Thursday, 22 May 2008

Dell Unveils Next Wave Virtualization Offerings

Dell Wednesday took the wraps off its newest virtualization solutions for servers, storage, software and services aimed at simplifying the deployment and management of virtualization in Enterprises of any size.

“Virtualization is quickly moving beyond hypervisors and hardware consolidation,” said Pallab Talukdar, Director, Enterprise Solutions Group, Dell India.

“Enterprises are looking for a broad array of servers, storage and services designed specifically for virtualized environments. Having led the first wave of virtualization, today we are signaling our intent to lead the second.”

The expansion of its virtualization services to include:

-Virtualization Simplification Workshop – for customers looking to determine which options are the most suitable for their specific business needs today, their technical environment and to meet future growth.

-New Virtualization Operational Assessment and Process Automation accelerates selection of the right virtualization technology for their needs and define processes and tools to automate the management of virtualized environments.

-New Virtualization Healthcheck – reviews existing virtualized production environments to identify technology, process and people issues impeding virtualization scale out and provides an actionable, results oriented plan.

-Expanded Virtualization Assessment – taking into account multi-vendor virtualization considerations, advanced storage options, as well as green IT data center energy efficiency improvements.

-Expanded Design and Implementation Services – which features the latest Virtualization technologies, in addition to best-of-breed disaster recovery tools and techniques.

-ProSupport Remote Advisory Services – fast access to technical experts for consulting on virtualization implementations.

These offerings are available today from Dell Global Infrastructure Consulting Services.