Dell Assists Windows 7 Migration

It seems as though more and more companies are relying heavily upon the release of Windows 7, considering that every major hardware manufacturer has pledged their support to Windows 7 and have done everything possible to further the release, such as Sony or Nvidia. Now Dell has also joined the mainstream movement, as detailed in one of the posts on the Windows 7 Partner blog by Jim Ginger, an employee over at Dell.

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In the post, Jim pointed out that many customers are not your technological gear heads, and that most will find that “migrating to a new OS can be complicated and risky without the proper planning.” Unfortunately, not everyone has a technology friendly son assisting them with the migration. Even so, Dell describes itself as an “important resource” to business customers during the migration, such as the following services that Jim outlined:

Application Management Services: Application compatibility is a key concern for many customers. Dell has developed a suite of services to efficiently identify, test, remediate and deploy applications. Dell can also help customers inventory and rationalize their application portfolio before initiating the remediation activities to focus resources on the most critical applications.

Migration and Deployment Services: In order to ease upgrading to Windows 7, Dell offers readiness assessments and optimized OS deployment services. Dell’s deployment services help customers with all migration aspects including organization, infrastructure, hardware, software, image and deployment. By leveraging Dell’s global deployment capabilities and tools, customers can more efficiently upgrade to Windows 7, while decreasing deployment time, mitigating risk, and reducing network traffic.

Image Management Services: These provide fully functional images built by Dell consultants according to the customers’ specifications that are ready for deployment of Windows 7 on Dell client systems.

It seems as though there are plenty of opportunities for business during the Windows 7 migration, as many businesses wish to simply skip Vista and head straight for Redmond’s new release from XP. Hardware manufacturers will simply have a field day from all of the new hardware upgrades required.

Robert