Original Parts Group, Incorporated

Our business model is constantly evolving at Original Parts Group. On the inside, our culture has always been about technology and creative ways to analyze our business, our customers and suppliers. The challenge is how to harness that technology to improve our services and supply. Dell Computers provide the speed and platform for ever higher intelligence. Whether it’s a complicated manufacturing project or a number crunching analytic, Dell is the platform that we rely on day in, day out.

The main issues we have going forward are about technology platform hardware replenishment, including consolidation and convergence of platforms since many approaching the end of line (EOL). All of this needs to be done while maintaining a High Availability (HA) environment. With Dell’s new line of multi-core servers outfitted with Nehalem Intel core, we are confident that not only will we be able to accomplish this, but with increased power and computing efficiencies as a direct result. This is a huge benefit because in the past we were dealing with more costs for hardware/licenses with little business benefit. Also, staging multiple development instances, while maintaining complete autonomy from critical production environments, remain key to evolving customer-friendly application enhancements, without affecting production systems. Multi-core systems with functionality such as ‘core parking’ and Hyper-V will allow us to have multiple development environments on a single box.