Hiermee biedt Dell aan resellers de mogelijkheid hun oplossingen verder uit te breiden met netwerk en systeem management.

De Dell KACE productgroep zal eerst beschikbaar zijn in de UK, Ierland, Benelux en Scandinavië en zal vanaf februari 2011 ook in Frankrijk, Duitsland en Zwitserland beschikbaar komen. Hiermee biedt Dell aan resellers de mogelijkheid hun oplossingen verder uit te breiden met netwerk en systeem management. Als ze zich daarvoor certificeren krijgen ze extra verkoop- en marketingondersteuning via het Dell PartnerDirect programma. Hierdoor kunnen ze volgens Dell hogere marges halen.

De nieuwe Dell PowerConnect J-series omvat onder andere de EX4200 switches, de EX8200 modulaire Ethernet chassis switches en de SRX service gateway producten.

De Dell KACE applicatie familie is beschikbaar in zowel fysieke als virtuele applicaties en maakt efficiënt computer en server management mogelijk door een low cost alternatief te bieden op computer management software, aldus Dell.

Download de volwaardige trial op : www.kace.com/trial

SANs Move to Ethernet

The unified fabric is a big deal because, with the higher speeds of 10-GE and follow-ons, 40 and 100-GE, Ethernet is finally fast enough to meet the combined needs of storage area networks (SANs) and server area networks.

You don’t have to look far to see proof. The Fibre Channel (FC) storage community is rethinking plans for higher speeds on FC and is adopting the Ethernet physical and data link layers for FC packet transmission. Industry standards to enable FC to run over Ethernet are under development. The T11 Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) standard defines encapsulation of FC frames in Ethernet frames. The companion IEEE Data Center Bridging (DCB) standard defines Ethernet Layer 2 features to avoid packet loss, which FC requires. The standard also enhances Ethernet to accommodate multiple traffic types and to provide guaranteed quality of service through features such as flow control and guaranteed bandwidth.

With Ethernet as the new infrastructure for SANs, it’s clear that 10-GE is a big inflection point for consolidating traditional server and storage networks into a single unified fabric.

Unified Fabric Helps Virtualized Environments

A unified Ethernet fabric makes it much easier to move virtualized workloads around. For instance, you don’t have to think about whether a server can get to the data it needs, which may be stored on an Internet SCSI (iSCSI) or FC array. Today, if a server is not equipped with two host bus adapters (HBAs) — one for iSCSI and another for FC — it may not be able to access the data it needs.

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In the converged network, a server needs only one converged network adapter (CNA) to access any data anywhere. The strategic importance of CNAs and other converged network devices is highlighted by the recent Dell/Brocade announcement. Dell is driving CNAs that support both Internet SCSI (iSCSI) and FCoE. As data centers evolve, these CNAs will become more intelligent and will provide embedded switches so that virtual machines (VMs) can communicate more efficiently with each other in a single server.

Unified Fabric and the Efficient Enterprise

The flexibility provided by a common Ethernet network pipe brings IT infrastructure closer to the future “Efficient Enterprise” envisioned by Dell, in which scalable pools of virtualized resources — such as servers, storage and networks — are managed, provisioned and deployed dynamically to meet application and workload requirements. And because Ethernet is ubiquitous, it doesn’t matter whether the resources are located in the same data center, or are remote from one another and connected by either a private Intranet or the public Internet in a cloud computing model. This model is less about the underlying hardware and more about the end-user applications and services.

Helping Customers Transition to a Unified Fabric

Initially, the primary benefit of the unified fabric is on the server end of the data center, where new Dell converged network adapters (in partnership with Brocade) will reduce server adapters and cables. With data center bridging (DCB), both Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and iSCSI can run simultaneously in these servers. When DCB support is deployed in the core network infrastructure, FCoE can extend further and eliminate the need for FC chassis switches. iSCSI does not depend on DCB, but will benefit from it. So, with iSCSI customers can move to a unified fabric architecture more quickly, and gain additional benefits from DCB when they upgrade their infrastructure.

