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Helping You Achieve the Efficient Enterprise

Dell has the solutions, the systems management experience and the relationships with top systems management vendors to help you improve your IT efficiency, while maintaining flexibility and scalability and enabling you to make the most of your current IT investment:

  • Consolidate your consoles.
    Systems management products from Dell help you avoid systems management sprawl by providing consolidated, comprehensive consoles to manage your entire enterprise: servers, storage, virtual machines, network switches, desktops, mobile devices and printers. Dell™ systems management solutions help you keep your IT infrastructure running efficiently by giving you a unified view and enterprisewide control of your entire IT infrastructure.
  • Use best-of-breed products to match your precise needs.
    Our solutions avoid vendor lock-in by embracing open standards and integrating gracefully with management products from some of the most important vendors in the IT industry, including BMC Software, Microsoft® and Symantec™.
  • Choose a solution that scales with you.
    Our adherence to standards means our tools can extend easily and flexibly across your enterprise infrastructure. And, as your infrastructure grows, new resources can be brought under the same management umbrella.

By emphasizing open standards and leveraging the technology of top systems management vendors, you get a solution that works with the hardware and software you have now, that works the way you want to work, and that frees you from buying proprietary product after proprietary product.

Dell IT Consulting Services can guide you through the design and implementation of a systems management solution that fits your precise needs today and can grow with you in the future.

Contact a Dell expert to get these benefits in your data center.
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    18 Jun 2010

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  2. Dell Business Service Management (BSM) Expert Center

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  3. Community Wiki

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    For most companies, the best disaster recovery (DR) strategy is a blend of physical and virtual. The trick, of course, is in figuring out what goes where. To that end, it’s a good idea to determine the where and the what before the how.

  5. Enterprise Monitoring with Open Source

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    Monitoring an enterprise environment need not be expensive, or lock you into a single vendor. Open source enterprise monitoring systems stack up favorably next to proprietary solutions — for free or at a much lower cost.

  6. How to Set Up the Perfect Physical Disaster Recovery Center

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    For most companies, the best disaster recovery (DR) strategy is a blend of physical and virtual. The trick, of course, is in figuring out what goes where. To that end, it’s a good idea to determine the 'where' and the 'what' before the 'how'.

  7. Planning your Green Data Center

    23 Jul 2010By : Alyson Behr

    1 out of 5

    It is literally quite cool to be green these days, but how do you get there? Following that green stripe in the Fidelity financial planning commercials won’t do it, but there is a path to take to develop a needs analysis plan for your data center.

  8. Fire Recovery: The First 24 Hours

    22 Jul 2010By : Lisa Nadile

    3 out of 5

    Here’s how to fight back in your worst-case scenario: a fire in your data center. Fire happens all the time. An electrical discharge, a dumb employee, a malfunctioning piece of equipment can waylay all your careful planning.

  9. Choosing Fire Protection Equipment for the Data Center

    22 Jul 2010By : Lisa Nadile

    Water can do your electronics a world of good. On July 2, 1959, an alarm went off at 10:49 am, and just five hours later, 4,000 square feet of the world’s largest office building and all the computer equipment in that area were destroyed by a fire.

  10. Dell Community — Systems Management Forum

    Read about and participate in the most current discussions about Dell systems management topics on the Dell Community Systems Management forum.
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