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Dell Unveils New Systems and Solutions to Accelerate the Adoption of Converged Infrastructure and Simplify Virtualized Environments from Thin Client to the Cloud
At VMworld® 2016,
Dell (News - Alert) today ushered in the next phase of the multi-billion dollar
converged systems market with the introduction of the Dell Validated
System for Virtualization, the industry's most flexible converged system
to-date. 1 Dell also announced new client virtualization
solutions with enhanced performance for demanding power users and VMware
has selected Dell Financial Services as its preferred financing partner.
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"For more than a decade, Dell and VMware have closely collaborated to
help customers achieve greater efficiencies from their datacenters and
simplify IT operations," said Jim Ganthier, vice president and general
manager, Dell Engineered Systems, HPC and Cloud. "With today's
announcements, we continue to demonstrate how our innovations can enable
customers of all sizes to accelerate their journey to hyperconvergence,
convergence, and the cloud."
Next generation converged systems for virtualized environments
A growing number of organizations are attracted to the benefits of
converged systems, which combine compute, storage and networking
components for simply deployed and managed systems. However, the
majority have not yet realized their goals because they demand a higher
degree of flexibility and simplicity that moves beyond rigid
hardware-defined converged offerings. Dell's service-defined
infrastructure approach uniquely addresses these challenges and the
need for improved infrastructure agility and simplified systems
management. In support of this approach, Dell today unveiled:
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The new Dell
Validated System for Virtualization, allowing customers of all
sizes to accelerate their journey towards converged infrastructure.
Enabled through robust automation and extensive testing and
validation, it is the most flexible converged system in the industry.
1 The system incorporates a wide range of form-factors,
technology choices and deployment options, right-sized to fit each
customers' needs. A fully validated system can be configured, quoted
and ordered in minutes, while automated lifecycle management tools
allow customers to easily deploy, scale, and update the system.
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A fully customizable, modular, self-service hybrid VMware cloud, as a
proof of concept for customers moving beyond virtualization to cloud.
The Dell Validated System for Virtualization, with the addition of the
VMware vRealize® Suite, allows efficient delivery of services and
enables an organization to gain greater control of IT resources. The
combination of VMware vRealize and Dell's automated provisioning
across physical and virtual environments makes it easier for customers
to plan and operate their own cloud.
New powerful client virtualization solutions for end-user computing
Dell is expanding its client
virtualization solutions for VMware to provide customers with the
manageability, flexibility and performance they require in their virtual
desktop infrastructure (VDI) environments. These include:
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The Dell Solutions for VMware Virtual SAN™ Ready Nodes, a
hyperconverged solution for desktop and application virtualization
that delivers simple, elastic and efficient infrastructure optimized
for virtual desktos. Deployment options range from a reference
architecture to a fully configured VMware Virtual SAN appliance that's
been certified by VMware. Configuration options include discrete GPU
graphics for uncompromising density and productivity as well as
storage options including hybrid storage (HDD & SDD) or an all-flash
SSD configuration for those who require supreme performance. The
solutions come with a choice of virtualization software broker
options: VMware Horizon® 7 or VMware Horizon™ Air Hybrid-Mode. VMware
Horizon Air Hybrid-Mode is the first management plane to manage
virtual desktops from the cloud, and Dell is the first major vendor to
ship this solution today, including a comprehensive reference
architecture.
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Support for VMware Blast Extreme™ remote display protocol, which will
be incorporated on Dell Windows Embedded thin clients running VMware
Horizon 7 with Horizon Client 4.0. This enables Horizon end users to
access their virtual desktops via a Web browser or a full-featured
VMware Horizon client for an even richer graphical experience,
providing greater flexibility and management options in their virtual
workspace environments.
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The next-generation of the Dell
Precision Appliance for Wyse, which offers a new configuration
based on the Dell PowerEdge R730 server and the NVIDIA (News - Alert) Tesla M60 GRID
2.0 graphics card for demanding power users from a variety of
organizations including the oil and gas industry or engineering and
construction firms. This solution offers customers higher user density
with up to 32 users per appliance.
Dell is introducing two new security solutions to provide organizations
with a superior layer of advanced threat protection to an already secure
computing environment, Dell
Data Protection | Threat Defense for Windows Embedded (WES) thin
clients and Dell Data Protection | Endpoint Security Suite Enterprise
for persistent virtual machines. These solutions provide organizations
with advanced threat protection
powered by Cylance that spans from the endpoint (including thin clients,
traditional PCs and even Mac OS systems) to the data center, ensuring
that all facets of an organization's Windows-based VDI environment are
protected.
"Organizations are looking to Dell to provide them with true end-to-end
client virtualization solutions that are easy to plan, deploy and run -
and take the guess work out of VDI," said Steve Lalla, vice president
and general manager, Dell Commercial Client Software & Solutions. "The
Dell VDI Solutions for VMware Virtual SAN Ready Nodes with Horizon and
support for Blast Extreme remote protocol on Windows thin clients gives
our customers solutions that are tailored for their environment, as well
as high performance and manageability."
Dell Financial Services named the Preferred Financing Partner for
VMware
Dell announced that Dell
Financial Services (DFS) has been selected as VMware's preferred
financing partner, offering flexible payment plans for VMware solutions.
This new partnership offers VMware customers and channel partners access
to all of DFS' traditional financing options, in addition to a variety
of flexible solutions to help them finance their virtualized
environments.
Supporting quotes:
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Tom Herrmann, vice president, Global Strategic Alliances, VMware
"One
of our top priorities at VMware is our collaboration with our diverse
and robust partner ecosystem to provide powerful software-defined
solutions for our customers. Through our longstanding, strategic
relationship with Dell, we are able to offer tightly integrated
solutions designed to solve our joint customers' most significant IT
needs."
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Darren Fedorowicz, executive director, Channel & Solutions
Financing for Dell Financial Services
"At Dell Financial
Services (DFS), we believe that access to payment options is a
critical enabler for customers who want to adopt technology to further
their business. Virtualization is a growing trend and we look forward
to enabling more customers and channel partners to adopt VMware
solutions by gaining access to financing through the partnership with
DFS."
Availability:
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The Dell Validated System for Virtualization will be released in
September 2016 under directed availability with planned general
availability in Q4 of 2016.
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Dell Solutions for VMware Virtual SAN Ready Nodes for Horizon and
Horizon Air Hybrid-Mode is currently available in the United States
and select countries around the world.
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Support for VMware Blast Extreme remote protocol is available today on
the Wyse 5020 and 7020 thin clients, and will roll out to other
WES-based thin clients this fall.
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The Dell Precision Appliance for Wyse and Dell Data Protection |
Threat Defense for WES thin clients are now available in the United
States and select countries around the world.
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The Dell Data Protection | Endpoint Security Suite Enterprise for
persistent virtual machines will be available in select countries in
September 2016.
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The Dell Financial Services solutions for VMware are available in the
United States with other regions to follow in the coming months.
Links:
The latest Dell and VMware End User Computing Solutions can be found here.
More details on Dell and VMware virtualization solutions can be found here.
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1 Based on Dell internal analysis of publicly available
data from competitor websites, August 2016.
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