Networks & Servers

The more successful your business becomes, the more it grows, and the more its complexity increases. To ensure smooth business operations, you add tools and technology.

Soon, your IT infrastructure becomes decentralized — across cubes, offices, buildings and even regions. A variety of different vendors’ hardware, running different versions of applications and patches, plagues your data centers.

To keep those data centers running, constant IT maintenance begins exhausting your resources. You’re stuck just trying to keep up with multi-vendor updates instead of focusing on strategic growth.

Manage Your Infrastructure, Not Your Management Consoles

To prepare your business for continuing success, you need to prevent the above scenario before it starts. The best way to start is to implement a comprehensive systems management strategy that focuses on simplicity and flexibility based on open-systems standards.

Proprietary systems management solutions tend to work very well within a specified family of products. But this type of system benefits only the vendor, not your business. You get locked into using a single solution, which may not be the most cost-effective one, from that vendor.

Over time, you will most likely need to add some other vendors into your solution, which requires introducing more sets of protocols and management systems into the mix.

In the end, you spend your IT resources in unending cycles of personnel training on new tools and deploying, upgrading and monitoring disparate infrastructure elements.

IT managers are looking for systems management solutions that decrease complexity, reduce redundancies and enable modular interoperability. They want their systems management solutions to be:

• Flexible — Regardless of the brand or vendor solution, IT managers need a holistic view and unified management of assets across their business using a single console. 
• Seamless — Previously, IT managers would build management solutions as they acquired different brands of hardware. More suited to growing companies is a modular platform that provides basic hardware management that can extend seamlessly to advanced functionality with snap-in modules. 
• Comprehensive — Systems management solutions should both provide sufficient information to do the job effectively and be customizable to fit unique specifications, without redundant or superfluous information. It should not drown users in unnecessary data that ends up complicating troubleshooting.

Systems Management Simplified

To address these requirements, IT organizations and systems management developers have turned to the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) for implementation of standardized processes. The new Dell Management Console (DMC), powered by Altiris™ from Symantec™, is based on ITIL principles, with PowerEdge™ servers at its foundation.

At the center of the ITIL process model is the configuration management database (CMDB). The key to the DMC approach lies in leveraging CMDB to provide a single-console view. You can see the entire IT infrastructure, regardless of vendor, because the Dell Management Console uses a device-agnostic strategy.

By giving administrators a single, centralized tool to help them perform numerous systems management tasks, your IT staff is free to focus on strategic business initiatives and innovation.

Innovations and efficiencies like these in your IT department can ultimately help increase your competitive advantage.

And, improving your competitive advantage can help you make a direct impact on your business’s bottom line.

Comprehensive Solutions

As your IT partner, Dell has engineered enterprise-level products, software and services designed to meet rigorous data center specifications, at medium-business cost structures. With the newest, 11th generation of PowerEdge servers at the core of the solution, the Dell Management Console is embedded into every server system for seamless integration into your IT infrastructure.

And with Dell's ProManage-Managed Services designed for small and medium businesses, we can proactively monitor your Dell or non-Dell IT environment 24/7 to identify and resolve issues before they cause downtime. Choose from three service levels to match your needs and your budget. You get the chance to focus on proactive planning while we handle the rest. Let Dell do the troubleshooting so you can get back to business.