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Dell has announced a partnership with the company that will see Dell use its 6Sigma DC virtual data centre modeling tools in its efforts to peddle products and services. These days, IT shops are not just looking to replace servers and storage to support more workloads or just make existing ones go faster. They want help reducing costs on the IT infrastructure as well as the means of improving efficiencies and reducing costs in the facilities that wrap around that infrastructure.

Albert Esser, vice president of power and infrastructure solutions at Dell’s Product Group says that the company does not have the luxury of doing data centre engagements with “armies of consultants,” as IBM and HP can certainly do. It will instead rely on tools to assess current data centers and then model changes to them to see the effect of new gear, new cooling gadgetry, and other technologies inside the data centre before the customer commits to the plan.

Source: The Register

Dell was mum about its containerised data centre designs. But once the company announced it would supply the servers behind Microsoft’s Azure compute cloud and Microsoft said it was embracing containers in a big way, it was only a matter of time before Dell opened up a bit and explain its container plans – intended for “a select number of customers.”

Dell’s data centre shipping container package – code-named “Humidor,” if you trust the graphics files that give us an outside and an inside view of the containers – is not a traditional commercial product, but rather a custom product that Dell’s Data Centre Solutions unit has cooked up for the several dozen customers in the world who have tens or hundreds of thousands of servers and who are trying to get out of building hundreds of thousands of square feet of data centre as they roll out infrastructure. The DCS unit is kicking out tens of thousands of servers itself and is one of the bright spots in enterprise sales at Dell.

Source: The Register
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