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Dell vCloud Goes Hollywood with GreenButton

Stephen Spector — Tue, 15 May 2012 18:00:00 GMT

The addition of new customers to the Dell Cloud with VMware vCloud Data Center Service provides an opportunity for the promotion of interesting ways that Dell’s public/hybrid cloud is leveraged for the maximization of efficiency, global reach, and new business opportunities. I have already blogged about Gratifon and how their VoIP solution enhances the lives of people living in Panama by delivering free phone service in shopping centers. In this post, I am introducing another customer of the Dell vCloud that is revolutionizing access to high performance computing applications without the need for sophisticated, expensive computing infrastructure.

GreenButton delivers an application platform on Dell vCloud for application vendors looking to transition to the cloud and for the management and delivery of cloud services. Leveraging this platform, application vendors can embed GreenButton tools managing the shifting of workloads from the local device to the Dell vCloud for enhanced speed and efficiency in processing the workload. For example, SAP Visual Enterprise Viewer Version 7 is an application helping manufacturing companies unify, synchronize, and deliver visual product and business information. The design work is conducted on local hardware but the 3-D (or 2-D) rendering is uploaded as single workload to the Dell vCloud via GreenButton technology for processing in seconds rather than hours or days on common desktop or laptop hardware. The image below from GreenButton’s website shows an image ready for rendering and the simple “green button” built into the application.

As you would expect, this innovative technology is actively used in rendering of special effects and cartoons for movie and animation studios and graphic design firms. For example, here is a video about the making of a short film submitted by George Kim as an entry for the “Dreamscape” CGChallenge XXVI organized by the CGSociety.org. The entire video was rendered using GreenButton and a public cloud:

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In conclusion, I offer you a video from GreenButton to learn more:

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If you are interested in learning more about GreenButton and how you can enable applications to offload workloads to Dell vCloud please contact me and I will engage you with the specialized Dell-GreenButton team.

Designed by You. Engineered by Dell.

Sally Stevens, VP—Server Platform Mktg. — Tue, 15 May 2012 15:00:00 GMT

Perhaps you have already seen the reaction to our February announcement of our PowerEdge 12^thgeneration servers: 18 excellent product reviews in the press, with one of our servers, the R720, being chosen by Byte TI as the “Best Server of 2012”. Reading the reviews, it is clear that the evaluators understood that the innovations designed into the systems weren’t just “cool” technology, or just technologies ahead of the competition. The technologies are cool, and they are ahead of the competition, but beyond that what the reviewers saw was that the innovations mapped to real world issues that users are striving to overcome, and that the new capabilities lead to meaningful results.

Mapping to real world usage, and enabling users to deliver meaningful results, are two crucially important criteria on the part of potential customers. That we succeeded in hitting the mark on both of these is underscored by feedback we received by customers:

By enabling us to run a large number of virtual machines on each physical host, the Dell PowerEdge R720 server with the Intel Xeon processor E5 family will have a direct and positive impact on our bottom line.”

-Alex Rodriguez, Vice President of Systems Engineering and Product Development, Expedient

The Dell PowerEdge R620 running the Intel Xeon processor E5 family cuts the time it takes to complete our calculations. This level of performance will make a huge difference to our research faculty and students.”

-Hervé Gilquin, Head of Department for Centralised Hardware Dedicated to Scientific Calculation, ENS Lyon

The iDRAC7 with Lifecycle Controller available with the Dell PowerEdge 12th generation servers will help ensure that HPC resources are available whenever users need them. We couldn’t run without iDRAC.”

-Erik Brown, System Administrator, Center for High-Performance Computing, University of Utah

How were we able to bring servers and solutions to market that are so closely attuned to customer requirements?

The answer to this lies in our differentiated approach to solutions design. We engaged deeply with customers during the early planning stages for the 12^th generation servers. I’ve written before about how we had over 7,700 conversations with customers. These weren’t casual conversations about speeds and feeds, but deep engagements with customers, individually and in focus groups, in order to understand their real world usage, and what they needed future systems to do for them. This gave us insight into what customers required for their servers and their IT infrastructures, and we acted on what we learned.