FCoE makes sense for customers who want to transition to a unified Ethernet fabric, but need support for legacy FC storage. For customers implementing SANs for the first time, iSCSI may make more sense. It is a more mature technology than FCoE, has faster performance and can be implemented now, without waiting for DCB adoption throughout the data center.

Looking Ahead

Early on, Dell saw the emergence of iSCSI as a key step toward converging data and storage networks on Ethernet. Long-term, we envisioned the convergence of Ethernet data networks, Infiniband server area networks, and FC SANs on Ethernet. iSCSI was the first step. Dell helped conceive and drive iSCSI as an IEEE standard and acquired the emerging leader in iSCSI SANs — EqualLogic — in 2007. It has also worked with partners on iSCSI implementation and pursued opportunities to enhance iSCSI solutions for virtualization and simplified management.

Dell has also driven efforts in the IEEE, Ethernet Alliance, Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF), Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), and other industry forums to establish standards for supporting workload movement with intelligent CNAs over a unified fabric.

We’ve come a long way, and there’s plenty left to do, especially on our virtualization-ready infrastructure, intelligent management of virtualized resources and data and cloud-based computing models. There are significant opportunities for Dell to help customers navigate current and upcoming technology transitions. And unifying on Ethernet is a foundational piece.

Dell Solutions Academy: Inspiring Data Centre Excellence

De enorme toename van data heeft geleid tot uiteenlopende problemen: van ontoegankelijke geïsoleerde data, tot vastgelopen storage capaciteit. U heeft een oplossing nodig die makkelijk te realiseren en voordelig te exploiteren is.

Wilt u weten hoe Dell u hierbij kan helpen? Neem dan deel aan deze informatieve workshop, waarin de volgende onderwerpen aan bod komen:

• Een Dell EqualLogic PS Series iSCSI SAN kan de ideale networked storage solution voor consolidatie projecten leveren op basis van Dell PowerEdge rack en blade servers
• Consolidatie van server en storage resources kan helpen bij het verlagen van de kosten, door verbeterde efficiency en operationele stroomlijning
• Meer automatisering kan helpen bij het managen en beschermen van de server workload, applicaties en datasets
• U kunt data protection taken als provisioning, het creëren van snapshots, cloning en replicatie, vanaf één console centraal managen
• Voordelige data consolidatie kan tegelijk zorgen voor een elegante, lineaire schaalbaarheid gedurende periodes van snelle datagroei
• Een iSCSI SAN oplossing kan zorgen voor efficiënte server back-up consolidatie en off-site disaster recovery

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http://www.computable.nl/artikel/ict_topics/virtualisatie/3472885/2333390/3par-maakt-datacenterportfolio-dell-compleet.html

Officieel bericht van de Dell website:

Dell announced today that 3PAR has accepted its increased offer to acquire the storage leader for $27 per share in cash, or approximately $1.8 billion, net of 3PAR’s cash. The new Dell-3PAR accord was reached under a provision in the existing agreement between the companies that allows Dell to match competing bids. Dell continues to believe that the acquisition of 3PAR, with its industry-leading storage technology, is important to its customers and will enhance Dell’s position in utility-storage solutions. Consistent with its previous rationale for the acquisition, Dell also believes that its global brand and broad global reach will dramatically accelerate 3PAR’s revenue growth.

Registreer u vandaag voor de nieuwe Storage Consolidation workshops van Dell. Maak gebruik van de unieke mogelijkheid om te zien hoe u echt zakelijk voordeel kunt behalen als u de nieuwste technologieën op de juiste manier toepast. U leert aan de hand van best practices en een live demonstratie inclusief services oplossingen, hoe u met een kleine investering maximaal rendement kunt behalen.

Meld u vandaag aan om de live demonstratie van onze EqualLogic storage-oplossingen te zien en uw IT-uitdagingen met experts van Dell te bespreken.

