New Datacenter Solutions from Dell Deliver Efficiency and Performance Without Compromise
-- Open and modular technology solutions help maximize flexibility for
customers who want to innovate without lock-in
-- New Business Ready Configurations help reduce cost and complexity by
combining technologies in pre-configured bundles
-- New products integrate seamlessly into Dell solutions for government,
healthcare and education organizations
-- New technology solutions, services and management functionality across
servers, storage and networking enable customers to reallocate resources
from maintenance to drive value and innovation.
ROUND ROCK, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Customers in the 'Virtual Era' demand IT solutions that drive efficiency, rapidly deliver business value and drive innovation without locking organizations into proprietary technology. Harnessing more than 25 years of expertise in meeting customers' requirements, Dell today unveiled new technology, services, management tools and business ready solutions that preserve choice and help customers reduce the time required to build, manage and maintain an efficient datacenter.
Building off its industry-leading position and partnerships in storage, servers, networking and services, Dell has pre-integrated the product hardware and systems management capabilities critical to deploying and running various data center elements as a holistic solution. This approach is designed to deliver significant efficiencies in both OPEX and CAPEX - and deliver on Dell's mission to reduce budget devoted to maintaining the status quo and increasing investment in innovative projects.
As customers look to streamline data center operations, the combination of next-generation storage platforms and intelligent infrastructure compute models is becoming increasingly important. New Dell EqualLogic(TM) storage products, Dell PowerConnect (TM)networking solutions and Dell PowerEdge(TM) blade servers , all built on industry-standards, plus new Dell Storage, Virtualization and Support Services, drive organizational and application agility - so customers can focus on innovation as opposed to basic maintenance.
Dell Business Ready Configurations
To help customers more quickly deploy fully integrated virtualization-ready data center solutions, Dell today introduced six new Business Ready Configurations. Business Ready Configurations help customers reduce the complexity and trial and error involved in deploying virtualization projects by bringing together best-of-breed server, storage, networking, and virtualization technologies in pre-configured and validated bundles to ensure fast deployments. These solutions integrate with a customer's existing infrastructure while allowing them to rapidly accelerate the benefits of virtualization using either VMware(R) or Microsoft(R) hypervisors. From customers just starting to deploy virtualized infrastructure for consolidation to the more mature customers looking for high availability, dynamic provisioning and disaster recovery capabilities, Dell has a solution.
Dell's new server, storage, networking products and services include:
Dell EqualLogic and Dell PowerVault(TM) Storage Platforms
-- New Dell EqualLogic PS6000XVS and PS6010XVS storage arrays combine the
advantages of SAS and SSD drives in a single enclosure to improve
density and performance. An extension of Dell's expertise in automated
load-balancing and data movement technologies, customers leveraging the
EqualLogic 5.0 firmware can now benefit from automated data tiering
within the new arrays.
-- New advancements in the Dell EqualLogic software architecture
dramatically improves the performance and scalability of EqualLogic
storage arrays - all at no additional cost to new or existing EqualLogic
customers. With the introduction of EqualLogic 5.0 firmware, VMware
infrastructures can dramatically reduce SAN network traffic for the copy
process by over 95% and CPU utilization for the copy process by over
75%1. The EqualLogic 5.0 firmware will support future developments of
the VMware vStorage initiative.
-- New Dell PowerVault MD3200 and PowerVault MD3200i storage arrays are
ideal for small-to-medium sized businesses looking for an affordable,
high performance virtualization platform. The MD3200 series of storage
arrays provides up to two times the performance, host support and
capacity scalability over the previous generation of products.
Dell PowerEdge Servers and Systems Management Capabilities
-- Dell is introducing two new PowerEdge blades and one rack server built
to help customers improve virtualization performance, flexibility and
power efficiency.
o The PowerEdge M710HD blade server is designed and optimized for
virtual workloads and offers users tremendous I/O flexibility, high
memory density, and robust Intel Xeon processing power. It is one of
the only high density, memory optimized blade servers in the industry
that supports failsafe redundant embedded hypervisors and
hot-swappable SAS or SSD drive options to help ensure customers'
consolidated workloads stay up and running.
o The PowerEdge M610x brings a new set of capabilities to Dell's blade
portfolio and provides customers database acceleration and expanded
graphics capabilities by integrating powerful PCIe solutions like
NVIDIA's new Tesla "Fermi" class GPGPUs or Fusion-IO's ioDrive Duo.
# NVIDIA(R) Tesla(TM) 20-series GPGPUs can produce the computational
horsepower of an equivalent non-GPGPU quad-core CPU clusters at
approximately 1/10th the cost using about 1/20th the power 2
o The PowerEdge R715 is an AMD-based 2U rack server that balances 24
processing cores with a large memory footprint to achieve a good ratio
of price/performance. This rack server is ideal for virtualization,
workload consolidation and small scale database and network
infrastructure deployments.
o The M1000e chassis is enhanced with next generation power supplies,
ultra-efficient fans, and "bare metal" chassis management tools to
help facilitate blade energy efficiency and exceptional performance
per watt, as well as setting new standards for usability and
manageability.
