Windows Vista, while reducing CHALLENGE server footprint by 50% Thomas College’s IT team needed a simplified system for providing cutting-edge laptops, desktops and portable computers to the school while managing the data center. SOLutiON The school migrated to Microsoft® Windows® Vista® on Dell™ Latitude® laptops and Dell OptiPlex™ desktops and portable computers with Intel® vPro™ technology to help students become more productive and IT more efficient. The operating system is pre-installed at the factory to save time for the IT team, which further saves management time with Dell PowerEdge™ blade servers and Dell PowerVault™ SAN storage. BENEFits GET IT FASTER • Ability to manage procurement for all schools’ hardware needs in 7 weeks RUN IT BETTER • Enhanced productivity of students and improved security with Windows Vista operating system • Shorter computer set-up time each fall when students arrive and get connected to network • 24-36 hour annual reduction of storage management time • Cutting 60 hours off summer workload for IT team • Simplified procurement with Dell’s direct selling model • Ability to improve students’ video skills • IT can remotely manage and secure student PCs with Intel vPro technology GROW IT SMARTER • 50% reduction of server footprint Thomas College is a private liberal arts college in Waterville, Maine. Thomas offers a rich liberal arts and professional studies curriculum for undergraduate and graduate students in a wide variety of programs including arts and sciences, business, criminal justice, education and technology. Thomas is the only college in the nation that offers its graduates Guaranteed Job Placement within six months of graduation. On average, 94 percent of Thomas College graduates are hired in their field of study within 90 days of graduation. “ WinDows vista iS Well ReceiveD heRe. IT helps impRove uSeR pRoDucTiviTy, pRoviDeS gReaT FeaTuReS anD assists the IT departMent by enhancing the security OF ouR compuTing enviRonmenT.” Christopher Rhoda, vice president for information services, Thomas College To help ensure that students are as College’s IT needs, we have to be sure hoW iT WoRkS qualified as possible for that first that the technology we acquire allows HARDWAre job, Thomas provides a cutting- us to streamline management tasks as • Dell™ PowerEdge™ M600 blade edge IT infrastructure built with much as possible.” servers with Intel® Xeon® processors Microsoft software and hardware • Dell PowerEdge M1000e modular from Dell. Using Dell PowerEdge MIGRATING TO MICROSOFT blade enclosure servers, the College runs a range of WinDoWS viSTa • Dell PowerEdge 2950 servers with Microsoft software, including Microsoft The IT department evaluated the Intel Xeon processors Windows Server 2008 and 2003, Microsoft Windows Vista operating • Dell PowerVault™ MD3000i iSCSI Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 for system and decided to become an early SAN array communication and collaboration, adopter. All Thomas’ desktops and • Dell Latitude™ D630 and E6500 and Microsoft Office Communications laptops were upgraded to Windows laptops based on Intel® Core™ 2 Server 2007 for instant messaging and Vista Enterprise. Students had the processors with vPro™ technology • Dell OptiPlex™ 755 desktops Web-based conferencing. option to buy Dell Latitude D630 based on Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 laptops with Windows Vista Ultimate processors with vPro™ technology Thomas faculty, staff and students use pre-installed by Dell Customized Dell OptiPlex desktops and Dell Latitude Factory Integration (CFI). The pre- SOFTWARE portable computers in computer labs installation service helped save time for • Dell OpenManage™ Server and the library. In addition, about 40 both the IT team and students. Administrator percent of students buy into the school’s • Microsoft® Windows Vista® Ultimate recommendation of a Dell laptop, which Students buying the laptops with and Enterprise editions • Microsoft Windows Server® 2003 and they purchase at a discount through a Windows Vista Ultimate can obtain 2008 Dell Web site customized for Thomas access to Windows Movie Maker video • Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 College. Until recently, these laptops creation and editing software. • Microsoft Office 2007 have run the Microsoft Windows® XP • Microsoft Office Communications operating system. “Windows Vista is well received here,” Server 2007 says Rhoda. “It helps improve user • Microsoft Forefront™ Client Security “We focus on getting the best productivity, provides great features like • Microsoft Expression® Studio 2 technology whenever we can,” says the video editing software and assists Christopher Rhoda, vice president for the IT department by enhancing the SeRviceS • Dell Customized Factory Integration information services. “But because security of our computing environment.” there are just three of us to manage the “ BY THE TIME WE’RE THROUGH moving To The