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  • Dell EMC Launches PowerEdge MX Server

    Dell EMC has announced the launch of PowerEdge MX, labelled by the company as a high-performance, modular infrastructure that is designed to support both traditional and emerging data-centre workloads.

    Touted by the company as being designed for the software-defined datacentre, Dell EMC said the PowerEdge MX is capable of supporting a combination of virtualisation, software-defined storage, software-defined networking, artificial intelligence, and big data projects.

    “While emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, IoT, and software-defined storage and networking offer competitive benefits, their workloads can be difficult to predict and pose new challenges for IT departments,” president and general manager of Dell EMC Server and Infrastructure Systems Ashley Gorakhpurwalla said.

    “PowerEdge MX enables a modular approach to flexibly build and combine compute, storage, and networking, so organisations can transform their IT in a way that optimises resources and offers investment protection for future generations of technological advances.”

    The latest offering can be customised with a PowerEdge MX7000 chassis, PowerEdge MX740c and MX840c compute sleds or a MX5016s storage sled, and PowerEdge MX Ethernet and Fibre Channel switching modules.

    “The PowerEdge MX ecosystem includes a newly designed chassis and precisely sized resource blocks of servers and storage that connect to the infrastructure through a smart I/O fabric,” the company wrote.

    “PowerEdge MX, with its kinetic infrastructure, is uniquely designed without a mid-plane, enabling support for multiple generations of technology releases — processor technologies, new storage types, and new connectivity innovations — well into the future.”

  • Dell Expands Cloud Tech Portfolio of VMware Solutions

    Dell has announced additional capabilities to its broad portfolio of VMware solutions, spanning from the edge to the core to the cloud.

    These new solutions and enhanced integrations are designed to help customers achieve IT transformation goals with a unified, seamless experience across PC and mobile devices, software-defined data centers, hyper-converged infrastructures and multi-cloud platforms.

    According to ESG’s 2018 IT Transformation Maturity Study commissioned by Dell EMC and Intel, 88 percent of IT leaders said their companies are under pressure to deliver products and services faster. This requires having a more agile approach to IT. At many companies, the time it takes for a product or service to go from concept to general availability depends on where a company is on its IT transformation journey A more responsive IT department allows the business to respond more quickly to evolving external customer demands. 

    “From the moment an employee first boots up their device, they’re generating information that can – and should – be used across the enterprise to make smarter, data-driven decisions. When technology infrastructure exists in siloes, businesses can’t outpace competitors, can’t grow, and can’t scale,” said Jeff Clarke, vice chairman, Products and Operations, Dell Technologies. “Working together across the entire spectrum of IT infrastructure, Dell and VMware empower customers to clear unnecessary administrative tasks off IT to-do lists while making users happier and more productive.”

    A ready-to-work experience enabling employees to boot up, log in, and be productive in minutes. Preconfigured apps and settings reduce time and resources associated with manual device imaging, repackaging and shipment. The Dell Provisioning for VMware Workspace ONE service enables automatic device setup and extends the efficiencies of cloud management to configuration and deployment.

    Simplified PC lifecycle management with expanded Dell PC-as-a-Service offerings for more customers and regions, including PCaaS for Business (20 to 300 units) and PCaaS for Enterprise (more than 300 units). Dell offers the latest PCs, deployment options – including Dell Provisioning for VMware Workspace ONE, software, peripherals, lifecycle services and financing – at a single, predictable price per seat per month.  

    Scalability and stability with a consistent foundation from edge to distributed core to cloud with the new Dell IoT Solution for Surveillance, which automates scaling enterprises on day one with customer data, speeding up return on investment.

    Increase workload capacity, performance, scalability and control with the new Dell EMC VxRail G560, which delivers greater density in a 2U form factor. The Dell EMC VxRail G560 outperforms the previous Dell EMC VxRails G Series with 1.75X more cores; 2X increase in processing power; 4X more memory; and 3X capacity increase improvement in the boot device.