After hearing from our customers, we used that feedback to engineer solutions that you will find across our PowerEdge 12^th generation servers, including the new members that we are announcing this week. These new platforms help to address the requirements of users of all sizes, from small and medium businesses to the largest enterprises, with workloads ranging from the edge of the network all the way back into the data center.

Some of the innovations you heard about in February. These include capabilities such as protecting customers’ virtualized workloads with failsafe hypervisors, enabling servers to run in extended operating temperatures with Fresh Air, and helping customers save time and reduce potential for error with our industry-first agent-free systems management. We are implementing these and other capabilities into the newest members of the PowerEdge portfolio so our customers receive a consistent set of capabilities across our complete product line, regardless of which PowerEdge server they choose.

Other innovations are completely new with this launch. They include helping customers get better utilization out of their precious data center space, with no-compromise, highly dense solutions in racks and blades, unmatched in the industry.

A specific customer-designed example of the value and innovation in today’s announcement is the PowerEdge M420 which is a revolutionary quarter-height blade with complete enterprise-class features. Data centers can now, in the same 10U size M1000e blade chassis, double their performance capabilities with 32 servers while cutting their infrastructure costs in half. Combined with Dell’s Chassis Management Controller, system administrators can now simplify their environment by managing up to 288 nodes through one interface, using a single IP address. PowerEdge users will also be able to address their environmental challenges around server chassis depth, achieve superior acoustics for quiet office environments, and benefit from unprecedented enterprise-class performance and memory protection in our 1-socket servers.

You can learn more about the new PowerEdge servers and solutions here. Each platform reflects the results of deep engagement with customers and acting on what we learned. Or, in other words, “Designed by you. Engineered by Dell.”

Innovations that deliver results faster: Extending the benefits of 12th generation servers

Forrest Norrod, VP/GM—Next Gen Computing — Mon, 14 May 2012 15:00:00 GMT

In February we announced the next generation of our PowerEdge servers to an eager audience. We’ve had a tremendous response from customers, who appreciate our focus on developing meaningful innovations that help them achieve more.

Dell customer Harvey Newman, Professor of Physics at the California Institute of Technology told us, “For nearly two decades, the Caltech High-Energy Physics group and Center for Advanced Computing Research have been working to increase data throughput over long distances to facilitate the transfer and sharing of large scientific data sets among researchers. With these new server, processor, and networking technologies, we will be able to help researchers spend less time transporting data and more time testing scientific ideas.”

Expanding our portfolio to meet broader needs

To prepare for the next generation, we had more than 7,700 conversations with customers, specifically about design requirements. We wanted to understand their working environment, their current needs, and how those needs might evolve. One thing we heard loud and clear: one solution does not fit all. Some IT users require high compute density, others need maximum performance and memory, while others want a complete system that is small enough to fit under a desk and quiet enough to operate in an office. To meet those needs we are now introducing nine more PowerEdge 12^th generation servers.

Maximize efficiency

To improve the efficient use of IT resources we embed automation and intelligence in our servers and infrastructure that enable customers of all sizes to focus on adding value to their business, not rudimentary day-to-day tasks.

For our customers that need to manage multiple servers in the data center, we have a solution. With the one-to-many management capabilities in our blade Chassis Management Controller you can manage up to 288 of our new M420 blade nodes through a single IP address. That cuts out a bunch of administrative steps and headaches.

