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| Mak describes the shift from traditional to 'new' IT at a media briefing during the Dell Solutions Tour. |
Dell is supporting the Singapore business environment with the addition of new data centre solutions aimed at building future-ready enterprises. According to the company, future-ready enterprises ensure the technologies they implement will work together for current IT needs, yet are flexible to adapt and scale for business growth.
As Singapore companies seek innovative technologies to remain competitive and boost their productivity rates and the country moves towards becoming a Smart Nation, Dell believes that future-readiness will be paramount.
“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 Mak Chin Wah, GM, Enterprise Solutions, Dell South Asia. “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.”
Mak observed that Singapore is one of the first countries to move towards making a Smart Nation a reality. "We are now in the implementation phase," he said. "There aren't many cities in the world doing this. It is still a work in progress, but the amount of data that's going to be generated is going to be huge. We believe that data is going to grow exponentially. (No one can) afford to buy expensive storage in long run, we need to look at how to get enterprise features with commoditised storage to help (smart cities) to scale without paying a lot of money."
In conjunction with the Dell Solutions Tour in Singapore, Dell introduced new additions to the Dell PowerEdge line of servers and converged systems, new Dell Storage arrays and open networking solutions for next-generation data centres. The news comes soon after Dell celebrated the 20th anniversary of its PowerEdge servers. The company is no. 2 in the global x86 server market today - a market that has grown more than 600% since 1996.
“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 Ng Tian Beng, VP, Commercial Channels, APJ and MD, South Asia & Korea, Dell.
Ng added that in the last financial year the enterprise business has fuelled Dell's growth. Both the enterprise business and servers grew in the double digits, he said.
The push to support the Smart Nation initiative has led Singapore’s CIOs and IT leaders to seek integrated solutions to support traditional enterprise applications and the latest technology trends to drive their competitive advantage. Dell’s future-ready solutions address these concerns by helping local businesses run more efficiently, providing a flexible path to converged, software-defined, and application-optimised IT.
For example, 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 - the PowerEdge FD332, PowerEdge FC430 and PowerEdge FC830 - to offer enterprises even more options for changing application demands. Dell also announced the expansion of its 13th generation PowerEdge servers with the PowerEdge R930, its most powerful server.
Mak observed that Singapore is one of the first countries to move towards making a Smart Nation a reality. "We are now in the implementation phase," he said. "There aren't many cities in the world doing this. It is still a work in progress, but the amount of data that's going to be generated is going to be huge. We believe that data is going to grow exponentially. (No one can) afford to buy expensive storage in long run, we need to look at how to get enterprise features with commoditised storage to help (smart cities) to scale without paying a lot of money."
In conjunction with the Dell Solutions Tour in Singapore, Dell introduced new additions to the Dell PowerEdge line of servers and converged systems, new Dell Storage arrays and open networking solutions for next-generation data centres. The news comes soon after Dell celebrated the 20th anniversary of its PowerEdge servers. The company is no. 2 in the global x86 server market today - a market that has grown more than 600% since 1996.
“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 Ng Tian Beng, VP, Commercial Channels, APJ and MD, South Asia & Korea, Dell.
Ng added that in the last financial year the enterprise business has fuelled Dell's growth. Both the enterprise business and servers grew in the double digits, he said.
The push to support the Smart Nation initiative has led Singapore’s CIOs and IT leaders to seek integrated solutions to support traditional enterprise applications and the latest technology trends to drive their competitive advantage. Dell’s future-ready solutions address these concerns by helping local businesses run more efficiently, providing a flexible path to converged, software-defined, and application-optimised IT.
For example, 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 - the PowerEdge FD332, PowerEdge FC430 and PowerEdge FC830 - to offer enterprises even more options for changing application demands. Dell also announced the expansion of its 13th generation PowerEdge servers with the PowerEdge R930, its most powerful server.
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| Source: Dell. Dell announced the expansion of its 13th generation PowerEdge servers with the PowerEdge R930, its most powerful server, at the Dell Solutions Tour in Singapore. |
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| Source: Dell. The Networking N1500 series of switches. |
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. Dell also unveiled Dell Storage with Microsoft Storage Spaces, which is designed to support Microsoft’s software-defined storage (SDS) capabilities on Dell’s enterprise-class server and direct-attached storage hardware, and the PS6610 Series of arrays to support critical business applications.
The data centre portfolio has been enhanced with the new Z9100, S4048, and the S3048 switches with low latency and high density, flexible 1, 10, 25, 40, and 100GbE switching to address the shift to next-generation multi-rate, open-enabled architectures.
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.
Need the big picture? Read the TechTrade Asia blog posts about the rest of the Dell Solutions Tour:
Dell’s new storage portfolio
It’s all about software: Dell
Networking for data centres goes future-ready
PowerEdge packs more of a punch
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