For Dell, this week is all about helping customers modernize their infrastructure and spur IT transformation initiatives. And a large part of that is made possible thanks to our friends at VMware. Dell and VMware are providing greater value for mutual customers this week with new solutions geared towards simplifying and accelerating IT transformation initiatives and streamlining IT management. To learn more about news from Dell, check out the announcements below! Furthermore, check back here later for even more news from Dell.
Day 2: Tuesday, August 29th
Press Release: Dell Expands Flexible Consumption Model Options for Desktop and Application Virtualization with VMware Horizon
Dell is removing the barriers to VDI adoption with the expansion of Dell VDI Complete Solutions, powered by VMware Horizon®, making it easier for organizations to plan, deploy and run desktop and application virtualization within their IT environments. Today, Dell is expanding the portfolio to include options with Horizon Apps as well as NVIDIA Tesla M10 and M60 GPU graphics accelerators¹. Also available now is the Latitude 5280 mobile thin client for those who need to be on the move but need to ensure full security and control over sensitive data.
Day 1: Monday, August 28th
Press Release: Dell Drives New Levels of Cross-Portfolio Integration and Support for VMware Customers
Dell today is announcing important enhancements and integrations across its broad portfolio of solutions that support VMware. These enhancements help customers fuel IT Transformation initiatives to achieve digital transformation goals through software-defined data centers, converged infrastructures and hybrid cloud. This press release covers all Day 1 infrastructure news from Dell and links to 5 related blogs on Direct2Dell.
Related Blogs
- Blog by Ravi Pendekanti: PowerEdge and VMware: HCI Innovation for the New Data Center
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Dell, through its close relationship with VMware, today announces extensive advancements across its hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) and hybrid cloud platforms portfolio to help simplify and speed customers’ IT transformations. Today’s announcements span Dell’s broad portfolio of turnkey HCI solutions, turnkey hybrid cloud platforms and flexible Ready Systems, each designed to help modernize IT for VMware environments and data centers at any scale.
Related Blogs
- Blog by Trey Layton: Figuring out your IT Transformation path when One Size Doesn’t Fit All
- Blog by Trey Layton: Dell Hybrid Cloud Advances to be Main Attraction at VMworld 2017
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Press Release: Dell Delivers New Levels of Data Protection, Performance, Governance and IT Management for VMware Environments
Dell today announced transformational data protection capabilities designed to help enterprises streamline IT management and data governance for VMware environments. Architected for the modern, software-defined datacenter (SDDC), Dell data protection offers comprehensive application support, along with extensive automation, and integration with VMware vSphere, to streamline and manage backup and recovery operations. New today is a major new release of Dell Data Protection Suite for Applications, now delivering unparalleled data protection performance for virtualized, mission critical applications.
Related Blogs
- Blog by Beth Phalen: Dell Delivers Superior VMware Data Protection Designed For the Modern, Software-Defined Data Center
- Blog by Beth Phalen: Transformational data protection for virtualized mission critical applications
Press Release: VMware and Dell Partner to Deliver First Data Protection Solution for VMware Cloud on AWS
VMware and Dell today announced a new partnership for VMware Cloud on AWS, which will bring Dell data protection to VMware Cloud on AWS. Delivered, sold and supported by VMware as an on-demand service, and running on elastic, bare-metal AWS infrastructure, VMware® Cloud™ on AWS is powered by VMware Cloud Foundation™, the unified SDDC that integrates vSphere®, VMware vSAN™ and VMware NSX® virtualization technologies.
Blog by Jeff Boudreau: XtremIO X2 – the fast path to a modern VDI infrastructure
Dell announce the availability of XtremIO X2, the next generation of Dell’s purpose-built All-Flash array, now supporting 40% more VDI users per X-Brick at up to 30% lower $/desktop. It is designed to provide streamlined automation and modernization while simplifying management and monitoring. With its VMware vSphere plug-in and VMware vRealize Orchestration features for VDI environments, the new X2 provides even more performance, agility and simplicity than its predecessor.
Blog by Mike Arterbury: Realize Transformation with Dell at VMworld 2017
Dell VP of Global Alliances Mike Arterbury reviews the Dell news at VMworld 2017, highlighting the benefits both Dell and VMware bring to customers to deliver impactful solutions that modernize infrastructure and spur IT Transformation initiatives. Through our unique relationship, both companies are driving new levels of cross-portfolio integration and support for customers. Our tightly aligned strategies and joint engineering result in innovations that deliver greater value for mutual customers while simplifying and accelerating IT service delivery.
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Introducing @pivotal Container Service: Simplifying workloads for @VMware vSphere and the @googlecloud #VMworld https://t.co/Zv6OMqi0D1 pic.twitter.com/dUYVOxdKma
— Dell Technologies (@DellTech) August 29, 2017
"We'll have a secret announcement tomorrow you won't want to miss" –@spoonen Join 8/29 for @MichaelDell @PGelsinger https://t.co/PN2uHNR9Yd pic.twitter.com/RmhKv1MeZb
— Dell Edge & Telecom (@Dell_Edge) August 28, 2017
How does our alliance with @VMware benefit our mutual customers?@mikearterbury shares his view at #VMworld:https://t.co/FWDpuUjm2r pic.twitter.com/khPIlq0tjB
— Dell Technologies (@DellTech) August 28, 2017
All winners! Meet the #VMworld teams who raised $11k for the @WWP at our 9th annual #v0dgeball tournament. https://t.co/BJLqtXjueS pic.twitter.com/PKI1CI7ROE
— Dell Edge & Telecom (@Dell_Edge) August 28, 2017
#VMworld is open, and these booths are made for talking! Join us this week at the Solutions Exchange to get hands on and meet our team. pic.twitter.com/nlnMlCwFKh
— Dell Edge & Telecom (@Dell_Edge) August 28, 2017
Just days away! Join @PGelsinger @MichaelDell @spoonen @ray_ofarrell, other top leaders at #VMworld general sessions https://t.co/4Sp5RfqBke pic.twitter.com/2tNncGfSvu
— Dell Technologies (@DellTech) August 21, 2017
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At #VMworld you’ll see new additions to our Enterprise Hybrid Cloud & Native Hybrid Cloud platforms – and much more. https://t.co/8FLzHURPsf pic.twitter.com/29XNmtOR86
— Dell Edge & Telecom (@Dell_Edge) August 24, 2017
Meet the Dell Technologies family all in one place at @VMworld – including @DellEMC & @VMware! https://t.co/yrIxbMuq75 pic.twitter.com/dsw4pxndjC
— Virtustream (@virtustream) August 23, 2017
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