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Review this InfoTech report that evaluates the latest storage array vendor landscape to help IT staff find the best match for their business and IT needs.

From modeling and simulating new products to analyzing ‘Big Data’ for insights into customer behaviors, achieving better results faster can be crucial for competitive advantages and success. High performance computing (HPC), long used for academic/government research, has gone mainstream, and is now used by companies and organizations in all fields—from finance to pharmaceuticals, from marketing to manufacturing, from e-commerce to engineering, from healthcare to homeland defense. Dell is a leader in HPC and can help you get better, faster insights and answers, no matter what your organization desires to achieve.

In today’s ever-changing, software-defined world, matching workloads to the right cloud solutions is incredibly challenging. Failure to do so can add complexity and lead to excessive spend on suboptimal cloud services. At this panel of Dell Cloud providers and customers, you will discover how our worldwide partnerships and in-depth expertise help organizations become future ready, optimizing cloud costs and workloads. You'll learn how our prescriptive cloud services have helped reduce risk and get the most of out of cloud investments. Regardless of geographic location or workload type, Dell can help you plan for your unique cloud future.

In this session, we will describe the key elements of a Dell EMC Isilon Data Lake and its key advantages including reduced IT costs, simplified management, increased operational flexibility and in-place data analytics. Dell EMC products to be featured include Isilon, ECS and Virtustream. In this session, you will learn about the Dell EMC Isilon Data Lake and its advantages including: • Data consolidation and increased efficiency to lower capital costs • Streamlined management to reduce operating costs • Improved operational flexibility and scalability to meet growing storage requirements • Simple integration with a choice of public or private cloud storage providers • Powerful in-place data analytics that accelerate time to insight while eliminating the need for a separate analytics storage infrastructure. You will also hear how this solution can be easily extended to include data from remote and branch office locations with an efficient software defined storage solution.  

SDDC is the modern approach in implementing and managing cloud data centers. Software-defined data center technology helps attain new levels of infrastructure utilization and staff productivity, substantially reducing both capital expenditures and operating costs. Enabling deployment of applications in minutes or even seconds with policy-driven provisioning that dynamically matches resources to continually changing workloads and business demands.

Dell provides simplified and flexible HPC solutions through modular and market-ready departmental systems. Their approach meets specific customer needs through the broadest server portfolio, including solutions for cloud, HPC classics, hyper scale, and more. Key touchstones of their HPC solutions include enabling research and development, providing centralized university research computing and data services, and focusing on customer needs through regional large-scale shared services.

The document outlines 10 steps to successful data center infrastructure management (DCIM) implementation. It discusses choosing a DCIM solution to address key problems, understanding current processes, focusing on features that solve problems rather than all features, gaining cross-functional alignment, starting small and expanding over time, ensuring integration with existing systems, taking advantage of vendor expertise, training staff, and partnering with an experienced DCIM vendor. It also provides case studies of DCIM implementations at several large companies that improved operational efficiency.

This document summarizes the benefits of High Performance Computing (HPC) and Dell's HPC solutions. It states that HPC is critical for solving big problems that require faster answers through integrated and scalable solutions. It then describes Dell's end-to-end HPC services including modular designs, expertise, and tools. Case studies show how Dell HPC solutions have benefited manufacturing, healthcare, finance, and energy customers. The document concludes by stating that Dell aims to help more organizations use HPC to drive innovation.

The document discusses data protection challenges and solutions from Dell. It notes that 23% of respondents desire increased reliability of backups/recoveries and 22% wish for increased speed or frequency of backups. Dell's data protection approach claims to restore applications and data 6x faster than legacy solutions with near-zero downtime. It provides extensible protection across physical, virtual and cloud in one solution. Dell solutions aim to help customers spend less, operate with more agility, and unlock time in their day.

Dell Solutions Tour 2014 Jan Bjelde Manager, Enterprise Solution Group, Dell Norway Arild Hansen System Enginer Server, Dell Norway Løsninger for Software defined and konvergert datasenter Gjennomgang av Dell VRTX som kan være verdens minste Konvergerte infrastruktur, et komplett konvergert og virtuelt datasenter ogkomponent i en Software Defined Storage løsning (SDS) “Softwared defined datasenter (SDDC) snur opp ned på tradisjonelle enterprise løsninger.Lagring lagres i server plattformer (SDS). Programvare i nettverket flyttes til virtuelle plattformer (SDN+NFV). Infrastruktur forenkles og enten leveres som stack’er i konvergert infrastruktur eller som standardiserte server plattformer (Hyper konvergens). Dell kommer med både moderniseringsstrategier og løsninger for det moderne datasenteret. Dell har mange nye produkter somoptimaliseres for det software definerte datasenter eller som konvergert infrastruktur for det virtuelle datasenter eller for SAP eller Oracle type workloads.»

NetApp OnCommand Insight (OCI) provides infrastructure analytics that can help organizations reduce storage and compute costs by 20% or more in under 90 days. It enables rapid identification of service issues to reduce support ticket resolution times by 95%. OCI also allows organizations to define, measure, and control service levels across internal and external cloud services while monitoring costs.

Cray Inc. provides supercomputing solutions to help customers solve complex problems in science, engineering, and analytics. Their systems integrate computing, storage, and analytics capabilities. Cray aims to build tools that enable scientists and researchers to make faster discoveries and help change the world through modeling, simulation, and analysis of large datasets. Cray's supercomputers are used across industries like earth sciences, life sciences, manufacturing, energy, and financial services to simulate real-world systems and gain insights.

Extracting value from a data lake implementation requires more than installation and data migration. IT and the business must consider impact to skill sets, culture, processes, governance, analytics, app development, user experience, and SLAs, just to name a few. In this session we will help you understand the best practices for data lake adoption and for your organization and how to avoid pitfalls along the way.

This document summarizes a webcast about using Clustered Data ONTAP 8.2 to provide breakthrough efficiency for virtual and private cloud environments. The webcast discusses how Clustered Data ONTAP 8.2 can help businesses address challenges around reducing storage costs, simplifying management, and accelerating business processes through features like nondisruptive operations, seamless scalability, and proven storage efficiency techniques. It also shares a success story of how Logicalis leveraged Clustered Data ONTAP 8.2 and the FlexPod solution to build efficient public cloud offerings for their customers.

In this webinar Storage Switzerland, Hitachi Data Systems and Brocade discuss why enterprises need to invest in big data analytics, how they can make that investment and what are some of the key requirements in designing a system.

How To Break “The Cycle” and Move To Hyperconvergence In this webinar, Storage Switzerland's George Crump and SimpliVity's Adam Sekora compare and contrast the suitability of SANs vs. hyperconverged architectures; examine the benefits of consolidating and reducing the number of discrete IT devices in lieu of hyperconverged infrastructure; and discuss the merits of simplified IT and its impact on technology refresh initiatives.

Next Generation Convergence and/or Converged Infrastructure should include Thermal, Power, Access Security and Out-of-Band Access, Control and Management!

The document discusses streaming data analytics and Hitachi's Streaming Data Platform (HSDP). HSDP is a real-time streaming software solution that can analyze massive amounts of data as it is generated in real-time. It allows businesses to gain valuable insights from data in motion and make timely decisions. HSDP is highly scalable, adaptable across industries, and can integrate with open source technologies. It enables use cases like real-time analytics, capturing perishable insights, and analyzing data distributed across locations and time.