Case Study: Lifting Gear Hire achieves greater IT efficiency, lower costs and scalable growth with Dell Technologies

Lifting Gear Hire boosts IT efficiency, cuts costs and supports fast growth with integrated Dell EMC solutions

Lifting Gear Hire, a rapidly growing North American rental company expanding from 8 to 23 locations, needed to modernize its IT environment, simplify management for a small IT team, and give a growing remote salesforce reliable tools. Lifting Gear Hire worked with Dell Technologies, deploying Dell EMC PowerEdge servers, Dell EMC SC4020 and EqualLogic storage, Dell Latitude 5000 laptops and OptiPlex 5000 desktops, VMware virtualization, and Dell EMC ProSupport Plus with SupportAssist.

Dell Technologies’ integrated solution virtualized the environment (36 VMs), centralized servers and storage, and equipped remote reps with dependable laptops, enabling the IT team to migrate a dozen servers in four hours instead of days. The deployment has avoided the cost of dozens of physical servers (up to $10,000 each), saved thousands in maintenance, and used proactive Dell Technologies support (e.g., replacement drive shipped within four hours) to reduce downtime and simplify operations.

Lifting Gear Hire

Mike Kott

System Administrator