Technical Guide

Dell Financial Services (DFS)
Dell Financial Services is a global provider of innovative payment and consumption solutions for hardware, software and
services, allowing organizations to align and scale the cost of IT solutions with technology consumption and budget availability.
DFS supports all customers, from consumers to small businesses up to the largest global corporations.
Why leverage Payment Solutions from DFS?
● Optimize Payment Solutions - Tailor one or more of our solutions to your needs and grow the business.
● Ease Budget Constraints - Reduce capital expenses and free up budgets with flexible payment solutions.
● Increase Efficiency - Flexible payment transactions allow your infrastructure to grow when needed without relying on a
fixed, capital budget.
Topics:
• Flex On Demand (FOD)
• Flex On Demand for PowerEdge Servers
Flex On Demand (FOD)
● Flex On Demand (FOD) is a metered payment solution for Dell EMC storage, data protection, hyperconverged infrastructure,
servers, converged infrastructure and the Dell Technologies Cloud Platform.
● With Flex On Demand, the technology is metered - at a component level - based on how much a specific technology is used.
● You are able to choose your committed or baseline capacity and pay for it at an agreed upon rate each month. When
capacity requirements increase above the baseline capacity level, buffer capacity can be utilized at the same rate.
● With Flex On Demand, you can scale up and down within the available buffer capacity and easily manage unpredictable
growth, workload bursts, and temporary changes in IT infrastructure requirements.
Flex On Demand for PowerEdge Servers
Flex On Demand gives you unprecedented levels of flexibility in how you consume our technology, allowing you to elastically
scale up or down to meet your needs.
Who could benefit from a Flex On Demand consumption model?
Flex On Demand could benefit customers looking to:
● Conserve cashflow
● Achieve predictable payments when usage is variable
● Increase business agility by having immediate access to buffer capacity
● Shift technology spending from a capital expenditure to an ongoing operating expense
Dell EMC PowerEdge servers and Flex On Demand combine the industry's best-selling servers with innovative consumption-
based payment programs. It allows you to improve economics, increase flexibility and embrace choice:
● Improve Economics - Pay for server resources based on actual hourly usage and avoid the costs of over-provisioning so
you can achieve public cloud economics in the data center.
● Increase Flexibility - Respond quickly to new service requests, workload fluctuations and changes driven by the business
to improve IT flexibility.
● Embrace Choice - Choose the infrastructure that's configured to your requirements and payment schedule that works for
you.
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