Converged Infrastructure

Imagine a truly efficient data center: What if you could break down your silos of isolated IT resources? What if you could manage your entire data center as a single pool of servers, storage and networking?

Technologies such as virtualization improve efficiency, but add to the complexity of your environment. You have to manage two infrastructures, physical and virtual, while trying to combat virtual machine sprawl. If you aren't careful, you trade one type of management complexity for another.

The Dell™ Virtual Integrated System (VIS) can help.

A Better Way — With the Hardware You Already Own
VIS extends the benefits of virtualization by reducing the tools, tasks and time required for daily data center activities, automating and increasing the efficiency of your entire IT infrastructure.

And, because it's based on an open architecture, VIS works with your existing investment in people, hardware and software.

The Dell VIS enables you to:

• Leverage existing investments in technology and training
• Reduce tools and tasks
• Streamline and automate processes and recommendations
• Comprehend and support both virtual and physical environments at the same time
• Improve service with auto-remediation and self-service deployment of workloads
• Improve access to resources, costs and usage
• Control costs and make them more predictable
• Combat virtual machine sprawl
• Better manage the dual infrastructures (virtual and physical) that can occur during the transition to a virtual environment

The Components of VIS
The Dell VIS includes several key parts that can be used together or individually:

• Advanced Infrastructure Manager (AIM) provides a single management point for physical and virtual resources, enabling pooling of resources and rapid provisioning of servers, storage and networking.
• VIS Creator is an automated service delivery and management platform, providing users an easy-to-use portal to select, deploy and manage server and desktop resources, and enabling IT administrators to automate many of the day-to-day tasks associated with service delivery, while still retaining control.

Discover a better way to manage your IT infrastructure and uncover more efficiencies than you ever thought was possible.