Dell Helps XS, Inc. Deliver Cloud Based Agricultural Application to Increase Farming Yields with End-to-End Enterprise IT Inf...
18 9월 2012 - 11:00PM
Business Wire
As a drought in the Midwest raises food prices, farming
efficiency and getting the most from farm lands has become more
essential than ever. XS, Inc. is known in the food and agriculture
industry for its ability to provide internet-based applications to
help its agricultural clients drive efficiency and business value
within their own organizations. To keep those online applications
up and running, XS, Inc. selected Dell Compellent storage arrays,
PowerEdge servers, PowerVault disk storage, and Latitude laptops.
Since XS, Inc. moved to Dell Compellent this year, the company has
maintained 99.999 percent storage availability to support the
company’s rapid growth and expects to realize an annual cost
savings of $500 per deployed workstation and $2,000 per deployed
server.
XS, Inc. is the first agricultural SaaS provider with
commercially accessible spatial statistics software, AgVeritasTM,
transforming a traditionally expensive and time-consuming process
to a highly available solution for agricultural clients. AgVeritas
analyzes soil variability, elevation, drainage and the amount of
sunlight and provides customers with the information they need to
effectively manage their field. The company also collects more
point of sale transaction data than any other service provider,
providing its largely agricultural customers with insight and
analytics to make educated business decisions on where and what to
plant to optimize available farm land. The Dell infrastructure is
critical to supporting XS, Inc.’s big data applications due to its
flexibility and reliability.
“As population increases and farm land remains limited,
efficiency on the field and in the data center is imperative. When
you factor in a drought, it’s even more important to make the most
of your resources,” said Darren Patterson, vice president of
technology at XS, Inc. “Dell’s end-to-end enterprise
infrastructure, including Dell Compellent, powers efficiency in our
data center so our customers can drive efficiency in the
fields.”
As XS, Inc. leveraged virtualization technology and built a
private cloud on Dell, the company benefited from the flexibility
and reliability of the new infrastructure. Dell Compellent storage
arrays are fully virtualized and designed to automatically tier,
thin provision and optimize data, which was integral in the
selection process. The Dell storage solution also reduces
management time and risks while rapidly responding to changes in XS
Inc.’s business.
Additionally, with the Dell Fluid Data architecture, XS, Inc. is
able to efficiently scale and materially cut costs from the initial
purchase to expected TCO savings throughout the system’s
lifecycle.
“When we purchased our Dell Compellent array, we got five times
the amount of storage for the same starting price as our last SAN,”
said Patterson. “The new Dell Compellent system was 30 percent less
expensive due to inherent efficiency than the competitors we looked
at and allowed us to take advantage of Dell’s Fluid Data
architecture the others lacked at this price point, which
definitely helped to seal the deal.”
XS, Inc. also turned to Dell for reliable support for its IT
infrastructure. With Dell ProSupport, Dell DPACK and Dell CoPilot,
XS, Inc. keeps its business running at peak performance with
top-notch support, minimizing disruptions and maintaining a high
level of productivity.
Additional Quotes:
“As a growing company with Fortune 100 agriculture clients, it
is critical that our online business functions are always
available,” said Fulton Breen, chief executive officer at XS, Inc.
“Dell solutions provide us the dependability we need to exceed our
performance requirements while offering many avenues for future
upgrades.”
“To maintain our high-availability infrastructure, great support
service is absolutely critical,” said Timothy Carroll, network
engineer at XS Inc. “Dell offers unparalleled service, convenience
and flexibility in that department. We rarely have to wait to get a
technician on the phone that will take care of our case from start
to finish.”
About XS, Inc.:
XS, Inc. is a leader in Software as a Service (SaaS)
applications, providing scalable and comprehensive tools to
market-driven organizations. A leader in transaction data
collection, analysis and online reporting, XS transforms existing
data into powerful tools for improving workplace efficiency,
evaluating industry standings, optimizing marketing efforts and
maximizing client relationships. For more information,
www.xsinc.com.
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