Dell today announced new products and solutions to help global customers
on their paths toward software defined data centers by bridging the IT
gap between traditional and new application requirements. Dell is
helping to address this continuum with future-ready IT solutions,
including new converged infrastructure architecture, storage solutions,
and workload- specific appliances to help customers transform their data
centers, capture cost savings, and ensure their businesses are
competitive.
“Dell is placing customers first and delivering IT solutions which allow
them to transform and future-proof their data centers without having to
sacrifice the past,” said Marius Haas, chief commercial officer and
president of enterprise solutions group, Dell. “The new solutions
announced today showcase Dell’s commitment to helping customers prepare
for a software-defined data center and truly allow them to optimize
their environments to meet specific workload needs.”
Dell’s new future-ready IT solutions include the new Dell
PowerEdge FX converged architecture that provides optimal modularity
and scalability; a new Dell Storage SC4020 Entry-Level All-Flash
configuration that offers compelling features and performance in an
all-flash storage array for $25,000 (US); the new Dell
Storage PS4210 Series for substantially improved application
performance and connectivity options for small and mid-size deployments;
and, the Dell XC Series of
Web-scale Converged Appliances for integrated compute and enterprise
storage.
Forces like cloud computing, mobility, big data, the internet of things
and software-defined IT make new IT application and workload types
increasingly relevant to companies typically operating traditional IT
processes, and underscore the need for IT solutions that optimize the
differences with traditional and new applications. Dell also has
engineered new technology to address the requirements of both
traditional and new IT application processes.
“Despite claims to the contrary, mostly by vendors of proprietary
servers, Dell's new FX architecture clearly shows that x86 system
innovation is alive and well,” said Charles King, Dell Watcher and
Principal Analyst, Pund-IT. “The company's efforts also prove how being
a disruptive force doesn't require ‘thinking outside of the box.’ In the
case of the FX architecture, Dell has succeeded by rethinking the box
itself.”
Dell PowerEdge FX: Revolutionary Next-Generation Converged
Architecture Bridges Gap from Traditional to New IT
Today’s data center is evolving and businesses are facing pressures to
support existing application requirements while using IT in new and
exciting ways – all within financial constraints. Typically, customers
must choose between a variety of system architectures, including
best-of-breed hardware and current converged infrastructure, as the base
of their data center operations. The next-generation Dell
PowerEdge FX architecture is Dell’s revolutionary approach to converged
infrastructure with one common modular and scalable platform with
servers, storage and networking integrated to help customers better
manage, scale and budget for infrastructure to meet business needs.
“In the past, as our VDI environment grew, my team was forced to make a
forklift upgrade of our shared storage systems to keep up with demand,”
said Kyle Stewart, Technology Manager, Overlake Hospital. “With the Dell
PowerEdge FX converged architecture, we now have a platform that scales
linearly and significantly reduces the impact of an outage.”
The next-generation
PowerEdge FX architecture is a 2U enclosure with six new PowerEdge
server, storage and network
IOA sleds built specifically to fit into the FX2 chassis and support
varying workloads. Designed with integrated
management capabilities, the FX architecture enables customers to
easily configure, manage and add capacity to complete workload-specific
blocks of IT resources.
This converged infrastructure approach affords efficiencies of shared
power, I/O and management, integrated switching, and unsurpassed overall
density capabilities at up to 40 2-socket servers in 10U. Building on
Dell’s recent PowerEdge
13th generation server portfolio
announcement, the next-generation PowerEdge FX2 also includes
advanced systems management capabilities to reduce operational
complexity and simplify data center management.
Dell Continues to Redefine the Economics of Enterprise Storage,
Lowering Cost Barrier for All-Flash Storage Arrays
Dell, first to introduce all-flash enterprise arrays for the price of
traditional HDD solutions, today announced a new Dell
Storage SC Series all-flash array configuration for $25,000 (US),
making it one of the industry’s lowest-priced all-flash enterprise
arrays. Offering a more economical starting point for flash performance
to support demanding applications, the Dell Storage SC4020 Entry-Level
All-Flash configuration offers substantial performance improvement over
spinning disk solutions.
