Converged Platforms and Solutions @ Dell EMC World

VUG is now CONVERGED!

New User Group rebrand launched for DEW with over 300 members and Michael Dell! CONVERGED is also part of the broader Dell Technologies User Community. Get your customers CONVERGED! Be sure to tell everyone about the CONVERGED monthly webinar series—in the next one, Ben Jastrab will give an Introduction to HCI, Wednesday, May 24, 1 p.m. EDT and CLUS CONVERGED meeting, Monday, June 26, 2-5 p.m.—registration to be open soon!

Dell EMC VxRail Appliance Enhancements to Fuel Industry’s Fastest Growing HCI Appliance

At Dell EMC World, we announced Dell EMC VxRail Appliance updates, which include expanded enterprise-software deployment features, additional hardware flexibility to lower TCO and address new use cases, support for the latest VMware vSphere 6.5 and vSAN 6.6, and improved interoperability with Dell EMC technologies. In addition, VxRail Appliance grew 4x the HCI market in Q4 at over 70%, making it the industry’s fastest growing hyper-converged appliance, per IDC. Review the Sales Advantage article and read the Dell EMC HCI announcement here for more details.

New Cloud-Like Consumption Model to Accelerate HCI Adoption

New Cloud Flex for HCI brings a cloud-like consumption model to Dell EMC HCI portfolio with a flexible financing solution that eliminates up-front capital costs and offers simple monthly payments that decline over time. Customers have the ability to return any or all HCI appliances with no obligation after the first year. For more information, refer to the Cloud Flex FAQ and VxRail Appliance How-to-Sell presentation.

Red Hat Summit Recap

From Armughan Ahmad’s keynote address to the announcement of our new Ready Bundle for Red Hat OpenStack, Red Hat Summit was a huge success. Check out the full report.

Wikibon’s analysis shows how VxRack FLEX delivers superior business value vs. traditional SAN with half the initial purchase cost and 90% lower admin costs

Dell EMC VxRack Systems were everywhere at Dell EMC World—Main stage with David, CPSD Booth, ScaleIO Booth, VMware Booth, Customer and Deep-Dive sessions, and more.

Blueprint Solutions and Alliances Dell EMC World Recap

From live video interviews to expert presentations, and customer receptions to analyst briefings, here’s how we showcased our Blueprint solutions and partnerships at Dell EMC World. Read more

Introducing the Dell EMC XC430 Xpress

Building on the success on the XC Series, Dell EMC XC430 Xpress offers small to mid-sized companies a complete, all-in-one infrastructure solution with robust three-node configurations starting as low as $25,000 USD. Optimized for smaller environments using up to four nodes, the XC430 Xpress consolidates servers and storage in as small as 3U of rack space to drastically simplify onsite infrastructure.

Why Converged Infrastructure Means Business Opportunity for Solution Providers

Converged Infrastructure represents both the ideal foundational building block for a cloud-driven, service-oriented architecture, and an easy entry point for end users to scale up new services. This results in a significant business opportunity for the solution provider who can build business around an existing converged platform or leverage entry-level options. Read more

ERP Migration to SAP S/4HANA: A Roadmap for Success

This white paper lays out three common conversion paths for organizations transitioning from SAP ERP systems to SAP S/4HANA. Check out the blog post on the same topic, too.

Improving Service Delivery via Efficient Use of Data

This technology guide will help government thought leaders determine how best to use data analytics to manage and derive value from an increased dependence on data.

Five Key Considerations for Cloud-Service Providers

How cloud-service providers can make a real-world impact around big data and cloud. Read more

Make Manufacturing Data Compute

Manufacturers have an unprecedented opportunity to drive efficiencies and boost product innovation thanks to a wealth of data that can be collected and analyzed for operational insights. Read more

HPC and Digital Engineering

Digital engineering is becoming an increasingly accessible option for engineering organizations of any size. Read more

The Groundbreaking New Capabilities of Microsoft SQL Server

Many customers are looking to upgrade their legacy database infrastructure whether it is mission-critical database or enterprise data warehousing or analytics. How can Dell EMC help?

Dell Cloudera Hadoop

Dell increases business insights, improves services, and saves $4 million in one year by augmenting its enterprise data warehouse using ETL offload with Cloudera Hadoop. Take a look at this Whitepaper by Moor Insights Turning Enterprise Data into Business Value to see how Dell EMC is facilitating innovation with Big Data.

Did you know?

