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Dell EMC Consulting Deployed for Application Profiling and Migration to Office 365

Dell EMC is embarking on the U.S. Air Force's enterprise-wide IT transformation. Dell EMC recently won a $1 billion (approximately 1.1 trillion KRW) Cloud Hosted Enterprise Services (CHES) contract with the U.S. Air Force, together with Microsoft and U.S. defense contractor General Dynamics.



This CHES contract is the largest ever for a U.S. federal government cloud-based collaboration solution, and the U.S. Air Force expects this project to reduce IT costs and significantly improve organizational efficiency and agility. In 2015, the U.S. Air Force conducted an IT innovation project called "Collaboration Pathfinder," transitioning email, communication, and productivity tools to a Microsoft Office 365-based system. Dell, Microsoft, and General Dynamics, who jointly won the project at the time, successfully migrated over 140,000 users to the new platform over two years. This CHES project is an extension of that, but the scale and scope of beneficiaries have been expanded even further to the largest scale ever.

The U.S. Air Force, which has made the adoption of cloud-based Enterprise-as-a-Service (EaaS) a top priority, selected Dell EMC's solutions as its solution. Under the CHES program, up to 776,000 users will access email, communication tools, collaboration solutions, office productivity tools, and records management solutions as cloud services. In addition to the U.S. Air Force, the Defense Logistics Headquarters and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers are also expected to benefit from this project. Through this project spanning approximately one year, it is anticipated that data centers will be consolidated and costs reduced, allowing more resources to be allocated to core business operations.

Meanwhile, this agreement includes Dell EMC's consulting services for the migration of communication and collaboration systems, as well as application profiling services to determine application suitability and decide whether to migrate or decommission. Dell EMC plans to support this project by leveraging its years of experience in conducting enterprise-scale migrations and driving customer business achievements, combining automated tools with Microsoft's unrivaled expertise and methodologies.