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Dell EqualLogic

New strategy and solutions enables customers to devote more of their IT budgets to innovation and cut the costs of “keeping the lights on”
New integrated, interoperable and modular platforms empower customers to build highly virtualized datacenters and cloud computing platforms
At a time when competitors are producing increasingly proprietary products, Dell today announced open, standards-based solutions that let customers of all sizes integrate new technologies without sacrificing performance or their existing IT investments. Dell’s new solutions and flexible services free customers to capitalize on the ‘Virtual Era’ of the technology industry and realize new levels of efficiency, with a goal of reducing data management costs by up to 50 percent and making room in budgets for the strategic investments they need to make now.

“Enterprise innovation and efficiency depends on solutions that are open, capable and affordable,” said Steve Schuckenbrock, President, and Dell Large Enterprise. “Dell is uniquely open and un-tethered to legacy assets and proprietary approaches to deliver against these needs. The CIO agenda isn’t about managing OPEX at the expense of CAPEX, or, innovation at the expense of open. It is about driving efficiency without compromise and reinvesting the savings towards innovation and returning shareholder value.”

More than ever, customers are dealing with two fundamental pain points – storing and sorting the explosion of data, and managing and operating the infrastructure and applications needed to run the business. Dell today announced solutions targeted at these pain points through an innovative end-to-end approach that leverages new and existing technology assets, including the Perot Systems and KACE acquisitions, and Dell’s industry-leading partner ecosystem. Dell will deliver these solutions to customers the way they want them – in business-ready configurations or via the cloud as a service.
 
The need for Dell’s new approach is great, given the explosion of data companies face today. According to IDC, at nearly 500 exabytes – or 500 billion gigabytes – the “Digital Universe,” if converted to pages of text and assembled into books, would stretch to Pluto and back 10 times. IDC estimates that the Digital Universe will double every 18 months.

Products & Solutions for the Virtual Era:

Dell today announced Intelligent Data Management solutions that utilize the company’s leadership in storage hardware, software and data management services to help customers facing unprecedented challenges storing and managing data transform that information into a strategic asset, including:

Next-Gen Object Storage – The new Dell™ DX Object Storage Platform will use a self-managing peer-scaling architecture that enables customers to access, store and distribute billions of files or other digital content, from archiving all the way to the cloud.

Deduplication – Dell’s new deduplication offerings include the Dell/EMC DD Series and the PowerVault™ DL2100. Dell offers deduplication consulting services that can help customers leverage these technologies.

Unified Storage – Today Dell introduced Dell|EMC NS Series, an efficient platform for consolidating a wide array of environments and applications.

Data Archiving Consulting – Dell services reduce the cost and complexity associated with inefficient data management and help effectively align storage assets with business requirements. Precipitated by an explosion of digital data in healthcare created by Electronic Medical Records (EMRs), Picture Archiving Communications Systems (PACS), digital pathology and genomics and regulatory requirements dictating its management and archiving, hospitals around the world are facing mounting data-storage challenges.

A Comprehensive Approach to IT Operations from the Datacenter to the Cloud – Dell’s Efficient Enterprise Architecture utilizes virtualization, application provisioning and automation to help reduce operational costs by delivering a flexible platform for the delivery of business services.

Dell’s Cloud Infrastructure Solutions utilize Dell’s leadership in cloud infrastructure and years of experience and customer collaboration as the infrastructure partner of the world’s largest cloud service providers and hyperscale environments. Dell is delivering new integrated solution stacks, services and hardware that simplify the deployment and management of computing environments:
New Solutions: tested and supported cloud solution stacks made up of hardware, software and services, put customers on the fast track to efficient, easy-to-deploy and manage cloud computing environments.

New Certified Partners: certified offerings, accompanied by blueprints, from leading cloud independent software vendors (ISVs) that help customers deploy infrastructure and data Clouds.

