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Dell Extends End-to-End Security Offerings to Protect Customers from Rapidly Evolving Threats

DELL WORLD, AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 20, 2015 – Dell today announced a new, full range of security solutions that enablecustomers to implement a comprehensive enterprise security strategy to protect their organization from evolving threats while strengthening business agility. New future-ready solutions from Dell’s security portfolio include: a new approach to detecting and blocking advanced persistent threats; expanded user security for cloud apps with multi-factor authentication; enhancements to the Dell Data Protection (DDP) suite of data security solutions; management and policy integration across Dell next-generation firewalls (NGFWs), the switch and wireless access points; and new application security services. These new solutions reinforce Dell’s commitment to delivering a full range of security solutions designed to meet the myriad of security challenges a customer faces. 

Businesses are becoming more strategic with their security investments and are using security to enable new things or a competitive advantage, as Dell recently revealed in its Global Technology Adoption Index (GTAI 2015). The GTAI surveyed IT and business decision makers around the world to find out how they perceive, plan for and utilize key technologies, and found that strategic approaches to security are gaining ground in North America and Western Europe. The share of North American organizations that indicated security is enabling new things or a competitive advantage grew from 25 percent in 2014 to 35 percent in 2015, and grew from 26 percent to 30 percent among Western Europe. 

Dell’s approach to security is based on simplicity, efficiency and compliance connectivity that tie together the siloed aspects of IT security into a modular and integrated solution capable of sharing insights and control across the organization. It also makes security simpler, so that business users can manage the rules and policies, and end users can easily comply. Dell delivers on this promise with new and updated offerings to the Dell Security portfolio announced today.

Network Security 

To protect customers against the increasing dangers of advanced persistent threats (APTs), Dell is offering a technology preview of the Dell SonicWALL APT Protection Service at Dell World. This new service – available on both firewalls and email security solutions – scans files of any size and holds potentially malicious unknown files until a verdict can be reached.  This solution is built on multi-layered sandbox technologies that use both system emulation and virtualization techniques to detect more threats than competitors’ single engine solutions and leverages the SonicWALL GRID, our cloud forensics platform which leverages real time analytics from over 500K connected NGFWs. Customers benefit from fast response times, high security effectiveness and reduced total cost of ownership.  

Additional offerings from Network Security include:

Identity & Access Management

The new Dell One Identity Cloud Access Manager 8.1 enablessecure access to all internal and cloud-based web applications, enforcing security policies and controls while improving user productivity, and the new version adds SaaS-based, multi-factor authentication via Defender as a Service. 

Dell also expanded the Security Analytics Engine included with CAM, to gather information from more sources to further expand the ability to make context-aware security a reality with real-time, adaptive decisions and enforcement.

Data Security Solutions

Today’s business needs means data is travelling between more locations than ever before. Dell Security Solutions is announcing three new solutions in the Dell Data Protection (DDP) portfolio to ensure data is protected wherever it goes.

Dell SecureWorks

Dell SecureWorks recently announced the general availability of its new on-demand Emergency Cyber Incident Response (ECIR) capability for clients deploying assets on Amazon Web Services (AWS). This new offering is in response to the growing enterprise adoption of production workloads on AWS and customer demand for on-demand incident response solutions optimized for the dynamic and agile operating environment of the cloud.  Designed and refined through collaboration with AWS, Dell SecureWorks’ Emergency Cyber Incident Response helps organizations investigate cyber incidents affecting their assets deployed on the AWS Cloud. Though cloud infrastructure does not change the fundamentals of incident response and digital forensics, cloud infrastructure requires modifications to the process for efficient and effective containment, mitigation, data collection, and analysis within the cloud. As a result, Dell SecureWorks has codified these techniques in order to perform highly efficient and scalable cyber incident response investigations. 

Dell Services

Dell Services is introducing Dell AEGIS, a tool that helps enterprise customers identify and assess the vulnerabilities associated with a company’s mission-critical applications and take preventive measures. AEGIS is in addition to Dell’s Managed Security Services, which bring together an end-to-end portfolio of security services for all industries to protect key information assets across public and private cloud, networks, hosts and applications. Dell Services security experts become an extension of customers’ in-house IT staff and provide security analysis, device and technologies configuration, alert management and 24×7 monitoring.

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Curtis Hutcheson, vice president and general manager, Dell Security

“Attacks and hacks on business assets continue to be a common occurrence and are becoming more sophisticated. It is imperative for organizations to implement a solid security strategy that protects them not just today, but for the future. These new solutions provide superior protection to our customers’ applications, data, customers and employees through an integrated suite of next-generation firewalls , user security and access, and end point controls.”

