Colin Sainsbury

Global Lead for Modern Management and Provisioning, Dell Technologies Services

Colin joined Dell in 2010 as a Solution Architect before becoming a Solution Principal (technical presales) at Dell Technologies Services. Having shown a keen interest in modern management strategy, in 2020, he took the opportunity to move into the Services Client Product Group to help drive Dell’s efforts in this area. He provides the strategic guidance and technology expertise that organizations need to transform their end user computing environments.
The Service Client Product Group is responsible for shaping Dell’s Services Strategy regarding Modern Management and Provisioning as well as helping Dell’s customers adopt Windows 10 and optimize their deployment processes. A significant element of this work is to reduce the time to value when a user receives a device, whether that device is new and provisioned via our configuration centres or re-provisioned via our lifecycle management hubs.

Colin has 25 years of experience in the IT industry. He started out as a tier 2 helpdesk analyst for the Computing Centre at Imperial College, London. Shortly after taking this role, he was asked to deploy Microsoft Exchange 4.0 into the College as it began to move from a UNIX SendMail email system. Having gained significant experience by deploying one of the earliest Exchange environments, he moved into Exchange consultancy roles.

Three years after that initial implementation, he was working as an Exchange consultant for Compaq. Lady luck intervened once more, and Colin was asked to perform an Exchange upgrade for a branch of the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD). This led Colin to specializing first in MoD engagements, then branching out into the wider Central Government space dealing with several key Government departments.

This specialization naturally brought with it an understanding of the security concerns and drivers in these sensitive environments. However, since joining Dell he has used this experience across all industry sectors.

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Connected Provisioning: Making Zero IT Touch Provisioning A Breeze

By Colin Sainsbury February 24, 2021

Dell has launched Connected Provisioning, the first-to-market, modern management provisioning service, directly embedded within our logistics chain. Connected Provisioning is a standardised service that is easy to order and consume. It’s an innovative solution that addresses real-world customer problems... READ MORE

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Fully Configured & Raring To Go: Work-Ready Devices Shipped to Remote Workers

By Colin Sainsbury June 2, 2020

Dell has a significant consumer business, where a device is ordered and shipped to the home through our logistics chain. However, our commercial customers have typically ordered multiple devices to a single address. Now, these commercial customers are increasingly... READ MORE

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Autopilot White Glove Comes of Age

By Colin Sainsbury November 25, 2019

Microsoft made several announcements at Ignite 2019 regarding new or enhanced modern deployment capabilities and, as is often the case, those capabilities have been discussed in isolation by many other bloggers. This post, however, seeks to put them into... READ MORE

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7 Steps to Prepare for Windows Autopilot White Glove

By Colin Sainsbury July 15, 2019

Back in 2018, senior Microsoft leaders visited Dell’s facility near Nashville to see our Connected Configuration service in action. Dell Technologies and Microsoft had been talking about Autopilot and discussing the benefits of shifting that activity away from customer... READ MORE

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Unified Endpoint Management: One Tool to Rule Them All?

By Colin Sainsbury February 4, 2019

Just recently a lot of the buzz in the end user computing world has been around moving to unified endpoint management. As with many concepts in IT, unified endpoint management, or UEM for short, is defined more by marketing... READ MORE