Dell EMC's CI model offers enterprises more simplicity and flexibility

In a discussion with VARINDIA, Rajesh Ramnani, Regional Director - CPSD, Dell EMC India talks about expansion of its converged infrastructure system with the addition of its next generation VxBlock System 1000, the targeted verticals it is focusing with this and much more…

Brief us on Dell EMC's Converged Infrastructure model. 

Traditional converged infrastructure systems often require you to choose different systems for different applications’ performance, capacity, and data services needs. The VxBlock System 1000 breaks the boundaries of traditional CI by offering the industry’s first converged system designed for all workloads in the modern data center with unprecedented choice to mix, share, and adapt pools of market-leading storage, data protection, and compute resources for all workloads to maximize performance and utilization. It offers trusted life cycle assurance with a unique Release Certification Matrix and a dynamic Life Cycle Assurance Portal that provides proactive, customized recommendations to accelerate and simplify the infrastructure update process. And, NVMe-ready to ensure that the system is future-proofed to deliver on extreme performance requirements.

VxBlock System 1000 brings together leading technologies from Dell EMC (including Dell EMC Unity, VMAX, XtremIO, Isilon, Avamar, Data Domain, NetWorker, RecoverPoint, and VPLEX), Cisco, (including USC B-Series and CSeries servers, Nexus LAN, and MDS SAN switches), and VMware (including vSphere and vCenter). All system elements are pre-integrated, pre-configured, then tested and validated before shipping. Turnkey integration allows you to operate and manage your system as a single engineered product, rather than as individual, siloed components. Ongoing, component-level testing, and qualification result in a drastically simplified update process. The result is significant time and resource savings throughout the system life cycle, allowing you to focus your resources on business innovation.

Kindly elaborate about Dell EMC's latest VxBlock System 1000 offering. 

We have recently announced the expansion of our market-leading converged infrastructure (CI) system with the addition of the next generation Dell EMC VxBlock System 1000. The new system breaks the physical boundaries of traditional CI and offers enterprises even greater simplicity and flexibility to help accelerate the IT and digital transformation efforts. The VxBlock 1000 is designed to support workloads of all types and includes a substantially broader choice of world class storage arrays, data protection and compute than previous-generation VxBlock Systems. This new system’s all-in-one, multiple-technology design expands upon CI’s promise by further simplifying IT infrastructure lifecycle management through extensive pre-validation. This enables IT staff to be freed from time-consuming administrative tasks, so they can focus on higher-value, business innovation projects. 

What are the verticals you are targeting with this offering? How is it going to help the verticals?

Some key Verticals which will highly benefit this includes the Banking and Finance, IT/ITES and Public Sector, as these segments have been early adopters of Converged systems of DELL EMC. However, with flexibility offered by VxBlock 1000, new segments like Telecom, Retail and Manufacturing will be fresh target verticals. 

What kind of value additions can Partners offer while selling Converged Infrastructure? 

Partners today can leverage VxBlock 1000 platform and provide added services over and above the end to end solution offered by DELL EMC; it starts right from being an evangelist to a customer in their journey to cloud, but over and above it allows partners to offer services including, but not restricted to:

* Migration from legacy to new environment.

* Offer services to help create Self Service environment for customer

* Help customer create a charge back mechanism for resource usage on VxBlock 1000

* Create approval flow for automated cloud environment on top of VxBlock 1000 platform

* In turn moving their own company move to different league of service provider.

The VxBlock System 1000 redefines the converged infrastructure market, so you can free up even more resources to focus on innovation and accelerate your IT transformation. 

The benefits include -

* Greater business agility with the ability to choose the right mix of resources and data services that your evolving applications need, when they need them 

* Improved data center efficiency by pooling and sharing resources to maximize utilization, eliminate stranded capacity, and increase ROI 

* Better operational simplicity through a turnkey, automated engineered system experience and life cycle assurance that free up resources allowing you to focus on innovation rather than infrastructure management