Fluid Data Storage from Dell

When organizations look to streamline datacenter operations, they often discover that acquiring, managing, and maintaining storage can make up nearly 20% of the IT budget. Recognizing the opportunity to reduce that cost, Dell has built a game-changing portfolio of solutions that enable enterprises to better manage data growth, reduce storage costs, and simplify the management of their IT infrastructure. Those solutions are built on the Fluid Data architecture, which automates and optimized business growth and delivers the efficiency, agility and resiliency enterprises need to adapt to an ever-changing business environment. See how several customers, including Dell IT, have leveraged this portfolio to transform their datacenter.

Balancing performance and cost are critical to a successful VDI project. A key component in this effort is architecting an efficient storage infrastructure, which can help reduce storage capacity requirements and simplify provisioning and management. This webinar will highlight recent advances and best practices in optimizing the storage infrastructure specifically for VDI environments.

Join us to learn how you can:
•Reduce the required storage footprint for large scale deployment
•Minimize infrastructure costs
•Automate data placement across multiple storage tiers for optimal performance and cost efficiency
•Achieve the best combination of performance and space utilization

Virtualization and the emergence of private cloud solutions are providing organizations with the computing and infrastructure resources they need more quickly and cost-effectively than ever before. Yet managing these virtual resources presents new challenges for today's IT departments. To overcome these challenges, Dell Storage and VMware have been working together to create infrastructure to enable the private cloud. A central element of that infrastructure is virtualized shared storage. Please join us for an informational webinar where we'll explore questions such as:

- What is private cloud computing?

- What are the specific technologies needed to support the private cloud?

- How do I identify key storage architecture attributes to optimize VMware environments?

- How can I evolve my current infrastructure toward a private cloud model?

- How does virtualized shared storage enable private cloud computing?

This session will look at the needs of customers for interoperable virtualization management standards. Virtualization which is an important cloud computing enabling technology, is driving customer requirements for management standards to improve their agility while reducing their TCO. The goal of virtualization management standards is to improve IT consumer agility and define a set of architectural semantics that unify the interoperable management of workloads and resources between enterprises of all sizes and cloud computing infrastructures.

Server virtualization enhances IT flexibility while reducing costs. Your storage should do the same. Join this session to explore best practices for implementing enterprise storage virtualization in a VMware environment. Understand how to enhance manageability, accelerate provisioning and streamline disaster recovery with the vSphere client plug-in, bundled Site Recovery Manager 5 and support for vCenter server integration. See these technologies in action and get peer feedback on best practices in real-world implementations. The practical advice in this session will help you:

• Understand best practices for implementing tiered storage in a VMware environment
• Learn how to leverage thin provisioning to support VDI implementations
• Learn how to establish automated recovery with storage replication and SRM

Many IT managers are looking to separate hype from reality when it comes to cloud computing strategy. Often times expert advice for getting to the cloud can be miles above the real-world reality. Follow alongside an expert from Dell Compellent as he outlines the four Fluid Data technologies that will help you optimize your Microsoft environment and expand your virtual architecture towards the cloud.

Kingman Tang of the SNIA Cloud Storage Initiative will moderate a panel of end-users discussing their experiences with cloud storage. The panel will open with five minutes of data based on a recent research report looking at adoption trends amongst IT shops. It will then dive into a lively panel discussion focused on overcoming barriers to adoption and looking at key considerations for companies weighing pros and cons of the cloud. Audience questions are welcome so invite your team and bring your toughest questions.

Compellent has long been recognized for its best-in-class data movement capabilities. Fluid Data technology moves data within the volume, among different disks and RAID types and between storage arrays. In this demo, Senior Virtualization Product Specialist Josh Raw demonstrates Live Volume, the next generation of the Compellent data movement engine. Learn how Live Volume frees organizations to share volumes between data centers, a key enabler for virtualization and IT clouds.

Watch the Dell Compellent Storage Center Demo to learn how we can support the growth and continuity of your business. Our innovative Storage Center offers automated tiered storage, perpetual licensing, and scales on a single platform that will grow with your business. Learn how to manage your data more efficiently while protecting your data against downtown and disaster.

The Storage Center SAN is a smart, virtual storage platform that speeds storage provisioning for virtual machines, minimizes disk capacity, automates disaster recovery, fine-tunes data placement for virtual applications and provides a shared storage pool available to all VMs all the time. Watch this webcast to see why Dell Compellent storage is the perfect complement to VMware server environments.