Data Center Systems Management

Systems management — control of your servers, your storage, your network and your client devices — can be the key to maximizing the productivity of your IT staff, reining in IT costs, and maintaining optimum availability and performance of your vital business systems. But without an integrated, flexible systems management solution, your data center is balanced atop a precarious stack of incompatible, often ad hoc, IT administrative processes, wasting resources and risking failure.

Other companies want you to buy closed management product until you're running dozens of consoles that work only with each other. And building a patchwork of solutions leads to systems management sprawl that often leaves you buying management products to manage your management solutions.

At Dell, we take a different approach. We build comprehensive systems management solutions based on open standards and integrated with industry-leading partners. With our solutions you can protect your investment in your current systems management framework and IT staff skills, while taking advantage of the advanced systems management capabilities of Dell™ servers, storage and networking.

Our open, integrated approach to enterprise-wide systems management gives you efficiencies that help ensure your IT services are available when your business needs them, including:

• Reduce IT complexity — Maximize the effectiveness of your IT resources and staff and reduce system downtime.
• Avoid vendor lock-in — Integrate key management solutions from Dell and our systems management partners, including BMC Software, Microsoft and Symantec.