Chris Myhill

“APEX Private Cloud saves up to 11.66 hour daily, or a little under $300,000 per year in saved time on VDI logins.”
— Tahir Ali, CTO and CISO, Montage Health

• Saves patient lives through faster responses in critical care situations.
• Reduces VDI login times for clinicians by up to 11.66 hours per day.
• Delivers nearly $300,000 annually in productivity benefits.
• Eliminates capital expenses with predictable OpEx costs based on usage.
• Allows focus on delivering… Show more

“APEX Private Cloud saves up to 11.66 hour daily, or a little under $300,000 per year in saved time on VDI logins.”
— Tahir Ali, CTO and CISO, Montage Health

• Saves patient lives through faster responses in critical care situations.
• Reduces VDI login times for clinicians by up to 11.66 hours per day.
• Delivers nearly $300,000 annually in productivity benefits.
• Eliminates capital expenses with predictable OpEx costs based on usage.
• Allows focus on delivering additional value, not managing infrastructure. Show less

Published on Jun 16, 2017

Golf equipment and golf lifestyle company Callaway Golf found that its aging IT infrastructure was increasingly impacting operations and employee productivity. A new Lenovo Converged HX Series solution powered by Intel® Xeon® processors and Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform software was ideal. The Lenovo-Nutanix solution created a simplified infrastructure for all of its global sites which is easy to manage and maintain, and is extremely cost effective. The new… Show more

Published on Jun 16, 2017

Golf equipment and golf lifestyle company Callaway Golf found that its aging IT infrastructure was increasingly impacting operations and employee productivity. A new Lenovo Converged HX Series solution powered by Intel® Xeon® processors and Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform software was ideal. The Lenovo-Nutanix solution created a simplified infrastructure for all of its global sites which is easy to manage and maintain, and is extremely cost effective. The new system gives Callaway the ability to spend more time on what’s important to their business and their customers.


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Oil change and car service provider Heartland Jiffy Lube found that its diverse and aging IT infrastructure was increasingly impacting operations and employee productivity. To boost availability and reliability, the company implemented Intel® Xeon® processor-equipped Lenovo Converged HX5500 Appliance with Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform software – radically simplifying its infrastructure. Today, Heartland Jiffy Lube has peace of mind that IT systems will run uninterrupted, all while leaving… Show more

Oil change and car service provider Heartland Jiffy Lube found that its diverse and aging IT infrastructure was increasingly impacting operations and employee productivity. To boost availability and reliability, the company implemented Intel® Xeon® processor-equipped Lenovo Converged HX5500 Appliance with Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform software – radically simplifying its infrastructure. Today, Heartland Jiffy Lube has peace of mind that IT systems will run uninterrupted, all while leaving room for growth. Show less

RESULTS
• Storage condo approach plus the industry’s leading high performance storage solution deliver higher Return on research dollars
• Accelerated scientific discovery in areas such as physics, life science and weather prediction
• Flexibility to serve many projects in parallel and thousands of local and remote researchers
• Power and scalability to serve growing needs for years to come

CHALLENGES
The University “harvests” unused cycles on the nodes purchased by… Show more

RESULTS
• Storage condo approach plus the industry’s leading high performance storage solution deliver higher Return on research dollars
• Accelerated scientific discovery in areas such as physics, life science and weather prediction
• Flexibility to serve many projects in parallel and thousands of local and remote researchers
• Power and scalability to serve growing needs for years to come

CHALLENGES
The University “harvests” unused cycles on the nodes purchased by researchers. The system runs a wide variety of research projects and computing applications serving six colleges within USF, including Marine Science, Engineering, Arts & Science, Public Health, Medicine and Business. The most recent addition to the system is a cluster of computers running Intel’s cutting-edge 2.53 Ghz, 6-core microprocessors.

The applications run on the system include everything from low-level physics analysis and molecular
simulations to fluid dynamics and weather modeling. The University is also now installing a data
visualization center, which includes a 50-seat room with an 18-megapixel video wall for viewing 3-D
graphics and video that visually represent huge data sets.

