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• #3: In the last 20 years or so , many changes have transformed IT. The old-time perception of IT as a necessary cost (kind of “evil”) to keep things better organized but bringing little competitive advantage to the company bottom line has dramatically changed We moved into a more “evolved” period when IT was tasked to measure everything. Companies were worry to avoid competitive disadvantage, in terms of accessing data, statistics, trends and reports. Only recently, IT has been recognized as instrumental to the company success, a mean to real differentiation (like a product). From inventory control to sales predicting models, it has been recognized as Value Center. As in a virtuous pattern, IT progressed from a spending to a making money role. Re-centralized Applications: A concept that belongs to the Mainframe-era but with a totally different agility, flexibility and responsiveness to support it. Seamless Processes: Consistent, Interconnected and Integrated Processes, enabling internal customers (employees) with innovative ways to enhance their productivity and effectiveness, and add to the company value-chain. This means connecting the operational processes, business productivity and IT spaces to deliver an integrated, unified, personalized view of data, tasks, and business status to employees. Business Service Based: Support IT Services through individual Self-Service accesses; Support Performance and Predictability Analytics for the business Business Dynamics: Business variability reflecting ever-changing requirements of the business and the market. This implies readiness and resources Flexibility to be provided through Automation. Cost Center Run daily operations Reactive Labor intensive Few applications Process Center Technology oriented Performance metric Productivity improvement Disjoined processes Value Center Re-centralized applications User oriented Seamless processes Business service based
• #4: Led the way in embedded management capabilities. Understood what customers were grappling with, delivered technology that alleviated a huge time/resource challenge Dell PowerEdge 12th generation Agent-Free monitoring: Installing, testing, and maintaining software agents for monitoring server components is time consuming for IT resources and utilize precious CPU cycles. It is common in the industry to require agents or drivers to monitor many components such as Network Adapters and RAID cards. Our Dell PowerEdge 12th generation servers differ from others; we have “fired your agents” to deliver agent-free monitoring for NICs, RAID, and other components. Dell has over 3.5 Million servers in market with Embedded Management through iDRAC with Lifecycle Controller Competitive Advantage: HP has a sub-par first generation embedded system management in their latest generation of servers (2+ years after Dell) OpenManage simplifies management by reducing the number of tools and speeds the procedures required to deploy, update, monitor and maintain systems In a data center with 10,000 servers, not having to maintain management agents can result in a savings of up to $2.5M over the servers’ lifecycle. *Calculations based on February, 2012 testing by Principled Technologies on an enterprise with 10,000 servers supporting a total of 20 configurations of operating systems, applications, and hardware with fully-loaded system administrator costs of $98,000/per year.
• #6: Dell’s approach to systems management is centered on the server lifecycle – Deploy, Update, Monitor, Maintain. We understand that to manage an infrastructure properly and efficiently you need to be able to perform all of these functions – and you want to do them as easily and quickly as possible – so that you can spend more time and energy working on improvements to your business - and less on maintenance.
• #8: Led the way in embedded management capabilities. Understood what customers were grappling with, delivered technology that alleviated a huge time/resource challenge Dell PowerEdge 12th generation Agent-Free monitoring: Installing, testing, and maintaining software agents for monitoring server components is time consuming for IT resources and utilize precious CPU cycles. It is common in the industry to require agents or drivers to monitor many components such as Network Adapters and RAID cards. Our Dell PowerEdge 12th generation servers differ from others; we have “fired your agents” to deliver agent-free monitoring for NICs, RAID, and other components. Dell has over 3.5 Million servers in market with Embedded Management through iDRAC with Lifecycle Controller Competitive Advantage: HP has a sub-par first generation embedded system management in their latest generation of servers (2+ years after Dell) OpenManage simplifies management by reducing the number of tools and speeds the procedures required to deploy, update, monitor and maintain systems In a data center with 10,000 servers, not having to maintain management agents can result in a savings of up to $2.5M over the servers’ lifecycle. *Calculations based on February, 2012 testing by Principled Technologies on an enterprise with 10,000 servers supporting a total of 20 configurations of operating systems, applications, and hardware with fully-loaded system administrator costs of $98,000/per year.
• #10: The console sends an email or SMS to a mobile device with required information and launches VNC viewer application on the management station. This VNC viewer can connect to OS/Hypervisor on the server and provide access to keyboard, video and mouse of the host server to perform the necessary remediation.
• #11: OME: Simple and efficient Modern UI and faster responsiveness Easy to install with low-touch maintenance Simple to use and self-learning Link and launch element management and technical support Basic HW element management Monitor Dell servers, storage, networking and business clients 3rd party hardware monitoring Update Dell servers Report server asset information (Service Tag, FRU and Warranty, etc.) Agent-free management Discover/correlate server/iDRAC and chassis/server nodes Monitor 12G servers Update 11G/12G servers Windows, Linux and ESXi inventory and update CMC for VRTX: Consistent technology with CMC for data center blades
• #12: The 12th generation release also introduces OpenManage Essentials, a hardware management console for reducing the complexity of basic management tasks. It is simple to install, low touch, easy to maintain, and optimized for use by the IT generalist to monitor and maintain server, storage and networking devices . Update functionality only applies to servers – monitoring includes servers, storage and networking. OpenManage Essentials does NOT include client systems management. Dell KACE provides comprehensive management of client systems. Simple and painless migration from existing ITA environments.
