The Future-Proof Loyalty Program is Turning 1 - Dell EMC Certification

Over the course of the last 12 months the Future-Proof Loyalty Program has matured into a comprehensive customer experience program spanning a rich set of IT infrastructure products including primary storage, unstructured storage, data protection and hyper-converged infrastructure.  The program’s benefit pillars include technical capabilities, financial options and support offerings, with an eye to a world where your customers desire peaceful coexistence between on-premises and off-premises infrastructure (i.e. hybrid/multi-cloud).

For us, the big news is the innovations we’ve encapsulated to support one of Dell Technologies’ three primary corporate goals – customer satisfaction¹.  We’ve been able to take a few powerful concepts – guaranteed satisfaction, investment protection, and timeless technology – and make them part of the purchase experience across the Dell EMC Infrastructure Systems Group’s (ISG’s) products.

For you, the big news is that the program now spans 13 product families, across three of our product lines, and offers nine pillars, many of which contain multiple features like our multi-faceted Cloud Consumption and Cloud Enabled pillars. So, how has our program evolved this year?  We listened to your suggestions and are proud to share the progress we have made

What a difference a year can make – What started out as a way to make life simpler for users in a crowded midrange storage segment became a way to make almost everyone’s life simpler, and to enable IT infrastructure users to take advantage of the latest product technologies and financial innovations in a multi-cloud world.

“Dell EMC’s Future Proof Program allows the community to have a piece of mind for the lifecycle management of their infrastructure purchasing decisions. Being able to have an upfront understanding in place of the expectations on things such as data reduction services, maintenance support, data migrations, and trade in programs drives confidence throughout organizations that their IT vendor will be partnering with them for the long haul.” – Tech Data.

What this means for you?  

Through timeless technology and our continued commitment to provide investment protection, the Future-Proof Loyalty Program gives you the confidence to sell Dell EMC. Seize the opportunity to use this program to start new conversations, handle competitive objections and claims, drive strong customer loyalty and at the end of the day drive more revenue.

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Solving the IT Challenges - Dell EMC Certifications

Thankfully, Dell EMC can guide you through every step of your IT journey – from helping choose the right server to optimizing it to meet the needs of your business. For small and medium business who might be looking for their first rack server, Dell EMC offers the PowerEdge R240. For medium and large business looking for an entry-level server for their data center deployment, the  PowerEdge R340 is the ideal solution.

The PowerEdge R240 is a 1U single-socket rack server designed with enterprise features at affordable prices. It’s easy to deploy and ideal for:

• File/print – offering the right level of performance and storage for transactions sent to the network to be printed or stored
• Mail messaging – providing enough storage capacity to handle receiving and sending emails
• Collaboration and sharing – ready to enable collaborative applications for sharing information and processes on-site or remotely
• Web hosting – with the right mix of performance, storage, and memory capacity

To give you a sense of what the PowerEdge R240 offers, here is what one our customer had to say regarding their experience with this server:

“Our number one priority as a global service provider is to keep people connected anywhere, anytime, all of the time. For our web hosting requirements, we need a server that is efficient, reliable, and scalable. After long hours of rigorous testing, The Dell EMC PowerEdge R240 was able to handle our customer’s applications and multiple benchmarks without a hitch. In addition, this server offers the right mix of features based on our specific requirements at any given time. We trust Dell EMC to deliver technology leadership, product quality, and reliable support” Cindy Jordan-Ford, Vice President & General Manager, US & LATAM, Cogeco Peer 1

The PowerEdge R340 is a 1U single-socket rack server designed to boost productivity, scale at your own pace, and help you simplify your IT infrastructure. The R340 is great for file and print, mail and messaging, and collaboration and sharing. In addition, this server can be your backup recovery solution with features like hot-plug drives and power supplies.

The PowerEdge R240 and R340 are designed with customers in mind. They are built to grow with your business and offer leading-edge innovations that provide value today and protect your investment well into the future:

• Increase performance with up to 50% * higher core counts. Customers can choose a 4- or a 6-core Intel® Xeon® E-2100 processor
• Harness data growth with a choice of cabled or hot-plug storage. The PowerEdge R240 offers up to four 3.5″cabled hard drives and the PowerEdge R340 offers up to 8 x 2.5 and up to 4 x 3.5” hot-plug hard drives
• Address data sets with a maximum of 64GB of DDR4 memory
• Reduce operational costs with multi-vector cooling that automatically calculates and delivers the proper airflow needed for optimal cooling

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Dell EMC Gains High Performance Computing Solutions - Dell EMC Certifications

Dell EMC is announcing momentum in high performance computing (HPC) deployments and new portfolio expansions, designed to help accelerate time to insights in a variety of disciplines, including artificial intelligence, bioscience, weather forecasting and more. Dell EMC also announces that the University of Florida’s Center of Space, High Performance, Reconfigurable Computing (SHREC) has won the 2018 Dell EMC AI Challenge.