New Services: consulting, deployment and support services that help customers plan, implement and manage cloud computing solutions.

New Systems: the Dell PowerEdge™ C-Series servers are hyperscale-inspired and purpose-built for cloud computing, HPC, Web 2.0 and gaming environments, with features designed to offer high density compute power with reduced energy consumption and low operational cost. Last week Dell announced nine new PowerEdge blade, rack-mount and tower servers updated with Intel’s new Xeon 5600 “Westmere-EP” series of processors. With these systems customers can realize better overall system performance increases of up to 69 percent and energy efficiency improvements of up to 47 percent compared to Dell PowerEdge servers with Xeon 5500 processor technology. Dell will also be rolling out new high-performance, high-density PowerEdge solutions based on Intel “Nehalem EX” processors.
In addition, Dell today announced enhancements to its Intelligent Infrastructure and Management products and services to help customers build a solid foundation for the Efficient Datacenter.

Intelligent Infrastructure – Dell is driving intelligence into its server platforms with the inclusion of Lifecycle Controller, the industry’s only embedded systems management, which provides IT administrators with the means to deploy and remediate servers quickly. Independent tests show that with Dell embedded management that the Dell PowerEdge R710 delivered up to 58 percent faster pre-OS deployment than the HP ProLiant DL380 G6 .

Simplified Infrastructure Management – The latest release of the Dell Management Console includes a new power monitoring feature that provides greater awareness of server power consumption which can lead to lower energy use and cost savings.

Remote Support Services – Dell Remote Support services with Proactive Systems Management enables customers to make actionable, proactive decisions about their IT environment. Automated Diagnostic Capabilities allow for faster resolution of hardware issues. This Software-as-a-Service offering comes at no additional cost to current Dell support customers.

Remote Management Services – Dell Remote infrastructure Monitoring allows IT departments to monitor critical remote systems for hardware and software faults, performance degradation, missing patches and security vulnerabilities, and remotely remediate problems.

Partner Quotes:

“Customers today are faced with a choice in determining their next generation data center architectures in an effort to support a world where users, information, and business processes are becoming increasingly distributed, mobile, and dynamic. Brocade and Dell offer customers open, standards-based IT solutions that help them become more agile while driving down costs. To this partnership, Brocade brings an industry-leading portfolio of end-to-end networking solutions that provide data center-class reliability, performance, scalability, and the highest levels of data integrity. ” –- Dave Stevens, Chief Technology Officer, Brocade.

“Virtualization unlocks the power of computing in ways that would have been unthinkable a few years ago. From desktop virtualization to cloud and datacenter solutions, Citrix and Dell are working together closely to help customers transform IT into a simpler, more flexible on-demand service.” — Wes Wasson, SVP and Chief Marketing Officer at Citrix Systems.

“EMC and Dell are continuing to strengthen and expand our nearly nine-year strategic partnership to deliver innovative solutions that help our customers cost-effectively manage their information. As customers increasingly virtualize their data centers and adopt cloud computing models, we are working closely with Dell to offer industry leading unified storage and data deduplication solutions that will provide customers with the flexibility to make this transition as seamless as possible.” — Jeffrey Casale, EMC’s Senior Vice President for Channels and OEMs.

“Microsoft’s and Dell’s portfolios of datacenter solutions address two primary customer pain points—need for greater agility in IT operations and reduced complexity of datacenter management. We are committed to investing in infrastructure and application management solutions that meet today’s and the future needs of our customers. Delivering seamless hardware management integration will drive greater business value and will enable customers to maximize their technology investments.” — Brad Anderson, Corporate Vice President, Management and Services Division at Microsoft Corp.

“VMware and Dell have a long history of collaboration to deliver innovative solutions that help customers drive down capital and operating costs, increase the availability and agility of infrastructure and applications, and conserve energy resources. We continue to pursue common goals of helping customers maintain control over their datacenters, with solutions that will streamline deployment and management while retaining flexibility through an open, integrated approach to IT.” — Bogomil Balkansky, Vice President, Product Marketing, Server Business Unit, VMware.