The SDS market is expected to reach over $22 billion by 2021 for a CAGR of 36.7% 2016-2021.* Learn more about the Dell EMC Ready Node for ScaleIO—an agile, scalable, and high-performance building block for software-defined storage and hyper-converged infrastructure.

*Source: MarketsandMarkets

VxRail Appliance Ordering Made Easier with New Dell Factory Automation

Good news! Factory automation has been enabled so that, effective immediately, you are no longer required to provide identification or enter the Dell Customer Number in MyQuotes to process a VxRail Appliance order. The only exceptions are U.S. Federal, Canada, and Mexico, which will remain manual. Please note that validation of Dell Warranty support level is still required for all VxRail Appliance E, V, P, S Series quotes. For more information, see the Ordering & Licensing guide on the VxRail Appliance Enablement Center.

Ready Nodes

These new software defined storage building blocks are preconfigured with all the right components, tested and certified so customers can deploy quickly with: 1. Confidence of known good configurations. 2. Convenience of pre-configured Ready Nodes 3. Delivered with solution-level support. For more information, read the press release here or watch the CUBE interview found here.

Dell EMC VxRack System with SDDC is Now Shipping

A complete turnkey solution powered by VMware Cloud Foundation software, Dell EMC VxRack System with SDDC has been shipping to selected early customers since December. Now, with General Availability as of May 12, it’s time to get smart about the new configurations. Watch the latest VxRack SDDC Training Update, and find everything you need to sell on the VxRack Enablement Center.

Now Your Customers Can Get Access to Dell EMC VxBlock Systems and Dell EMC Vblock Systems SMEs Through the New Product Community Page

That’s right Dell EMC VxBlock Systems and Dell EMC Vblock Systems external Product Community page is now live. Get your customers to follow this page and get access to the latest information from featured content to new service updates. They can also get direct access to SMEs and post questions.

And don’t forget, there is always the VxBlock and Vblock Product Central page on Inside CPSD for those “internal discussions.”

New and Improved .com Experience

When was the last time you went to the VxBlock and Vblock Systems page on DellEMC.com?

Wow, not what you expected, right!

• A new #1 for a reason infographic
• New customer Healthcare video
• IDC paper on the impact of migrating Epic to a Vblock
• Integrated Data Protection, Data Protection data sheet
• Test Drive Program
• And much more

VxBlock and Vblock Systems LOVE Splunk.

A new White paper: Exceed the performance and capacity requirements for a high-performance Splunk deployment with a VxBlock or VxBlock System

Coming Soon to a VxBlock System near you.

At Dell EMC World 2017, the next generation all-flash Unity, VMAX, and Isilon storage arrays were introduced. The good news is that Dell EMC VxBlock System 350 and VxBlock System 740 will soon support the new Unity 350, 450, 550, 650, and VMAX 950F/FX arrays respectively. All three—Unity, VMAX, and Isilon—will also soon be supported in Converged Technology Extensions…stay tuned.

Dell EMC XC Series with Dell EMC Data Protection

The XC Series expands its capabilities with enterprise-level data protection and simplified backup and disaster recovery through Avamar Virtual Edition, Data Domain and Data Domain Virtual Edition. The first phase of Dell EMC XC Series Dell Data Protection support is now available globally as a reference architecture. For more information, see the XC Series Data Protection materials on TechCenter.

Dell EMC XC Series with Pivotal Cloud Foundry^®

The XC Series and Pivotal^® engineering teams have collaborated to create the ideal configuration and deployment guide to rapidly develop and deploy applications to Pivotal Cloud Foundry. Using this guide will reduce deployment risk and cost of IT operations while accelerating customers’ ability to increase developer productivity. The configuration and deployment guide deployment guide can be found on TechCenter.

Dell EMC VxRack with FLEX Customer Video

Hear how nXn (formally neXgen)—uses VxRack FLEX to build smart cities

Etat de Fribourg—2x Dell EMC VxBlock System 740 Plus Support with Swisscom (partner)

Following a major outage, the account team was able to demonstrate the value of our CI five-pillar value proposition, i.e., Engineered, Manufactured, Managed, Supported, and Sustained as one product.

Chubb & Sons—6x Dell EMC VxBlock System 540 with Support

Previous successful Dell EMC Vblock System deployments opened up new Dell EMC VxBlock System opportunities.

Webinar: Don’t be Duped—Hadoop Roll-out Can Be Pain-Free and Easy

Here’s how three organizations achieved operational efficiency and business transformation: http://bit.ly/InfoWeekHadoopWebinar.

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