Overview Brochure

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| Networking Portfolio Overview Brochure
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during this digital age, enterprises and service providers
alike are experiencing signicant changes. At the core of this
transformation is a fundamental shift in IT technologies designed
to dramatically alter cost structures and capabilities. At the core,
data center networks have become complex and congested,
outgrowing their originally intended north/south ow patterns.
Tightly coupled networking hardware with proprietary software
cannot match the constantly changing requirements of the
software layers or keep up with the pace of virtualization and
software-dened network demands. At the edge of the network,
organizations are looking to replace expensive legacy routers
and dedicated physical connections with solutions that are more
cost-e󰀨ective and simpler to manage. There is also a need to
keep pace with a growing demand of heavier tra󰀩c ows, both at
remote locations and for employees working from home. Finally,
organizations are looking for an infrastructure that enables a
path to move to a hybrid cloud model, balancing the needs of
workloads between on-prem and in the cloud.
In the face of IT
transformation
Dell
Technologies has
one of the broadest
open networking portfolios in the
industry – spanning both hardware
and software. Dell’s unique
approach involves combining its
own developed technologies with
those from a broad ecosystem of
technology partners.