At its Dell Enterprise Forum customer and partner event, Dell
today announced further differentiation to its converged
infrastructure portfolio to help customers of all sizes address a
common set of challenges related to the complexity, inefficiency
and rigidity in current IT infrastructure. The new solutions can be
tailored for specific application and workload use cases, and
today, Dell is bringing enterprise-class converged technology to a
whole new set of customers: branch office companies and the small
and medium business market.
Dell is on the forefront of helping a broad range of customers
with an array of converged and pre-integrated solutions, each
designed to address these different customers’ common needs for
simplicity and agility. In fact, a recent IDC forecast2 reveals
that spending on converged systems will grow at a compound annual
rate of more than 54 percent over the 2011-2016 forecast period,
driven by the cost advantages and efficiency related to operations
and management of IT, simplification of vendor engagement, and
faster time to productivity with IT system updates.
“Dell’s customer-inspired innovation is driven by our deep
understanding of the business realities impacting customers today,
and interpreting those trends through delivery of modern IT
architectures conceived and engineered for the needs of different
businesses – one size does not fit all,” said Marius Haas,
president of enterprise solutions for Dell. “With the new solutions
we have unveiled today, Dell is demonstrating its differentiated
approach to solution development for customers of all sizes – from
the small office of five people to the world’s largest hyperscale
datacenters.”
Office-scale: Dell PowerEdge VRTX
To date, workload and application-centric IT infrastructure has
been engineered for large enterprises, and does not address the
needs of quickly growing remote/branch office (ROBO) or
small-to-medium business (SMB) customers. According to research
commissioned in 2013 by Dell and Intel, U.S. small businesses and
startups are more optimistic and planning to grow their companies
in the near future and consider access to technology as key to
successful growth. Despite this anticipated growth, most businesses
surveyed say technology supports day-to-day operations, while only
a moderate percentage view technology as a strategic asset.
However, the technology solutions often used by these customers –
particularly within healthcare, retail and banking industries – and
channel partners lack the flexibility, scalability, and ease of
management necessary to grow efficiently and compete with larger
organizations.
Dell’s heritage is built on delivering IT solutions that scale
to customers of all sizes. Following that customer focus, Dell
introduces PowerEdge VRTX, a Private Cloud in a Box and the first
converged IT solution designed specifically for remote and small
office environments, with enterprise-class capabilities in a
desk-side, space-saving design. Dell PowerEdge VRTX enables
customers and partners to:
- Experience greater simplicity:
With servers, storage, networking and management converged into a
single compact chassis, PowerEdge VRTX uses up to 86 percent fewer
cables and can save customers time, compared to installing
individual task-specific systems. In addition it can eliminate the
complexity, cost and sprawl of disparate external devices and
multiple management tools.
- Realize improved efficiency:
Experience enhanced productivity with updates to Dell OpenManage
Essentials for PowerEdge VRTX which include comprehensive, remote,
agent-free systems management capabilities with a new geographical
view of distributed IT assets that can help save time and reduce
potential for error. Bundled with each PowerEdge VRTX system is
Dell’s Chassis Management Controller (CMC) embedded console, for
unified and streamlined control over server, storage and networking
components.
- Achieve greater value with a
pre-configured solution: Dell PowerEdge VRTX addresses a need
among channel partners for pre-configured, advanced business
solutions that can be enhanced with software and services important
to customers in vertical industries.
Enterprise-scale: Dell Active Infrastructure for HPC
Life Sciences
Extending Dell’s leadership direction in high performance
computing (HPC) and life sciences, Dell announced Active
Infrastructure for HPC Life Sciences, an HPC solution uniquely
designed to meet the needs of genomic data collection and analysis.
This solution is based on Dell’s pioneering work with the
Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) to reduce genomics
analysis time from one week to one day with an HPC solution
designed specifically for the world’s first personalized medicine
clinical trial for pediatric cancer.
With recent advancements in low-cost genome sequencing systems
and widespread availability of mature analysis software and
datasets, the computational and data storage requirements of
genomic research have become a primary bottleneck in the effort to
engineer and exploit scientific breakthroughs across a wide variety
of fields such as cancer therapy, drug design, forensics, biofuels,
and agriculture.
The Dell Active Infrastructure for HPC Life Sciences solution
enables organizations, researchers and clinicians to accelerate
time-to-insight with an easy-to-deploy, open standards-based HPC
architecture designed for performance, scalability and efficiency.
With this new solution, customers can:
- Deliver fast and efficient
results: Process a complete genomic analysis in less than one
day by optimizing analysis software and workloads across the Active
Infrastructure’s clustered blade servers and high performance file
system, enabling processing of up to 38 genomes per day and 266
genomes per week3 in a single Active Infrastructure system.
- Empower bioinformatics as a key
value enabler: Maximize R&D budgets with optimized,
cost-effective HPC infrastructure to meet growing demands for
genomics compute and storage resources, while maintaining
compliance and protecting confidential data using secure, in-house
computing resources.
- Maximize workforce productivity:
Reduce lengthy implementation timelines, overcome the challenges to
collect, store and analyze growing genomic data sets, and increase
focus on science and patients, not on complex infrastructure
management.
Enterprise-scale: Dell Active Infrastructure
Building on Dell’s Active Infrastructure launch in October 2012,
today Dell announced its next wave of converged infrastructure
offerings – Active Infrastructure 1.1 – to help organizations
accelerate the delivery of business applications and IT services,
improve data center efficiency and strengthen IT service quality.
