Dell inks deal with Microsoft
Dell and Microsoft announced a three-year strategic initiative to help customers deploy and manage virtualization and private cloud technologies. Management solutions will be based on Dell’s Virtual Integrated System, Dell Advanced Infrastructure Manager and Microsoft System Center and will deliver improved integration across the physical, virtual and application layers.

Virtualization solutions will be based on Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V, which delivers strong workload performance and can help lower total cost of ownership. Future jointly-engineered solutions based on Dell’s hardware and virtualization management technologies and Microsoft’s hypervisor and systems management technologies will simplify virtualization management, reduce costs and remove barriers to cloud adoption.

Dell offers a single management point for physical and virtual resources that speeds provisioning of heterogeneous hardware in a mixed environment.

Availability
The Dell vStart solution is available now in the US, with expected availability in EMEA in Q2.
Initial EMEA availability will be in the UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and Spain.

The Dell and Microsoft virtualization is currently available worldwide.

The Dell Email and File Archiving is available now in the US, with expected availability in UK, France, Germany, Netherlands in Q2.

Dell Desktop Virtualization Solutions is available now in the US with expected availability in other countries later this year.