But in the past couple of years, the parallel fi le system has been bursting at the seams with too much data. Majchrzak says his team has been triaging the issue by requiring researchers to more carefully manage their files. “It was approaching the point of becoming an onerous problem,” he says.

Also, storage disks in the older system were starting to fail. Thanks to the alertness and
responsiveness of Majchrzak’s team they were able to mitigate the risk of losing research data, but
data loss had become a constant threat. ”It was creating a lot of management overhead and stress,”
he says. Majchrzak and his staff realized that they needed upgrade to a new parallel file system. Show less

In supporting the needs of up to 1,000 researchers working on several hundred, concurrent research
projects, the university’s IT team must ensure uninterrupted access to centralized compute, network
and storage resources. As each research project requires access to scratch storage for project files
along with archival storage for longer-term data retention, the decision was made to purchase one
large, site-wide fi le system that could be accessed from multiple HPC… Show more

In supporting the needs of up to 1,000 researchers working on several hundred, concurrent research
projects, the university’s IT team must ensure uninterrupted access to centralized compute, network
and storage resources. As each research project requires access to scratch storage for project files
along with archival storage for longer-term data retention, the decision was made to purchase one
large, site-wide fi le system that could be accessed from multiple HPC systems.

SOLUTION
A centralized, high-performance storage solution for Purdue University’s Data Depot service, driven by DDN’s SFA12KX® storage platform with SFX. Additional sites use DDN EXAScaler® parallel file system appliance with SFX® cache acceleration.

RESULTS
• Academic researchers achieve quicker time to results with data inquiry results accelerated by 900%
• SFX dramatically reduces I/O bottlenecks by providing up to 300x more IOPS than rotating media and performs at speeds much closer to RAM

TECHNICAL BENEFITS
• With DDN SFX, nine out of ten random read I/O requests are served from cache, which delivers across-the-board performance improvements
• Handling random data access or reads of millions of small files on dedicated solid-state modules removes the performance penalty on data-intensive storage requests
• DDN’s storage versatility has resulted in the addition of a new EXAScaler appliance to meet the needs of a new compute cluster. Show less

Challenge:
At the University of Oklahoma, the “OU Supercomputing Center for Education & Research (OSCER)” provides massive computational resources to researchers worldwide and must keep them updated, so knowledge can grow — and costs don’t.

Solution:
OSCER’s staff chose a Dell™ High-Performance Computing (HPC) solution designed to harness 436 nodes of CPU power capable of 111.6 trillion calculations per second.

Benefits:
• Increases computational power, expanding… Show more

Challenge:
At the University of Oklahoma, the “OU Supercomputing Center for Education & Research (OSCER)” provides massive computational resources to researchers worldwide and must keep them updated, so knowledge can grow — and costs don’t.

Solution:
OSCER’s staff chose a Dell™ High-Performance Computing (HPC) solution designed to harness 436 nodes of CPU power capable of 111.6 trillion calculations per second.

Benefits:
• Increases computational power, expanding researchers’ reach
• Enables tornado research that can help save lives
• Designed to deliver three times its predecessor’s speed at the same cost

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Overview: Personalize Learning is the latest Power Solutions education special edition, showcasing how Dell’s education solutions help address many of the challenges K12 and Hi Ed organizations must tackle to drive meaningful change into the teaching and learning environment. This magazine includes many great customer references as well as articles addressing how Dell’s can help address critical topics, including:
• Strategies for incorporating digital resources, access to computing… Show more