The updated Active Infrastructure portfolio includes:
- New validated workloads: Dell is
introducing a fast, accurate way for customers to deploy common
workloads, including key enterprise applications, virtual desktop
and private cloud workloads. By leveraging out-of-the-box and
custom workload templates as well as validated reference
architectures, administrators can reduce the time and steps to
provision new workloads by approximately 99 percent1.
- Broader Portfolio of Pre-Integrated
Systems: Dell is expanding its converged infrastructure
platforms and reference architectures to include the Dell Active
System 50, Dell Active System 200 and Dell Active System 1000.
Together with the previously launched Active System 800, these
pre-integrated systems come in multiple sizes depending on customer
needs and application requirements, and enable up to six times
faster implementation of new virtual infrastructure.
- Enhancements to unified management
platform: Dell is announcing Active System Manager 7.1, the
management layer for Active System that integrates IP from recently
acquired Gale Technologies to automate workload and
infrastructure deployment through a single console. Enabling
customers to go from eight tools to one, Active System Manager 7.1
features deep virtual integration, including support for the
Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware vSphere platforms, stateless computing
for workload scaling and migrations, rapid infrastructure
on-boarding for discovering assets, and a broad compatibility
matrix that includes support for Dell and heterogeneous
environments.
Hyperscale: Dell Modular Data Center is Next
Generation Solution for Scale-Out Data Centers
Dell’s Data Center Solutions (DCS) practice is launching a new
version of its award-winning modular architecture, which
incorporates Dell PowerEdge servers, with increased operational
capacity and flexibility. This new solution builds upon the
innovation and achievements in energy efficiency engineered into
existing Modular Data Center (MDC) technology, expanding capability
and choice for rapidly evolving hyperscale customer IT
requirements.
The next-generation Dell MDC helps customers operating scale-out
data centers to quickly and cost-effectively deploy resources,
compared to raised-floor data centers. The Dell MDC is a
hyper-efficient data center consisting of individual power, IT and
cooling modules that simply snap together. As required, customers
can scale capacity of their MDC with additional modules. Dell’s new
MDC architecture enables:
- Increased power capacity, supporting
one megawatt (1MW) of critical workloads using 100 percent free-air
and evaporative cooling.
- High availability with redundant power
feeds that support an average rack power capacity of 40
kilowatts.
- Reduced total cost of ownership (TCO)
with a flexible design that allows hot movement of fully loaded
racks.
Additional Quotes:
“For patients with advanced cancer, imagine the anguish of
waiting weeks for a treatment decision,” said Dr. Jeffrey Trent,
president and research director of the Translational Genomics
Research Institute. “Dell's technology reduces the time it takes us
to analyze a cancer patient’s DNA information from days to hours,
enabling TGen and the oncologists we work with to compress the
overall process of clinical decision-making. Through genomic
analysis, Dell is demonstrating the power of IT in molecular
medicine with innovations that accelerate scientific breakthroughs
and catalyze tremendous improvements in medical care.”
“With six airports in the Indianapolis metropolitan area that
service more than 7 million passengers each year, our small IT team
was looking for ways to improve data center efficiency, streamline
operations and strengthen IT service quality,” said Joseph Miller,
IT director at Indianapolis Airport Authority. “Dell’s Active
Infrastructure portfolio provided the efficiency, scalability and
flexibility to better serve business needs. By leveraging the
single management console of Active System Manager and Dell’s
unique hardware strengths, we’ve reduced our server deployment time
from three days to less than one hour, seen a 20 percent reduction
in administrative staff costs and consolidated five rows of
equipment to three racks. The efficiencies we’ve achieved have
allowed us to focus our efforts on strategic projects that will
drive increased revenue for the airport authority.”
“Emerson Process Management customers are increasingly demanding
virtualization technology because it makes it easier and more
efficient for them to install, run and expand our process
automation systems in their operations, particularly in remote
locations,” said David Imming, vice president of product and
services marketing for Emerson Process Management, a global
manufacturing and technology company whose customers run highly
sophisticated and complex process operations. “To date,
virtualization technologies have required expensive, time-consuming
and complex server technology installations. Emerson’s early tests
of the new Dell PowerEdge VRTX show that it significantly reduces
the time, costs, footprint and IT expertise needed for our
customers to run and expand their process automation systems. This
complements Emerson’s vision and our focus on Human Centered Design
to help our customers get the greatest value from their technology
investments and operate their facilities safer, more reliably and
with reduced complexity.”
Availability:
- PowerEdge VRTX is available June 26,
worldwide.
- Dell HPC for Life Sciences Active
Infrastructure will be available in the U.S. starting in
August.
- The Dell Active Infrastructure 1.1
portfolio will be available to order in late June 2013 in the
Americas, and select countries in EMEA and APJ.
- Dell’s megawatt-capacity MDC is now
available from DCS.
Additional Information:
- Dell Enterprise Forum Online Press Kit
holds solution details, images, videos and more
- Dell Enterprise Forum on Twitter
Footnotes:
1 Results based on May 2013 testing performed on Dell products
by Solutions Performance Analysis lab using identical initial
deployment configuration.
2 Source: IDC, Worldwide Converged Systems 2013-2016 Forecast:
Adoption Fueled by Fast Time-to-Market Demands, Doc #237979, Nov
2012.
3 Results based on May 2013 internal Dell HPC lab benchmark
testing confirming 38.9 genomes per day throughput on an Active
Infrastructure for HPC Life Sciences configuration across 480
cores.
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