DeLL BLaDeS, We WiLL have cuT ouR SeRveR FooTpRinT BY 50 peRcenT, conSoLiDaTeD ouR UPS SYSTEMS AND REDUCED heaT geneRaTion.” Christopher Rhoda, vice president for information services, Thomas College Thomas now has the foundation for our level of protection against malware presentations with video clips future enhancements, such as moving and spam,” he says. “We also have attached. They use video in Web to 64-bit hardware and applications configured Windows Vista to get design and e-portfolios. Video is a core for greater performance by taking automatic updates. In addition, we competency for them.” advantage of the support built into have implemented Network Access Windows Vista. Protection, which allows network The students’ Dell Latitude laptops administrators to define granular levels come with a four-year, next-day service gReaTeR pRoDucTiviTy anD of network access based on who a agreement from Dell. Should a laptop SECURITY client is, the groups to which the client need servicing, a repair technician Students and faculty are more belongs and the degree to which that comes to the campus or to the student’s productive now with features that client is compliant with corporate home or dorm room—wherever the save time and provide access to more governance policy.” student is located. The laptops also information. For instance, by simply have accident insurance from Dell, for hitting the Start button and typing the BUILDING CORE COMPETENCIES those occasional machines that are name of a program into the Instant Most recently, Thomas upgraded to dropped or spilled upon. Search field, the user gets fast access the Dell Latitude E6500 laptop based to the program. Instant Search can also on Intel Core 2 processors with vPro 60 MORE HOURS OF SUMMER be used to find a particular file or email, technology and integrated Webcam Most of Thomas’s desktop and portable which saves time and enables users and digital microphone. Windows Vista computers are Dell OptiPlex 755 Ultra to leverage the information they have. Ultimate is now the recommended Small Form Factor PCs based on Intel Each fall when students arrive at school choice for students’ laptops. Core 2 processors with vPro technology. and get connected to the network, Dell CFI pre-installs the Windows Vista computer set-up time is shorter than it “For years, we’ve purchased monitors Ultimate operating system and other was previously. for our desktops and laptops that have software components. Every year built-in speakers,” says Rhoda. “But we approximately 40 OptiPlex machines The operating system upgrade also had to purchase Webcams separately are refreshed during a busy summer helps increase the security of the IT and clip them onto the monitor. We’re period when the IT team, which consists environment, according to Rhoda. very happy to see the Webcams now of three full-time employees and 16 “Knowing that Windows Vista is built in as well.” student part-time employees, upgrades designed to be more secure is very servers and procures new laptops in important to us because of the amount Students can also use the new time for the fall semester. The factory of Internet traffic that we have on Microsoft Expression Studio 2, which installation of the software saves the campus,” he explains. The school includes coders and video editing team 60 hours during the seven-week is taking advantage of a number of tools supplementing the video editing period and simplifies the training of security features provided in Windows capabilities provided by Windows new student help. Vista, including Windows Defender Vista Ultimate. and Group Policy. “We are using “Every way we can save time during the Windows Vista in combination with “These are great productivity tools for summer gives us that much more time other Microsoft software, including students in higher education,” says to get everything in shape before fall,” Forefront Client Security, to increase Rhoda. “Students make PowerPoint says Rhoda. 50% ReDucTion in SeRveR “The biggest advantage of the Dell FOOTPRINT MD3000i for me is the ability to add a In the school’s data center, the IT few more drives to the SAN as needed,” team is migrating its rack-mount Dell he says. “Let’s say I have an E: drive PowerEdge 2950 servers with Intel on a server that needs to go from 500 Xeon processors to Dell PowerEdge gigabytes to 800 gigabytes. I can just M600 blade servers with Intel Xeon throw a few more physical drives in the processors. “We’re changing over to SAN, repartition the 800 gig and copy Dell blade servers to consolidate our the data over. I just attach the SAN footprint and save in power and cooling to that server and I’m done. Adding costs,” says Rhoda. “We have about 15 capacity took a lot longer with direct- PowerEdge 2950 servers at Thomas. attached storage. In addition, the We’re able to consolidate a lot onto consolidated SAN storage saves 24 to 36 15 physical boxes.
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