Luxury Lifestyle Publisher CurtCo Media Experiences Exceptional Price/Performance with Dell Technology Upgrade.ROUND ROCK, Texas -- CurtCo Media, the publishing powerhouse behind Robb Report The Robb Report is a magazine about luxury life, featuring products of the lifestyle, such as cars, watches, and real estate. It was originally started by Robert White as a magazine to complement the purchase of a Rolls-Royce automobile. , Worth, Showboats International and a family of magazines targeted to the world's most affluent readers, is writing a new chapter in the management of its data center with a full technology upgrade from Dell (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :DELL). CurtCo Media is moving from a complicated and expensive proprietary environment to a state of the art Dell standards-based technology infrastructure with high-performance, fully scalable PowerConnect(TM) network switches and PowerEdge(TM) 1850 and 2850 servers. The publisher is also relying on a PowerVault(TM) 220S direct-attached storage Direct-attached storage (DAS) refers to a digital storage system directly attached to a server or workstation, without a storage network in between. It is a retronym, mainly used to differentiate non-networked storage from SAN and NAS. system to more than double its previous storage capacity. "Because the luxury media market has experienced substantial growth in the past decade, it is imperative that our technology partner is able to rise to meet the demands of our ever expanding publication base," said CurtCo Media 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. Keith Fletcher Keith William Robert Fletcher (nickname: "The Gnome of Essex" [1]; born May 20, 1944) is a former English cricketer who played for Essex and England. He later became team manager. Fletcher was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1974. . "Publishing is not transaction centric, it is file centric. Accordingly, our files are extremely large and accessed intensively. With 500 users, it places a massive load on our network. The results by switching to Dell have been exceptional." CurtCo Media has installed the new technology in its corporate headquarters in Malibu, Calif., and is also deploying equipment in their other offices in San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. , Massachusetts, 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 , and two locations in Florida. In addition, the company will deploy Dell Latitude Dell's Latitude laptop brand is specifically targeted at the business market which means that standardized parts are used throughout the line and are available for several years for support purposes, as opposed to the Dell Inspiron which is aimed at the consumer market and whose (TM) notebooks and Dell OptiPlex Dell, Inc. targets its OptiPlex™ line of desktop computers for sale into the corporate, government and education markets. These systems typically contain Intel CPUs, beginning with the Pentium and currently with the Core 2 although Dell sells some models with AMD CPUs as well. (TM) desktops to further enhance its capabilities and make it easy for employees to access the data on the CurtCo nationwide network. CurtCo is also using Dell for advanced technical support and plans to complete the transition to a total Dell server-based environment within the next year. "Companies of all sizes are taking advantage of advances in technology, particularly on storage platforms, to push their business to new heights," said David Marmonti, vice president, Dell Preferred Corporate Accounts division. "Our mission is to provide the best products, services and support to help businesses find better, more efficient ways to serve their customers." About CurtCo Media For two decades, CurtCo Media has operated more than 45 vertical magazines, including new magazine launches and acquisitions. Today, CurtCo Media serves the ultra-luxury markets with a powerful network of leading lifestyle publications, including: Robb Report, Robb Report Russia, Worth, ShowBoats International, Robb Report Luxury Home, Robb Report Vacation Homes, The Robb Report Collection, Robb Report MotorCycling, Robb Report Home Entertainment, CurtCo's Digital TV & Sound, Gulfshore Life, Sarasota, San Diego Magazine. For additional information, please access www.curtco.com. About Dell Dell Inc. (NASDAQ:DELL) listens to customers and delivers innovative technology and services they trust and value. Uniquely enabled by its direct business model, Dell sells more systems globally every day than any computer company, placing it No. 28 on the Fortune 500. Company revenue for the last four quarters was $56 billion. For more information, visit www.dell.com. To get Dell news direct, visit www.dell.com/RSS. Dell is a trademark of Dell Inc. Dell disclaims any proprietary interest in the marks and names of others. |
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