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Dell Reignites the PC: Smaller, Faster and Optimized for the Future Workforce

DELL WORLD, AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 20, 2015 – Dell announced today at Dell World the most significant refresh to its OptiPlex commercial PC portfolio in five years, the Wyse 5050 AIO zero client for VMware, and new cloud multifunction printers to meet the changing needs of the future workforce. Considering the needs of a tech-savvy workforce always on the go, these new offerings are designed to increase employee productivity by helping them seamlessly connect to the business critical data and applications they need to get the job done. In addition, Dell Services is investing more in mobility applications and strategies to strengthen the way its commercial customers stay mobile, productive and efficient. 

“We are defining the future of the PC and the role it plays in meeting our customers’ most pressing computing needs,” said Jeff Clarke, vice chairman, Operations and president, Client Solutions at Dell. “We are investing in this part of our business like never before, bringing new innovations to market that are redefining the role of the PC – whether it’s an ultra–mobile 2-in-1, thin or zero client, or a desktop that now handles workloads for a mobile workforce who require a robust collaboration solution.”  

New Dell OptiPlex Desktops Optimize the Modern Workplace

The OptiPlex line of PCs are the world’s most secure commercial desktops available with industry-leading endpoint security solutions from Dell’s own Dell Data Protection suite that include comprehensive encryption, advanced authentication, leading-edge malware protection and advanced threat protection. OptiPlex is also the world’s most manageable commercial desktop portfolio with Intel® Core™ vPro™ processortechnology and Client Command Suite. All of this is backed by enterprise-class support including Dell ProSupport Plus and Configuration & Deployment Services.

The fully revamped OptiPlex portfolio unveiled today will forever change perceptions about the commercial desktop withits smaller, faster and more energy-efficient Micro Form Factor, Small Form Factor, Mini Tower and All-in-One designs. Therapidly evolving workforce requires businesses to invest in technology that enables employees to work faster, make better decisions, and be more productive and collaborative. Yet today, over 200 million Dell commercial customers are working on a PC that is more than four years old. 

The new OptiPlex PCs feature significant improvements over previous generation systems including:

With these performance gains and new features, OptiPlex desktops are playing a new role in a world that is highly mobile. For example, the portfolio includes a new collaboration and conferencing solution utilizing the OptiPlex 7040 Micro with 6thGen Intel Core vPro processor technology and Intel® Unite™software to deliver simple, instant and secure collaboration and meeting capabilities through wireless connectivity. Now, onsite and remote employees can easily see the same content displayed in a room, transition between presenters in the room or over the phone, make annotations and transfer files instantly. No dongles or adapters required!

The new OptiPlex portfolio offers space-saving versatility with its smaller footprint. The Mini Tower is 43 percent smaller than the previous generation and Micro desktops can save more than 7,700 square feet of valuable workspace when replacing 10,000 legacy desktops – this is important as companies are reimagining a more collaborative and future-ready work environment. The updated portfolio, which is leveraging a new 3000/5000/7000 model numbering structure to simplify product comparison and selection for customers, includes:

Wyse 5050 AIO Zero Client: High Performance and Elegant Design
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 virtualization solutions to empower their workforce with secure delivery of apps and data from the datacenter to the endpoint without hampering productivity. According to IDC, Dell was the No. 1 provider of thin and terminal clients worldwide for 2014, and has shipped more thin clients year-to-date in 2015 than anyone else. 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.

Dell also announced the latest version of its Dell Wyse Cloud Client Manager, release 9, a cloud-based management platform that manages thin clients, mobile devices, and mobile workspaces from a single console. With this release, Dell is making it easier to manage devices with centralized reporting and control of multiple branch offices and by allowing administrators to organize devices into multi-level groups and delegate administration of selected groups through role-based access control. In addition, this release enhances the management capabilities for Android, Windows and iOS platforms by adding support for iOS9, Windows 10 and enhanced application management functionality.

Dell Document Hub and Multifunction Printers 

As part of Dell’s end-to-end solutions for business customers, the new H-Series and S-Series multifunction printers are designed to meet the online collaboration needs of businesses of all sizes. 

With 64 percent of workers performing at least some of their work tasks at home and half of desktop users incorporating other devices as well, it has become necessary for offices to offer complete printer connectivity wherever workers may be and whatever devices they may be using. The new H-Series printers (models H625cdw, H825cdw, and H815dw) include the Dell Document Hub, which allows customers access to multiple cloud storage services at the same time, such as Dropbox, Box, Google Drive, Salesforce or Evernote for easy sharing and printing. The printers provide direct access to the Document Hub from the printer or PC for office-based employees, while remote employees can access it as an app on their mobile device or PC.  Ideal for smaller organizations and executive offices, the printers provide easy Wi–Fi set up by SMBs and micro-businesses with limited or no IT teams. 

