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Case Closed: Paul Hastings Chooses Dell Servers; Global Law Firm Expects Standardization To Help Lower Total Cost of Ownership.


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AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 9, 2002

Dell (Nasdaq:DELL) announced today that Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP LLP - Lower Layer Protocol , one of the world's largest law firms This list of the world's largest law firms by revenue is taken from The Lawyer and The American Lawyer and is ordered by 2006 revenue:[1]
  1. Clifford Chance, £1,030.2m – International law firm (headquartered in the UK);
  2. Linklaters, £935.
, will standardize its new Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850.  data center on Dell servers to help lower its total cost of system ownership.

More than 75 Dell PowerEdge This article or section needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. (tm) servers will outfit the firm's new data center, which Paul Hastings' clients and more than 800 attorneys around the world will access through a secure network.

"Paul Hastings' use of technology makes us both more efficient and more responsive to our clients," said Mary Odson, Paul Hastings' chief information officer. "By standardizing our servers and software, we expect to reduce our support and administration costs."

The firm earned a CIO CIO: see American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations.


(Chief Information Officer) The executive officer in charge of information processing in an organization.
 100 Award in 2001 for its outstanding technology integration.

Paul Hastings is standardizing its Dell servers, which previously ran on a combination of operating systems, on the Microsoft Windows 2000 Server(tm) platform. To further simplify administration, the firm manages its servers using Dell OpenManage(tm) systems management software, which allows administrators to troubleshoot, configure and update servers from any Web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. . Paul Hastings is also standardizing its estimated 1,700 Dell OptiPlex(tm) desktops on Microsoft Windows XP(tm).

To maximize space in the firm's 1,000-square-foot data center, Paul Hastings is installing rack-mountable Dell servers ranging from the ultra-thin PowerEdge 350 to 4U PowerEdge 6450 systems, designed to manage business-critical applications.

Leading price for performance and dependable service were key factors in Paul Hastings' decision to choose Dell. "We've had great experience with Dell's Gold Support," Odson said. "Round-the-clock access to Dell engineers and seamless third-party application support helps ensure that we have maximum uptime."

Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP has nine international offices in Costa Mesa, Los Angeles and San Francisco, Calif.; Stamford, Conn.; Atlanta; New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
; Washington, D.C.; London, England and Tokyo, Japan.

About Dell

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