Dell Solutions Forum 2012
October 31, 2012 was a truly important day for Dell, and not at all because the company decided to celebrate Halloween. On this day, the first large-scale event in Russia took place - the Dell Solutions Forum. And today we would like to answer, perhaps, one of the eternal questions: what was all this for? But first some numbers. In total, the forum brought together over a thousand participants: more than 600 people attended the event personally and about 500 watched the online broadcast.
In one day, we presented 15 reports covering the whole range of modern IT problems: from BYOD and desktop virtualization to the transition to a private cloud and effective data center management. In parallel, in the hall of the exhibition center a “demo zone” was organized from the exhibition stands of sponsors and partners. Each visitor could not only get comprehensive information on the presented joint solutions from Intel, Microsoft, Citrix and many others,
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but also to "test" them right on the spot.
At the very beginning of the forum, Michael Dell welcomed the participants and stressed that Russia is an extremely important and dynamically developing market in which the company sees great prospects. That is why the region has a special role in the Dell business.
Some details of the plan to "conquer Russia" said the general director of Dell in Russia, Boris Shcherbakov.
“The plan envisages not only the promotion of products here, but also the implementation of intellectual resources in the Russian market. Firstly, Dell was established as a legal entity in Russia, which had the opportunity to work like any Russian company, which is important for any legal procedure and for the closest interaction with partners and customers. Our company will work in the Russian market in the same way that Dell works in the USA and other countries of the world, supplying its solutions here and providing its customers with a full range of services. ”
Over time, everything changes, and if the company wants to be successful, it needs not only to offer customers quality solutions, but also to keep up with the times. Judge for yourself, a lot has changed since the 50s:
Dell began its history in 1984 with a capital of only $ 1,000, and today it is a huge corporation with some of the best security, virtualization, storage and cloud technologies solutions in the industry. This became possible not only thanks to our own developments, but also the integration of partner solutions into the company's products. The “strategic” acquisitions of recent years also played a big role. Dell has already acquired about 20 third-party companies (Boomi, Clerity Solutions, Compellent, Equallogic, Quest, SonicWALL, Wyse Technology, etc.), which allowed customers to offer “solo” solutions from hardware to software. Nor have they forgotten about R & D, for which now about $ 1 billion is allocated annually.
But along with the penetration of modern technologies into the lives of people, new problems have emerged that need to be solved.
At the same time, there are no longer any global “linear” tasks. One problem always, one way or another, captures several contiguous ones. We think that Euler’s idea is more in demand today than ever)
Read more in the presentation of Tony Parkinson, Dell Vice President for EMEA, "Dell's Strategy and Business Development Trends in the Corporate Sector"
Consider the popular concept of using personal devices for employees. Everybody knows the BYOD abbreviation and the term “consumerization”, but not everyone understands how to benefit from this approach without increasing information security risks. We at Dell don’t really like to theorize, so we’ll tell you by example.
This is the result, and now we will consider 4 steps, how we managed to achieve such results.
First , choose the right devices for your employees. In general, the designer and tester want the same thing - a computer. But it is obvious that it will be two completely different machines, both in terms of hardware and the tasks performed on them. Therefore, without a differentiated approach is not enough. Of course, you can all buy "monsters" for $ 10,000 each, which will pull any load, but what's the point?
Step two concerns security. It is perhaps the cornerstone in the whole concept of BYOD. Usually the company uses a "mix" of corporate and personal devices. To organize data protection and at the same time not to violate anyone's rights - something that sooner or later you will come across. Our solution:
The third step is optimization of access, management and deployment. When the company "zoo" user devices, you inevitably encounter problems that I would like to solve centrally. For example, the variety of platforms and operating systems on which you need to install different software, which, in turn, has a certain licensing period. In this case, it is necessary to provide options for backups, remote deletion of information in case of theft, and a dozen more tasks. Sometimes it seems that it is easier to leave everything “as it is” (it seems to work, well, okay), but believe me, the result is worth the work done. Especially when the solution to the problem is already known.
And finally, at the finish line, the fourth step is virtualization.
