Dell builds a workload-centric datacenter Network

Overall, the IT infrastructure consists of three major components, server, storage, and network. As the world's leading IT Solution provider, Dell has been the industry's leading manufacturer of servers. On the storage side, Dell has also risen rapidly in recent years, showing great strength. Only in the network, Dell relatively inferior some, although already has powerconnect series of own products, and juniper and brocade and other leading network manufacturers have established a close cooperative relationship, but still slightly thin. But the situation will be quickly rewritten in the short term. August 26, Dell officially announced the completion of the High Performance data center network leading manufacturer Force10 NX acquisition. The acquisition eliminates Dell's network-related short board and strengthens Dell's network technology unprecedented, making Dell a very solid step in consolidating the three core technologies of computing, storage, and networking, as well as building the next generation of data centers for customers.

An acquisition that is highly consistent in concept and technology

Force10 was founded in 1999, focusing on the data center network business. Prior to the takeover, Force10 had more than 1,400 customers, providing network solutions for companies and institutions with extremely stringent network environments such as Google, Yahoo and CERN. FORCE10 's Data center network, HPCC Network, and cloud computing network are open, automated, and virtualized to technical features that are consistent with Dell's technical philosophy.

In terms of technology, FORCE10 has strong research and development capabilities, and its newest innovations include the Z-series distributed core Switch, which supports up to 128 10,000 gigabit or 32 40,000 gigabit Ethernet ports on a single platform, reshaping price/performance benchmarks in the Data Center network area, Widely favored by customers in the midrange market. In general, FORCE10 products are characterized by low latency, high density, and low energy consumption, and can be effectively complemented by Dell's existing Powerconnect network product line and Dell server and storage infrastructure solutions.

As can be seen, both in terms of the concept and technically, Dell's acquisition of Force10 is a very high degree of acquisition. For users, the most immediate benefit of this acquisition is that Dell will leverage its global marketing network and powerful execution capabilities to extend Force10 's advanced network solutions to the edge of the network in a very short period of time, bringing it to the vast data center.

Create Virtual Network Service architecture (Vnsi) to realize intelligent perception of workload

And from a deeper perspective, with this acquisition, Dell will closely integrate Force10 's leading technology with its computing solutions, storage solutions, and management solutions, eliminating the fragmentation of computing architectures, storage architectures, and network architectures to provide customers with a more "open , "Excellent performance" and "cost-effective" global solutions for next-generation data centers.

Dell points out that the "Next Generation data center" is not just a marketing slogan, it is a real business need. It is the inevitable direction of data center development under the background of the era of virtualization and cloud computing. To meet customer demand for next-generation data centers, Dell has developed a unique approach-the virtual receptacle services Infrastructure,vnsi. Vnsi has three pillars: flat networks, edge management, and support for virtualized extensions. These three pillars enable the next generation of data center networks to support workload IntelliSense patterns. So that users can start from a workload perspective, from the business application point of view, to define the network management strategy, forwarding strategy, security policy and control strategy, so as to establish a more close to the business of the new network management model and application mode, the formation of a panoramic view of the network of data center, to create a reliable, safe, Intelligent, controllable network architecture.

As Dell Vice president and network business general manager Dario Zamarian said: "The data center network is undergoing a major transformation to support applications and virtualization to meet the needs of end users and IT managers." In short, customers need a new way, which is what we call the virtual network services infrastructure. FORCE10 's product innovation process and its technology leadership in the field of data center networking are consistent with our vision and can accelerate the realization of this vision. ”