Dell has announced an investment of $1 billion (€692 million) to deliver solutions, services and cloud-based delivery options for customers. The company said the investment is aimed at helping businesses to take advantage of “benefits from new compute and information delivery advancements” and will be spent in the current fiscal year.
Eric Velfre, MD, large enterprise solutions EMEA, Dell, said that the level of complexity faced by IT departments is rising, and that Dell had a key role in “solving the growing pains of the virtual world”.
Central to the delivery of the new services is the addition of 10 new data centres around the world, six of which will be in Europe, which Dell said would be “modular, hyperscale and high density”.
The new focus, said Velfre, is “based on a key set of tenets unique to Dell”, open, capable and affordable. “Our peers are coming at this from a different direction,” he added, saying that Dell ensure that its solutions work with existing technology, instead of creating new silos of information.
A significant part of the investment will be spent on global solution centres, with three in Europe comprising Limerick, Paris and Frankfurt.
The investment will also fund new education centres globally, with 10 new centres to be established.
As part of its commitment to simplifying solutions for customers, Dell has introduced a new product line in vStart. These racks consist of servers, storage, network, rack, hypervisors, management software and deployment services. They are delivered, pre-wired, pre-tested and pre-configured to the customer’s specification.
Praveen Asthana, Dell’s head of enterprise solutions, said that the vStart is “pre-sized to run a known allocation of virtual machines and makes the most of existing management resources.”
Dell also introduced a desktop virtualisation dubbed Dell Desktop Virtualisation Solutions (DDVS). The DDVS comprises a range of offerings from on premises solutions to fully managed desktop as a Service.
“We are taking out all of the complexity of deploying virtual desktops,” said Asthana. “We have done a lot of work in the lab optimising the deployment of VD, in the backend and in infrastructure.”
For more detail and analysis, see the May edition of ComputerScope, available May 9.
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