CiRBA announced a partnership with Dell’s global services organization. The two have joined together to give customers added control over efficiency and risk in their virtual and cloud environments – whether they are transforming infrastructure or managing existing virtualized environments.

Dell’s Global Consulting organization has standardized on CiRBA to deliver services that address the complete lifecycle of infrastructure in the move from physical to virtual to cloud. The new offerings include:

• Virtualization Readiness Assessment – to help clients determine what to virtualize, how to increase virtualization adoption while meeting cost efficiency and performance goals
• Virtualization Performance Health Check – analysis of existing virtual environments to recommend how to reduce performance risk and issues while optimizing efficiency.
• Cloud Readiness Assessment – analysis of an IT environment and goals to determine the best possible cloud options and strategies

Dell's cloud evangelist, Stephen Spector, also shot a video of CiRBA CEO, Gerry Smith, showing off the company's predictive analytics tool while at VMworld 2012.