• #13: DEPLOY Dell Server and Client Deployment Packs for System Center Configuration Manager Agent-free: Server Deployment Pack automates bare-metal deployment and utilizes Dell Lifecycle Controller Integration for ConfigMgr for agent-free operations With an agent: Leverage Dell OpenManage Deployment Toolkit (DTK) for PxE-based OS deployment Client Deployment Pack simplifies the image deployment process for Dell business client PCs Update Dell Server and Client Update Catalogs for Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager Agent-free: Utilize Dell Lifecycle Controller Integration for ConfigMgr for uniform update procedures in multi-vendor operating system and hypervisor environments Update PowerEdge servers/blades BIOS and firmware With an agent: Update BIOS and firmware Supports system bundles Update Dell servers, blades and business client PCs Monitor Dell Management Packs for System Center Operations Manager Agent-free: Review health status and hardware events Operate agent-free to inventory and monitor Dell PowerEdge server status by leveraging Dell Lifecycle Controller Integration With an agent: Review health status and hardware events Monitor Dell PowerEdge servers, PowerVault MD-series, EqualLogic and Compellent storage, Precision workstations, OptiPlex desktops, Latitude notebooks and Dell printers Virtual Management Dell Server PRO Management Pack with PRO-Tips for System Center Operations Manager and Virtual Machine Manager With an agent: Monitor the health status of Dell PowerEdge physical host servers Recommend remedial actions such as live migration of VMs Enable optimal management of virtual resources
• #15: “Dell Management   Plug-in for       VMware vCenter” throughout the presentation as the new name is “OpenManage™ Integration for VMware vCenter”.So what is Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter? Simply put it is a consolidation of traditional tools and tasks associated with deploying, managing and updating servers in a virtual environment. Dell’s solution is one of a kind in the industry in that we can natively deploy, from bare metal, a server with ESX. Additionally it can consolidate alerts and offer remediation suggestions, update the firmware and BIOS from vCenter and timed to minimize risk, and give you visibility to service and warranty history of the servers.
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• #17: 12G Agent-free savings Save up to $250 per server or up to 5 ½ hour time over the server lifecycle with agent-free management that does not require installation, testing, and maintenance of a systems management software agent compared to the competition. Part Replacement 6X faster Just press the power button.  Then you can return your servers to productivity up to 6X faster than the competition with Dell’s automatic part replacement.   Deploy OS 3X faster Remotely deploy Windows 2008 on a Dell PowerEdge 12th generation server with iDRAC7 up to 3X faster than the competition. Servers to productivity faster Get your new servers to productivity fast.  Just plug in your new Dell PowerEdge 12th generation server and iDRAC7 with Lifecycle Controller takes care of the rest.  Dell’s Lifecycle Controller Integration with Microsoft System Center can save up to 86% of your administrator’s time with deployment.  You don’t even have to press the power button. Streamline and Automate Streamline and automate essential systems management tasks using iDRAC7 with Lifecycle Controller enable bare-metal deployment and provisioning with up to 85.5 percent less administrator time, up to 86 percent fewer manual steps completes in up to 28 percent less time than a comparable environment utilizing an PXE-based server deployment process.*
• #18: For details see Naples Community hospital Case Study Naples Community Hospital (NCH) Naples, Florida 450 Bed Community Hospital Part of the NCH Healthcare system with 2 hospitals and 4 diagnostic imaging clinics. 290,000 imaging studies Multi-slice CT scanners, high field MRI, PET, nuclear medicine, three ultrasounds Challenge 450 bed hospital in Naples, Florida had images on different media, because media changed every year or two, and they were always struggling to upgrade their hardware, add more space and migrate data to the new media. Significant internal resources such as FTEs to manage the archive, with devotion of time and energy to support two off-site archives. Solution The healthcare system implemented Dell Cloud Clinical Archive solution for medical image cloud-based storage and distribution services and has had no problem adding modalities and expanding the system enterprise-wide. For disaster recovery, acquired images are automatically sent to Dell’s mirrored data center. Benefits • System archives 7.2 terabytes with five years on online images. • Pay-as-you-go model requires no upfront capital investment. • Cloud archiving structure enables future growth of imaging services. • Disaster recovery solid strategy for business continuity. Challenge Naples Community Hospital is a 450 bed hospital in Naples, FL with 4 multi specialty diagnostic imaging clinics: Growing cost and complexity of managing 2 offsite data archives Technology obsolescence costs related to storing images on multiple media Solution Dell Cloud Clinical Archive solution for cloud-based storage and distribution of images High availability with 5 years data onsite Infrastructure simplification Data consolidation across modalities Automated backup / replication Pay-as-you-go model Managed service model frees up IT bandwidth Reliable disaster recovery strategy