Computerworld Philippines Staff
November 17, 2009

Malayan Colleges Laguna (MCL) has recently announced its deployment of an IT infrastructure system designed and installed by computing firm Dell, which aims to streamline the college’s operations through automated solutions.

The infrastructure setup by Dell included the installation of an online student enrollment system, an antivirus solution for the entire network infrastructure, servers for MCL’s data center and the provision of Dell Vostro laptops and Dell Optiplex desktops for its employees and computer laboratories.

“We had three months to search for an IT solution to equip our staff, IT labs, and data center,” according to Rolando Bitor, officer-in-charge, MCL Development Office for IT. “Once Dell received confirmation from us to proceed, they worked swiftly to help us meet our targeted rollout date, greatly exceeding expectations.”

Dell consultants installed a series of Dell PowerEdge energy-smart servers in the MCL data center, which enables maximum optimization of power resources because the servers required 25 percent less power than the previous generation models.

A Dell PowerVault MD 3000, a modular disk array, was also installed to back up stored data and assure availability of software within the infrastructure for efficient and effective operations.

Bitor said the IT infrastructure was installed and operational in time for MCL’s opening for its pioneer batch of students, which currently numbers to around 2,600 since it first opened in 2007.

“We saved almost six months’ worth of systems applications integrity tests as a result of the ease in deployment,”he said, adding that the series of tests and dry runs to assure that the software, hardware, and other components of the infrastructure properly meet the computing needs they were intended for. – John Mark V. Tuazon

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