Small and medium business customers that want a straightforward, easy-to-use systems management console that provides basic Dell hardware management can utilize Dell OpenManage Essentials which is included in all of our new tower, rack and blade servers. Lots of customers see the benefits of our agent-free management:

Achieve more

Organizations today are looking at infrastructures to support improved applications and IT service delivery. One way Dell meets that need is by providing an integrated portfolio of infrastructure solutions across compute, storage and networking. We’re taking that integration to the next level with our newest PowerEdge 12th generation blade servers along with the new MXL 10/40G switch for our M1000e blade chassis system. Powered by Force10 technology, we bring the signature high performance to blade systems with the industry’s first 40G enabled blade switch. Packing more compute and high performance networking into the same shared physical space helps customers achieve more with a smaller footprint.

With the introduction of the PowerEdge M420, the world’s only quarter height 2-socket blade server, we are cutting blade infrastructure costs in half. This svelte blade server has double the processing density without any enterprise feature compromise, and packs a walloping performance punch with 175% rack-level improvement over half-height blades. The M420 is the densest 2-socket server in the world with the reliability, efficiency and enterprise class features that customers demand.

Ensure business continuity

No matter the size of your business or organization, secure, continual access to IT services is essential. We are extending reliability, availability and serviceability features across the full portfolio of Dell PowerEdge servers. Unlike some blade servers in the industry, the new PowerEdge M420, M520 and M820 blade servers have data protection with hardware RAID and serviceability with hot-swappable hard drives. We don’t short-change our small business customers with stripped down systems. We offer the world’s first full generation with enterprise-class RAS features for redundancy and fault-tolerance, memory mirroring, memory sparing, hot plug hard drives and redundant power supplies for large data centers and single tower servers alike.

Even more of our highest performing, most manageable, most innovative servers ever

We’re excited that the first wave of PowerEdge 12th generation servers is experiencing exceptional demand from customers around the globe. The new wave of PowerEdge servers brings Dell’s latest innovations to a broader audience. These new servers are well-suited to meet the needs of organizations that require all the enterprise-class features including embedded systems management they have come to expect from Dell, but at an impressive price for performance.

You can learn more about our new Dell PowerEdge servers here, or through any of Dell’s Global PartnerDirect Channel Partners.

Dell’s Customers Speak, Dell Listens: Green Packaging Program with Mushrooms Grows

Susan Beebe, Global Communications / PR — Fri, 11 May 2012 18:35:00 GMT

Recently, Dell’s Oliver Campbell was interviewed by Mashable (“Your Next Gadget Might Be Packaged in … Mushrooms?”) to share news about the Dell mushroom packaging program, which is one of the most progressive sustainable packing programs of its kind on the planet.

“Dell and mushrooms might not seem to go hand-in-hand, but the theory behind the partnership is core to Dell’s environmental philosophy, and very much customer-inspired. Oliver Campbell, Dell’s director of procurement for packaging, explains that he found consumers’ dislike for styrofoam packaging five years ago. For consumers, Campbell says, the main desires were clear:

‘They came back with three major things. They wanted the packaging to be smaller, they wanted us to use more sustainable content and they wanted to have a way to responsibly dispose of the packaging in an eco-friendly manner,’ he says.”

We’re very proud of Dell’s innovative and sustainable packaging program that furthers our ongoing commitment to the environment and enables our customers the power to be green too!

Related posts:

Mashable: Your Next Gadget Might Be Packaged in … Mushrooms?
Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/08/ecovative-design-new-york_n_1330090.html
Inbound Logistics: http://www.inboundlogistics.com/cms/article/packaging-grows-green/

Weekly Recap: Dell in the News - May 11th edition

Chris Byrd, Corp Comm Social Media Team — Fri, 11 May 2012 17:00:00 GMT

Welcome to the latest edition of the Weekly Recap, your guide to the week's Dell-related news and happenings.

Story of the Week

Dell NYC Solution Center Open for IT Business eWeek – May 10, 2012
Ever since 2007, when it plunked down more than $1 billion to buy storage provider EqualLogic, Dell has tried to move away from being a one-dimensional PC maker to become a full-fledged IT service provider in the mold of IBM and the company’s main rival, Hewlett-Packard.