Read more on this :

http://content.dell.com/us/en/corp/d/press-releases/2010-3-24-solution-virtual-era.aspx

The News

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Dell Services will immediately begin implementing the limited production release of the Windows Azure platform appliance to host public and private clouds for its customers, leveraging its vertical industry expertise in providing options for flexible application hosting and delivery, and increased overall efficiency of IT operations and delivery. Dell Services will also provide advisory services, application migration, and integration and implementation services.
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Dell will work with Microsoft to develop a Windows Azure platform appliance for large enterprise, public and hosting customers to deploy in their own datacenters. The appliance will leverage infrastructure from Dell combined with the Windows Azure platform.
Cloud Computing Responds to Changing Business Needs

Dell and Microsoft understand that cloud computing delivers significant efficiencies in infrastructure costs and allows IT to be more responsive to the business. Recognizing that more organizations can benefit from the flexibility and efficiency of the Windows Azure platform, Dell and Microsoft have partnered to deliver an appliance to power a Dell platform-as-a-service (PaaS) Cloud.

Microsoft announced today at its Worldwide Partner Conference in Washington, D.C., the limited production release of the Windows Azure platform appliance, a turnkey cloud platform for large service providers and enterprises to run in their own datacenters. Customers and initial partners such as Dell using the appliance in their datacenters will have the scale-out application platform and datacenter efficiency of Windows Azure and SQL Azure offered by Microsoft today.

Dell Data Center Solutions (DCS) has been working with Microsoft to build out and power Windows Azure platform since its launch. Dell will leverage the insight it has gained as a primary infrastructure partner for the Windows Azure platform to ensure that the Dell-powered Windows Azure platform appliance is optimized for power and space to save ongoing operating costs, and performance of high-scale cloud services.

Dell is a top provider of cloud computing infrastructure and has a client roster that includes 21 of the top 25 most heavily trafficked Internet sites and four of the top five global search engines. Dell has been custom-designing infrastructure solutions for the leading global cloud service providers and hyperscale datacenter operators for the past three years. Through this customer insight, Dell has developed deep expertise about the specialized needs of organizations in hosting, high-performance computing, Web 2.0, gaming, social networking, energy, SaaS, and public and private cloud builders.

Cloud Services Reduce Complexity and Increase Efficiency

With the combined experience of Perot Systems and Dell, Dell Services delivers vertically focused cloud solutions, unencumbered by traditional labor-intensive business models. Dell Service operates clouds today, delivering managed and support services-as-a-service to over 11,000 global customers. Plus, Dell has a full suite of services designed to help customers take advantage of public and private cloud models. The new Dell PaaS powered by the Windows Azure platform appliance will allow Dell to offer customers an expanded suite of services including cloud-based hosting and transformational services to help organizations move applications to the cloud.

Quotes

“Organizations are looking for innovative ways to use IT to increase their responsiveness to business needs and drive greater efficiency. With the Microsoft partnership and the Windows Azure platform appliance, Dell is expanding our cloud services capabilities to help customers reduce their total costs and increase their ability to succeed. The addition of the Dell-powered Windows Azure platform appliance marks an important expansion of Dell’s leadership, as the No. 1 provider of cloud computing infrastructure,” said Peter Altabef, president, Dell Services.

“Microsoft and Dell have been building, implementing and operating massive cloud operations for years. This extension of our long-standing partnership will allow customers to use cloud computing to focus on what matters most for their business — building innovative capabilities and driving new revenue,” said Bob Muglia, president, Microsoft Server and Tools Business.

Read more on this ! http://content.dell.com/us/en/enterprise/cloud-computing.aspx

Of course feel welcome to contact me as well, and I will make sure the right person gets in touch with you.

-Sylvia

www.kace.com