Dell AIM: Capacity on Demand for Cloud Infrastructure

While many enterprises embrace cloud infrastructure to reduce capital expenditure (CAPEX), speed delivery to users and automate deployment, some end up trading physical servers for virtual servers and CAPEX for operational expenditure (OPEX), thus merely making a change rather than making progress. Many try to solve the problem by purchasing cloud-ready or cloud-enabled hardware and software to replace all or nearly all, existing investments, believing that the solution lies in a rip-and-replace data center makeover. However, that strategy entails increased costs.

 Address the workload mobility and recovery management needs of your organization with Dell™ Advanced Infrastructure Manager (AIM). Dell AIM is a workload mobility and recovery management solution that works across hypervisors, servers, networking and other technologies from a wide range of vendors. It can be introduced into an existing infrastructure, providing the means to gradually make the transformation from a physical-only, static data center to a dynamic and totally manageable virtual and physical environment. Costs and change management are thus also made highly manageable thereby reducing any strain or friction on both counts.

 Use AIM and reap the following benefits:

• Simplified resource allocation — Increase efficiencies with a single management point for virtual and physical resources, improving application availability and service-level agreement (SLA) management.
• Workload mobility — Run applications as virtual systems, shifting them to physical systems to meet peak demand and shifting them back again to virtual when demand decreases.
• Shared infrastructure — Enable rapid response to business needs, extensive scalability and elasticity by using installed equipment more efficiently and reducing the need to buy additional equipment to handle peak workloads.
• High availability — Maintain recovery time under five minutes with automated server failover, and simplify site-to-site disaster recovery with automated site failover.
• Accelerated virtualization adoption — Enjoy seamless migration into existing data centers and add additional assets any time and without disruption with AIM’s vendor-agnostic features.
• Heterogeneous hardware support — Do away with the necessity to purchase Dell hardware to use the software. Use your existing investments without rip-and-replace upgrades, and unify mixed hypervisors, servers, storage devices and networks.
• Revenue protection — Improve application availability and SLA management by lowering expensive licensing costs.