Other Dell News

Dell completes SonicWall acquisition CRN – May 10, 2012
Dell has finalised its acquisition of SonicWall, a move that adds network security, secure remote access, e-mail security, backup/recovery, and management/reporting to its enterprise and SMB offerings.

CloudStore - the pathway to improving SME participation Business Cloud News – May 9, 2012
Alan Mac Neela, the UK Government Director for Dell, discusses how to improve SME engagement in the delivery of the Government’s ICT strategy, and how consortia can support this as well as enhancing partnerships between large vendors and SMEs.

Opinion: Information is the lifeblood of healthcare Computing – May 9, 2012
It’s rare that a day goes by without a story about healthcare problems somewhere in the world. UK and Canadian citizens face longer waiting times for specialised services.

When the Devices Are Done Wall Street Journal – May 8, 2012
It is time for spring cleaning, or as I think of it, my yearly chance to shove old technology products to the back of my storage closet. Instead, this should be a chance to take advantage of companies' stepped-up recycling efforts.

Dell announces PowerEdge C5220 server with Intel Ivy Bridge chips TechWorld – May 8, 2012
Dell has announced a new microserver, the PowerEdge C5220, with Intel's first Xeon server processors based on the Ivy Bridge microarchitecture, which has not been officially announced by the chip maker yet.

Red Hat, Dell announce OEM partnership Network World – May 8, 2012
The announcement Tuesday of a new partnership between Dell and Red Hat could mark a further expansion of open-source software use in the enterprise.

Dell Delivers Desktop-as-a-Service Information Week – May 7, 2012
Dell will be at Citrix Systems' Synergy user group conference in San Francisco this week, talking about its ability to deliver virtual desktops in partnership with VMware and Citrix Systems. No surprises there. More surprising, however, is its partnership with a younger and smaller company, Desktone.

Dell tests open-source laptop for developers GigaOM – May 7, 2012
What is it that web developers want? That’s what Dell is trying to find out with its just-launched Project Sputnik, an “experimental” laptop bundled with Ubuntu Linux plus utilities, and with an easy on-ramp to github repositories coming soon.

Dell Launches Social Media Training for B2B Channel Partners Social Media B2B – May 7, 2012
Dell recently launched a social media training program for its B2B channel partners “to help our partners fully leverage social media tools to improve the lines of communication while elevating their own marketing efforts.”

Your Next Gadget Might Be Packaged in … Mushrooms? Mashable – May 4, 2012
Dell has offered environmentally-friendly bamboo-based packaging since 2009, but is now experimenting with an even faster renewable — mushroom. The manufacturer is currently running a high-volume pilot scheme with a Fortune 50 company to supply the Dell PowerEdge R710 server multipacks safely encased in packaging that has been grown, rather than manufactured.

Virtualization is the new healthcare reality EHR Intelligence – May 3, 2012
A major roadblock in the way of getting doctors and nurses to adopt novel health information technology (HIT) solutions stems from their belief that using HIT may distract them from their primary goal, to provide patients with quality healthcare.

Dell Press Releases

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Industry Quotes & Insight

“It goes back to when Michael Dell came back as the CEO and we rewrote our strategy. Services became a bigger priority. There are two threads. One is the turnaround that we have seen in the PC and hardware business. The other is the transformation into the solutions business, which takes a long time.” – Steve Schuckenbrock, president, Dell Services

“Dell offers an end to-end solution service set around everything from the network to the cloud and content...It’s a little-known fact that Dell is the No. 1 infrastructure provider for the public cloud today.” - Laurie Hutto-Hill, AVP and general manager, Telecommunications Media & Entertainment

“About $13 billion of our commercial revenue comes through the channel. With 120,000 registered partners in 140 countries, we are focused on being easy to work with for competent and capable channel partners.” - Greg Davis, vice president of global commercial channels, Dell

“Sputnik is part of an effort by Dell to better understand and serve the needs of developers in web companies. We want to finds ways to make the developer experience as powerful and simple as possible.” – Barton George, Dell cloud computing group evangelist

