Dell threw down the enterprise gauntlet Wednesday with 14 new products to help customers cut costs and simplify management. It’s a data-center move that Dell promises will help businesses become more efficient throughout the IT life cycle by maximizing people, time and money.
The product announcement includes the 11th Generation PowerEdge servers and Precision workstations based on the next generation of Intel’s Xeon processors. The new PowerEdge portfolio features virtualization, system management, and usability. The servers include the new Dell Lifecycle Controller that delivers integrated manageability through a single access point.
“Today’s economic realities are placing a premium on value and efficiency from technology. We are unlocking customers from proprietary technology and services, and yesterday’s IT economics,” said Steve Schuckenbrock, president of Dell Large Enterprise. “Whether through next-generation blades with onboard systems management or modular services, we’re putting them on the path to today’s Efficient Enterprise.”
Taking a Holistic View
Gunning for its competition, Dell also rolled out a new M-series blade architecture it said has 27 percent lower acquisition costs and delivers 17 percent lower total cost of ownership over five years per rack compared to Hewlett-Packard’s c-Class. Meanwhile, Dell launched the ImageDirect Server to simplify transitions and image management for servers.
The new Dell Precision T7500, T5500 and T3500 tower workstations aim to bring efficiencies to the engineering, media, entertainment and biosciences industries.
Dell is also challenging HP’s proprietary management framework with the introduction of the Dell Management Console, a software solution powered by Altiris from Symantec. The solution is designed to unite systems management across IT environments into a single console.
Dell also announced new EqualLogic PS6000 storage arrays that it said offer customers increased performance and advanced virtualization capabilities. On the service front, Data Center Consulting seeks to improve data-center performance and reduce costs for customers. And new Systems Management Consulting…