Open Standards Mean Optimum Flexibility
Ripping and replacing your existing investment is wasteful, disruptive and unnecessary. Don't get locked into an expensive proprietary infrastructure management solution.
Instead, use an open approach to maximize the efficiency of both your existing investment and your future infrastructure deployments. With Dell, you're free to build the data center you need, rather than the data center your infrastructure management supports.
How can you combine your servers, storage and networking from different vendors into a simpler, more standardized and automated IT landscape?
Instead, use an open approach to maximize the efficiency of both your existing investment and your future infrastructure deployments. With Dell, you're free to build the data center you need, rather than the data center your infrastructure management supports.
How can you combine your servers, storage and networking from different vendors into a simpler, more standardized and automated IT landscape?
- Build a virtual-ready infrastructure from x86-based servers and open-standard storage, all connected by a 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) fabric that incorporates your existing hardware investment.
- Virtualize your servers, where you want to. Virtualization is not necessary to implement Dell infrastructure management, but it provides maximum flexibility and portability of your application workloads. Our solution easily manages physical servers, virtual servers or any combination of the two.
- Apply the revolutionary infrastructure management software, Dell™ Advanced Infrastructure Manager (AIM), to manage your virtual landscape on top of your existing hardware. Your data center can then automatically respond to changing demand by reconfiguring your virtualized servers, storage and networking according to the policies you define.
Why Is Our Approach Better?
An open approach helps:
- Protect your existing IT investment by working with the servers, storage and switches you already have
- Avoid vendor lock-in since there is no expensive proprietary hardware to buy and you can use anyone's hardware with our infrastructure management
- Support both virtual and physical environments at the same time and move workloads between them instantly
- Mix and match your preferred virtualization solutions — VMware®, Microsoft® Hyper-V™ and Citrix® XenServer™
- Keep infrastructure management out of the data path, so you retain the native performance of your hardware
It's your data center and your business. We understand that and strive to fit in with your needs, not dictate a set of requirements.
The Dell Difference
Our approach gives you best-in-class converged solutions using open standards — protecting your existing IT investment and keeping your future options open.Cashing in on a Virtual-Ready Infrastructure
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