    Dell EMC’s Future-Proof Loyalty Program protects customers’ core, edge and cloud investments, now including first-time HCI solution support with Dell EMC VxRail, for a set of advanced technology capabilities and programs that enable Dell EMC solutions to offer value for the entire lifetime of customers’ applications

  • DELL introduces ProsSupport plus for PCs

    DELL introduces ProsSupport plus for PCs

    Dell has announced the availability of its flagship ProSupport Plus for PCs and tablets in 33 countries across Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia.

    This is according to a press statement issued by the tech company saying that its innovative SupportAssist technology makes it the first and only company in the industry to offer proactive and predictive automated support for issue prevention and resolution for end-user systems.

    Akin Banuso, Country Manager, Dell Nigeria, noted that the ProSupport Plus prevents issues before they occur and quickly resolves issues when they do.

    “Dell is revolutionising the support model with proactive and predictive automated support for end-user systems. ProSupport Plus is the fastest growing service in Dell history, as customers and partners can clearly see the value in not only resolving issues much more quickly, but actually preventing them altogether.

    “We’re pleased to bring this service and its enabling technology to even more countries across the globe” Banuso observed.

    ProSupport Plus for PCs and tablets is the only complete support service combining priority access to expert support, accidental damage repair, and proactive/predictive monitoring for automatic issue prevention and resolution.

    With the expansion,  ProSupport Plus is now available for Dell Latitude, OptiPlex, Precision, Vostro, XPS, Venue and Chromebook products in the following countries in Europe, the Middle East and Africa: Algeria, Angola, Bahrain, Botswana, Bulgaria, Cote d’Ivoire, Croatia, Estonia, Ethiopia, Ghana, Hungary, Iceland, Iraq, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Latvia, Libya, Lithuania, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Oman, Qatar, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Slovenia, Tanzania, Tunisia, Uganda and United Arab Emirates. It is also available in these Asian countries: Brunei, Indonesia, New Zealand and the Philippines.

  •  Dell expands software range

     Dell expands software range

    Dell has extended its reach in Open Networking with the announcement of Operating System 10 (OS10) from  Dell  Networking, a next-generation networking software designed to introduce new levels of software flexibility and programmability in large-scale data centre environments.

    According to the Vice President and General Manager at  Dell  Networking and Enterprise Infrastructure, Tom Burns, the OS10 platform is designed around new benchmarks for open software modularity so users can create the most efficient and flexible paths across networked systems.

    According to Burns, “Modern, software-defined, data centers require a fresh approach to operations – not just for the network, but across compute and storage elements as well. OS10 gives customers a future-ready springboard to innovate their networks and data center infrastructure more quickly and consistently, affording customers greater efficiency and capability at scale.”

    Dell’s OS10 comprises a base module and various optional application modules. The OS10 Base Module is available for free and runs a fully-open, unmodified Linux distribution.

    Below it, the OS 10 Base Module employs the Open Compute Project Switch Abstraction Interface (SAI) that enables a common, programmer-friendly language between vendor network operating systems and the particular silicon residing on the physical switch.

    On top of the base module, OS10 can support traditional networking functions (L2/L3 protocols) from  Dell as well as numerous third-party, native Linux, and open source applications such as IP, fabric and security services combined with management and automation tools. This allows customers to tailor IT operations for different use case and operational processes.

    OS10’s unmodified Linux  base provides distinct advantages as customers increasingly look to design applications and data centers across server, storage and networking – not just one silo.

  • Dell expands software range

    Dell expands software range

    Dell has extended its reach in Open Networking with the announcement of Operating System 10 (OS10) from Dell Networking, a next-generation networking software designed to introduce new levels of software flexibility and programmability in large-scale data centre environments.

    According to the Vice President and General Manager at Dell Networking and Enterprise Infrastructure, Tom Burns, the OS10 platform is designed around new benchmarks for open software modularity so users can create the most efficient and flexible paths across networked systems.

    According to Burns, “Modern, software-defined, data centers require a fresh approach to operations – not just for the network, but across compute and storage elements as well. OS10 gives customers a future-ready springboard to innovate their networks and data center infrastructure more quickly and consistently, affording customers greater efficiency and capability at scale.”

