Press release from Business Wire India
Source: Dell India
Tuesday, March 13, 2012 11:27 AM IST (05:57 AM GMT)
Editors: General: Consumer interest, People; Business: Business services, Electronic appliances & components, Information technology; Technology
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Dell Unveils New Enterprise Solutions that Help Customers Deliver Results Faster Enhances Capability as an End-to-end Solutions Company
Bangalore, Karnataka, India, Tuesday, March 13, 2012 -- (Business Wire India) -- -- Dell creates one of the industry's highest performance end-to-end infrastructures; offers native support for 10 gigabit Ethernet throughout Dell's Server, Storage and Networking portfolio
-- New 12th Generation Dell PowerEdge servers powered by customer-centric innovation and optimized for mission-critical business applications
-- Dell unveiled vStart for Dell Private Cloud, which is designed to help businesses rapidly deploy their own private cloud
-- According to IDC's India Quarterly x86 India Strategist Tracker Q4 CY2011, Dell has become the #1 player (by factory revenues) in the Indian x86 server market in Q4 CY2011. During the entire CY2011, Dell's factory revenues in this segment grew at 44.7% as compared to last year (CY2010)
Dell today announced a suite of powerful new enterprise solutions launch in India to help customers deliver results faster. Organizations today are dealing with quickly changing and often unpredictable demands and require end-to-end IT solutions that allow them to respond rapidly to customer needs. With this announcement, Dell is delivering an end-to-end IT platform that raises the bar on customer-centric innovation which provides simplified management, increased performance and superior long term value. Through the launch, Dell plans to provide solutions with the best value, ease of use and flexibility to its customers and to further capture the growth opportunities in the evolving Indian enterprise market.
"Customers tell us they want a high-performance infrastructure that is easy to manage and helps them quickly deliver business outcomes. Today we are introducing a new set of datacenter infrastructure solutions that share key capabilities across our entire portfolio, from servers to storage to networking," said Mr. Sathyaseelan, Executive Director, Enterprise Solutions, Dell India. "We accomplished this through a combination of strategic acquisitions such as Force10 and customer-centric engineering of our new 12th Generation PowerEdge servers and storage platforms, delivering an integrated infrastructure with a common, high-performance network fabric. When combined with the second generation of embedded systems management in our servers, Dell is delivering one of the most robust and easy-to-manage datacenter infrastructures in the industry."
Speaking on the occasion Mr. S Sridhar, Director - Enterprise Solutions Business, Global 500, India said, "We at Dell provide end-to-end solutions platform and comprehensive approach to server consolidation that helps our customers accelerate productivity. We also deliver customized systems, software and services that ease management and can help in cost effective scaling. The large-scale memory capacity available on the new DellT PowerEdgeT servers could give the flexibility to significantly increase virtual machine consolidation. These are changes that will have a positive impact on an organization's bottom line".
Commenting on the R&D aspect of the launch, Mr. B Rudramuni, Executive Director, Dell R&D Center said, "12th generation servers are critical component of Dell's enterprise business and they are designed to help our customers to do more. Dell's DNA is to listen to customers and solve their problems. This year, Dell will be spending more than $700 million on R&D, the vast majority of which will go toward enterprise solutions offerings including servers, storage, services and networking".
The Most Powerful and Easy to Manage Servers in Dell's History; 2nd Generation of Embedded Management
Dell announced a full portfolio of 12th Generation blade, rack and tower PowerEdge servers optimized to run mission-critical business applications. Dell designed and built its 12th Generation servers with input from more than 7,700 customer conversations in 17 countries across four continents - focusing on their needs for innovation to deliver business results faster. The new Dell PowerEdge servers work seamlessly with Dell's storage and networking products and deliver innovations such as:
Turning data into insights faster: Dell lays the foundation to extend its Fluid Data Architecture to the server. With Dell Express Flash, the industry's first, front accessible, hot swappable PCIe solid state disks connected directly to the server, Dell can provide up to 10.5 times more Microsoft SQL Server transactions per second than HDD storage[1]. Dell CacheCade data accelerator can provide up to 28 times quicker queries on Oracle Databases[2]
Streamlining and automating essential systems management tasks: Dell extends its systems management capabilities with its 2nd generation of embedded server management tools that efficiently manage the deployment, updating, monitoring and maintenance of server lifecycle. Dell's new PowerEdge servers deliver bare-metal deployment and provisioning that requires up to 85.5 percent less engineer time and up to 86 percent fewer manual steps.[3]
Driving energy efficiency to bring a breath of fresh air to the datacenter: Building on Dell's history of enabling the world's most energy efficient datacenters with Microsoft Bing and others, Dell is bringing a breath of fresh air to all datacenters with its 12th Generation PowerEdge Servers. With Dell fresh air IT equipment, a datacenter can realize an estimated (US) $3,000,000 in capital expenditures.
Dell Storage Arrays Offer higher-performance, Flexible, Small Footprint to Easily Manage Data and Costs
Dell also announced the next-generation EqualLogic PS Series storage arrays, which combine fast networking bandwidth with increased storage capacity in a smaller footprint than previous generations.