Customers seeking even greater performance can seamlessly expand to
create a Flash-Optimized Solution with Dell’s best-in-class, intelligent
data placement software to address customers’ future growth and
performance needs. Both Dell SC4020 Entry-Level All-Flash and
Flash-Optimized Solutions offer all-flash storage with the added benefit
of further optimizing costs by easily adding one or more tiers of
spinning disk to the same array.
For the second consecutive year, Dell has been selected as the top
choice for deploying enterprise flash/SSDs according to an October 2014
SSG-NOW independent survey of more than 300 global IT leaders.1
New Dell Storage PS Series Arrays for Smaller Deployments Offer up to
a 6x Performance Improvement
Dell today announced the Dell
Storage PS4210 Series enterprise storage arrays that bring improved
performance and advanced connectivity options for entry-level primary
storage and critical workloads. This marks the introduction of a hybrid
(flash and HDD) model to Dell’s entry-level PS Series portfolio, which
is ideal for small-to-medium virtualized datacenters and remote offices.
The PS4210 arrays are designed to be fully compatible and interoperable
with all previous Dell EqualLogic PS Series arrays, which has helped
make Dell the top iSCSI array sales vendor worldwide2 with
these easy-to-use, scale-out solutions.
Dell’s latest 10GbE iSCSI arrays offer enterprise capabilities in five
models that boast a more powerful controller with double the cache
memory, twice the number of ports, and up to six times performance
improvement with new hybrid arrays compared to previous generation
arrays.3
According to a 2014
ESG lab report, over a five-year period, Dell PS Series has the
lowest TCO for small and large sized storage configurations – costing up
to 58 percent less – when compared with other leading IT storage vendors.4
Dell Supports New IT Approaches with Web-scale Converged Appliances
Dell also announced worldwide availability of the Dell
XC Series of Web-scale Converged Appliances, which integrates
compute, storage and hypervisor resources into a single offering. The XC
Series appliances, powered by Nutanix software, benefit customers with
an integrated IT approach that offers enterprise-class storage for
virtualized server and VDI environments with simple deployment,
management and scale as needed. The new appliances are available in five
models designed to support different workloads.
With the XC Series, customers can manage their virtual environments at a
VM level, making the appliances particularly ideal for virtual
desktop infrastructure, high performance server virtualization, and
datacenters with multiple hypervisors deployed. The XC Series joins
Dell’s broad portfolio of software-defined storage and hyper-converged
offerings for virtualization customers.
New Open Networking Solution from Dell, Brocade and Intel –
Accelerating NFV
Dell,
Brocade, and Intel announced plans to deliver NFV-based solutions to
virtualize and accelerate enterprise service delivery at the carrier
edge. The solutions leverage Dell’s
newly-introduced NFV platform powered by the Intel® Open
Network Platform for servers architecture and the Intel® Data
Plane Developer Kit combined with the Brocade
Vyatta vRouter software to virtualize existing customer edge and
provider edge networking functions.
Based on open software and industry-standard server infrastructure,
Dell, Brocade and Intel are collaborating to help telecommunications
service providers improve capital and operational cost structures for
service delivery and to enable quicker, simpler service innovation and
creation. Now NFV developers can easily use the latest technologies to
evaluate and develop commercial solutions.
Availability
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The PowerEdge FX architecture including PowerEdge FX2 chassis and
initial sleds (FC630, FM120x4) will be available in December 2014.
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The PowerEdge FX architecture sleds including the FD332, FN IOA,
FC430, FC830 will be available in the first half of 2015.
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The Dell Storage SC4020 Entry-Level All-Flash configuration will be
available in early 2015.
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The Dell Storage PS4210 Series Arrays are available worldwide today.
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The Dell XC Series of Web-scale Converged Appliances will be available
starting November 11 with support for VMware ESXi and Microsoft
Windows Hyper-V.