DellWorld 2012 – Dell is a leader in the data center

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Dell today announced new solutions, partnerships and services that enable customers to take advantage of major transformative forces in the data center, focusing specifically on the smooth migration to and management of converged, virtualized and cloud infrastructures. As of early 2012, 50 percent of all installed workloads were running VMs, so many of the easily virtualized workloads are already virtualized,” according to Gartner[1]. As this number grows rapidly, Dell is accelerating its commitment to open innovation and scalable architectures to enable customers to reap the benefits.

“In an effort to drive IT simplicity, efficiency and predictability, enterprises are rapidly embracing converged, virtualized and cloud environments,” said Marius Haas, president of Enterprise Solutions Group, Dell. “Dell is helping businesses rethink their approach to the data center, to help them realize the full benefits of these trends. By combining Dell’s scalable design focus and powerful data center offerings with Dell’s enterprise software assets and services deployment philosophy, Dell is uniquely positioned to help customers build an open and flexible data center of the future.”

Converged Infrastructure
As part of Dell’s customer-inspired, end-to-end solutions vision, Dell is quickly building upon its recent announcement of Active Infrastructure, Dell’s family of converged infrastructure solutions. With the announcement of the first set of workload solution reference architectures certified, qualified and optimized for the Active System 800, Dell is giving IT organizations blueprints to deploy VDI and unified communications and collaboration applications essential to any organization. These workload solutions enable IT organizations to help businesses maximize workforce productivity, deliver faster and efficient results, and enable organizations to scale. The new workloads include:

• DVS Enterprise Active System 800 with Citrix XenDesktop Reference architecture

• DVS Enterprise Active System 800 with VMware View Reference architecture

• Microsoft Exchange 2010 Reference architecture

• Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Reference architecture

• Microsoft Lync 2010 Reference architecture

It’s great to see Dell focus on end to end solutions to meet business outcomes. That these combine a range of applications and usage cases illustrates their continued investment in their offerings and commitment to the customer, let’s not forget the more competition in the industry the better for the industry and the end user community alike. I’m off to check out Dell’s Hadoop big data solutions and their OpenStack offerings.

 

 

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