“Creatives and businesses can now choose Dell desktops available with Intel's 3rd generation quad-core processors, delivering the performance they crave to pursue their professional passions…At the same time, we're enhancing our Inspiron line-up to give multimedia buffs optimized audio and more features for an improved entertainment experience." - Sam Burd, vice president and general manager of product development for Dell

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Dell Boomi Wins 2012 CODiE Award for “Best Web Services Solution”

Ralph Hibbs — Fri, 11 May 2012 15:05:00 GMT

We don’t normally like to brag, but Dell Boomi is very proud today. Having just returned from the 7^th annual All About the Cloud conference in San Francisco where the awards presentation took place yesterday evening, I am incredibly proud to announce that Dell Boomi has just won the 2012 CODiE Award for the “Best Web Services Solution” category!

The industry’s only peer-reviewed awards program and now in its 27^th year, the CODiE Awards are an incredible honor and the fact that they have acknowledged Boomi AtomSphere is an amazing feeling of pride for Boomi, Dell, our customers and partners.

We are also incredibly excited that this is our second consecutive CODiE win since becoming a part of Dell. The pace at which our success continues to grow at since joining Dell and our desire to keep producing innovation for both our customers and Dell as a whole is a shining example of Dell’s commitment to identifying unique technology solutions and accelerating their growth with support post-acquisition.

Even more, this award is a testament to the crucial role Web services play in enterprises of all sizes, and reinforces the value of our pure cloud platform. We work incredibly hard to make sure that is the best product it can possibly be and just want to say thanks again to everyone who helps make it as great as it is.

We have many more exciting developments in the near future and can’t wait to share more soon, so until then, thank you again!

Enjoy fast and easy printing, direct from your Android mobile device

Paul Nicholson — Thu, 10 May 2012 15:00:00 GMT

As smart mobile devices become more common, customers are viewing their devices as virtual remote controls, and all-in-one tools for accomplishing their personal and business needs with the ease of wireless connectivity.

This growing need is evident in the imaging industry as customers seek to print content directly from their mobile devices to their printers. With the launch of the new Dell Mobile Print app, users can now enjoy the convenience of fast, direct printing from their Android mobile devices.

As an end-to-end solutions provider, Dell recognizes that the Android operating system is fast becoming an important end user computing platform. We’re pleased to offer customers a quick and easy way of printing photos, documents, web content and more direct from Android mobile devices to supported Dell branded network printers on a Wi-Fi or Ethernet network. The Dell Mobile Print application is free for download via Google Play for an enhanced Dell mobile printing experience.

The app supports direct printing from the most apps, including office documents, emails, web content, photos, PDFs and more. Additional features include an easy-to-use and intuitive user interface and the automatic discovery of nearby printers in as fast as three seconds.

Receive your first printout (first page out time) in as fast as 10 seconds by following these simple steps:

Select Print from Dell Mobile Print App
Select application to print from
Select desired file/s to print
Select print preview, then select PRINT
From there, you will see a landing page with print progress displayed

A list of supported Dell printers and system requirements can be found on the Google Play landing page. If you operate one of these printers in the workplace or at home, check out the app and let us know your thoughts in the comments below!

Six Great Human and Computer Collaborations

David Whitworth — Thu, 10 May 2012 13:00:00 GMT

At Dell, we are always fascinated by the power of people and computers coming together to create even more than they could have done on their own. Not only have we seen the incredible force of social media on our own business, but we have also seen some of our products, like laptops, workstations and servers, power some truly amazing innovation. For example, two of our services, Educational Technology and EMR Solutions, are key contributors to the spreading of two of the wonderful collaborations listed below.

1) Human Genome Project

The Human Genome Project cost $3 billion.
The project took 13 years to complete.
The human genome contains over 20,000 genes and 3 billion base pairs.

