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    Introducing the Connected Campus

    As competition in the higher education community becomes more aggressive and funding less available, academic institutions are turning to IT to simultaneously enhance the teaching and learning experience and reduce overall costs. This is no easy task as many IT leaders are weighing the inefficiencies of a highly decentralized environment with departmental demand over applications and data. How do IT leaders gain the control of centralized IT while supporting the flexibility of decentralized decision-making? Introducing The Connected Campus, Dell's approach to campus computing that delivers IT transformation without compromise.

    IT Transformation Without Compromise

    The Connected Campus from Dell unifies disparate data centers using aggressive virtualization strategies to optimize the deployment, management, and scalability of core IT services and specialized applications. This approach, made possible by Intel® processor technology, offers the efficiencies of centralized IT control while still enabling departmental autonomy. The result: maximum return on investment across the entire campus and the best of both worlds for centralized and departmental IT groups. That's IT transformation without compromise.

    The Connected Campus:

    • Changes the way IT is consumed - Dell works with academic institutions as a whole to establish a self-service IT co-op-or campus collective-where departments can freely tap into the computing resources of other departments whenever they are needed. This approach fundamentally shifts the IT spending model, giving each department more flexibility in how budgets are allocated.

    • Maximizes utilization of resources - Dell works with each independent IT group to aggressively standardize and virtualize their computing environments to balance workloads, reduce bottlenecks, and achieve greater efficiency and flexibility in the way IT resources are used campus-wide.

    • Speeds deployment for new projects - Dell helps implement strategies that significantly reduce the time and effort to provision processing power and storage capacity. As a result, new applications and workloads can be set up dynamically and effortlessly to increase "time to value" so more projects can be completed each year and to improve "time to research" for accelerating new discoveries.

    Specialized Solutions

    Dell is a proven education partner who provides end-to-end infrastructure, customized services, and specialized solutions engineered for the diverse requirements of educational institutions, faculty, and students.

    • Research Computing: Every year, high performance computing (HPC) enables research institutions to achieve significant scientific breakthroughs that expand our understanding of the world and affect how we live. These discoveries help position them to compete for students, faculty, and grant funding. Unfortunately, HPC has traditionally required expensive and proprietary supercomputers that can be difficult and costly to install, maintain and use. Dell HPC solutions use standard-based technology, including Dell PowerEdge servers with Intel® Xeon® processors, to deliver maximum computational power while simplifying deployment, management and scalability. This robust, high-speed computing resource rivals the performance of traditional mainframe supercomputers with a fraction of the investment, making more and more life-changing scientific breakthroughs possible. That's IT transformation without compromise.

    • Administrative Computing: Your institution's infrastructure plays a critical role in driving administrative and, ultimately, institutional performance. As a result, IT is asked to support mission-critical Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) applications with continuous uptime. Yet, IT is also expected to reduce operational costs and direct more resources to instruction and research. By harnessing the computing power of the entire campus, administrators are empowered to manage the business of education in real time while also creating a more engaging academic experience for students and faculty alike. That's IT transformation without compromise.

    • Academic Computing: Students, faculty, and administrators increasingly require round-the-clock communication, collaboration, and access to information both on and off campus. As a result, IT is turning to Learning Management Systems (LMS) which enable resources, assignments, and messages to be posted online-publicly or privately-to enhance the exchange of information and foster individual achievement. This can be difficult to accomplish with today's aging, inflexible infrastructures. By capturing the computing power of an entire campus, existing infrastructures become modern, flexible and dynamic and the learning experience enhanced. That's IT transformation without compromise.