Specifications

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Dell Active System 800 converged infrastructure solution: User
collaboration performance
About Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 SP2
Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 SP2 equips you with a robust communications platform
that can also give your users anywhere access, increasing their mobility. Some other key
features of Exchange Server 2010 SP2 include Unified Mailbox Resiliency, archiving, and access
to the improved Outlook Web Application.
About Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 SP1
Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 SP1 is the latest version of Microsoft’s collaboration
software. It allows users to create collaborative Web sites and to create and manage their own
workspaces. Some of its key features include SharePoint 2010 Communities, which lets users
share ideas and information from a single platform; the SharePoint Search feature, which lets
users find other people and information quickly; and SharePoint 2010 Insights, which gives users
an improved ability to access databases, reports, and business applications.
About Microsoft Lync Server 2010
Microsoft Lync Server 2010, the latest in collaborative communication software, brings
voice, video, application sharing, instant messaging (IM), and Web conferencing together into a
single unified platform.
IN CONCLUSION
When searching for a converged infrastructure solution to quickly deploy to your data
center, choosing a complete solution that requires no additional testing and configuration
before deployment can be a great asset to your organization. An easy-to-deploy, highly scalable
solution that has the ability to meet your workload requirements and provides administrators
with flexibility is vital to running an efficient data center.
In our tests, the Dell Active System 800 provided ample performance to drive the needs
of a 1,000-person organization using multiple collaboration applications and order-processing
applications, even using only two Dell PowerEdge M620 blade servers in the configuration.
Adding more I/O intensive workloads to the configuration and placing power caps on the servers
did not negatively affect performance; the Dell Active System 800 was able to perform well for
all end-users while providing flexibility for administrators.