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This is the latest in the string of announcements by major IT vendors, each of whom strives to become the single source for IT equipment and services for data centers. One of the first such announcements was made last November by Cisco, who partnered with EMC and VMware to combine its Unified Computing System (compute and network) with EMC's storage products and VMware's virtualization technology to deliver Vblock, as the full-bundle IT solution for development of private clouds.
HP and Microsoft followed in January by announcing a jointly delivered package of pre-configured full IT stack, consisting of HP hardware and Microsoft's virtualization and business applications, like SQL Server or Exchange.
Besides the difference in hardware, what sets Dell's bundle apart from the others is not being locked in into one or another hypervisor technology.
Dell also announced new server storage and networking products and services that will be available in the near future and will go into the bundles.
The three new server products include two blades and a rack server. The Intel Xeon-based PowerEdge M710HD blade server is optimized for virtual workloads, with high I/O flexibility and high memory density. The other new blade is the PowerEdge M610x, with enhanced database acceleration and expanded graphics capabilities.
The new 2U rack server PowerEdge R715 is based on an AMD processor, running on 24 cores with a large memory footprint. According to Dell, the machine is ideal for virtualization, workload consolidation and small-scale database and network infrastructure deployments.
New storage products include the EqualLogic PS6000XVS and PS6010XVS arrays, both of which combine SAS and SSD drives in a single enclosure to improve density and performance. There are also two new storage arrays for SMB's that are looking to deploy an affordable virtualization platform: PowerVault MD3200 and MD3200i.
There is also a number of new switches, developed through Dell's OEM agreements with Juniper and Brocade.
This is the latest in the string of announcements by major IT vendors, each of whom strives to become the single source for IT equipment and services for data centers. One of the first such announcements was made last November by Cisco, who partnered with EMC and VMware to combine its Unified Computing System (compute and network) with EMC's storage products and VMware's virtualization technology to deliver Vblock, as the full-bundle IT solution for development of private clouds.
HP and Microsoft followed in January by announcing a jointly delivered package of pre-configured full IT stack, consisting of HP hardware and Microsoft's virtualization and business applications, like SQL Server or Exchange.
Besides the difference in hardware, what sets Dell's bundle apart from the others is not being locked in into one or another hypervisor technology.
Dell also announced new server storage and networking products and services that will be available in the near future and will go into the bundles.
The three new server products include two blades and a rack server. The Intel Xeon-based PowerEdge M710HD blade server is optimized for virtual workloads, with high I/O flexibility and high memory density. The other new blade is the PowerEdge M610x, with enhanced database acceleration and expanded graphics capabilities.
The new 2U rack server PowerEdge R715 is based on an AMD processor, running on 24 cores with a large memory footprint. According to Dell, the machine is ideal for virtualization, workload consolidation and small-scale database and network infrastructure deployments.
New storage products include the EqualLogic PS6000XVS and PS6010XVS arrays, both of which combine SAS and SSD drives in a single enclosure to improve density and performance. There are also two new storage arrays for SMB's that are looking to deploy an affordable virtualization platform: PowerVault MD3200 and MD3200i.
There is also a number of new switches, developed through Dell's OEM agreements with Juniper and Brocade.