Data Center Management

Many organizations spend the majority of their IT resources on managing their environment rather than on mission-critical business initiatives. In fact, Gartner reports that 66 percent of the average annual IT spending goes toward operating the environment.*

Dell’s Data Center Management services are designed to allow IT to outsource some of the core administration tasks associated with storage management, backup management and virtual server management. By outsourcing these tasks using Dell’s Data Center Management suite of services, organizations can regain resources and use them to grow and transform their businesses rather than on managing their existing infrastructures. Dell’s Data Center Management services help:

• Ensure that storage operations are being successfully managed and that measureable improvements are being made to manage growth.
• Optimize backup environments with full remote management, including remote reporting, monitoring and alerts to help your organization identify and deal with problems in a timely manner.
• Improve the efficiency and performance of virtual server environments, with early alerts about capacity and performance problems, as well as potential resource bottlenecks.

Dell Data Center Backup Management
Dell Data Center backup management simplifies your backup management and helps to improve reliability by providing a complete view of your entire backup infrastructure and process — from backup timeframes to the ability to compare groups of servers. Services include:

• Backup advisory and reporting — Provides a real-time, enterprise-wide view of your backup environment through Web-based dashboard reporting.
• Remote monitoring — Provides 24x7 monitoring and alerts, and customizable options to allow ongoing access to a skilled, remote support team.
• Backup management services — Allow you to fully outsource the management and operation of your backup infrastructure to Dell’s backup professionals.

Dell Virtual Server Management — Remote Monitoring and Reporting
Remote monitoring and reporting help you to get the most out of your virtual server environment by combining 24x7 monitoring, alerts and reporting with expert analysis and advice. Benefits include:

• Better understanding of system performance — Gain insight into virtual machine and host performance to optimize your infrastructure through detailed, comprehensive reports.
• Improved capacity planning — Get weekly reports and monthly in-depth reviews that can help you evaluate usage to better predict bottlenecks and improve performance, so that you scale only when needed.
• Around-the-clock monitoring and alerts — 24x7x365 alerts and monitoring of key metrics, including processor, memory, network and disk storage capacity, and up/down availability of clusters, hosts and virtual machines.

Dell Storage Optimization and Management
Storage optimization and management helps improve the efficiency of your storage environment through 24x7 monitoring, real-time reports and the option to have Dell fully manage your storage environment. Services include:

• Storage capacity reporting — Provides a real-time, enterprise-wide view of your storage environment through Web-based dashboard reports.
• Remote monitoring — Provides 24x7 monitoring and alerts, and the option to have ongoing access to a skilled, remote support team.
• Storage management services — Allows you to fully outsource the management and operation of your backup infrastructure to Dell’s backup professionals.