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"if we don't want to make a choice, we want everything!"

Let's take a look at the new Dell VxRail.

How to have both!

Help users reduce costs while increasing revenue

With the introduction of the latest Dell VxRail super-converged infrastructure with fourth-generation Intel ®powerful ®scalable processors, its performance and efficiency have been further enhanced.

For users, the two most important factors when choosing and buying products are whether they can reduce costs and whether they can increase revenue. So, what kind of value can the new generation of Dell VxRail bring to users?

IDC, a world-renowned technology market research firm, interviewed a number of companies that use Dell VxRail to identify and quantify the measurable benefits of deploying Dell VxRail in the IT field. The customers interviewed covered a number of vertical areas, including entertainment, non-profit organizations, agriculture, education, manufacturing, government agencies and other industries.

IDC research data show that for every deployment of one Dell VxRail node, it can generate a profit of US $54000 a year, with a five-year return on investment (ROI) of 463% in 11 months. In addition, the total operating costs of the surveyed companies decreased by 61% over the past five years.

Deep mining data value

Digital business is in the ascendant, and the innovation and progress of enterprises are inseparable from the analysis of a large number of data and their value. Companies of all sizes say it is a daunting task to extract insightful insights from vast amounts of data.

According to the Future Intelligence Survey released by IDC in 2022, 42 per cent of enterprises do not make full use of data, and more than 50 per cent of data created and stored do not provide commercial value, which means that the data is not integrated, analyzed or involved in value-added processes.

Therefore, there is an urgent need for enterprises to integrate modern IT infrastructure to make data closer to business, eliminate obstacles to sharing data among different business groups, manage data in a unified way, and maximize the value of data.

Today, super-converged infrastructure (HCI), which can be deployed in a variety of major and secondary workloads, is popular with enterprise organizations, and its use cases include business-critical applications and workloads such as general computing, hybrid cloud, edge, and Internet of things (IoT).

As the world's leading provider of digital solutions, Dell Technology Group has rich product layout and complete service experience in the field of super-convergence, and Dell VxRail super-converged infrastructure is "a general". As hybrid cloud deployments become more common, the value of Dell VxRail becomes more prominent, helping enterprises modernize their data centers, simplify operations, and accelerate business results.

Dell VxRail uses Intel ®strong ®scalable processor, which has the characteristics of high reliability, high computing power, high stability and high efficiency agility, which can not only help VxRail easily meet established workloads, but also has great application potential in many clouds.

What is the value of Dell VxRail?

IDC surveyed a number of enterprises that deployed Dell VxRail in critical business applications and said: VxRail provides great value to its business by building a cost-effective, efficient and agile IT infrastructure with improved scalability and performance.

01 efficient automation to reduce deployment costs

VxRail super-converged infrastructure provides streamlined, efficient, and automated IT capabilities, resulting in significant cost savings. As a cost-effective solution, VxRail has been unanimously recognized by the interviewed enterprises. According to IDC, the infrastructure costs of these enterprises have been reduced by 18% over the past five years after using VxRail.

Before and after using VxRail

Optimization of the cost of deploying IT infrastructure in interviewed enterprises

In addition, VxRail enables enterprises to modernize their IT infrastructure by replacing compute nodes and storage area networks (SAN), and provides an opportunity for enterprises to reallocate their budgets to prioritize other important IT needs and issues.

"as we gradually standardize different nodes, VxRail makes it easier to scale out and scale up, and infrastructure teams are better able to run updates to keep the system up-to-date. It has become an integral part of our integration plan."

-- An interviewed enterprise

02 modernize the structure and improve production efficiency

The interviewees indicated that their IT team benefited a lot from the deeply integrated and flexible VxRail. With VxRail, infrastructure management staff can increase the productivity of the entire team by up to 61% through an integrated console.

Through automated deployment, patching and upgrading, VxRail also enables the application management team to manage and maintain workloads automatically, and the efficiency of the application environment is greatly improved. After quantifying the revenue, IDC found that the application management efficiency of the interviewed enterprises increased by 28%.

At the same time, VxRail helps enterprises achieve value-added in the key area of security. The enterprises surveyed pointed out that compared with the previous solutions, VxRail provides a higher level of built-in security features, making patches and upgrades more convenient and efficient, and the efficiency of the security team has increased by 43%. This makes the management and security team more confident of ensuring the integrity of the infrastructure.

IDC then studied the impact of VxRail on application development and the DevOps team. With the adoption of VxRail, the thinking of the development team becomes more agile and more applications and functions can be developed. VxRail's workflow system enables developers to fine-tune the application in time and get appropriate feedback from the business unit, so as to provide a good experience for end users.

"my team likes the VxRail upgrade process. Upload the file to VxRail, click the button, it will pre-check, and then the update will be done automatically. You don't have to bother to check each individual node or confirm all the firmware, and the prefabricated package is ready."

-- An interviewed enterprise

03 improve business resilience and reduce downtime and cost

An important indicator of business resilience is to reduce the incidence of unplanned and unplanned downtime. Enterprises that adopt VxRail can not only reduce the frequency of unplanned outages, but also greatly shorten the time it takes to solve downtime problems.

As shown in the figure, after the deployment of VxRail, the average number of unplanned downtime per year has been reduced by 68%, and the average repair time after a failure has been reduced by 81%. The frequency and severity of unplanned outages decreased, which had a positive impact on the income of the interviewed enterprises. It is calculated that the average annual failure-related loss of these enterprises can be reduced by about $3.1 million.

"when we adopted VxRail, because of its unique design, we were able to keep other application servers running without a server, so that we did not affect end users and external users."

-- An interviewed enterprise

04 improvement in business operation productivity

IDC measured the impact of increased end-user productivity on their business, thanks to reduced latency and improved availability by running VxRail in critical business programs, enabling end users to work at higher throughput and generating an additional $1.15 million in value per year for end-users at interviewed companies.

05 reduced business operating costs

Interviewed enterprises reported that VxRail is a very cost-effective solution to meet the modern needs of their IT infrastructure. Higher-performance hyper-converged platforms and simplified and automated IT infrastructure provide significant cost savings.

The following figure shows the total infrastructure operating costs of the interviewed enterprises over the past five years before and after using VxRail. Among them, the hardware cost has been reduced by 18%. Coupled with the aforementioned downtime advantage, VxRail's operating costs were $9.5 million lower than before over a five-year period.

06 high return on investment, cost recovery in 11 months

According to IDC's calculation of return on investment, due to the savings in IT costs, reduction in downtime, improvement in employee efficiency and business performance brought about by the adoption of VxRail, the interviewed enterprises will receive a five-year discount benefit of about US $1630 (an average of US $193000 per VxRail node).

By contrast, the five-year discount cost per enterprise is about $2.9 million (an average of $34000 per VxRail node). IDC estimates that these benefits and investment cost levels will generate an average 463% return on investment for VxRail's clients over five years, which means that investment costs can be recovered in 11 months.

Conclusion

In the digital business era, enterprises will pay more attention to the agility, competitiveness and resilience of the data center when making infrastructure decisions. To avoid data silos, enterprises are looking for technologies that can reduce complexity, reduce the cost of existing technologies, consolidate workloads, and operate seamlessly with existing and next-generation hybrid cloud infrastructures.

The Dell VxRail super-converged infrastructure captures these needs and provides unique advantages for enterprise users, from data center to cloud and edge deployment, to serve different types of customers with unified management tools and reliable user experience, and to help enterprises modernize and automate IT, and finally achieve digital transformation.

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