DedicatedIT Coordinates the Donation of Servers and Networking Equipment

Recently, the South Florida Science Museum got a much needed donation from DedicatedIT and one of its long-time clients, Dickerson Florida of Fort Pierce.

A while back, DedicatedIT replaced some servers in its hosted environment to add capacity, improve performance and increase redundancy. A very powerful, yet non-virtualizable, HP Proliant server was donated to the museum.

Also, recently, Dickerson Florida upgraded their network to support server virtualization, using Citrix XenServer. Again, the HP Proliant servers were unable to support virtualization, but were still very powerful servers. Dickerson donated two HP servers and an LTO tape backup system.

“The new servers come at the perfect time”, said Jeff Gourdouze the Operations Manager at the South Florida Science Museum. The museum is currently seeing membership increase and has need for more advanced computing services like video and collaboration.

The Museum Builds Network Experts

I grew up in the local neighborhood and benefited from a annual family pass when I was a kid. I rode my bike to the museum often.

My favorite thing in that place is still there today. It is a shadow wall where, when you push a button, a flash goes off and your shadow is stuck on the wall behind you. I don’t know how much time I spent in there trying to perfect the perfect pose.

I went on a lot of field trips and other events at the museum as well. I really think this was the start of my becoming the nerd that I am today.

The Idea Behind the Xtreme Network Makeover

Seeing the impact that slightly used equipment made to a non-profit like the South Florida Science Museum really made me think about what a whole new network could do for a disadvantaged business or non-profit.

So, I set my sights on the ability to give one away for free. I asked Scott Maulsby, my General Manager, to get involved, and he called all of our partners and vendors. They came through in a big way.

Read about it here where we are giving away a whole network.