Welcome to the converged infrastructure!

Don’t want to miss deadlines? Feel challenged about resources to deliver on critical business issues/initiatives? Well, are you desirous of responding much, much faster to customer requirements? Welcome to the converged infrastructure (CI)!

Is the future of IT enterprises resting on a converged infrastructure? Perhaps, yes! The CI comes with pre-integrated storage, networking, and virtualization — all as a single platform. That would surely increase the efficiency, agility and resiliency of any organization.

So, what exactly does the CI involve? Well, it will integrate all your servers, networking and storage into a single solution. This would improve the utilization of these collective resources effectively and efficiently. There will be tremendous simplification and centralization of management of resources. Further, it can bring down your IT expenditure by at least 30-40 percent, if not more! Enterprises can even have their RoIs within one or two years of implementation.

Having a CI in an enterprise involves having a strategic approach that touches every part of IT, such as applications, infrastructure and management, leading to:

* Accelerated IT service deployment.
* Efficiency across the IT services lifecycle.
* Strengthened IT service quality.

Dell’s PowerEdge VRTX shared infrastructure platform aims to do exactly all of the above, thereby the redefine office IT! There are integrated servers, storage and networking in a compact chassis optimized for office environments.

Dell’s PowerEdge VRTX provides a shared infrastructure platform, scalable performance, flexible shared storage, simple and versatile systems management, integrated networking and flexible I/O, and seamless management integration. CIOs definitely do not need to worry about loud servers, cabling nightmares, etc.

Dell’s PowerEdge VRTX is meant not only for SMBs, but also for large companies in retail, banking, healthcare, education, financial, etc. For example, a large company may have a huge data center somewhere that manage various stores. However, at each individual store/location, there’s no central IT management or administration. Hence, this acts like an IT administrator-in-a-box by giving the IT administrator the ability to manage across any store/location across the world using just from one box.

The PowerEdge VRTX is really a shared infrastructure platform, offering extensive performance and capacity with office-level acoustics in a single, compact tower chassis. It is ideal for small and midsize businesses, as well as remote and branch offices of large enterprises.

There is no compromise on scalable performance. Dell VRTX can help businesses gain fast application response times, run multiple applications that need performance or low latency, power through peak processing periods and scale for future business growth. There is flexible shared storage. All four server nodes have access to the low-latency internal shared storage that is ideal for virtualization and clustering. Local storage is also available in the chassis, which is highly economical and easier to manage than traditional SAN.

The PowerEdge VRTX offers integrated networking and flexible I/O. It includes a GbE embedded switch that eliminates the need to purchase a separate networking device and PCIe resources that are shared across the compute nodes within the chassis.

It also allows simple, efficient and versatile systems management. Full-functioned unified system management with Chassis Management Controller (CMC) and GeoView helps take much of the time and effort out of system administration and control. Deploy, monitor, update and maintain through a unified console that covers servers, storage and networking. Dell’s VRTX systems management is also integrated with major third-party management tools, protecting the CIOs installed investments and allowing them to use what they know.

This is a paid post in conjunction with IDG and Dell.