At VMworld 2016, Dell ushered in the next phase of the multi-billion dollar converged systems market with the introduction of the Dell Validated System for Virtualization, Dell also revealed new client virtualization solutions with enhanced performance for demanding power users and VMware has selected Dell Financial Services as its preferred financing partner.
“For more than a decade, Dell and VMware have closely collaborated to help customers achieve greater efficiencies from their data centers and simplify IT operations,” said Jim Ganthier, VP and GM, Dell Engineered Systems, HPC and Cloud.
The new Dell Validated System for Virtualization, allows customers of all sizes to accelerate their journey towards converged infrastructure. Enabled through robust automation and extensive testing and validation, it is the most flexible converged system in the industry.
Dell is expanding its client virtualization solutions for VMware to provide customers with the manageability, flexibility and performance they require in their virtual desktop infrastructure environments.
Dell is introducing two new security solutions to provide organisations with a superior layer of advanced threat protection to an already secure computing environment, Dell Data Protection | Threat Defense for Windows Embedded (WES) thin clients and Dell Data Protection | Endpoint Security Suite Enterprise for persistent virtual machines.
Tom Herrmann, VP, Global Strategic Alliances, VMware said, “One of our top priorities at VMware is our collaboration with our diverse and robust partner ecosystem to provide powerful software-defined solutions for our customers.”