The Human Genome Project was a massive undertaking. Without computers, the work of sorting out that information would take the dedicated effort of an entire civilization. In fact, because computers improved so much during the course of the research, the project was actually completed two years ahead of schedule.

2) Revolutionizing Revolution

Facebook has 845 million active users.
The average Facebook user has 130 friends.
Twitter has 127 million active users.
54% of Twitter users use Twitter on their mobile devices.
36% of Twitter users tweet at least once a day.

Revolutions occur when the human desire for freedom is combined with a galvanizing idea to change society. Today, face-to-face contact and printed calls to action have been joined by social media as ways to spread ideas and organize like never before. This impact is even greater when combined with cellphones allowing protestors to coordinate more quickly and safely. From Occupy Wall Street to the Arab Spring, the digital world has shown that it can change the real world. And the explosion of human information with interconnected digital collaboration in the world is only increasing.

Source:
http://www.onlinemba.com/

3) Digitizing Books

CAPTCHA is an acronym for: "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart"
Spammers have been known to pay approximately $1.00 (US) for each 1,000 solved CAPTCHAs to companies employing human solvers.
Google set out to scan approximately 15 million books by 2014, but they passed the 12 million mark as early as June, 2010.

You may feel like CAPTCHA, the all-too-familiar blurry scramble of letters required to access many websites, is a waste of time. So did the inventors of CAPTCHA, who went on to create reCAPTCHA. The words for this system are pulled from a massive database of words from scanned library books – so now, the 200 million daily users of reCAPTCHA are helping to preserve and decipher a huge digital archive… the epitome of humans and computers coming together for greater good.

Sources:
Grossman, Lev (2008-06-05). "Computer Literacy Tests: Are You Human?". Time (magazine).
Bajaj, Vikas (April 25, 2010). "Spammers Pay Others to Answer Security Tests". The New York Times. Retrieved 2010-04-28
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/google_inc/google_book_search/index.html

4) Education

High school graduates can expect a $200,000 greater lifetime tax revenue
In a study measuring the benefit of introducing technology in education:

45% of schools with some computers in the classroom have lower dropout rates.
58% of schools where every student had a computer had lower dropout rates.
81% of schools where teachers properly integrated computers in the learning process had lower dropout rates.

25% of would-be dropouts graduating from college equals $6.25 billion in tax revenue per year

Studies show that integrating computers into the classroom lowers dropout rates - and schools with higher laptops to kids ratios see an even better result. However, the biggest impact comes when educators and technology come together in the right way…through things like routine developmental assessments and teacher collaboration.

Source:
http://projectred.org/uploads/ISTE%202010%20Presentation%20v2.pdf

5) Electronic Medical Records (EMR)

Switching fully to electronic records would save the U.S. medical industry $2 billion annually.
An electronic medical record system can reduce deaths due to preventable errors in hospitals by up to 25 percent.
Over 500,000 patients are injured by drug errors every year.
Fewer than 10 percent of U.S. physicians have a fully functional electronic record system.

As medical records and communications move to a digital format, preventable errors will be reduced. Hospitals will be able to provide better care and doctors will have more time to spend on patients instead of paperwork.

Sources:
http://www.chitrec.org/news/cdc-issues-latest-emrehr-adoption-figures-among-office-based-physicians
http://www.medpagetoday.com/PracticeManagement/InformationTechnology/19928

6) Oil and Gas Meet Technology

75% of today's oil was discovered before 1980.
2/3s of oil produced in the next 20 years will be new discoveries.

Energy companies face growing demand and increasing costs. Computer technology helps them to predict the location of new oil and gas deposits. By speeding the process of exploration and reducing the number of exploratory wells needed, computer simulations reduce the costs and environmental footprints of energy exploration.

Source:
http://www.exxonmobil.com/Corporate/energy_outlook.aspx

More on the Ivy Bridge upgrade for new Alienware notebooks

Lionel Menchaca, Chief Blogger — Wed, 09 May 2012 01:15:00 GMT

Last week, John Blain mentioned that we’d be upgrading orders of the new Alienware M14x, M17x and M18x laptops we recently introduced. Since then, sites like Engadget, The Verge and Ubergizmo took notice, and since then some customers have had some questions. I wanted to take a few minutes to clarify some details on the subject.

