Dell unveils open solutions for the virtual era

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has announced open standards-based
solutions that will help customers of all sizes integrate new
technologies without sacrificing performances or their existing IT
investments. Dell's new solutions and flexible services are to
capitalize on the 'virtual era' of the technology industry and
realize new levels of efficiency, with a goal of reducing data
management costs by up to 50 percent. “Enterprise innovation and
efficiency depends on solutions that are open, capable and
affordable,” said Sameer Garde, Country GM, Dell. “Dell is
uniquely open and un-tethered to legacy assets and proprietary
approaches to deliver against these needs. The CIO agenda is not
about managing opex at the expense of capex, or innovation at the
expense of open. It is about driving efficiency without compromising
and reinvesting the savings towards innovation and returning
shareholder value,” he added.

More than ever, customers are dealing
with two fundamental points-storing and sorting the explosion of
data, and managing and operating the infrastructure and applications
needed to run the business. Dell has announced solutions targeted at
these points through an innovative end-to-end approach that leverages
new and existing technology assets, including the KACE and href="http://dqchannels.ciol.com/content/features/109093001.asp">Perot
Systems acquisitions, and Dell's partner ecosystem.

According to Sally Stevens, VP-Platform
Marketing, Dell, “Our strategy is to help CIO's achieve
enterprise efficiency with a new approach to IT operations and
innovative Intelligent Data Management. That strategy is built on a
firm foundation of intelligent infrastructure. We have a rich
heritage of providing companies and organizations of all sizes the
essential building blocks of a flexible infrastructure-industry
standard servers, storage, networking and solutions.”

Dave Stevens, Chief Technology Officer,
Brocade said, “Customers today are faced with a choice in
determining their next generation datacenter architectures in an
effort to support a world where users, information, and business
processes are becoming increasingly distributed, mobile, and dynamic.
Brocade and Dell offer customers open standards-based IT solutions
that help them become more agile while driving down costs.”

“Virtualization unlocks the power of
computing in ways that would have been unthinkable a few years ago.
From desktop virtualization to cloud and datacenter solutions, Citrix
and Dell are working together closely to help customers transform IT
into a simpler, more flexible on-demand service,” stated Wes
Wasson, SVP and Chief Marketing Officer, Citrix Systems.

“EMC and Dell are continuing to
strengthen and expand our nearly nine-year strategic partnership to
deliver innovative solutions that help our customers cost-effectively
manage their information,” said Jeffrey Casale, Senior VP-Channels
and OEM, EMC.

“VMware and Dell have a long history
of collaboration to deliver innovative solutions that help customers
drive down capital and operating costs, increase the availability and
agility of infrastructure and applications, and conserve energy
resources. We continue to pursue common goals of helping customers
maintain control over their datacenters, with solutions that will
streamline deployment and management while retaining flexibility
through an open, integrated approach to IT,” remarked Bogomil
Balkansky, VP-Product Marketing, Server Business Unit, VMware.