The S-Series smart/multifunction printers (models S2825cdn and S2815dn) are designed for the robust security needs of larger enterprises with built-in security features, easy scanning to SharePoint On-Premise, as well as printing from Android and iOS devices using the Dell Document Hub app.

Fully Managed and Automated Enterprise Mobility Solutions

To help companies at any stage of their mobility transformation, Dell Services combines industry-leading technology and expertise to help automate and streamline the process of deploying and managing mobile endpoints, together with the core infrastructure. Dell Mobility Services represents a unified, end-to-end solution built with best-of-breed security and management technology, as well as automation capabilities, to help customers mobilize every application, keep data secure, provide an enhanced end-user experience and gain better control of applications, data and devices.

As part of the strategy, Dell Services is now a systems integrator for Usablenet, a technology services company focused on enterprise mobile strategy and execution. Adding Usablenet’s mobile platform to Dell’s end-to-end solutions will give Dell customers access to best-in-class mobile sites, apps and workload-specific enterprise mobility solutions. As a Usablenet partner, Dell Services can deliver an end-to-end mobile and multichannel solution, ranging from user experience design to data integration, mobile site and application development, implementation, and support. Dell Services now offers a variety of industry-focused enterprise solutions with enterprise Usablenet platform-based services, including:

Revolutionizing Healthcare with Mobility

An example of how Dell’s services and expertise will be applied is in the healthcare space. Healthcare providers need greater flexibility and access to information. Dell has demonstrable success, one of which was being ranked by Gartner as the top healthcare services provider for the sixth year in a row. With industry–leading healthcare domain expertise and partnerships and a global Mobile Apps Services team of 200+ associates, Dell Services is revolutionizing care delivery, patient engagement and creating workflow efficiencies.

Dell has created “accelerators” for provider and health plan customers to quickly launch their own branded mobile apps. These starter kit apps come pre-built with rich functionality out of the box for providing information to patients both on and off premises. Providers can empower their patients with access to their own health information, interact with a care team and manage their own health. Dell also enables virtual visit solutions for its customers to allow patients to consume anytime, anywhere healthcare services; and offers remote patient monitoring solutions to minimize readmission penalties and reduce costs of care delivery for chronic patients.

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Dell Disrupts Internet of Things Marketplace with Dell EdgeGateway 5000 Series and New Analytics Capabilities, Expanding End-to-End Portfolio of IoT Assets

DELL WORLD, AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 20, 2015 – Dell today announced the launch of the new Edge Gateway 5000 Series purpose-built for the building and factory automation sectors. Composed of an industrial-grade form factor, expanded input and output interfaces, and with wide operating temperature ranges, the Edge Gateway 5000, combined with Dell’s data analytics capabilities, promises to give companies an edge computing solution alternative to today’s costly, proprietary IoTofferings.

Making good decisions using data generated by sensors is the central objective of IoT. Yet the rich data generated by IoT devices presents its own set of challenges. Harbor Research estimates that by 2020 smart systems will create over 194 petabytes of data. The sheer volume and complexity of managing this new decentralized, localized data can quickly overload traditional environments and analysis tools. Edge analytics, carried out with the help of versatile gateways, will help with this data overload by determining what data needs to be acted on quickly and then filtered or stored. 

The Dell Edge Gateway sits at the edge of the network (near the devices and sensors) with local analytics and other middleware to receive, aggregate, analyze and relay data, then minimizesexpensive bandwidth by relaying only meaningful data to the cloud or datacenter. Thanks to new Dell Statistica data analytics also announced today, Dell is expanding capabilities out to thegateway. This means companies can now extend the benefits of cloud computing to their network edge and for faster and more secure business insights while saving on the costly transfer of data to and from the cloud.

“Organizations are struggling to make the best decisions regarding the data volume and complexity created by the vast numbers of sensors, embedded systems and connected devicesnow on the network,” said Andy Rhodes, executive director, Commercial IoT Solutions, Dell. “As more of the data isprocessed in real time at the edge of the network, the gateway becomes the spam filter for IoT.”

Dell’s end-to-end portfolio of IoT-enabling solutions

The Edge Gateway 5000 is the newest addition to Dell’s end-to-end portfolio of IoT-enabling solutions and services, whichprovide customers with choice and flexibility to architect IoT ecosystems with analytics at the edge, the cloud or the data center. The gateway is available for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to build into their solutions or for building and factory automation customers to use as part of their IoT strategy which can span data center solutions, advanced analytics and digital services. Additionally, customers’ can take advantage of Dell’s global availability, trusted security options, and Dell Support and Deployment services including ProSupport which provides end-to-end hardware support throughout the entire product lifecycle, helping customers maximize their gateway environment and minimize time spent on maintenance.  

