Dell Technologies Delivers Industry-First Innovations with VMware

Dell Technologies is announcing new infrastructure solutions co-engineered with VMware that provide improved automation and performance for enterprises implementing multicloud and edge strategies.

Business data and applications continue to increase in multicloud setups that include edge locations, public clouds, and on-premises IT. Many enterprises have already implemented a multicloud strategy, and the number of apps running at the edge will increase by 800 percent by 2024.

Mary Johnston Turner, IDC Research Vice President, future of digital infrastructure agenda, said, “IDC’s global research shows many organizations are struggling to balance the rapidly rising complexity and cost of data center, edge and cloud operations with relentless business demand for better data integration, security and application performance. These organizations recognize the need for a consistent operating model tightly integrated with infrastructure platforms that support sophisticated, large scale data-driven workloads.”

Dell VxRail delivers greater performance and smallest-ever systems at the edge

Dell is introducing several new VxRail systems and software advancements that improve performance on-premises and at the edge including the industry’s only jointly engineered HCI-based DPU solution with VMware.

• Improved system performance: A result of co-engineering with VMware and its Project Monterey initiative, VxRail systems support new VMware vSphere 8 software that has been rearchitected to run on DPUs. Customers can improve application and networking infrastructure performance and improve TCO by moving these services from a system’s CPU to its new on-board DPU.

• Support demanding workloads: Select VxRail systems now support VMware’s new vSAN Enterprise Storage Architecture (ESA). With up to 4x vSAN performance improvement3, customers can better support demanding mission-critical applications.

• Smallest edge systems: VxRail rugged modular nodes deliver high performance and scalability in the system’s smallest form factor to date.4 Modular nodes are ideal for edge use cases including healthcare, energy and utilities and digital cities because of VxRail’s industry-first, on-board hardware witness, which allows for deployment in high latency, low bandwidth locations.

Dell APEX expands multicloud and edge support for VMware environments

Dell is expanding its APEX portfolio for VMware workloads with three new offerings designed to accelerate the creation of cloud-native apps and better allocate compute and storage resources for edge applications.

APEX Cloud Services with VMware Cloud offers managed VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid services, allowing IT companies to help developers move quicker by employing a container-based approach to application development. Customers can provision Kubernetes clusters via the vSphere user interface when using Dell-managed Tanzu services. Organizations will also be able to accelerate development efforts by designing, testing, and operating cloud-native applications alongside traditional applications on the same platform.

APEX Private Cloud and APEX Hybrid Cloud offer new compute-only options that allow customers to support more workloads and increase IT infrastructure efficiency by independently scaling compute and storage resources. Organizations can start small and scale their infrastructure as their IT needs change. Customers can use Dell’s industry-leading enterprise storage data services by connecting compute-only instances to Dell storage such as APEX Data Storage Services.

Dell Validated Designs for AI – AutoML uses AI to democratize data science

Dell Validated Designs for AI – Automatic Machine Learning (AutoML) uses automated machine learning models to help data scientists of all skill levels develop AI-powered applications.

The solution incorporates tried and proven Dell VxRail hyperconverged infrastructure configurations with H2O.ai, NVIDIA, and VMware software to enable clients accelerate time to insight from data with automation that delivers up to 18x faster AI models.

With Dell Validated Designs for AI, organizations report a 20 percent faster time to value, enabling data scientists of all skill levels to design AI-powered applications faster. VMware Tanzu, which is included in Dell Validated Designs for AI, improves container security and enables users to operate AI at the edge utilizing VMware Tanzu services.