DELL WIDENS VIRTUALISATION SERVICE OFFERINGS

Bangalore
The Economic Times (Bangalore edition)

Dell, the $64 billion hardware giant, has expanded the array of services in its virtualisation portfolio of products as it finds growing traction for the technology which allows the sharing and pooling of operating system, server, storage and network resources to maximise efficiency.

Pallab Talukdar, director of Dell India’s enterprise business, Dell said that the logical step for enterprises, which have adopted a virtualisation strategy, is to optimise on their IT investments.

Now, the expanded portfolio of Dell’s virtualisation products will also include software from rivals Microsoft and VMware. Talukdar said Dell has also tied up with other independent software vendors so provide an end-to-end solution.

Virtualisation has been growing in popularity because it is seen helping bring down IT investments while increasing productivity. The rising demand has also resulted in the prices of virtualisation software products coming down. For Dell sales of virtualisation licenses have doubled from the second quarter to third quarter of 2008. Talukdar said the company has been getting positive responses across industry segments in India.