Transform More Than Your Data Center

Upgrading to a next-generation infrastructure does more than address common data center excesses (applications, power consumption and complexity in general). It also enables IT to increase its value to the organization by making the infrastructure more flexible and responsive to business's ever-changing needs. The benefits of a virtual-ready infrastructure include:

• Lower costs — Fewer servers, lower energy consumption, consolidated data center space; idle servers and local disks in the servers may even be eliminated.
• Better return on investment (ROI) — Reduced spending, instant provisioning of storage and network devices, freed-up resources
• Maximum flexibility — Scalability, simplified management, the ability to shift resources easily and transparently
• Improved efficiency — When all IT resources — virtual as well as physical — are managed in the same environment, they make for far more efficient data centers and IT infrastructures.

Not all virtual-ready infrastructure solutions are created equal. Of all the vendors, Dell has taken the most open approach to infrastructure management and has focused on providing maximum flexibility and scalability. The Dell™ Advanced Infrastructure Manager (AIM) offers the following advantages:

• Support for open standards, now and into the future
• Rapid provisioning of new devices, whether they are servers, switches or storage devices
• Support for heterogeneous devices, to leverage the best technology solutions, no matter which vendor
• The ability to incorporate your existing infrastructure and transform the data center strategically in stages