New Dell OpenManage 5.3, Certified Partner Programme Give Customers More Control, Choice in Enterprise Management
Dubai, UAE - Dell™ OpenManage™ 5.3, the company's enhanced systems management solution providing customers with easier yet more extensive control of datacentres and virtual environments, was announced today at Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco. Dell OpenManage 5.3 will be available worldwide next week. For more information visit: www.dell.com/openmanage.
Dell OpenManage 5.3 gives customers more IT management functionality with less complexity. Addressing the pressing power and thermal challenges of modern day datacentres, OpenManage Server Administrator and IT Assistant tools use standards-based power monitoring and alert capabilities to provide a variety of power usage information, enabling IT managers to make timely, more informed decisions regarding server utilisation and reduce overall energy consumption and costs. Unlike competitors, Dell does not charge for basic IT necessities such as power and virtual machine monitoring, and instead bundles these important features into its core OpenManage solution.
The enhanced suite of systems management tools reduces the number of consoles required for Dell server deployments and updates from three to one, via Dell Systems Build and Update Utility 1.0. As a result, customers have a more holistic view and greater understanding of their IT infrastructures.
"Dell OpenManage 5.3 was designed to help customers run IT better by being able to do more with less," said Simon Negus, Vice President, Services and Solutions, Dell EMEA. "With standard IT management functionality provided free of charge, along with more efficient processes, reduced maintenance costs and deployment time, and significantly less complexity, we enable customers to spend less time just 'keeping the lights on' and maintaining systems so they can commit more time and resources to innovation."
New Dell OpenManage features also enable:
The industry's first in-line hard drive firmware update capability, delivering a 99 percent reduction in the time it takes to update without having to take a drive off-line;
Management console reduction by two thirds with a common UI and CLI through Dell Systems Build and Update Utility, bare metal deploy, OS deploy, and platform update servers;
New functionality to reduce both deployment and update time and costs, such as a script generator and custom update policies; and
More control over the level of updates and improved performance through the ability to build and update repository inside the firewall to mirror Dell Online, without each server going though the corporate firewall every time a platform needs to be updated.
Simplified IT Management Through Dell's OpenManage Certified Partner Programme
Delivering on its promise to simplify IT, Dell continues to expand its OpenManage Certified Partner Programme, which helps customers reduce the complexity and cost associated with managing heterogeneous IT environments. In the past year, Dell has completed product certification with six systems management solution providers in its OpenManage Certified Partner Programme: Altiris, BMC Software, Dorado Software, LANDesk, Microsoft and Novell.
Through its OpenManage Certified Partner Programme, Dell provides partners with developer toolkits for embedding OpenManage components into their systems management applications. Dell then certifies this functionality, assuring customers that a partner's implementation meets Dell standards. This provides customers with a trustworthy, simplified and more holistic view of their IT infrastructure by allowing them to manage more from fewer consoles. With seamless integration into the most commonly used systems management consoles, Dell's OpenManage Certified Partner Programme also enables customers to reduce complexity and costs by leveraging the systems management tools they already own.
"We're giving our customers something our competitors don't - the flexibility to use the management tools that best fit the needs of their unique IT environments without sacrificing any control," said Negus. "Our OpenManage Certified Partner Programme enables customers to deploy, monitor and manage their Dell infrastructure from a systems management console of their choice, leveraging the tools they want to use."
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