White Paper: Dell KACE Appliances: Simplifying Windows 7 Migrations

By Sendhil Jayachandran

For midsize organizations working with a diverse range of hardware and limited resources, making the move to the Microsoft® Windows® 7 OS can be a daunting challenge. The innovative Dell KACE™ family of appliances provides a simplified, automated, cost-effective way to design and carry out an end-to-end migration.

Enterprise IT departments are quickly embracing the Microsoft Windows 7 OS: in a recent survey, 87 percent of organizations said that they plan to deploy Windows 7, and almost half do not plan to wait for Service Pack 1 before rolling it out.1 Because Microsoft does not support in-place upgrades of Windows XP to Windows 7, however, the migration can pose a daunting challenge for organizations that bypassed the Windows Vista® OS and continued running Windows XP, but still need a means to execute clean installations of Windows 7 while retaining critical data.