Dell today announced it is
increasing its investments in new technology solutions and services that will
help customers innovate and drive business results in the Virtual Era. In its current fiscal
year, Dell will invest $1 billion (USD) to deliver leading solutions, services
and cloud-based delivery options to help customers capture the benefits from new
compute and information delivery advancements.
“Technology advances, delivery methods and the move
to disruptive IT models like cloud are changing the fundamental way businesses
operate,” said Steve
Schuckenbrock, President, Dell Services. “With this transformational shift,
businesses are gaining benefits in terms of speed to market and organizational
and compute flexibility. Dell is mobilizing to help customers capture these
benefits and with today’s announcement is making the power of the cloud
accessible to more organizations and users. Dell has made and will continue to
make significant investments to deliver technology that helps customers thrive
in the Virtual Era.”
“While there is no doubt that abstraction and
consolidation are inevitable realities in the technology industry, the notion of
a ‘single-vendor stack’ is unsustainable,” said Matt Eastwood, group vice
president of IDC’s Enterprise Platform Group. “As companies move to
next-generation architectures, customers will want to ensure that they can
seamlessly integrate legacy systems and new technologies. Even greenfield
operations will want to ensure that their infrastructure can handle
heterogeneity since the technology of today will be the legacy of tomorrow.”
Global Data Centers Expand Cloud
Computing Capabilities
Over the next 24 months,
Dell will build multiple highly efficient data centers around the world to
provide its customers access to public and private cloud technologies and its
world-class IT outsourcing capabilities. Bringing together Dell’s technology and
services prowess with state-of-the-art capabilities from its partners, these new
data centers will allow customers to take advantage of Infrastructure- and
Virtual Desktop-as-a-Service offerings as well as IT outsourcing. Dell’s
customers will now be able to:
- Take advantage of scalable and flexible resources to better
support growth and control costs for efforts such as application development and
testing or dynamic workloads like customer facing applications with
Compute-as-a-Service.
- Get access to needed storage for production environments,
off-premise back up and disaster recovery with Storage-as-a-Service unlimited
storage available for production environments, off-premise back up and disaster
recovery with Storage-as-a-Service.
- Centralize, secure and more easily manage user data while
facilitating a more remote and mobile workforce through Virtual
Desktop-as-a-Service.
New Solution Centers Provide Blueprints for the
Future
Dell will open 12 Global Solution Centers this year and is
planning 10 more over the next 18 months, to better bring open, capable and
affordable solutions to organizations around the world. This global network of
solution centers will provide a backdrop for customers to learn about Dell’s
industry-focused solutions and domain expertise. At the Global Solution Centers,
Dell experts work with customers to help them make better use of their
technology budgets so they can invest less on managing their infrastructure and
more on technology innovation to grow their business.
Through Proof of Concept testing to make sure the solution will work in the
customers’ environment and Architectural Design Workshops based on the
customers’ business needs, Global Solutions Centers give Dell’s customers and
partners another resource to help solve data center challenges.
New Solutions for the Virtual Era
Dell today launched new
Next Generation Data center, End-User Computing and Email Archiving solutions
that enable efficiency and innovation from the core to the edge.
Next Generation Data Center Computing
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Dell
vStart —Dell is delivering a new faster path to build virtual
infrastructures aimed at accelerating our customers’ journey to cloud computing.
Dell vStart accelerates and simplifies virtualization adoption by providing an easy way to purchase a
complete virtual infrastructure solution delivered ready to run physical and
virtual workloads. With vStart an entire functioning virtual infrastructure
solution is delivered ready to run up to 100 or 200 virtual machines from a
single management environment - including Intel Xeon-based Dell PowerEdge servers, Dell EqualLogic storage, Dell PowerConnect switches,
deployment services, hypervisors, and essential virtualization management
extensions. The infrastructure is delivered pre-assembled to the customer’s site
as a single unit, racked and cabled, and directly from the Dell factory. With
included initial deployment services, vStart can help customers build out the
infrastructure required to host virtual machines. Dell vStart currently supports
VMware and support for other hypervisors is planned in the coming
quarters.
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Dell|Microsoft Management and Virtualization Solutions Partnership:
Today Dell and Microsoft announced a three-year strategic initiative to help
customers quickly deploy and manage virtualization and private cloud
technologies. Management solutions will be based on Dell’s Virtual Integrated System,
Dell Advanced Infrastructure
Manager and Microsoft System Center and will deliver improved integration
across the physical, virtual and application layers. Virtualization solutions
will be based on Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V, which delivers strong workload
performance and can help lower total cost of ownership. Future
jointly-engineered solutions based on Dell’s hardware and virtualization
management technologies and Microsoft’s hypervisor and systems management
technologies will simplify virtualization management, reduce costs and remove
barriers to cloud adoption.
Dell offers a single management point for
physical and virtual resources that speeds provisioning of heterogeneous
hardware in a mixed environment.
Intelligent Data
Management
Dell’s new Email and File Archive solution helps customers manage the
information that is the lifeblood to their organizations. Dell’s end-to-end
solution capabilities can help customers address storage optimization and
compliance requirements, while alleviating burdens related to design,
implementation, and ongoing management through:
- Pre-configured reference architectures that ease solution design,
while allowing for needed customization based on customer specific requirements.
- All ongoing maintenance and support from a single point of
contact, including hardware and software (ISVs included).
- Storage platforms that support massive scalability and ease of
use, to protect customer investments and enable them to keep up with rapid data
growth.
Dell’s approach maintains customer choice with backup and archiving software
providers (Symantec or CommVault), preferred consumption model (cloud or
on-premise) and services needed.
End-User Solutions
Dell Desktop Virtualization Solutions
(DDVS) is a comprehensive solution portfolio that leverages pre-packaged
services with configured and tested hardware and software to help organizations
more quickly deploy desktop virtualization. DDVS addresses the design and
implementation complexities associated with desktop virtualization and
accelerates it so organizations can adapt to the changing dynamics of today’s
more mobile and global workforce.
Dell Desktop Virtualization Solutions enables
customers to support virtually any end-user computing device, anytime, anywhere in a
cost-effective, secure and predictable way. The offering helps customers meet
business objectives by uniquely analyzing how end-user computing is delivered,
thereby increasing business agility, enhancing end-user experience and
productivity as well as reducing operational costs.
Solution Availability
- The Dell vStart solution is available now in the US, with expected
availability in EMEA in Q2. Initial EMEA availability will be in the UK,
Ireland, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and
Spain.
- The Dell and Microsoft virtualization is currently available
worldwide.
- The Dell Email and File Archiving is available now in the US, with
expected availability in UK, France, Germany, Netherlands in Q2.
- Dell Desktop Virtualization Solutions is available now in the U.S.
with expected availability in other countries later this
year.