    Dell’s OS10 comprises a base module and various optional application modules. The OS10 Base Module is available for free and runs a fully-open, unmodified Linux distribution.

    Below it, the OS 10 Base Module employs the Open Compute Project Switch Abstraction Interface (SAI) that enables a common, programmer-friendly language between vendor network operating systems and the particular silicon residing on the physical switch.

    On top of the base module, OS10 can support traditional networking functions (L2/L3 protocols) from Dell as well as numerous third-party, native Linux, and open source applications such as IP, fabric and security services combined with management and automation tools. This allows customers to tailor IT operations for different use case and operational processes.

    OS10’s unmodified Linux base provides distinct advantages as customers increasingly look to design applications and data centers across server, storage and networking – not just one silo. While OS10 will have appeal for traditional network operators seeking conventional programming means, the software will also appeal to DevOps communities seeking a consistent, common development environment across server, storage and networking elements.

     

     

  • How to achieve new solutions in networking

    How to achieve new solutions in networking

    Enterprise Business Manager of Dell, Mr. Akin Banuso, has said that the rise of open standards, frameworks and architectures, and a shift from proprietary models will give way to new solutions with regards to networking in the Nigerian business landscape. He made this known as he highlighted three networking paradigms that are shaping the business landscape across the world today.

    According to Mr. Akin Banuso, the Enterprise Business Manager for Dell, ‘Broadly speaking, there are three major trends within the networking space that are currently shaping the industry; convergence, distributed networking and software defined networks. These topics are not new to the table, but having been discussed for some time, they are now beginning to hit the mainstream in terms of the maturity of the technology and where they are on the corporate agenda.’’

    The first of these ‘Networking Big3’ shapers of the industry is Convergence. Banuso explains that ‘’It’s not wholly a networking issue but its impact on the way networks are managed and – just as importantly – who manages them, should not be underestimated. Previously IT functioned in silos, with server, storage and network admins going about their business relatively independently. When someone within the organisation wanted a new resource provisioned, working across these silos to make that happen could be a painful and unnecessarily cumbersome experience’’ he said.

    Software defined networking, is the next of the ‘Networking Big3’. Although the technology is still in its infancy, software defined networking (SDN) is widely touted to revolutionise network infrastructures on the same scale as virtualization in the server market. Traditional networking has been unable to offer the flexibility that networking managers require today

    Distributed networking is another Big3 networking shaper of industry. There is a shift from traditional to distributed architectures; several developments have rendered the traditional centralised, monolithic chassis-switched network unfit for the modern business’ requirements. According to Banuso, ‘’firstly, the workforce has become extremely disperse and mobile. Secondly, virtualisation and cloud computing have resulted in much higher server-to-server traffic flow than before. Finally, enterprises now have vastly larger volumes of data to process, store, and analyse than was previously the case.’’

  • Dell, others launch Window 8 tablets, ultrabook

    Dell, in partnership with Microsoft and Intel, has launched Windows 8 tablets and Ultrabook, promising that the products would usher in a new era of computing with its redesigned portfolio of business and consumer PCs which it said would take advantage of the new operating system.

    Speaking at the launch of the product at Ikoyi, Lagos, Annie Odo-effiong, client product marketing manager, Dell Anglophone East and West Africa, explained that the products were built to optimise the Windows 8 operating system (OS), adding that Dell has crafted designs that would enable new users to experience and make touch computing available to more customers than ever before.

    She said consumers would be able to purchase a range of new Dell products for home and for business including the XPS 10 tablet, Latitude 10 tablet, XPS 12 convertible Ultrabook, Inspiron 15z Ultrabook, Latitude 6430u Ultrabook, OptiPlex 9010 All-in-One with touch XPS One 27 with touch.

    She said further that the products free customers from carrying mutiple devices, helping them to save time and be more productive. The gorgeous and durable designs offer unparalleled security and manageability, empowering users to keep pace in an always-connected world.