-- Dell also introduced new systems management updates to its Lifecycle
Controller, Chassis Management Controller (CMC) and Integrated Dell
Remote Access Controller (iDRAC) offerings to help customers streamline
ongoing maintenance tasks to reduce costs and improve efficiency. New
enhancements include:
o Lifecycle Controller can automatically configure new parts with
settings and firmware of prior components.
o A new dynamic graphical user interface comes with CMC including a
homepage designed to simplify and speed up the most frequent system
administrator tasks.
Dell PowerConnect Networking Solutions
-- Dell is introducing the PowerConnect-J series of products, the first
through Dell's OEM agreement with Juniper, and other new networking
products.
-- The PowerConnect J-Series EX8200 family provides a new scalable chassis
solution for high performance switching and routing in data center and
cloud environments.
-- For smaller data center and branch office environments, the PowerConnect
J-Series EX4200 family of switches leverages Virtual Chassis technology
to help customers stack and manage up to ten EX4200 switches as a single
device.
-- The PowerConnect J-Series SRX family of Service Gateway products target
a broad range of security needs including content security, access
control and state-of-the-art firewall and virtual private network (VPN)
technology.
-- Based on Dell's OEM agreement with Brocade, the PowerConnect B-Series
RX-16 extends the current family of Dell PowerConnect B-RX chassis
switches with a 16-slot, modular chassis to deliver performance and
scalability for demanding networks with 10GbE requirements.
-- The Dell PowerConnect 8024 Ethernet switch delivers 24 ports of
10GBASE-T and features Layer 3 routing for data center, aggregation and
unified fabric deployments.
Dell Services
Dell today unveiled new storage, virtualization and support services to provide the expertise needed to reduce the expense and time required to build, manage and maintain an efficient datacenter.
-- Data Management Consulting Services for EqualLogic help accelerate the
integration of the EqualLogic PS series into the data center, and
enables customers to get the most out of their Enterprise class iSCSI
SAN in terms of performance for application, data protection strategies
and total cost of ownership.
-- Dell ProSupport Proactive Maintenance for EqualLogic helps customers
avoid problems before they occur. Through scheduled assessments,
streamlined patch management and detailed reporting, Proactive
Maintenance removes some of the burden of routine IT maintenance,
allowing IT personnel to focus on more innovative projects.
-- Dell Virtualization Consulting that helps drive out inefficiency through
standardization, reducing complexity through application
rationalization, consolidation, virtualization and automation.
All Dell PowerEdge, EqualLogic and PowerVault products and solutions mentioned are available through Dell or any of the company's approximately 60,000 Global PartnerDirect channel partners.
Availability
-- The Dell EqualLogic PS6000XVS and EqualLogic PS6010XVS will be available
in early August.
o The EqualLogic 5.0 firmware is available today at no additional charge
to existing or new EqualLogic customers.
-- The Dell PowerVault MD3200, PowerVault MD3200i and PowerConnect 8024 are
available next week.
-- The Dell PowerEdge M610x, PowerEdge M710HD and PowerEdge R715 will be
available in July.
-- The Dell PowerConnect-J series of network offerings will be available in
July.
-- The Dell PowerConnect B-RX16 will be available in early August.
Quotes:
"Dell continues to reinvent itself and stress the importance of open, capable and affordable IT products and services," said IDC analyst Matt Eastwood, Group Vice President, Server Platforms. "The company is wise to adopt a balanced approach to leverage private cloud opportunity driven from virtualization and other transformational IT initiatives. Their vision is clean, understandable and believable and IDC expects that it will resonate well in the market as customers evaluate their IT infrastructure options in the months to come."
"Organizations benefit from Dell's approach to open, capable and affordable technologies that preserve choice and free up budgets for innovation and today we are introducing several new product and solution offerings to reinforce that direction," said Brad Anderson, senior vice president, Enterprise Product Group, Dell. "With new solutions for virtualization management, new innovations in our server and storage product lines and expanded service offerings our customers can utilize Dell for the benefits of a converged architecture - dynamic workload allocation, faster time to deployment, seamless management - but they don't want to be locked into a closed technology stack. "
Additional Information:
Dell Unveils Open Solutions for the Virtual Era
Dell Business Ready Configurations
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1 Based on testing performed by Dell Labs in May 2010 comparing Dell EqualLogic Firmware v. 4.3 to Dell EqualLogic Firmware v. 5.0 with VMware API for Array Integration. Actual performance will vary based on configuration, usage and manufacturing variability."
2 Based on information provided by NVIDIA at http://www.nvidia.com/object/tesla_computing_solutions.html. Dell makes no warranties or representations regarding the accuracy of this information. Any questions or comments regarding this information should be addressed to NVIDIA. Actual performance will vary based on configuration, usage and manufacturing variability.
Source: Dell
Released June 9, 2010