“Advances in IT are making HPC systems increasingly more powerful and innovative to accelerate the time necessary to reach new discoveries, but many still believe implementations can be complex,” said Thierry Pellegrino, vice president and general manager of HPC at Dell EMC. “Based on decades of experience with leading institutions, technology partners and strategic customers, Dell EMC provides an extensive portfolio of technologies that simplify HPC adoption to advance research and further democratize HPC. We remain focused on leading the way in HPC innovation and helping organizations of all types and sizes further advance expanding opportunities in artificial intelligence and machine learning.”

Dell EMC fueling research for human progress

Dell EMC continues to be at the forefront of helping customers adopt the latest HPC technologies to fuel a wide range of discoveries and research. Recent customer momentum demonstrates Dell EMC’s commitment to deliver world-class HPC systems that bring together the latest advances in servers, accelerators, liquid cooling and networking:

• Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at the University of Texas at Austin has selected Dell EMC to develop and deliver its new Frontera supercomputer in 2019, funded by TACC’s $60 million award from The National Science Foundation. At the time of its announcement, in August 2018, Frontera would have been the world’s fifth most powerful system, the third fastest in the U.S. and the largest at any university if completed. The Dell EMC PowerEdge system plans to combine several technical innovations such as CoolIT Systems high-density Direct Contact Liquid Cooling, high performance Mellanox HDR 200Gb/s InfiniBand interconnect and next generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors. Frontera’s early projects are expecting to include analysis of particle collisions from CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, global climate modeling, hurricane forecasting and multi-messenger astronomy.
• The University of Cambridge has expanded its supercomputing capabilities with its “Cumulus - UK Science Cloud.” This new OpenStack system is the UK’s largest academic supercomputer, providing more than two petaflops of performance, powered by Dell EMC PowerEdge servers, Intel® Xeon® processors and Intel® Omni-Path Architecture. To help solve the UK’s most challenging data driven, simulation and AI tasks, Cumulus is open to all UK academics and industry and delivered in partnership with Dell EMC and StackHPC, a UK start-up specialising in the convergence of HPC and Cloud. It is funded with investments totalling over £13 million from STFC (DiRAC/IRIS), EPSRC (Tier 2) and the university.
• The University of Michigan is deploying its Great Lakes computing cluster for simulation, modeling, artificial intelligence, machine learning, data science, genomics and more. The new system is powered by a Dell EMC-enabled HPC infrastructure built on Dell EMC PowerEdge servers. Great Lakes is the industry’s first system to benefit from Mellanox HDR 200Gb/s InfiniBand networking, enabling faster data transfer speeds and increased application performance.
• The Ohio Supercomputer Center is deploying its Pitzer Cluster, delivered by Dell EMC. Like TACC’s Frontera system, the Pitzer Cluster will utilize Dell EMC PowerEdge servers with CoolIT’s modular, rack-based Direct Contact Liquid Cooling solution, which allows for increased rack densities, higher component performance potential and better energy efficiency. As a result, it will offer nearly as much performance as the center’s most powerful cluster but require less power and less than half the space. The system will power broad research areas from human genomics to the global spread of viruses.

Dell EMC eases HPC adoption with Ready Solutions advancements

Today’s HPC workloads require storage infrastructure that scales endlessly and delivers unmatched bandwidth at high concurrency for deep learning algorithms and AI initiatives. To meet these needs, Dell EMC is committed to expanding its HPC portfolio to offer a range of high performance storage options that complement its portfolio of Ready Solutions with the Dell EMC Isilon Scale-out NAS storage powered by the Isilon OneFS operating system.

The Dell EMC Ready Solution for HPC Lustre Storage and Dell EMC Ready Solution for HPC NFS Storage are now available with the new Dell EMC PowerVault ME4 storage arrays. Dell EMC built the ME4 Series with 75 percent more drives than the PowerVault MD3 to increase raw storage capacity by 122 percent, while also boosting read IOPS performance by 4X. Its modular design allows for flexible and custom designs, offering increased density, when compared to the PowerVault MD3, and the ability to scale as customers’ businesses grow