Dell showcases enterprise vision for 2009

BANGALORE, INDIA:Dell India, as part of its Enterprise Vision Day, unveiled its vision for enterprise technology for 2009.

The company showcased its entire range of offerings for the small, medium and the large business enterprises. It also announced its newly inaugurated Enterprise Solutions center at its Bangalore office as part of its Enterprise Vision for 2009.  The solutions center will serve as a platform for Dell to display and demo for all the customers who wish to understand on how Dell can help simplify their business processes.

Pallab Talukdar, Director, Enterprise Business, Dell India, said: "We are geared to partner with our Indian customers to Simplify their IT usage and maximize their ROI with efficient deployment and management of existing IT systems. In the current scenario, Indian companies are looking at maximizing existing resources and increasing their efficiency at minimum costs. Our unique approach offers the solutions, expertise and technology required to help them achieve their long term business objectives in a cost-effective manner."

Dell highlighted some key components of its enterprise strategy that are focused on:

Simpler assessment and deployment

* Dell enables customers to easily evaluate, design and deploy new or upgrade existing systems using Dell’s proven build-to-order manufacturing, which also includes software & embedded hypervisors in selected systems.

* Smart tools and superior consulting services enable customers to more easily assess, design, prototype and ultimately deploy new installations or upgrade existing systems.

Lower total cost of ownership

* Dell uses the accepted   industry standards as the core design philosophy for all enterprise systems that ensures system costs are kept low, while allowing IT managers to have the greatest amount of flexibility needed to adapt architectures to meet today’s and future needs. For eg: The Dell range of blade servers are easy to install with few clicks and are designed in a way to fit in existing architecture as well use less cooling thus energy efficient.

* Prescriptive, pre-scopes services speed time to productivity:  assessment, design, implementation.

* Flexibility to manage with tools you have in place or want to use.

* Server commonality and standards based management.

* Driving technology to mainstream, not proprietary lock-ins or dead ends.

Smarter path to virtualization

* Embedded hypervisor allows new virtualized server deployments with just a few clicks.

* Proof of concept to determine server virtualization in the mirrored customer production environment to help reduce risk prior to full implementation.

* Choice of management tools and hypervisors provides flexibility to deploy the environment that best meets needs.

* The Dell range of blade servers are highly performance oriented, easily adaptable and highly energy efficient than the others available in the market. They require less cooling and offer centralized management, single interface for inventory, monitoring for all components.

* Dell helps client maximize data centre utility and delivers a high return on information assets with some of the most capable and flexible storage solutions available at a fraction of the price of other industry-leading solutions. Using the latest storage technology (such as iSCSI, SAS and SATA) coupled with a hyper-efficient manufacturing process; Dell gives you a dependable, low-cost storage solution.

* Dell has the world’s most affordable storage consolidation lineup (including three generations of iSCSI platforms), and over half of our storage family can be up and running in as little as 20 minutes.

An industry leading services and value added support portfolio

* Better management of existing asset base across lifecycle; from configuration to deployment, management and support and asset recovery and recycling.

* Dell’s Reveal Your Hidden Data Center strategy focuses on server virtualization and consolidation, decommissioning out-of-use equipment, refreshing legacy systems, raising the data center temperature, utilizing containment and moving cooling closer to IT to help businesses improve productivity and energy efficiency in their existing data centers.

* Dell offers Data Center Optimization Services including virtualization and storage consulting, data center consolidation and migration and data center design, layout and configuration. These new services help customers further improve productivity, energy efficiency and capacity in existing facilities and avoid the significant costs associated with building a new data center.

* By eliminating redundant data in the backup process, de-duplication helps users retain more data on disk for quick recovery and helps lower the storage cost.

* Dell provides ProSupport IT services that help focus internal IT on strategic objectives.