If you ordered one of the new Alienware M14, M17 or 18x laptops after we introduced them on April 19, we’ve upgraded your order from the 2nd generation Intel quad core processor to the equivalent 3rd generation aka “Ivy Bridge” processor. There is one dual-core configuration of the Alienware M14x configuration that does not have an Ivy Bridge equivalent—because only quad core 3rd generation Intel processors are available at this time. Outside of that, all customers globally who have ordered one of the new systems should receive 3rd generation Ivy Bridge processors when your order ships (if it hasn’t already).

For those of you who have already received your new system, the easiest way to confirm the processor is via the System Properties in Windows 7. Here’s how to get there:

Click on the Start Button
Right Click on Computer (or whatever you renamed your machine to)
Click Properties

This should bring you to the System Properties information window which will look like this:

The screenshot above reflects an i7 Quad Core Ivy Bridge processor. If you ordered an i7 configuration, you should see something like “Intel ® Core ™ i7 3xxx QM CPU” in the Processor field. The key is the 3xxx part—it’s three as in third-generation Intel Core processor.

If you still have questions, or if you ordered one of these new systems and find out you do not have an Ivy Bridge (third-generation Intel Core) processor, let me know in the comments or send an e-mail message with your order number or service tag to Direct2Dell@Dell.com.

Dell and SAP Announce Cloud Migration and Joint Solution Offerings

Stephen Spector — Tue, 08 May 2012 16:00:00 GMT

Dell today announced a 60 day promotional offer available by the end of May for customers looking to move their SAP solutions into a secure, enterprise class hybrid and public cloud. Leveraging the Dell vCloud with VMware vCloud Datacenter Service, customers running SAP solutions are offered the state of the art in secure, enterprise proven cloud technology managed by Dell with experience in providing quality cloud services.

Introduced are two new offers:

Dell Cloud Starter Kit for SAP Solutions – Helps organizations get started on their cloud journey quickly by providing customers with 60 day access to Dell’s enterprise-class, secure cloud environment. This offer includes compute power equivalent to 8,000 SAP Application Performance Standard (SAPS) unit of measure, is powered by Dell Cloud with VMware vCloud Datacenter Services and is coupled with Dell’s established consulting, application and infrastructure services in support of SAP solutions.
Dell Cloud Development Kit for SAP Solutions – By offering a rich development for running SAP applications, the Dell Cloud Development Kit for SAP Solutions provides Dell’s proven consulting services with an annual access to a robust 32,000 SAPS of capacity. In addition to superior application integration capabilities, Dell’s industry leading cloud platform, Dell Boomi, is also included.

In addition to moving SAP applications to the cloud, this offer also includes Dell modernization services to help organizations fully unlock the potential of emerging technologies. Dell Services not only provides expert guidance from project to completion, but we also also includes end-to-end consulting services to help organizations assess, define and implement the most appropriate solutions, tailored to meet a variety of needs and investment levels. The Dell services portfolio includes the following:

Dell Modernization Assessment for SAP Solutions – develop a roadmap to migrate, upgrade and enhance your SAP landscape.
Dell Cloud for SAP Solutions – agile, flexible infrastructure offered in pay per use model.
Dell Mobility for SAP Solutions - mobile SAP application blueprint & development services.
Dell Migration Services for SAP Solutions - “Safely” migrate SAP from UNIX or existing x86 to Dell Cloud platforms
Dell Application Upgrade Services for SAP Solutions – upgrade your SAP landscape with latest patches and code sets

For more information on this exclusive offering for SAP customers, please look for Dell at the SAP SAPPHIRE NOW and ASUG Annual Conference from May 14-16, 2012 in Orlando, FL..