For example, ELM Energy is already using Dell gateways to make a difference in securing a more sustainable energy future. ELM’s FieldSight Controller automates decision structures that toggle between the use of distributed energy sources such assolar, wind and backup generators and traditional utility grid sources.  The systems also help customers make decisions about the most effective times to broker surplus energy back to the open market.

“Through the power of technology, ELM Energy and Dell are enabling real-time decision making that is optimizing and balancing power generation and maximizing the use of renewable energy,” said James Richmond, president, ELM Energy. “For example, if the renewable energy being generated exceeds demand, our technology is able to automatically decide if the excess should be fed back to the grid or stored for later use when the renewable sources are unavailable. The new Dell EdgeGateway 5000 Series is the perfect platform for our FieldSightEdge software to perform computing functions close to the source, at a fantastic value.” 

Additional Dell Edge Gateway 5000 Series benefits include:

Dell and Intel are also launching the “Connect What Matters” contest for innovative IoT solutions built on Dell EdgeGateways. The contest is open to commercial companies and solutions can be developed for any vertical. Participants will compete for the Best IoT Design, and the deadline for submissions is March 31, 2016.

Supporting Quotes

Rose Schooler, vice president, IoT Strategy and Technology Office, Intel

“The Dell Edge Gateway 5000 Series based on the Intel® Atom™ processor E3800 product family is designed to bridge the data needs of traditional operational technology with the manageability demands of information technology. The result is a solution that meets the needs of IoT customers.”

Patrick Moorhead, founder, president and principal analyst, Moor Insights & Strategy

“Enterprises are looking for vendors who understand the modern architectures required for comprehensive IoT and realize the importance of aggregating and analyzing data from the edge to the datacenter. With a comprehensive set of services, software and hardware solutions from the gateway to cloud to data center, Dell has a comprehensive offering including the necessary security and manageability capabilities. Dell is taking a pragmatic and realistic approach to IoT implementations.”

Richard Beeson, Chief Technology Officer, OSIsoft

“OSIsoft’s expertise in Operational Technology and Operational Intelligence, combined with Dell’s Edge Gateway and deep understanding of IT, will enable commercial and industrial operations to collect and analyze new sources of data for transformational insights. The new gateway will lower the barriers to pervasive monitoring, enabling operators and engineers to capture additional sensor data without impacting or upgrading traditional automation and control systems.”

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Dell Introduces New Solutions and Services to Support and Protect Scalable, Cost-Efficient Datacenters

DELL WORLD, AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 20, 2015 – Dell today announced new solutions and services designed to help large-scale datacenter customers achieve mission-critical business goals faster and more consistently with less cost and downtime. Dell helps customers with infrastructures that can scale easily and adapt quickly now and into the future with new servers designed specifically for the fastest growing datacenter market, new highest-end enterprise storage arrays and hyperconvergedappliances, next-generation data protection software, and new IT deployment and automation services.

“With today’s rapidly evolving technology landscape, Dell focuses on designing datacenter solutions that offer market-leading performance and have the agility and flexibility to keep pace with new workloads and demands, changing architecturesand business growth,” said Marius Haas, chief commercial officer and president of Dell Commercial Sales and Enterprise Solutions. “The new solutions and services announced today demonstrate the ability to scale simply and cost-effectively, allowing large-scale customers to reap the benefits of intelligently designed solutions that reduce total cost of IT ownership and shift the prioritization of resources from day-to-day IT management to higher-value services that help achieve business results and support growth.”

“The proliferation of digital technologies is quickly driving IT organizations to transform their infrastructure and partner more closely with business counterparts to deliver greater insights and value necessary to help improve customer experiences,” said Matt Eastwood, SVP, IDC Enterprise Infrastructure and Data Center. “Dell has a good pulse on the needs of its customers and is investing in and developing the right set of 3rd Platform-based technologies and solutions. This will be critical to help meet the needs for increased utilization rates and productivity requirements of the digital economy.”

Dell Introduces First Dell DSS-branded Servers

Formally announced in August 2015, Dell Datacenter Scalable Solutions (DSS) is a new line of business within Dell’s Enterprise Solutions organization designed to meet the specific needs of web tech, telecommunications service providers, hosting companies, oil and gas, and research organizations. After engaging with over 200 customers in this growing market, Dell is responding to their needs by introducing its first DSS-branded products that provide great versatility and scale while reducing infrastructure costs. 

