ROUND ROCK, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Customers in the ‘Virtual Era’ demand IT solutions that drive efficiency, rapidly deliver business value and drive innovation without locking organizations into proprietary technology. Harnessing more than 25 years of expertise in meeting customers’ requirements, Dell today unveiled new technology, services, management tools and business ready solutions that preserve choice and help customers reduce the time required to build, manage and maintain an efficient datacenter.
Building off its industry-leading position and partnerships in storage, servers, networking and services, Dell has pre-integrated the product hardware and systems management capabilities critical to deploying and running various data center elements as a holistic solution. This approach is designed to deliver significant efficiencies in both OPEX and CAPEX – and deliver on Dell’s mission to reduce budget devoted to maintaining the status quo and increasing investment in innovative projects.
As customers look to streamline data center operations, the combination of next-generation storage platforms and intelligent infrastructure compute models is becoming increasingly important. New Dell EqualLogic™ storage products, Dell PowerConnect ™networking solutions and Dell PowerEdge™ blade servers , all built on industry-standards, plus new Dell Storage, Virtualization and Support Services, drive organizational and application agility - so customers can focus on innovation as opposed to basic maintenance.
Dell Business Ready Configurations
To help customers more quickly deploy fully integrated virtualization-ready data center solutions, Dell today introduced six new Business Ready Configurations. Business Ready Configurations help customers reduce the complexity and trial and error involved in deploying virtualization projects by bringing together best-of-breed server, storage, networking, and virtualization technologies in pre-configured and validated bundles to ensure fast deployments. These solutions integrate with a customer’s existing infrastructure while allowing them to rapidly accelerate the benefits of virtualization using either VMware® or Microsoft® hypervisors. From customers just starting to deploy virtualized infrastructure for consolidation to the more mature customers looking for high availability, dynamic provisioning and disaster recovery capabilities, Dell has a solution.
Dell’s new server, storage, networking products and services include:
Dell EqualLogic and Dell PowerVault™ Storage Platforms
Dell PowerEdge Servers and Systems Management Capabilities
Dell PowerConnect Networking Solutions
Dell Services
Dell today unveiled new storage, virtualization and support services to provide the expertise needed to reduce the expense and time required to build, manage and maintain an efficient datacenter.
All Dell PowerEdge, EqualLogic and PowerVault products and solutions mentioned are available through Dell or any of the company’s approximately 60,000 Global PartnerDirect channel partners.
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“Dell continues to reinvent itself and stress the importance of open, capable and affordable IT products and services,” said IDC analyst Matt Eastwood, Group Vice President, Server Platforms. “The company is wise to adopt a balanced approach to leverage private cloud opportunity driven from virtualization and other transformational IT initiatives. Their vision is clean, understandable and believable and IDC expects that it will resonate well in the market as customers evaluate their IT infrastructure options in the months to come.”
“Organizations benefit from Dell’s approach to open, capable and affordable technologies that preserve choice and free up budgets for innovation and today we are introducing several new product and solution offerings to reinforce that direction,” said Brad Anderson, senior vice president, Enterprise Product Group, Dell. “With new solutions for virtualization management, new innovations in our server and storage product lines and expanded service offerings our customers can utilize Dell for the benefits of a converged architecture – dynamic workload allocation, faster time to deployment, seamless management – but they don’t want to be locked into a closed technology stack. ”
Additional Information:
Dell Unveils Open Solutions for the Virtual Era
Dell Business Ready Configurations
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1 Based on testing performed by Dell Labs in May 2010 comparing Dell EqualLogic Firmware v. 4.3 to Dell EqualLogic Firmware v. 5.0 with VMware API for Array Integration. Actual performance will vary based on configuration, usage and manufacturing variability.”
2 Based on information provided by NVIDIA at http://www.nvidia.com/object/tesla_computing_solutions.html. Dell makes no warranties or representations regarding the accuracy of this information. Any questions or comments regarding this information should be addressed to NVIDIA. Actual performance will vary based on configuration, usage and manufacturing variability.
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