Brandon Jackson
Chief Information Officer, Gaston County, North Carolina
Four years ago, IT at Gaston County looked nothing like it does today. Nearly 40 percent of the servers were obsolete. The staff spent almost all of their time responding to immediate concerns. All-too-frequent disk failures had led to downtime and data loss for citizen services. Gaston County’s CIO Brandon Jackson led an infrastructure overhaul using Fluid Data technology and VMware virtualized servers. The county consolidated 85 third-party and custom applications and has saved more than $500,000.
Key Reasons for Selecting Dell Compellent
- Integration with server virtualization delivers right storage resources, streamlines management
- Block-level efficiency cuts acquisition, management and facilities costs
- Single-solution manages all of county’s data and scales without a forklift upgrade
- Flexible platform, supports any technology, application or OS
- Automated data movement and management maximizes IT productivity
- Architected to ensure continuous data availability, maximizes uptime
- Highest level of customer satisfaction in the industry, proactive response