Dell Advanced Infrastructure Manager (AIM)

In a typical data center, processing power, storage and networking are broken up into isolated silos that must be managed separately, often by specialized teams that require excessive coordination. This coordination creates organizational inefficiency and slow response times.

How do you drive greater efficiency? First, broaden the benefits of virtualization by using a single tool to manage everything. Second, introduce the ability to move workloads — from physical servers to virtual servers, virtual to physical, and physical to physical — on-demand and in real time. Finally, you need a tool that is vendor-neutral — that works across hypervisors, servers, networking and other technologies from a range of suppliers.

With Dell™ Advanced Infrastructure Manager (AIM) software, you can convert those isolated silos into a single pool of servers and storage that manages itself. Dell AIM seamlessly and automatically redistributes workloads and applications between devices — physical and virtual — in response to user demand, enabling your IT team to manage workload policies instead of complex hardware devices.

With Dell AIM software, you can:

• Increase utilization of your existing and new systems without getting locked in to a single vendor 
• Dynamically manage data center infrastructure (physical and virtual) and workloads to drive enhanced return on investment 
• Virtualize using your tool of choice: VMware®, Microsoft® Hyper-V™ and Xen® 
• Support standard switches, networks and heterogeneous server and storage hardware

Dell AIM can turn your entire IT infrastructure into a pool of shared resources that reacts intelligently to user demand.