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| Michael Dell, CEO, Dell Group |
Dell Networking has expanded its
S-series portfolio with the new S6000, the industry’s highest-density 1RU
10/40GbE switching platform for highly-virtualized data centres.
A fixed form factor design, the S6000 doubles the
density and through-put while consuming up to 50 percent less power than
previous generation top-of-rack switches.
Built-in advanced virtualization and automation
features help customers scale larger virtual deployments in a smaller physical
footprint, and helps solve the challenge of bridging virtualized and
non-virtualized aspects of the infrastructure.
According
to Tom Burns, vice president and general manager, Dell Networking, “Virtual
environments are expanding while physical footprints remain constant, resulting
in massive density increases in servers and storage. Networks need to keep up.
That’s what inspired the S6000.”
“The S6000 platform can help customers unify
virtualized and non-virtualized IT elements, providing a gateway to a
software-defined enterprise,” he added
Bob
Laliberte, senior analyst, Enterprise
Strategy Group emphasized: “To help
accelerate the adoption of Network Virtualization technologies, it will be
imperative for organizations to have visibility across both the virtualized and
physical network environment.
“The Dell S6000 is tightly integrated with VMware
solutions to enable a holistic view of the network environment that will
enable faster troubleshooting and more effective provisioning.”
S6000 supports advanced network virtualization and
software-defined networking features including hardware-accelerated layer 2
gateway functionality for use with VMware NSX™, bridging traffic between
virtualized and non-virtualized environments.
Dell expects worldwide availability of the S6000
switching platform in its fiscal third quarter 2013.
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