Dell Eliminates IT Complexity with a Single View into IT Infrastructure and a Standards-Based Integration Program

Dell today introduced Dell Management Console (DMC) and Dell ISV Partner Program in PartnerDirect. DMC software unites systems management across IT environments through a single console, reducing or eliminating manual systems management processes and allowing businesses to save time, money, and resources which can be redirected to strategic projects.

Dell challenges existing management framework approaches from vendors like HP by delivering a simple, open-standards, and modular approach that includes tight integration with an industry leading systems management solution. The Dell ISV Partner Program enables ISVs (Industry Software Vendors) by offering systems management toolkits, technical documentation, integration guides and engineering support.

The News:

Dell Management Console Simplifies Systems Management

• DMC provides total infrastructure management functionality for client, servers and storage – from basic hardware management to more advanced functions like asset and security management – in a single console.
  • A comparable solution from HP may require up to 9 consoles and more than 50 percent more back-end hardware than DMC¹.
• DMC’s flexible framework is designed to work with customers’ existing environments as well as other vendors’ hardware to provide a truly heterogeneous solution to help reduce management time.
  • DMC service enabled connectors can easily cover new technology implementations and can share data with existing management tools.
  • DMC pulls data from other systems management software allowing all infrastructure management to be represented in a single, intuitive user interface.

Dell ISV Partner Program Increases Management Functionality without Adding New Tools to Manage

• The Dell ISV Partner Program maintains a development environment for system management vendors to integrate their tools with Dell’s platform manageability to help reduce IT complexity.
  • Customers value integration in a standards-based systems management framework. Currently Dell has 12 ISV Certified Partners, including some of the industry’s most recognized vendors, certified on 20 systems management applications with more than 100 registered ISVs and 20 additional IT management products in the certification pipeline.
• Dell empowers customers to get the most out of their IT environment by tightly integrated third-party systems management tools with toolkits to deploy, monitor and update Dell platforms.

Quotes:

• "Dell is committed to simplifying IT so customers can save time, reduce expenses, and focus on their core business. The new Dell Management Console improves systems management with a single view of the entire infrastructure. In addition, our approach to open-standards and partnering with systems management vendors mean that our mutual customers get more management functionality with fewer management tools.” -- Sally Stevens, Director, PowerEdge Platform Marketing, Dell.
• "Symantec and Dell have a close collaboration to develop open systems management solutions that can reduce complexity to let companies focus on their business needs. Dell Management Console, powered by Altiris from Symantec, allows companies to manage other leading systems management solutions with a single view of their total IT environment.” -- Greg Hughes, Group President, Enterprise Product Group, Symantec.
• "BMC Software is proud to be a Dell ISV Advanced Certified Partner and a preferred solution for managing large IT infrastructures built on Dell PowerEdge Servers. Dell uses our Business Service Management platform in their data centers and the results Dell has recognized with BMC are now available to Dell customers looking for enterprise-class IT management and automation solutions. It’s clear why BMC is a leader for managing highly complex IT environments, including the virtualized, cloud-based IT infrastructures of the future.” -- Jim Grant, BMC’s senior vice president of strategy and corporate development.
• "Customers need to reduce IT costs while also aligning IT with business needs and new opportunities,” "Customers now have a winning combination of Dell’s new 11G servers running Windows Server 2008 Hyper-v and Microsoft System Center management suite. Dell’s consulting services can help simplify and accelerate the deployment of this powerful and high-value solution for customers.” -- Simon Witts, corporate vice president, Enterprise and Partner.
• "Dell Management Console will help us automate a full range of IT processes so our IT group can spend less time fighting fires and more time working on ways to improve the business. Dell Management Console shows that Dell is listening to its enterprise customers and applying feedback directly into products that will help increase IT efficiency.” -- Dennis Von Burg, network manager, LSI, Inc.
• "To get a complete view of our infrastructure today, we need to manually combine reports from three different systems. Dell Management Console will eliminate that process, which will help streamline our IT management.” -- Kevin Jones, project manager, CSX.

Additional Information:

Dell Management Console

Dell ISV Partner Program

Dell Systems Management Partners

More information on Symantec Management Platform

About Dell

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¹ Based on a study commissioned by Dell and conducted by Ptak, Noel & Associates L.L.C. in March 2008, "Does Dell Beat HP at IT Server Management Simplification."