When it comes to deploying new applications and optimizing workloads, Dell brings in the collective best practices of a wide variety of customer sets and technology partners to help simplify the decisions IT leaders make every day. In this session, you will learn about Dell Blueprints, a streamlined approach that helps customers navigate the technology and deployment choices for key workloads—including cloud/virtualization, data analytics, data processing, high-performance computing and other business applications—to optimize performance and accelerate business outcomes.
15. 15 Dell – Confidential
Backed by Solid Engineering
in 3 development centers
Austin
Solutions
Engineering
Walldorf
Solutions
Engineering
Bangalore
Solutions
Engineering
Dell Solution Centers
16. • Closed management stack
• Limited interoperability
• Lock-in penalty
New proprietary solutions
• Complex and monolithic
• High cost-per-transaction
• Proprietary to one vendor
Legacy systems
• Hardware with no value added
• Technology transition issues
• Limited vendor support
Commodity systems
A scalable, end-to-end
approach that delivers:
The Optimized Enterprise
• Rapid time to value
• Superior ease of use
• Unrivaled flexibility to adapt
An approach that leads to better results
Increasing
operating
costs
Decreasing
operating
costs
Decreasing
acquisition
costs
Increasing
acquisition
costs
Initial
costs
Ongoing
costs
Initial
costs
Ongoing
costs
Initial
costs
Ongoing
costs
Initial
costs
Ongoing
costs
17. • Complex and monolithic
• High cost-per-transaction
• Proprietary to one vendor
Legacy systems
A scalable, end-to-end
approach that delivers:
The Optimized Enterprise
Increasing
operating
costs
Increasing
acquisition
costs
Initial
costs
Ongoing
costs
18. • Hardware with no value added
• Technology transition issues
• Limited vendor support
Commodity systems
A scalable, end-to-end
approach that delivers:
The Optimized Enterprise
• Rapid time to value
• Superior ease of use
• Unrivaled flexibility to adapt
Increasing
operating
costs
Decreasing
operating
costs
Initial
costs
Ongoing
costs
Decreasing
acquisition
costs
19.
20. • Hardware with no value added
• Technology transition issues
• Limited vendor support
Commodity systems
A scalable, end-to-end
approach that delivers:
The Optimized Enterprise
• Rapid time to value
• Superior ease of use
• Unrivaled flexibility to adapt
Increasing
operating
costs
Decreasing
operating
costs
Initial
costs
Ongoing
costs
Decreasing
acquisition
costs
21. • Closed management stack
• Limited interoperability
• Lock-in penalty
New proprietary solutions
A scalable, end-to-end
approach that delivers:
• Rapid time to value
• Superior ease of use
• Unrivaled flexibility to adapt
Decreasing
operating
costs
Increasing
acquisition
costs
Initial
costs
Ongoing
costs
Picture taken from “Oracle Exadata installation
guide”.. ”carefully push oracle Exadata from behind”
22. • Closed management stack
• Limited interoperability
• Lock-in penalty
New proprietary solutions
• Complex and monolithic
• High cost-per-transaction
• Proprietary to one vendor
Legacy systems
• Hardware with no value added
• Technology transition issues
• Limited vendor support
Commodity systems
A scalable, end-to-end
approach that delivers:
The Optimized Enterprise
• Rapid time to value
• Superior ease of use
• Unrivaled flexibility to adapt
An approach that leads to better results
Increasing
operating
costs
Decreasing
operating
costs
Decreasing
acquisition
costs
Increasing
acquisition
costs
Initial
costs
Ongoing
costs
Initial
costs
Ongoing
costs
Initial
costs
Ongoing
costs
Initial
costs
Ongoing
costs
23. A scalable, end-to-end
approach that delivers:
The Optimized Enterprise
• Rapid time to value
• Superior ease of use
• Unrivaled flexibility to adapt
Decreasing
operating
costs
Decreasing
acquisition
costs
Initial
costs
Ongoing
costs
An approach that leads to better results
Standards-based
No deliberate technology lock-in
Open approach
No intentionally closed
ecosystems
Modern portfolio
No vested interest in legacy
systems
End-to-end solutions
No siloed viewpoint or
hidden agenda /Focused on OPEX
Flexible scaling
No forced constraints or
rip-and-replace
Modular systems
No costly monolithic stacks
Legacy systems Commodity systems
New proprietary solutions
24. Times They are a changing!
Figure 2. Magic Quadrant for NetworkingFigure 2. Magic Quadrant for modular servers
25. Figure 2. Magic Quadrant for managed secruityFigure 2. Magic Quadrant for managed Integration software
28. Dell Server Marketing
The best of both worlds!
What do you get when you combine the best of blades and
rack servers?
Density and
shared
infrastructure
efficiency
BLADES
Simplicity and
cost benefits
RACKS
32. FRS FY16 Confidential
HP offers …. different systems
Apollo 8000
for super compute
ProLiant SL6500
for HPC
BladeSystem
for corporate IT
Apollo
6000
for light
analytics
ProLiant SL2500
for HPC
Moonshot
for VDI
Each workload has its own unique (read proprietary) server
Integrity
for mission critical
33. FRS FY16 Confidential
PowerEdge FX2: One platform, unparalleled workload agility
Workload examples Example FX2 configuration How it looks
• VSAN
• Small Hadoop cluster
• 4 x 2-socket FC430
• 2 x FD332
• Storage heavy VSAN
• Performance database
• 2 x 2-socket FC430
• 3 x FD332
• Performance database
• Dense virtualization & VDI
• 1 x 4-socket FC830
• 2 x FD332
• Virtualization farm
• VDI
• 4 x 2-socket FC630
• Database consolidation • 2 x 4-socket FC830
• Low-latency HPC • 8 x 2-socket FC430
• Physical hosting
• Light analytics
• 4 x FM120x4
• Virtualization with network
storage
• 8 x 2-socket FC430
Workload examples Example FX2 configuration How it looks