The Dell DSS 7000 is the industry’s densest storage server built to meet the storage needs of an exascale future. Building on its hyperscale leadership, the new storage server is based on the DCS XA90 and is capable of delivering up to 720 terabytes of storage in a single 4U chassis. The DSS 7000 packs up to 90 hot-serviceable 3.5-inch drives and two 2-socket server nodes to provide cloud builders with a low dollar-per-gigabyte cost for object and block storage. 

The Dell DSS 1500, DSS 1510 and DSS 2500 are new 1U and 2U servers that have been purpose-built to provide this set of customers with the technology they need for their specific workload needs. Featuring a minimalistic design, flexible storage and IO options, industry-standard baseboard management controller (BMC) systems management and the latest Intel Xeon processors, these new DSS servers help customers maximize operational efficiency while providing optimal performance.

Dell Launches Highest-End Dell Storage Arrays and Industry-Leading All-Flash Cost-per-Gigabyte

The combination of Dell’s new flagship Dell Storage SC9000storage array controller, new 12Gb SAS expansion enclosures and next generation array software offers customers the highest-performing, most enterprise-focused SC Series release to date. Dell once again offers the industry’s lowest cost-per-gigabyte for SSD storage1 with enterprise SC9000 all-flash arrays as low as 65 cents (US)-per-gigabyte net effective capacity including the array, all storage software and three-years of Dell Copilot support.3

The Dell Storage SC9000, based on Dell’s 13th generation PowerEdge server platform, offers all-flash and hybrid flash configurations and delivers 40 percent more IOPs –with the ability to achieve more than 385,000 IOPS4—and more than double the throughput5 compared to previous SC Series arrays.Supporting the most demanding large-scale workloads, the flexible and self-optimizing SC9000 provides more than three petabytes of raw capacity per array and scales-out even further in federated multi-array configurations with seamless volume movement among arrays.  

New Dell Storage Center 6.7 array software offers substantial enterprise enhancements, boosting overall SC Series support for private clouds and other mission-critical applications. Highlighted new capabilities include Live Volume auto-failover for built-in disaster recovery with zero workload downtime and integrated host-side data protection for Oracle, Microsoft and VMware environments. New active data compression capabilities offer up to 93 percent flash capacity savings6, and innovations, such as the industry-first deployment of TLC 3D NAND technology in a true high-performance, high-endurance setting, provide further cost savings. 

Dell Ushers in Next Generation of Backup and Recovery with Dell Data Protection | Rapid Recovery

Next-generation Dell Data Protection | Rapid Recoverysoftware, engineered in the cloud era with cloud recovery in mind, integrates proven and familiar features of AppAssure and other leading Dell IP designed to eliminate downtime for customer environments.

Rapid Recovery features “Rapid Snap for Applications” technology that can capture an entire application and its relevant state, enabling complete application and system recovery with near-zero RTOs and aggressive RPOs. A new “Rapid Snap for Virtual” capability, based on Dell vRanger technology, provides scalable protection of growing VMware environments without agents, and automatically detects and backs up VMs provisioned on an ESXi host. In addition, a simple bare metal restore (BMR) feature from cloud-based archives reinforces Dell’s ongoing focus on powerful cloud connectivity and recovery. The solution also features a Rapid Recovery Repository (R3) with encryption and client-side deduplication based on proven Rapid Data Access (RDA) technology. R3 delivers direct-to-target backups and significantly reduces the deduplication workload, resulting in quicker snapshots, reduced data transfer times, and greater scale. 

Dell is also expanding its capability around endpoint protection by delivering the first release of Dell Data Protection | Endpoint Recovery, a new software solution with proven IP to deliver continuous backup and fast, easy endpoint recovery.Complementing the new releases, Dell is offering  new simplified pricing for vRanger, giving organizations with growing virtual environments access to a scalable VM backup solution starting at $699 including 24/7 support. 

Next Wave of Dell XC Series Appliances Expand Dell’s Software-Defined Storage Portfolio

Dell also announced the next wave of Dell XC Series of Web-scale Converged Appliances, which integrate compute, storage and hypervisor resources into a single offering to help reduce TCO and streamline datacenters. The new appliances help Dell support the growing customer interest in hyperconvergedsolutions where spending  is expected to grow by almost 60 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) from 2014 to 2019, reaching a total of $3.9 billion by 2019, according to analyst firm IDC.7

The latest hyperconverged solutions include the Dell XC6320,the highest-density XC Series appliance to-date, with four compute nodes that support more than 44 terabytes of storage in a 2U form factor. This substantially reduces datacenter hardware rack space, power and cooling required to run various workloads in service provider, ROBO and large customer datacenters. NewDell XC630-10F and XC6320-6F All-Flash Nodes are the first XC Series all-flash appliances, offering a cost-for-performance boost with data tiering between flash drives types based on actual data usage. 