Overview: Personalize Learning is the latest Power Solutions education special edition, showcasing how Dell’s education solutions help address many of the challenges K12 and Hi Ed organizations must tackle to drive meaningful change into the teaching and learning environment. This magazine includes many great customer references as well as articles addressing how Dell’s can help address critical topics, including:
• Strategies for incorporating digital resources, access to computing devices, and data to create personalized learning experiences that inspire students to succeed
• An overview of how Windows 8 and Dell’s new client technologies make it easy to incorporate technology in the learning environment
• How the University of Kentucky and Denton ISD are using data and predictive analytics to drive student success
• And much more…
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“As students, teachers and administrators get hands-on experience with VDI, we’re getting buy-in from a lot of people. The virtual desktops powered by Dell are enhancing student learning across our district.”
Hector Reyna, Director of Technology Services,
Socorro Independent School District

“ Scalability is a major benefit of Dell EqualLogic storage. I’m able to stand up the storage for a new blade enclosure within 10 minutes. It’s a point-and click process that requires no… Show more

“As students, teachers and administrators get hands-on experience with VDI, we’re getting buy-in from a lot of people. The virtual desktops powered by Dell are enhancing student learning across our district.”
Hector Reyna, Director of Technology Services,
Socorro Independent School District

“ Scalability is a major benefit of Dell EqualLogic storage. I’m able to stand up the storage for a new blade enclosure within 10 minutes. It’s a point-and click process that requires no downtime for our virtual desktops.”

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Institutional Need
To revitalize its IT infrastructure following Hurricane Katrina, Tulane University improved networking and computing capabilities to serve faculty, students and the community.

Solution
Tulane partnered with Dell to consolidate hardware from multiple vendors into a simplified nfrastructure based on Dell™ PowerEdge™ servers, Dell PowerConnect™ switches and
Dell EqualLogic™ storage arrays.

Benefits
• 100-fold increase in network bandwidth
• 10-fold… Show more

Institutional Need
To revitalize its IT infrastructure following Hurricane Katrina, Tulane University improved networking and computing capabilities to serve faculty, students and the community.

Solution
Tulane partnered with Dell to consolidate hardware from multiple vendors into a simplified nfrastructure based on Dell™ PowerEdge™ servers, Dell PowerConnect™ switches and
Dell EqualLogic™ storage arrays.

Benefits
• 100-fold increase in network bandwidth
• 10-fold more storage managed without increasing staff
• 60 percent of staff time dedicated to strategic work (vs. 10 percent previously)
• 40 percent of staff time dedicated to break/fix issues (vs. 90 percent previously)
• 80 percent reduction in floor space, 37.5 percent reduction in power consumed Show less

Dell and Clemson University bring Internet2 members cloud-based, collaborative research computing solutions and services

Jim Bottum, chief information officer and vice provost for computing & information technology, Clemson University

"Clemson and Dell are establishing a groundbreaking partnership that extends Dell's community-based management model empowering the research and education community. This partnership is a first step in pulling together a broader set of partners to… Show more

Dell and Clemson University bring Internet2 members cloud-based, collaborative research computing solutions and services

Jim Bottum, chief information officer and vice provost for computing & information technology, Clemson University

"Clemson and Dell are establishing a groundbreaking partnership that extends Dell's community-based management model empowering the research and education community. This partnership is a first step in pulling together a broader set of partners to extend the benefits of High Performance and Data Intensive Computing to more research communities. Reaching this broader audience aids the acceleration of research and inquiry to help solve the ever-increasing and complex problems facing society. Using Internet2's Innovation Platform concept and emerging suite of NET+ services will allow the academic community to deploy massive resources in response to the data grand challenge."

Dell and Internet2's NET+ Services program will provide high performance computing solutions and services that support the next generation of collaborative research and simplify research computing from the desktop to the datacenter including:

-- Dell Virtual Desktop as a Service;

-- Dell Cloud with VMware vCloud Datacenter Service; and

-- Dell Virtual Private Cloud (VPDC) Services offering customers a dedicated by the blade virtual data center service where customer specific applications and infrastructure can be configured and managed in a custom environment. Show less

Serving the Lord in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

1 John 4:19 - We love because he first loved us.

• Built a house for a family
• Distributed 3,000 lbs of food to the community
• Feed little children in the streets of Magote
• Children’s Bible studies
• Demonstrated Christ’s love

150% more research done in 50% of the space

Compared with previous solutions, University of California Irvine is seeing great energy and space savings per amount of work done – and offering researchers 24/7 access to data.

