MANILA, Philippines — It has always been true that the profitability of a business directly correlates to the organization’s ability to satisfy a customer need.
With technology influencing and advancing our daily lives in profound ways, businesses have also come to rely on technology to contribute to their success. And with new challenges facing the business, the network has taken centers stage and grown to play a vital role in the ultimate survival or failure of a business. A business simply cannot survive without it.
Regardless of size, vertical or location, businesses have embraced the concept of virtualization. Applications have been migrated from laptops to “the cloud” and this has put additional demands on the network; in many cases these demands were never factored into the network design when it was first architected. The result – added complexity and cost in a network that never fully met the demands of the business and the organization’s bottom line suffers.
In today’s highly competitive environment, businesses have to become more agile and flexible to keep up. The result is a mobile workforce that demands ubiquitous and secure access to all applications from virtually anywhere on any device. These business requirements place incredible demands on the network. Perhaps the most impacted portion of the network is the data center, the “center of gravity” for the entire organization. Whether at the campus or at a remote facility; whether on a corporate issued device or a personal smartphone, this extreme departure from “the way business was done in the past” also demands a new approach to networking. This is where Dell comes in with the concept of a Virtual Network Architecture (VNA).
Virtual Network Architecture
Anytime, anywhere connectivity is no longer enough. Today, most businesses must flawlessly support a more heterogeneous audience that is using more devices in more locations. Cloud-based initiatives deliver centrally managed and secured business-critical applications, while concurrently delivering a “LAN-like” user experience to the extended user base – who is constantly mobile, or in “the cloufd” themselves.
In order to accomplish this, Dell has developed its networking technology using Virtual Network Architecture (VNA), which is based on three key tenets: Open and optimized, Agile and automated, Flexible and cloud-driven.
Dell recognizes that the increased competitive environment, combined with a highly mobile workforce accessing cloud-based applications, is redefining not just technology, but the way business is done. We are a driving force in helping enterprises achieve more with innovative, open technology that simply works.
The challenge: network complexity & inflexibility can impact your business
Too many layers, devices, and operating systems make management needlessly complex. Deployment is disruptive, provisioning is slow, environmental costs are high, and scaling the network to meet ever-changing business requirements is a constant challenge. And all of this costs money. Today, 80 percent of most companies’ IT budgets is spent not to move ahead, but rather to simply keep up.
The typical legacy network is unwieldy to manage and inefficient to operate. Multiple layers of unnecessary switches add to the complexity without providing any real advantage. Existing networks have become too complex, too slow, too expensive, and far too inflexible to support the business. They simply can’t cope with the onslaught of more users, devices, locations, and cloud-based applications.
Dell’s VNA approach : Open and optimized
Dell can help you address your current challenges while also reducing costs, streaming cumbersome processes, and improving performance. We help you:
Streamline your network: By reducing the number of layers and “boxes” in your network topology, you can achieve a smaller footprint, lowering both capital and operational expenses.
Access the experts: Staging and deploying new technology in a production environment can be costly and disruptive. Accessing Dell’s Advanced Services provides you with scoping, architecting, training, deployment, maintenance and much more. It also frees you up to strategize and innovate rather than manage, which does not contribute to the bottom line.
Agile & automated
In most organizations, the greatest assets and expenditures are people. Assigning people to mundane and tedious tasks saps the organization of innovation that could be occurring. To achieve greater control and agility it is essential to deploy a better, more automated method of management, by moving intelligence near the edge and closer to workloads. This enables dynamic provisioning management and control without the tedious manual intervention traditionally required of such networks. With an optimized network and management at the edge, it is easy to identify underutilized areas anywhere in the network and balance workloads across the network, thereby optimizing performance without over consuming resources.
Deploy a platform for the future
Many networking vendors offer products that solve today’s issues, but do not easily scale for future requirements. Many customers that have purchased such technologies realize only years after that they are locked unto a technology that they cannot operate in a multi-vendor environment. In such instances, the corporate strategy becomes completely reliant on the vendors strategy. Once locked in, the vendor does not have to innovate or even be competitive on price. The result is that any technology change or additional business requirements that impact the network requires a disruptive and costly rip and replace.
A flexible environment allows the creation of an efficient, shared infrastructure through the use of virtual switching, which is optimized for the customer’s unique needs. While today it is mobility, the next “killer app” is just over the horizon. Deploying a flexible infrastructure allows you to solve today’s business challenges, while also deploying a platform that is ideal to solve future challenges. Our comprehensive networking solution portfolio gives you freedom of choice and Dell expertise can help you select the optimal solution.
Dell’s networking solution is forward-thinking and takes the “big picture” into account.
source: mb.com.ph