ProDeploy Enterprise Suite Gets More Out of Technology Starting Day One

The Dell ProDeploy Enterprise Suite includes three deployment services and full training and certification to help secure the path to a future-ready data center. The flagship ProDeploy Plus, the industry’s most complete deployment service, rapidly integrates new technologies and optimizes the long-term performance of critical systems. Expert deployment means customers are able to deploy up to 39 percent faster2 and save up to $2,000 per deployed device8, giving them time and money to fuel innovation. 

For channel partners, Dell offers the flexibility to deliver, resell and co-deliver deployment services. Through new training and certifications, customers and partners gain the same storage and networking expertise as Dell certified engineers. By reselling Dell deployment services, partners can significantly expand their capacity and cover the globe by supplementing their capabilities. PartnerDirect premier and preferred partners also can earn a deployment services competency to access Dell methodologies and tools while becoming eligible to co-deliver ProDeploy with Dell.

Dell Services Introduces Dell Application ModernizationPortfolio

As customers look to move to new data center technologies, they also need to re-host or re-architect their applications. Dell Services today introduced the Dell Application Modernization Portfolio, a comprehensive set of integrated software solutions for application modernization and simplification. The Application Modernization Portfolio helps customers more easily enhance business agility through application simplification, place their applications in secure solutions to address vulnerabilities, and integrate applications with digital services.  

Unifying these solutions in a common framework enables Dell Services to address customers’ complex legacy challenges with fit-to-purpose hybrid approaches. Dell can apply the right solution and modernization technique to each diverse challenge in a real-world legacy portfolio, instead of trying to fit every problem to a one-trick solution. 

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Dell Reinforces ‘All-Data’ Strategy with Enhanced Big Data Analytics Capabilities to Help Companies Thrive in the Modern Data Economy 

DELL WORLD, AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 20, 2015 – Dell today announced a series of new big data and analytics solutions and services designed to help companies quickly and securely turn data into insights for better, faster decision-making. These include a new release of Dell’s advanced analytics softwareplatform and new Analytics-as-a -Service offerings for multiple industry verticals such as banking, healthcare and insurance. Together, these new offerings and capabilities enable companies to embed analytics across their core processes and disseminate analytics expertise across the organization to drive better business outcomes.

Data-driven decision-making is the pathway to competitive advantage in the modern data economy. The Dell Global Technology Adoption Index 2015 (GTAI 2015) revealed that those organizations robustly using big data show 50 percent higher growth rates than organizations that aren’t.  However, the study also found that 44 percent of organizations still don’t understand how to extract value from their datai. With the latest enhancements to its big data and analytics portfolio, Dell is helping customers overcome that uncertainty and invest wisely in data technologies by delivering flexible, end-to-end solutions that help organizations foster IT and business alignment, drive operational efficiency, and leverage the power of predictive analytics.

Launch of Statistica 13 Further Simplifies Deployment of Advanced Analytics Across the Enterprise  

The launch of Statistica 13, the latest release of the company’s popular advanced analytics software platform, helps simplify and improve the process by which organizations deploy predictive models directly to data sources inside the firewall, in the cloud, and in partner ecosystems. An easy-to-use solution that requires no coding and integrates seamlessly with open source R, Dell Statistica delivers a full range of data blending, data discovery, and advanced and predictive analytics tools that help organizations tap into all data to predict future trends,identify new customers and sales opportunities, explore “what-if” scenarios, and reduce the occurrence of fraud and other business risks. Enhancements and new capabilities in Statistica 13 include:

NDA functionality pushes predictive algorithm model-buildingand scoring functionality directly into the data source. This eliminates the time-consuming and data–limiting process of pulling data to an intermediate server or desktop, allowing all analytic processing to occur directly in the database and enabling organizations to leverage the power of Hadoop clusters, database appliances and other high-performance platforms. Statistica 13 will initially feature NDA capability for Microsoft SQL Server databases, with additional databases to be added in subsequent releases.

Dell Services Continues to Strengthen IP-led Service Offerings in Advanced Analytics and Data Science

Dell Services is expanding its Analytics-as-a-Service offerings with industry-specific services that help customers unearth insights, predict business outcomes, and improve the accuracy and efficiency of critical business processes.  For example, new BPO services help embed analytics across an organization’s core processes and disseminate analytics expertise to give scalability to data-based decision making. The new services include:

In addition, emphasizing Dell’s continued focus on enabling Analytics-as-a-Service solutions, the Dell Services team has introduced Dell Service Desk Analytics and Dell ModelHealth(DMH) Tracker. 

