Dell TechCenter at the Microsoft Management Summit 2011 - Day 2

Viva Las Vegas!  I'm in Sin City for the next few days, not to party like a rock star (that can't be accomplished during our 30 minute breaks), but to cover the important happenings at Microsoft Management Summit  2011.
Day 2 of MMS in the Mandalay Bay Convention Center started off with a bang, as thousands of MMS 2011 attendees packed into a massive conference hall to hear Microsoft corporate VP, Brad Anderson, deliver the keynote address. In his speech, he talked about all things Cloud.  
To highlight the efficiencies that can be gained using Microsoft Cloud technologies, Anderson held up Target stores as an example.  Target is in the process of transitioning to Dell R710 machines running Hyper-V with Dell MD1000s as storage on the back end in their stores.  So far, the migration process has been rolled out in approximately 350 stores and has allowed Target to go from 7 servers to only 2 per store.  By 2012, Target will have completed the transformation of their IT infrastructure and will have retired over 8000 physical servers as a result of their efforts.
The speech also focused on Microsoft Systems Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 (SCVMM) beta, which was released today and is available for download here. Code named "Concero", SCVMM is aimed squarely at the cloud, as the management tool allows IT admins to easily and quickly create, manage, and monitor private clouds.
Want more details? For a curated and crowd sourced Twitter stream of the tweets from Brad Anderson's MMS 2011 keynote, follow this link.
 
Our Dell collegues who work on Dell Systems Management Products led a breakout session today entitled The Cloud Effect on Systems Management – Solutions for the Datacenter Infrastructure. The presenters, Enrico Bracalente, Jay Perusse and Tushar Oza, discussed how the Dell OpenManage suite of products reduce complexity and help achieve efficiencies in the datacenter. 
They also discussed how Dell and Microsoft are better together.  For example, with the help of the Dell Lifecycle Controller and Dell SCCM Deployment Packs, users of Microsoft Systems can easily bare metal deploy to Dell Servers.  Also, the Dell Server PRO Management Pack allows SCVMM users to monitor Dell hardware events and it generates PRO tips for these events, which are recommended actions for the given situation.
The Dell team also highlighted the Advanced Integration Manager and VIS Self Service Creator tools, which allow users to easily group, migrate and provision both physical virtual machines in the datacenter.  Using the Dell Systems Management tools mentioned in the presentation, Dell users have complete control of their datacenter's hardware, server management and orchestration layers.

Also, we had many visitors to the Dell Booth today commenting on the cool new look of the new Dell E-series laptops, which ship with 2nd Generation Intel Sandy Bridge processors and support the USB 3.0 standard. We have a Dell E6320 in the booth, so swing by to check it out.
Additionally, if you haven't seen the 3D Dell M1000e Blade demo we have in the booth, you should!  In the following video, Dell Blades product manager, Chris Christian, gives us a quick summary of this cool interactive, touchscreen tour of Dell blades.
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