Dell Technologies World: Exploring Infinite Possibilities

In a world that is rapidly changing, we often find ourselves knowing where we should be, but not always understanding the road to get there. Dell EMC continues to push those explorational boundaries at Dell Technologies World 2019, to bridge that gap towards Real Transformation. Let’s take a sneak peek at the demos, launches and featured solutions the Server & Infrastructure Systems team is bringing to the show.

What’s New?

This year you can expect many advancements within the Dell EMC PowerEdge and OpenManage portfolios. Here are some of the key announcements to look for at Dell Technologies World.

OpenManage FlexSelect – A new pluggable architecture enabling Dell to provide incremental management capabilities through the OpenManage Enterprise console.

OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager – The first plug-in for OpenManage Enterprise extends power management and power monitoring into the OpenManage console.

iDRAC improvements to security – Including TLS enablement for in-band communications and Cipher Suite Selection and HSTS enablement for enhanced communications with the iDRAC.

PowerEdge with Intel® Optane™ DC – With new Intel Optane DC persistent memory, customers can support in-memory databases, virtualization and data analytics workloads on PowerEdge servers.

Expansion of the PowerEdge Portfolio – With new 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, PowerEdge customers can better drive their digital transformations with improved performance.

Why Does It Matter?

To be competitive, businesses are constantly looking for ways to move the needle. As organizations grow and transform, they need IT that can grow with them. Dell EMC’s advanced infrastructure includes technologies designed for scalability. The PowerEdge MX platform is just one example that booth #219 will feature at Dell Technologies World. The PowerEdge MX offers a flexible architecture with expandable capabilities to meet the needs of an innovative growing business.

However, real growth and real transformation can bring real concerns. Dell EMC understands the importance of security and consistent management for growing IT infrastructures. At Dell Technologies World, there will also be a host of new products. Our latest offerings are designed for efficient and automated management, as well as enhanced security protection against insidious threats. We are determined to bring total peace of mind throughout your IT transformation journey.

How’s It Fun?

Monster Hunter Task Force Game: It is no surprise that threats to your data center are infinite and beyond your control. Dell EMC provides solutions that help you “kill, slay, destroy” threats to your success. The Dell EMC Server team will be featuring a fun interactive game showcasing how our technologies can eliminate those monsters in your datacenter.

New Belgium Brewing Happy Hour: As you continue your journey, make sure you join us for a toast to the IT successes along the way! We’re partnering with VxRail and VMware to host a New Belgium Brewing Happy Hour at 3:30 Tuesday and Wednesday. Come to booth 219 where we’ll be serving up a variety of New Belgium beer in a limited-edition souvenir glass. Make sure you stop by for a chance to win the daily contest giveaway and check out the New Belgium IT customer presentation live from our booth theater!

These are just a few of the activities, tools, and demos we’re bringing to Dell Technologies World. Our goal is to not only help you prepare for innovation, but manage it effortlessly from the edge to the core to the cloud.

The Reviews Are In: iDRAC9 Delivers

The integrated Dell Remote Access Controller 9 (iDRAC9) has a reputation for delivering a great systems management experience – don’t just take our word for it. Take a look at these recent server reviews for the PowerEdge R240 and the PowerEdge R740xd2. Customers enjoy the end-to-end management and the ease of use that comes embedded into every PowerEdge server and server sled.

The latest version of the iDRAC9 continues to deliver comprehensive management capabilities. This version adds new security, automation and storage related features.

Security without containment

iDRAC9 enables cyber-resilience for the Dell EMC PowerEdge server portfolio. These security features give you control over how to secure your infrastructure. Cipher Suite Selection can be used to increase the security of iDRAC9 by limiting the ciphers negotiated by iDRAC9.

• Support for HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS), allows web browsers to interact using only the secure HTTPS protocol, and not HTTP.

These features, as well as, previously released features of iDRAC9, like System Lockdown, give you more control over your security policies.

Built for automation

With the latest enhancements to iDRAC automation, you can add more complex infrastructure components to your automation policies. The latest edition adds support for new updates of the DMTF Redfish standard. These updates offer management of even more server operations and devices. Updates include the flexibility to manage servers directly from an operating system interface. In addition, iDRAC has always allowed typical out-of-band management. This helps users more easily integrate PowerEdge servers into their existing processes, and provides a more consistent server management experience.

Effortlessly manage the latest technologies

Through Dell EMC partnerships with industry technology innovators, iDRAC9 maintains a robust, timely support for server components. This latest release is no exception. Through close collaboration between Dell EMC and Intel, PowerEdge servers can discover, monitor, configure and update supported Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory and Intel® Optane™ DC SSDs agent-free through iDRAC9. This release also expands System Erase capability to BOSS M.2 drives and adds support for firmware updates for the integrated Dual SD card Module (iDSDM) for VMware ESXi.

Manage more – More completely with iDRAC9

Every new technology is introduced with management capability. But, have you considered the cost of managing every component in your server individually? With iDRAC9 you can streamline management of the critical components of your server. You can manage BIOS, RAID, NIC, thermals and more, all from the intuitive interface. You can also choose how you want to manage. You can expand iDRAC management into the host OS through the Dell EMC iDRAC Service Module (iSM), manage by commands with Dell EMC RACADM CLI, 0r, you can automate management through scripting.