Serving the Lord in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

1 John 4:19 - We love because he first loved us.

• Built a house for a family
• Distributed 3,000 lbs of food to the community
• Feed little children in the streets of Magote
• Children’s Bible studies
• Demonstrated Christ’s love

14 Impressive 11th & 12th graders demonstrated Christ's love to the people of Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

Congratulations are in order for Henry Neeman and the University of Oklahoma, as they introduced "Boomer" as the newest addition to its Supercomputing Center for Education and Research. And with an impressive 109 TeraFLOPS peak performance, the addition of Boomer is a great thing to not only the University, but to the state of Oklahoma as well!

For perspective, the Dell-based supercomputer is 100 times faster than OU's first supercomputer from 2002, and three times faster than "Sooner"… Show more

Congratulations are in order for Henry Neeman and the University of Oklahoma, as they introduced "Boomer" as the newest addition to its Supercomputing Center for Education and Research. And with an impressive 109 TeraFLOPS peak performance, the addition of Boomer is a great thing to not only the University, but to the state of Oklahoma as well!

For perspective, the Dell-based supercomputer is 100 times faster than OU's first supercomputer from 2002, and three times faster than "Sooner" the previous HPC-king on campus.

But what's most important is the type of research Boomer will be involved with, which ranges from weather modeling, molecular dynamics, and even high-energy physics. Henry, who serves as the director of the OU Supercomputing Center, is as excited as the researchers and students who can access it, saying, "... [Boomer] will enhance research capabilities by connecting scientific collaborators throughout the state and nation.”

Finally, Boomer is a part of two other really exciting projects, including OneNet, which is Oklahoma's statewide research, education, and government network, and the Oklahoma PetaStore, which is designed to handle many Petabytes so researchers can better collaborate.
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"AIM was the first software strategy I saw that deals with multiple issues. It is beyond VMware. It puts into place essentially what I call one of the building blocks of a truly redundant multi-dimensional cloud structure."

Jim Bottum, CIO, Clemson University, United States

In 2010, Dell and the University of Colorado Boulder transformed a parking lot into a high-performance computing center in three months. The solution included a custom-built Dell modular data center to deploy the Janus supercomputer, a 184 teraflop cluster. The system features 16,416 total cores in 1,368 nodes, housed in 342 chassis with four nodes apiece. Janus has approximately 800 terabytes of high-performance storage in a Lustre file system. The project demonstrates how modular deployments… Show more

In 2010, Dell and the University of Colorado Boulder transformed a parking lot into a high-performance computing center in three months. The solution included a custom-built Dell modular data center to deploy the Janus supercomputer, a 184 teraflop cluster. The system features 16,416 total cores in 1,368 nodes, housed in 342 chassis with four nodes apiece. Janus has approximately 800 terabytes of high-performance storage in a Lustre file system. The project demonstrates how modular deployments can quickly add capacity for high-density computing requirements. Scientist and researchers from the University of Colorado and the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) use the cluster to research atmospheric chemistry, climate, cloud physics and storms, weather hazards to aviation, and interactions between the sun and Earth. This video from the University of Colorado shows the assembly of the supercomputer and Dell modular unit which houses Janus. Show less

On February 23rd, Clemson University unveiled its social media listening center, and helped demonstrate the impact social media has made in the classroom. Teaching and learning are occurring in very different ways, the professors and students at Clemson are embracing these changes and using social media to help them approach a number of new projects. The project is the result of a great partnership between Dell, Salesforce Radian6 and Clemson.

Clemson University has built a Social Media Listening Center (SMLC), with support from Dell and Salesforce Radian6.

