Dell introduces solutions designed to build Sri Lanka’s future-ready enterprises

Dell has announced the addition of new data centre solutions aimed at building future-ready enterprises and workforce.

From PCs and thin clients, to servers, storage and networking products, Dell’s solutions equip businesses with the agility and resilience to keep up with a dynamic marketplace and define the future of the connected workforce.

Local companies are seeking innovative technologies to remain competitive and boost their productivity rates. As Sri Lanka pushes towards building smart cities, companies are encouraged to utilise technologies that create economic opportunities for citizens. This is made possible with the adoption of technologies that can enable faster business production of products and services. In this light, it is imperative that businesses become future-ready to ensure the technologies they implement work together for current IT needs, and are flexible to adapt and scale for business growth. These have to be simplified and standardised solutions capable of adapting to change. Dell is supporting the Sri Lankan business environment with its suite of future-ready solutions.

From left: Dell Sri Lanka Country Manager Roshan Nugawela, Dell Workplace Asia Pacific and Japan Regional Director Cloud Client Computing Terry Burgess, Enterprise Solution Group South Asia General Manager Chin Wah Mak, Enterprise Solutions SADMG Indonesia and Philippines Head Philip Wu, South Asia Brand Manager Christopher Choong – Pic by Shehan Gunasekara

“Mobile, cloud and big data are creating new workloads that require a different approach to IT. Enterprise technology needs to be flexible, adaptable and scalable to fit seamlessly into the IT environment of today and of the future. Dell’s solutions are designed to meet this requirement,” says Dell South Asia General Manager for Enterprise Solutions Mak Chin Wah. “Businesses today have become more agile in delivering their products and services in a matter of minutes. In the future, the response time may be in seconds.”

In conjunction with the Dell Solutions Forum in Sri Lanka, Dell introduced new additions to its portfolio of commercial products in the country.  

“Dell’s solutions are the result of the company’s commitment to a customer-centric strategy. These solutions were designed with the future in mind, while making sure that enterprises remain cost-efficient now and in the future. Based on open standards, our solutions are openly scalable to bring the flexibility and agility required by enterprises, in turn allowing them to capitalise on emerging innovations,” says Dell Sri Lanka Country Manager RoshanNugawela.

As the country moves forward with its smart cities vision, CIOs and IT leaders in Sri Lanka are seeking integrated solutions to support traditional enterprise applications and the latest technology trends to drive their competitive advantage. Dell’s future-ready solutions help local businesses run more efficiently by providing a fast, flexible path to converged, software-defined and application-optimised IT.

Dell PowerEdge FX portfolio

 By combining the density and efficiencies of blade servers with the simplicity and cost advantages of rack-based systems, the Dell PowerEdge FX allows customers to better manage, scale and budget for infrastructure to meet the needs of the business now and into the future. The Dell PowerEdge FX portfolio will include three new modules to offer enterprises even more options for changing application demands. This gives customers even more ability to add or swap IT building blocks into a 2U converged infrastructure chassis.

Dell also announced the expansion of its 13th generation PowerEdge servers including the PowerEdge R930, Dell’s most powerful server specifically designed for the most demanding enterprise applications.

Featuring up to 72 processing cores of Intel Xeon E7-8800/4800 v3 family of processors, up to 6TB of memory in 96 DIMMs, 24 internal hard drives and support for up to eight high performance PowerEdge Express Flash NVMePCIe SSDs, the PowerEdge R930 enables customers to maximise application performance and flexibility scale workloads.

Dell Storage solutions

Several new storage offerings designed to help businesses and organisations were also announced. The new Dell Storage SCv2000 Series offers customers the first entry-level storage arrays with the same common management and several of the core features as higher-end Dell SC Series arrays. Extending Dell Storage Centre software to entry-level arrays allows customers to standardise on a common platform, helping them save time, management costs and operational overhead. The new Dell PS6610 Series arrays support critical business applications and are ideal for customers with large data repository requirements.

Open Networking Solutions

Dell Networking also introduced a portfolio of networking solutions designed to meet the needs of small and medium-sized business with the new X-series family of smart managed switches and the expanded N-series family which now includes the N1500.

 

Wyse 5050 AIO Zero Client

Dell Cloud Client-Computing has been meeting the needs of customers from a variety of industries – from healthcare to education to finance and government – as they look to desktop virtualisation solutions to empower their workforce with secure delivery of apps and data from the data centre to the endpoint without hampering productivity. The Wyse 5050 AIO zero client, is designed for VMware environments and provides the robust security businesses require with a zero attack surface for viruses and malware.

Mobility

Dell is defining the future of the connected workforce with the industry’s most secure and manageable solutions. Announcing newly refreshed all-in-one desktops as well as XPS, Latitude and Vostro notebooks, Dell is bringing smaller, faster and more energy-efficient options to businesses. Dell is also expanding its enterprise mobility capabilities with a variety of services and solutions, including a partnership designed to deliver best-in-class mobile apps and sites; new tools for customers in the mobile healthcare space; and Windows 10 deployment support, as many businesses begin the process of migrating from their current environments.

Dell Datacenters

The new Dell products and services cover a wide range of datacenter areas, including the first Dell Datacenter Scalable Solutions servers for the growing market just below hyperscale; Dell’s highest-performing, highly scalable Dell Storage SC9000 and new Dell Storage SC Series software; Dell Data Protection | Rapid Recovery data protection launch; new Dell XC Series of Web-scale Converged Appliances models; new Dell ProDeploy Enterprise Suite that enables customers to rapidly adopt datacenter technology; and, the new Dell Application Modernisation Portfolio, a comprehensive set of integrated, fit-to-purpose software for application modernisation from Dell Services.