Dell has announced updates to the systems management portfolio for the Dell PowerEdge FX2 modular infrastructure.
According to the vendor, the new features enhance provisioning and infrastructure visibility, plus add support for Nagios users and open source applications.
Dell’s overall blade server growth is bolstered by the PowerEdge FX2, which is significantly outpacing industry blade server growth. The PowerEdge FX2 has demonstrated triple-digit percentage growth year-over-year in unit and revenue over the previous four quarters, contributing substantially to PowerEdge blade server gains, since its launch in 2014. According to IDC, Dell PowerEdge blade servers experienced 34 percent year-over-year revenue growth and grew 17 percent faster than the industry in the first quarter of 2016.2
“This latest update to PowerEdge FX2 is an important one,” said Claire Vyvyan, vice president, enterprise solutions, Dell. “By offering users an enhanced experience, complete with improved ease of provisioning for virtualised workloads, we can continue to help our customers achieve total data center flexibility and efficiency, without the need for them to totally overhaul their existing data center infrastructure both now and in the future.”
“Our customers are interested in making their IT infrastructure more flexible and efficient to address evolving business and workload demands in real-time,” said Ashley Gorakhpurwalla, vice president and general manager, Dell Server Solutions. “With strong systems management capabilities, the PowerEdge FX2 can help customers meet their goals by supporting traditional applications and new workloads driven by social, mobile, analytics and cloud computing in a modular infrastructure. These attributes combined with recent customer successes is driving unprecedented growth.”
Dell highlighted that it has enhanced its systems management software to take advantage of the unique engineering of the Dell PowerEdge FX2 and is designed to simplify and automate critical hardware management tasks. New capabilities and updates enhance the user experience with improved ease of provisioning for virtualized workloads, plug-ins for Nagios users, and comprehensive infrastructure visibility and flexibility to run open source applications.