These new offerings join the more than 50 solutions from Dell Services in the area of advanced analytics, including healthcare analytics offerings focused on critical issues like population health, patient readmission, and health risk stratification; financial analytics offerings focused on online transactions and fraud detection; and insurance-focused offerings centered on reducing customer churn via analytics embedded within Lifesys, Dell’s platform for insurance claims processing.   

End-to-End Portfolio Simplifies Deployment and Allows Customers to Achieve Insights Faster

In addition to software and services, Dell has a history of offering engineered solutions and reference architectures that speed deployment times and time to value. These solutions are tested and validated to relieve customer pain points associated with deployment of effective data management techniques. Most recently, Dell announced its 15th reference architecture in collaboration with Cloudera, this time also including SyncsortDMX-h software. The Dell | Cloudera | Syncsort Data Warehouse Optimization – ETL Offload Reference Architecturestreamlines the planning, design, construction and deployment process of transforming data into a ready state for analysis, also known as the extract, transform and load (ETL) process, using the Hadoop data platform. The reference architecture offers customers cost savings, faster time-to-value and quicker access to insights than an open-source, do-it-yourself solution.

In addition, Dell’s ProDeploy Enterprise Suite offers customers a complete suite of deployment services and professional certifications designed to simplify deployments and help customers rapidly adopt new technology with confidence.

Supporting Quotes: 

John K. Thompson, general manager, advanced analytics, Dell Software

“In the modern data economy, the ability to gain predictive insight from all data is critical to building an agile, connected and thriving data-driven enterprise. Whether the data comes from real-time sensors from an IoT environment, or a big data platform designed for analytics on massive amounts of disparate data, the new offerings from Dell enable detailed levels of insight and action. With the new capabilities and enhancements specifically delivered in Statistica 13, Dell is making it possible for organizations of all sizes to deploy predictive analytics across the enterprise and beyond in a smart, simple and cost-effective manner, ultimately empowering them to better understand customers, optimize business processes, and create new products and services.”

Prasad Thrikutam, president and global head of applications, Dell Services 

“More than ever, our customers are looking for ways to make sense of the enormous amount of information they collect, so that they can focus on their core business. With the launch of our analytics-enabled BPO services, and our Analytics-as-a -Service offerings for industry verticals such as banking, healthcare and insurance, we are able to provide actionable insights customers can use to grow their businesses, enhance their customers’experience, and gain operational efficiencies.”

Nik Rouda, senior analyst, ESG 

“ESG’s research continues to show that companies of all sizes and across all verticals are looking to data for answers to their critical business questions. Getting those answers not only requires modern advanced analytics tooling, but also a full range of supporting capabilities, including data integration and data and database management, as well as the servers, storage, and ready-to-go appliances that provide the engine. Dell has not only put together an increasingly comprehensive portfolio that delivers those critical capabilities, but has continued to build a complementary ecosystem of strategic partners, supporting vendors, and professional services that enables it to help customers wherever they are in their big data and analytics journey.”

Availability 

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Today Dell announced various offerings and updated in five major areas: Connect, Inform, Protect, Transform the Cloud, and Transform and Future Proofing of the Data Center. The various highlights are below. For more information go to http://www.dell.com/learn/us/en/uscorp1/newsroom-press-releases

Connect

Dell Announces PC Industry Firsts, Connecting Emerging Technologies to Enhance Productivity

• Ground‐breaking “smart desk” concept demonstrates vision of what’s possible for design professionals
• Dell Venue 11 Pro tablets are the world’s most secure and manageable
• Dell Software Suite integrates best‐of‐class security and manageability software

Pricing and Availability:

• The Dell UltraSharp 27 Monitor (UP2715K) will be available on Dell.com in China on Nov. 20 and worldwide on Dec. 18 for less than $2,000.
• The new Dell Venue 11 Pro 7000 Series starts at $699.99 and is available beginning Nov. 11 on Dell.com in the United States.
• The Dell Software Suite is now available on Dell commercial client products at no additional charge for one year.

