Cover story: Game changers

Economic uncertainty, workforce transformation, and shape-shifting technology advances have changed the rules of play for IT decision makers, and data centers are feeling the pressure from all sides. Demand for computing power will only continue to grow, but a lack of physical space can limit expansion, and construction of new facilities is costly. Many organizations find themselves spending more on power and cooling than they’d budgeted for infrastructure refreshes. Meanwhile, proliferation of disparate platforms, vendor-specific tools, and complex licensing agreements can result in tremendous operational complexity and administrative burden.

Building on the core tenets of standardization, simplification, and automation, Dell™ PowerEdge™ M-Series blade servers and enclosures offer a flexible platform for managing physical, virtual, and logical infrastructures. As a result, blade server environments help eliminate resource silos and optimize data center operations—enabling administrators to allocate resources dynamically and accelerate delivery of strategic IT services. For these reasons and more, blade servers play a pivotal role in fulfilling Dell’s vision for the Efficient Data Center.

Dell’s latest virtualization-ready blade servers and enclosures—including the PowerEdge M610x, PowerEdge M710HD, and PowerEdge M910 blade servers along with the PowerEdge M1000e modular blade enclosure—are designed to provide a flexible infrastructure that accelerates delivery of strategic IT services by combining high density with innovative power and cooling, exceptional manageability, and integrated connectivity for virtually any network, storage, or management environment. These blade servers offer a game-changing array of features and capabilities designed to optimize data center efficiency—and outplay the competition.