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Dell Offers Windows 7 Migration Service for Businesses
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Shane McGlaun/Daily Tech
October 19, 2009
With Windows 7 launching this week,
there are many businesses and consumers looking to upgrade from
Windows XP and Vista to the new OS. For the individual upgrading a
single computer may not be that big of an issue, but for enterprise
users with hundreds of thousand of machines needing updated, the
migration to a new OS can be arduous.
Dell has announced a new
migration service that will help companies move from Windows XP
and Vista to Windows 7. Dell reports that it has already helped
several large companies move to Windows 7 under early adoption
programs. Among the early adopters that used Dell’s consulting
services were Baker-Tilly, Betfair, and Hoover City Schools in
Alabama.
InformationWeek reports that the Dell service
starts with an assessment that determines the application and
hardware compatibility within the organization. This helps to
determine the effects of migrating to the new OS on business
processes, end users, and server infrastructures. The assessment
results are used to design and implement a plan that includes
training end users, and support staff.
Analysts think that
with the economy starting to pick up and the fact that many
businesses did not upgrade to Vista, mass migrations to Windows 7
will begin next year. Dell only recently started to aggressively
expand into the services market form its traditional hardware
business. Last month Dell purchases Perot Systems for $3.9 billion
and plans to finish the deal in the fiscal quarter spanning November
to January. The purchase was to help Dell better compete with other
rivals that have diversified offerings allowing large corporate
customers to get all the services they need at one location.
The
upgrade process to Windows 7 has been panned
by Apple’s Phil Schiller. Schiller said, “Any user that
reads all those steps is probably going to freak out. If you
have to go through all that, why not just buy a Mac?”
_© 2009, DailyTech
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