Inform

Dell Bolsters Digital Services and Analytics Software Solutions to Help Enterprises Better Understand and Engage Their Customers, Improve Operational Efficiency

• As a digital and social pioneer, Dell has shaped its own offerings into Digital Business Services that enable companies to transform their businesses to improve customer engagement and operational efficiency
• Dell Software extends advanced analytics to hybrid cloud through new collaborative effort with Microsoft
• Dell enhances big data capabilities in recently acquired Statistica platform through integration with Kitenga

Availability:

• Digital Business Services are available today globally.
• The first phase of Dell and Microsoft’s collaborative effort is underway now, and customers worldwide can now use Statistica in tandem with Azure Machine Learning.
• The first iteration of the new Statistica big data analytics module will be available to customers worldwide in Q4 2014.

Protect

Dell Makes Security a Business Enabler with Innovation and Integration Across Solution Portfolios

• With an approach based on simplicity, efficiency and connectivity, Dell is rapidly unifying the fragmented security market, making security a true business enabler
• Dell offers identity and access management‐as‐a‐service for companies that prefer to outsource rather than deploy and manage an on‐premises, enterprise‐grade IAM solution
• Product integrations across Dell’s comprehensive Security portfolio deliver effective, scalable services and solutions that uniquely meet both immediate and future threat‐protection needs
• Dell is the first in the industry to demonstrate 120 Gbps DPI NGFWs for carriers and ISPs, onsite at Dell World

Availability:

• IAMaas is now available in North America.
• Dell Change Auditor for Cloud Storage is available worldwide.
• Dell network security solutions are available through the channel.
• Dell Data Protection is sold on a worldwide basis except for China, Russia and Latin America.

Transform the Cloud

Dell Simplifies the Cloud Experience

• Dell launches Dell Cloud Marketplace public beta, giving developers and IT managers the ability to compare, purchase, use and manage the most popular public clouds, all from a single, unified console on dell.com
• New Dell alliances with Delphix, Docker and Pertino help solve customers’ cloud concerns over data portability, accelerated application development and secure connectivity
• Dell gives developers on‐demand tools to improve cloud‐based application performance with Foglight APM SaaS Edition

Availability:

• Dell Cloud Marketplace public beta is now open in the U.S. Individuals interested in participating can enroll at www.dell.com/cloudmarketplace. Beta participants can currently take advantage of AWS, Google Cloud Platform and Joyent public cloud infrastructure services. Offerings from Delphix, Docker and Pertino will be available in the Dell Cloud Marketplace next year.
• Additionally, Dell PartnerDirect Platinum partners have a significant opportunity as Systems Integrators to help customers integrate and maintain services from Dell Cloud Marketplace into their current data center environment to achieve a true hybrid cloud environment.
• Dell Foglight APM SaaS Edition is currently available globally in English language only. Dell is also offering the product and its full feature set for free for a limited time through the end of December 2014.

Transform and Future Proof the Data Center

Dell Introduces Future‐Ready IT Solutions to Help Customers Transform Their Data Centers and Businesses

• Dell delivers new solutions to help customers simplify and enhance flexibility for both traditional and new application and workload requirements
• A next‐generation converged infrastructure solution, the Dell PowerEdge FX architecture enables customers to precisely tailor data center technology to optimize myriad applications
• Expanded Dell Storage portfolio includes a new $25,000 (US) storage array that drastically lowers the entry cost for all‐flash storage, next‐generation storage arrays for SMB customers, and the first Dell series of web‐scale, hyper‐converged appliances
• Dell brings Open Networking to Network Functions Virtualization, working with Brocade and Intel to help accelerate Enterprise service delivery at the carrier edge

Availability:

• The PowerEdge FX architecture including PowerEdge FX2 chassis and initial sleds (FC630, FM120x4) will be available in December 2014.
• The PowerEdge FX architecture sleds including the FD332, FN IOA, FC430, FC830 will be available in the first half of 2015.
• The Dell Storage SC4020 Entry‐Level All‐Flash configuration will be available in early 2015. The Dell Storage PS4210 Series Arrays are available worldwide today.
• The Dell XC Series of Web‐scale Converged Appliances will be available starting November 11 with support for VMware ESXi and Microsoft Windows Hyper‐V.

Tuesday afternoon at the Dell PartnerDirect Summit, PC Connection’s President and CEO, Tim McGrath accepted the National Solution Providers Partner of the Year Award from Dell’s Jim Defoe (VP, North America Channel Sales).

Dell Outpaces Competitors with End‐to‐End Solutions Growth

This evening at the Dell Partner Central Awards party & ceremony held at “The Belmont” on Austin’s famous 6th Street PC Connection was awarded the Dell Healthcare Partner of the Year Award for 2013.

Picture of Dell Partner Central Executives presenting the award to PC Connection Executives for the Healthcare Partner of the Year.

Wow! I would love to have one of these for a home lab. Too bad it is too expensive for a small/home office system. It looks to be a good solution for small remote branch office solutions.