More details in the presentation of Konstantin Isaakyan, director of consumer, small and medium business and distribution in Russia, Generation Y and IT "consumerization". Increase productivity without compromising IT control. ”
Types of this is convenient to choose depending on the number of users and tasks.
Indeed, there is no need to shoot a gun on the sparrows. The main thing to remember is that the entire infrastructure should be convenient to manage.
Read more in the presentation by Alexander Stepanov, Alexander Tarasov and Artem Panin "Desktop Virtualization through the Eyes of Dell"
Moreover, the cloud will allow you to build a flexible and inexpensive infrastructure based on the technologies that you already know.
Read more in the presentation of Dmitry Matchin (Dell) and Vasily Malanin (Microsoft) “Ready-made recipes from Microsoft and Dell to build a virtual and cloud infrastructure.”
And also in the presentation of Alexander Stepanov (Dell), Ivan Shumovsky (CROC) and Sergey Halyapin (Citrix Systems) “VDI. Key success factors. ”
That got to the data center. Dell has something to offer here. Remember the joke about "what's important in a tank"? Leave it without ending and change the question. And what is the main thing in the data center? In our opinion - ease of use, flexible integration and security. For a successful solution of this problem, you can use Dell OpenManage, in more detail about which Roman Samoilov (Dell), Konstantin Shurunov (Dell) and Dmitry Senchikhin (I-Teco) told at the Dell Solutions Forum.
Recently, another trend is characteristic of data centers - technology convergence. The position of Dell in their presentation was revealed by Anton Banchukov and Sergey Gusarov.
PS At the end of the post I would like to say that in addition to the tasks described and ways to solve them, there are always global problems that are relevant to systems of any complexity. It is security, data storage, speed and business continuity. We already talked about some technologies (Fluid Data ( part 1 , part 2 )) in our blog on Habré. But who said that the topic was fully disclosed? :)
Dell's Practical Data Storage - Fluid Data
File storage: protection, speed, scaling.
Dell solutions for business continuity.
That’s the story of the Dell Solutions Forum. But the story of Dell in Russia is just beginning.
In one day, we presented 15 reports covering the whole range of modern IT problems: from BYOD and desktop virtualization to the transition to a private cloud and effective data center management. In parallel, in the hall of the exhibition center a “demo zone” was organized from the exhibition stands of sponsors and partners. Each visitor could not only get comprehensive information on the presented joint solutions from Intel, Microsoft, Citrix and many others,
')
but also to "test" them right on the spot.
What has Dell come to Russia with?
At the very beginning of the forum, Michael Dell welcomed the participants and stressed that Russia is an extremely important and dynamically developing market in which the company sees great prospects. That is why the region has a special role in the Dell business.
Some details of the plan to "conquer Russia" said the general director of Dell in Russia, Boris Shcherbakov.
“The plan envisages not only the promotion of products here, but also the implementation of intellectual resources in the Russian market. Firstly, Dell was established as a legal entity in Russia, which had the opportunity to work like any Russian company, which is important for any legal procedure and for the closest interaction with partners and customers. Our company will work in the Russian market in the same way that Dell works in the USA and other countries of the world, supplying its solutions here and providing its customers with a full range of services. ”
Do you want solutions? I have them
Over time, everything changes, and if the company wants to be successful, it needs not only to offer customers quality solutions, but also to keep up with the times. Judge for yourself, a lot has changed since the 50s:
Dell began its history in 1984 with a capital of only $ 1,000, and today it is a huge corporation with some of the best security, virtualization, storage and cloud technologies solutions in the industry. This became possible not only thanks to our own developments, but also the integration of partner solutions into the company's products. The “strategic” acquisitions of recent years also played a big role. Dell has already acquired about 20 third-party companies (Boomi, Clerity Solutions, Compellent, Equallogic, Quest, SonicWALL, Wyse Technology, etc.), which allowed customers to offer “solo” solutions from hardware to software. Nor have they forgotten about R & D, for which now about $ 1 billion is allocated annually.
But along with the penetration of modern technologies into the lives of people, new problems have emerged that need to be solved.