The center enables students to monitor thousands of online conversations about organizations, brands, products and services on a global scale in real time. This allows for more sophisticated review, routing and response to social media posts and content.

“We are early, possibly the first, academic adopters of this technology and approach,” said Clemson Chief… Show more

Clemson University has built a Social Media Listening Center (SMLC), with support from Dell and Salesforce Radian6.

The center enables students to monitor thousands of online conversations about organizations, brands, products and services on a global scale in real time. This allows for more sophisticated review, routing and response to social media posts and content.

“We are early, possibly the first, academic adopters of this technology and approach,” said Clemson Chief Information Officer Jim Bottum.

Bottum learned about a social media listening center during a visit to Dell’s headquarters last year. He proposed a partnership that would involve student engagement, faculty research and an environment to test the value of the center in helping an IT organization move into a more proactive service position.

“When I returned to campus and talked to faculty, students and staff about the Social Media Listening Center, I sensed a very high level of interest and excitement — more so about this project than any other technology we’ve undertaken at Clemson,” Bottum said. “They were from a wide range of disciplines, too, including business, communication studies, psychology, marketing, computing and others. The center is inherently interdisciplinary and focuses on an area where all students and a growing segment of our population lives: social media.” Show less

Challenge
Texas Tech University System’s legacy mainframe technology was not adequately supporting periods of peak activity. Plus,
the existing infrastructure was not costeffective to maintain and did not offer the scalability needed to keep pace with growing data requirements.

Solution
Texas Tech University System selected Dell servers and SunGard® Higher Education software, including the SunGard
Higher Education Banner® Unified Digital Campus suite, to provide a seamless… Show more

Challenge
Texas Tech University System’s legacy mainframe technology was not adequately supporting periods of peak activity. Plus,
the existing infrastructure was not costeffective to maintain and did not offer the scalability needed to keep pace with growing data requirements.

Solution
Texas Tech University System selected Dell servers and SunGard® Higher Education software, including the SunGard
Higher Education Banner® Unified Digital Campus suite, to provide a seamless, highperformance platform.

Benefits
Get IT Faster
• Platform provides single source for all data access and entry
• Data and resources will be accessible 24/7 via Web interface
Run IT Better
• Dell and SunGard Higher Education solution provides tested, proven foundation for unified digital campus environment
• Standards-based Dell server platform exceeded requirements for transaction speeds, concurrent user volume
Grow IT Smarter
• Dell servers enable cost-efficient, flexible scalability
• Easy-to-maintain Dell hardware helps reduce support costs and
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Challenge
University of North Texas sought to compete for state incentives to become a tier 1 university, and chose to acquire a large-scale HPC cluster to help attract the top researchers it needed to increase its research activities to state-mandated levels

Solution
The university implemented an HPC cluster with 1,792 processor cores using a single-sourced Dell solution consisting of Dell™ PowerEdge™ servers with Intel® Xeon® processors, DataDirect Networks storage, QLogic… Show more

Challenge
University of North Texas sought to compete for state incentives to become a tier 1 university, and chose to acquire a large-scale HPC cluster to help attract the top researchers it needed to increase its research activities to state-mandated levels

Solution
The university implemented an HPC cluster with 1,792 processor cores using a single-sourced Dell solution consisting of Dell™ PowerEdge™ servers with Intel® Xeon® processors, DataDirect Networks storage, QLogic TrueScale InfiniBand network, Platform Computing Platform Cluster Manager and Red Hat Enterprise Linux®. Dell IT Consulting services provided on-site implementation.

Benefits
• Ability to compete for $500 million in incentives and become a tier 1 university
• 6-month timeframe for acquiring HPC cluster
• Researchers have ready access to a high-powered computational system on their own campus
• 25 percent improvement in processing speed with Dell PowerEdge™ R410 servers
• 50 percent less rack space than cluster without PowerEdge R410 servers
• 10-fold increase in computational capacity
• 2 full-time employees able to maintain 224-node cluster Show less