Dell VRTX and Dell Active System illustrate commitments to innovation

Dell Offers Industry’s Widest Range of Converged Infrastructure Choices; from Office-Scale to Hyper Scale

• ·         New solutions optimised for applications and workloads from branch office to scale-out data centre
• ·         PowerEdge VRTX eliminates the complexity, cost and sprawl of disparate IT devices and multiple management tools
• ·         Dell updates Active Infrastructure portfolio; reduces time provisioning new workloads by approximately 99 percent¹

DELL ENTERPRISE FORUM – SAN JOSE, Calif., 5^th June 2013 – At its Dell Enterprise Forum customer and partner event, Dell today announced further differentiation to its converged infrastructure portfolio to help customers of all sizes address a common set of challenges related to the complexity, inefficiency and rigidity in current IT infrastructure. The new solutions can be tailored for specific application and workload use cases, and today, Dell is bringing enterprise-class converged technology to a whole new set of customers: branch office companies and the small and medium business market.

Dell is on the forefront of helping a broad range of customers with an array of converged and pre-integrated solutions, each designed to address these different customers’ common needs for simplicity and agility. In fact, a recent IDC forecast² reveals that spending on converged systems will grow at a compound annual rate of more than 54 percent over the 2011-2016 forecast period, driven by the cost advantages and efficiency related to operations and management of IT, simplification of vendor engagement, and faster time to productivity with IT system updates.

“Dell’s customer-inspired innovation is driven by our deep understanding of the business realities impacting customers’ today, and interpreting those trends through delivery of modern IT architectures conceived and engineered for the needs of different businesses – one size does not fit all,” said Marius Haas, president of enterprise solutions for Dell. “With the new solutions we have unveiled today, Dell is demonstrating its differentiated approach to solution development for customers of all sizes – from the small office of five people to the world’s largest hyperscale datacentres.”

It was great to hear the announcements from Dell’s Enterprise Forum, it sound like a great event and brought some exciting announcements in the enterprise and Converged Infrastructure space.

The highlight for many is the new VRTX platform which is frankly brilliant. It is comprised of a single enclosure which can fit under a desk, it features office acoustics, includes networking storage and compute in one re-packaged optimised enclosure. This means in essence that VRTX is going to be an opportunity not only for the SME that needs an offering that can grow with it’s business but also as a vehicle for the branch solution where we want an enterprise grade offering but the easy maintenance of a single enclosed infrastructure.

The video is below and you can of course read all about it on the Dell blog and Dell site:

Dell PowerEdge VRTX key deliverables:

• Office designed infrastructure both in terms of low noise output and power requirements
• 4 dual processor servers, 48TB storage and network switch in 5u rack space
• Designed to use latest half height server nodes using Dell industry standard technologies such as RAID, redundant power supplies and fans

Dell also announced additional pre-integrated systems building upon their Dell Active System, with the introduction of their Dell Active System 50, 200 and 1000 platforms. Each aimed at specific customer and application needs with ease of deployment and support being fundamental benefits.

There was also an announcement about Dell Active Systems Manager 7.1 which further enhances their offerings in the infrastructure deployment space and builds upon their acquisition of Gale Technologies.

Their announcements brought a real sense of excitement and renewal for Dell and it’s customers, their announcements are great news for their customers and for innovation and competition in the industry. Their Dell Active System offering does look good, I’ve seen one but need to spend some time finding out more about it, I also noted their Dell vStart 100 solution, I’m off to find out more about it.  In summary their Enterprise Forum re-enforced Dell’s long term strategy towards innovation and delivering customer orientated solutions building upon their acquisitions to further enhance their offerings and create opportunity, very cool, well done to Dell.

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