At the same time, there are no longer any global “linear” tasks. One problem always, one way or another, captures several contiguous ones. We think that Euler’s idea is more in demand today than ever)
Read more in the presentation of Tony Parkinson, Dell Vice President for EMEA, "Dell's Strategy and Business Development Trends in the Corporate Sector"
BYOD
Consider the popular concept of using personal devices for employees. Everybody knows the BYOD abbreviation and the term “consumerization”, but not everyone understands how to benefit from this approach without increasing information security risks. We at Dell don’t really like to theorize, so we’ll tell you by example.
This is the result, and now we will consider 4 steps, how we managed to achieve such results.
First , choose the right devices for your employees. In general, the designer and tester want the same thing - a computer. But it is obvious that it will be two completely different machines, both in terms of hardware and the tasks performed on them. Therefore, without a differentiated approach is not enough. Of course, you can all buy "monsters" for $ 10,000 each, which will pull any load, but what's the point?
Step two concerns security. It is perhaps the cornerstone in the whole concept of BYOD. Usually the company uses a "mix" of corporate and personal devices. To organize data protection and at the same time not to violate anyone's rights - something that sooner or later you will come across. Our solution:
The third step is optimization of access, management and deployment. When the company "zoo" user devices, you inevitably encounter problems that I would like to solve centrally. For example, the variety of platforms and operating systems on which you need to install different software, which, in turn, has a certain licensing period. In this case, it is necessary to provide options for backups, remote deletion of information in case of theft, and a dozen more tasks. Sometimes it seems that it is easier to leave everything “as it is” (it seems to work, well, okay), but believe me, the result is worth the work done. Especially when the solution to the problem is already known.
And finally, at the finish line, the fourth step is virtualization.
More details in the presentation of Konstantin Isaakyan, director of consumer, small and medium business and distribution in Russia, Generation Y and IT "consumerization". Increase productivity without compromising IT control. ”
Virtualization
Types of this is convenient to choose depending on the number of users and tasks.
Indeed, there is no need to shoot a gun on the sparrows. The main thing to remember is that the entire infrastructure should be convenient to manage.
Read more in the presentation by Alexander Stepanov, Alexander Tarasov and Artem Panin "Desktop Virtualization through the Eyes of Dell"
Beyond Virtualization
As a result, it is often cheaper and more convenient to switch from virtualization to a private cloud, which will provide not only scalability, high performance and fault tolerance, but also more advanced management of virtual machines and virtual networks.Moreover, the cloud will allow you to build a flexible and inexpensive infrastructure based on the technologies that you already know.
Read more in the presentation of Dmitry Matchin (Dell) and Vasily Malanin (Microsoft) “Ready-made recipes from Microsoft and Dell to build a virtual and cloud infrastructure.”
And also in the presentation of Alexander Stepanov (Dell), Ivan Shumovsky (CROC) and Sergey Halyapin (Citrix Systems) “VDI. Key success factors. ”
Data center
That got to the data center. Dell has something to offer here. Remember the joke about "what's important in a tank"? Leave it without ending and change the question. And what is the main thing in the data center? In our opinion - ease of use, flexible integration and security. For a successful solution of this problem, you can use Dell OpenManage, in more detail about which Roman Samoilov (Dell), Konstantin Shurunov (Dell) and Dmitry Senchikhin (I-Teco) told at the Dell Solutions Forum.
Recently, another trend is characteristic of data centers - technology convergence. The position of Dell in their presentation was revealed by Anton Banchukov and Sergey Gusarov.
PS At the end of the post I would like to say that in addition to the tasks described and ways to solve them, there are always global problems that are relevant to systems of any complexity. It is security, data storage, speed and business continuity. We already talked about some technologies (Fluid Data ( part 1 , part 2 )) in our blog on Habré. But who said that the topic was fully disclosed? :)
Dell's Practical Data Storage - Fluid Data
File storage: protection, speed, scaling.
Dell solutions for business continuity.
That’s the story of the Dell Solutions Forum. But the story of Dell in Russia is just beginning.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/158783/
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