-- EqualLogic PS6110 Series-Ideal for mid-sized deployments with multiple physical or virtual servers. These arrays are configured with both optical (SFP+) and copper (10GBASE-T) 10GbE networking, supporting data center flexibility. With up to 72 terabytes in a single array and 1.2 petabytes in a single group, customers can easily scale when needed by adding additional arrays into an existing EqualLogic group without downtime or forklift upgrades.
-- EqualLogic PS4110 Series-Dell's first 10GbE EqualLogic entry-point arrays can provide the same benefits and features as PS6110 Series and are designed for smaller deployments and remote office locations. The systems support up to 36 terabytes in a single array and 72 terabytes in a single group.
Dell's Virtual Network Architecture Complements Server and Storage Announcements
Dell's Virtual Network Architecture (VNA) is an open framework for virtualizing, automating and orchestrating network services in data center, campus and branch environments. Dell Virtual Network Architecture provides for an end-to-end 10GbE framework, which includes 10GbE Top-of-Rack and 10/40GbE distributed core fabrics. In the six months since acquiring Force10 Networks, Dell has dramatically extended the global availability of its products by more than 40 percent to more than 80 countries and added nearly 600 customers.
Delivering Results Immediately with Optimized Virtualization Platforms
Dell unveiled vStart for Dell Private Cloud, which is designed to help businesses rapidly deploy their own private cloud. vStart for Dell Private Cloud will enable businesses to accelerate application and IT service delivery through a converged, pre-built infrastructure which includes the new 12th Generation PowerEdge server, storage, networking and management components.
Desktops Delivered According to Business Requirements
Dell Desktop Virtualization Solutions are designed to help customers simplify PC management and enhance security. Dell today announced two desktop virtualization offerings: Desktop Virtualization Solution Simplified and Desktop Virtualization Solution Enterprise. Dell Desktop Virtualization Solution Simplified is an integrated appliance, pre-configured with software and hypervisor components designed to remove the traditional cost and complexity of deploying smaller desktop virtualization solutions. Desktop Virtualization Solution Enterprise is designed to scale to thousands of virtual desktop users while reducing initial acquisition costs enabling deployments to start with as few as 50 seats.
Delivering Business Intelligence with Dell Quickstart Data Warehouse Appliance
Dell unveiled the Dell Quickstart Data Warehouse Appliance that will help mid-market and departmental users easily organize, access and analyze data, enabling them to take advantage of business intelligence to make more informed decisions. The data warehousing appliance, which is based on the new Dell PowerEdge servers and Microsoft SQL Server 2012, will leverage Dell Boomi for data integration.
Quotes:
"We think of the PowerEdge 12th generation servers as systems designed by us, and engineered by Dell! We don't want complex technologies with complicated processes that require to retrain our IT staff all time. We look for technology that simply works in our dynamic infrastructure, be it physical or virtual. Dell seems to have got it right with the new agent free iDRAC technology offered with Dell 12G servers, which helps us eliminating time consuming management tasks and streamlines the way we manage our systems, there by maximizing efficiency".
Mr. Rinosh Jacob Kurian, Head of IT and Data Center Technologist, UST Global
Dell has become the #1 player (by factory revenues) in the Indian x86 server market in Q4 CY2011. During the entire CY2011, Dell's factory revenues in this segment grew at 44.7% as compared to last year (CY2010). - IDC's India Quarterly x86 India Strategist Tracker Q4 CY2011
Availability:
-- Dells 12th Generation PowerEdge Servers are ready to ship from 8th March in India.
-- The Dell EqualLogic PS6110 and Dell EqualLogic PS4110 Series storage arrays are available today.
-- Dell Quickstart Data Warehouse Appliance is now in Beta validation and likely to be available in Q2.
-- vStart for Dell Private cloud will be available from 30th March 2011.
-- Both Dell Desktop Virtualization Solutions are available today.
-- Dell Networking 10GbE solutions are available today.
About Dell
Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) listens to customers and delivers innovative technology and services that give them the power to do more. For more information, visit www.dell.com. Dell, PowerEdge, Force10 (others) are trademarks of Dell Inc. Dell disclaims any proprietary interest in the marks and names of others
About Dell India:
Incorporated in 1996, Dell India has been among the fastest growing technology companies in the country. An engine for Dell's global growth, Dell India is a strategic component of Dell's evolution to be a true IT solutions partner and a 'trusted IT advisor' focused on end-to-end offerings. With around 25,000 team members, Dell India is the largest operation for Dell outside the US and has presence across eight cities - Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chandigarh, Delhi, Pune, Noida, Coimbatore and Chennai. Dell has invested significantly in building end-to-end solutions and delivery capabilities - sales & marketing, manufacturing hub, Dell Services, R&D centre, Customer Contact Centres, Dell IT, Global Analytics and Global Financial Services - besides setting up a distribution network of commercial and retail channel and a service network that spans over 650 locations across India. Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) listens to customers and delivers innovative technology and services that give them the power to do more. For more information, visit www.dell.co.in.
CONTACT DETAILS
Mahesh Jayaram, Dell India, +91 9845120820, Mahesh_Jayaram@Dell.com
Pooja Mehta, 20:20 MSL, pooja.mehta@2020msl.com, +91 9663836220
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CONSUMER, PEOPLE, BUSINESS SERVICES, ELECTRONICS, IT, TECHNOLOGY
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