CHALLENGES

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CHALLENGES

• Users growing and becoming more demanding
• E-learning, electronic registration and other
  services
• Require 24x7 access to learning materials hosted
  on remote servers
• Exploding wireless adds to support burden
• High bandwidth utilization downloads
• Video clips
• Music
• Computer games

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SECURITY CHALLENGES

• Overall philosophy that information must be
  sharednot necessarily protected
• Many depts. run FTP, Web Server software
• Lax password security
• Desktops, laptops not professionally administered
• Unwitting launch pad for DoS attacks
• Explosion in wireless growth
• Prime vector for fast, repeated viral
  infections
• Poor set-up parameters result in vulnerabilities
• Staffing/budgeting issues preclude hiring
  security expertise

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DELL CAN HELP

• Assures uptime of critical systems hosting
  Learning Management Systems
• Bridges gap between 24x7 users and 8am-6pm staff
• Proactively identifies and protects critical
  resources against security threats
• Cost-effectively monitors and secures wireless
  access points

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ONE INTEGRATED VIEW OF NETWORKS AND SECURITY
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CASE STUDY ltCOMPANYgt

• Profile
• Oldest community college in CA
• 20,000 full-time students
• 17 IT professionals (labs, email, PCs, support,
  etc)
• Multiple locations connected by T1s
• Issues
• Distance learning increased demand for 24x7
  uptime
• Problems detecting failed online registration
  servers
• Couldnt dedicate operations staff to IT
  monitoring

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Maximize Uptime Of Registration Servers

• We continually needed to extend student online
  registration due to server uptime issues. One of
  our favorite Dell features is the ability to
  proactively alert on multiple network performance
  issues, then provide us with recommendations that
  enable us to preempt costly network downtime.
• Name, Title
• Institution

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OPTIMIZE UPTIME OF LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
Reading lists for the quarter?
What was my Spanish grade?
Can Dr. Richards post the Geology 101 syllabus?
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ENSURE CRITICAL SYSTEMS ARE UP
Do we need to schedule additional time for
sophomore registration?
Can students register for classes 24x7?
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IDENTIFY INCREASING BANDWIDTH UTILIZATION
Flags unusual bandwidth increases
Why is access to remote campus resources slow?
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OPTIMIZE AVAILABILITY OF WIRELESS NETWORK
Avoid monitoring every single access point
Monitor strategic points firewalls, routers,
switches
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CASE STUDY ltINSTITUTIONgt

• Profile
• 50,000 students 16 campuses
• Predominantly Microsoft shop
• Using Dell to protect and optimize availability
  of core apps, such as HR, payroll, student
  records
• Previous issues
• Cost-prohibitive to hire multiple security
  experts
• Products brought into the university are
  insecure out of the box
• Cant keep up with Microsoft patches

Institution logo / graphic
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DOCUMENT ASSETSBEFORE IMPLEMENTING SECURITY PLANS
Automatically discovers IT assets
Documents equipment, O/S, software packs
Customizable notes section
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PROACTIVELY IDENTIFY ATTACK VULNERABILITIES
Protect against legal liability in serving as a
launch pad for DoS attacks
Ongoing white hat scanning
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PROACTIVE SERVER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
Which of my core business servers are missing the
most patches?
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CORPORATE BACKGROUND

• Add company boilerplate info