The Check Point Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) Software Blade combines industry-leading IPS protection with breakthrough performance at a lower cost than traditional, stand-alone IPS software solutions. The IPS Software Blade delivers complete and proactive intrusion prevention – all with the deployment and management advantages of a unified and extensible next-generation firewall solution. Benefits

• Next-generation security prevention, protection and performance
• Industry-leading intrusion protection and firewall—as tested NSS Labs—delivers 1,000s of signature, behavioral and preemptive protections
• Check Point is ranked #1 in Microsoft and Adobe threat coverage
• Combines with best-of-breed firewall, application control, URL filtering, DLP and more on the most comprehensive, network-class next gen firewall
• Unrivaled, multi-Gigabit performance in an integrated IPS
• Up to 15 Gbps of IPS and 30 Gbps of firewall throughput
• Stateful Inspection and SecureXL technology deliver multi-tier IPS inspection and accelerated IPS throughput
• CoreXL technology provides the most efficient and high-performance use of multi-core technologies
• Lowest TCO and fastest ROI of any enterprise-class firewall solution
• One-click activation of IPS and firewall protection on any Check Point gateway
• Delivers unmatched extensibility and flexibility—all without adding CapEx
• Integrated into Check Point Software Blade Architecture for on-demand security

The Check Point IPS Software Blade is delivering better security than our previous IPS software solution and at a lower cost. Check Point has designed the IPS software blade for efficient resource utilization, which improves performance, mission critical availability, and uptime. Complete Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) Functionality The Intrusion Protection System Software Blade complements firewall protection, further securing your network without degrading gateway performance. Full-featured IPS The IPS Software Blade provides a complete Intrusion Prevention System security solution, providing comprehensive network protection against malicious and unwanted network traffic, including:

• Malware attacks
• Dos and DDoS attacks
• Application and server vulnerabilities
• Insider threats
• Unwanted application traffic, including IM and P2P
• Geo-protections

Geo-protections enforce or monitor traffic based on the source or destination country. Create a geo-protection policy with exceptions to allow legitimate traffic through while blocking or monitoring traffic from unknown and untrusted sources. Monitor activity with the SmartEvent Software Blade. Trusted Security Real-Time protections – The IPS Software Blade is constantly updated with new defenses against emerging threats. Many of the IPS protections are pre-emptive, providing defenses before vulnerabilities are discovered or exploits are even created. Microsoft vulnerability coverage – Check Point is ranked #1 in Microsoft threat coverage, including preemptive protections against emerging vulnerabilities and exploits. Multi-gigabit Integrated IPS Performance Delivers up to 15 Gbps of IPS throughput with the default IPS profile. The IPS Software Blade incorporates a high-speed pattern matching engine that does multi-layered, 2-tier inspection for maximum performance with thousands of protections enabled. Dynamic Threat Management With the IPS Software Blade and the SmartEvent Software Blade you gain a new, dynamic management paradigm for today’s high volume, real-time and evolving threat environment. Check Point threat management workflows allow you to handle constant change quickly and efficiently, reducing your management overhead and allowing you to confidently and promptly deploy protections. The IPS Software Blade offers:

• New protections sandbox – Build confidence in a ‘sandbox’ environment with no impact on your network.
• Automatic protection activation – Activation of new protections, based on configurable parameters (performance impact, confidence index, threat severity). The difficulties of constant, individual management of thousands of protections are eliminated.
• Unified Management – The IPS blade is configured and managed through a common Check Point management interface—the same one used to manage other security gateway Software Blades and Check Point dedicated IPS.
• Configurable, actionable monitoring – Track events through detailed reports and logs of what is most important. The new Security Management Software Blade for IPS and Security Provisioning Software Blade simplify threat analysis and reduce operational overhead.
• Business-level views – Customizable reports provide easy monitoring of critical security events associated with your business-critical systems.
• Multi-dimensional sorting – Drag-and-drop columns of event data and the information will be automatically re-ordered.
• Actionable event logs – Edit the associated protection, create an exception or view packet data directly from log entries.

Benefits Detects and controls application usage

• Identify, allow, block or limit usage of applications, and features within them
• Enable safe Internet use while protecting against threats and malware
• Leverage the world's largest application library with more than 6,600 web 2.0 applications

Supports advanced identity awareness for stress-free policy enforcement

• Create granular policy definitions per user and group
• Integrate seamlessly with Active Directory
• Protect environments with social media and Internet applications

Provides proven gateway security in a single, dedicated appliance

• Rely on 24/7 advanced protection
• Reap the benefits of application control and intrusion protection (IPS), as well as extensibility support for additional security capabilities
• Get greater understanding into security events with integrated, easy-to-use centralized management
• Join more than 170,000 customers, including 100 percent of Fortune 100 companies

Features Identity awareness Great security involves limiting and tracking access to sensitive data and resources. With the Next Generation Firewall, your administrators get detailed visibility into the users, groups, applications, machines and connection types on your network so they can assign permissions to the right users and devices. The firewall makes it easy and cost-effective to enforce security policy, giving granular permission control over these entities; this results in superior protection across the entire security gateway. Seamless and agent-less integration with Active Directory provides complete user identification, enabling simple, application-based policy definition per user or group directly from the firewall. Users’ identification may be acquired in one of three simple methods:

• Querying the Active Directory
• Through a captive portal
• Installing a one-time, thin client-side agent

Application control Employees are using more apps than ever, and you’re on the hook to protect them regardless of what they use. Check Point Next Generation Firewall has the industry’s largest application coverage, with more than 6,600 applications and 260,000 social network widgets included. You can create granular security policies based on users or groups to identify, block or limit usage of web applications and widgets like instant messaging, social networking, video streaming, VoIP, games and more. Logging and status To help you make sense out of your security event data, we included SmartLog, an advanced log analyzer that delivers split-second search results providing real-time visibility into billions of log records over multiple time periods and domains. Integrated security management Our unified security management simplifies the monumental task of managing your security environment. You’ll see and control threats, devices and users with a highly intuitive graphical interface providing views, details and reports on your security health. Manage all your Check Point gateways and software blades from one comprehensive, centralized security dashboard. Intrusion prevention Next Generation Firewall includes the Check Point IPS Software Blade, which secures your network by inspecting packets traversing through the gateway. It is a full-featured IPS, providing geo-protections and frequent, automated threat definition updates. Because the IPS is part of the integrated Software Blade Architecture, you’ll get all the deployment and management advantages of a unified and extensible solution.

Check Point SandBlast Agent provides purpose-built advanced Zero-Day Protection capabilities to protect web browsers and endpoints, leveraging Check Point’s industry leading network protections.SandBlast Agent ensures complete real-time coverage across threat vectors, letting your employees work safely no matter where they are without compromising on productivity. Threat Emulation capability emulates unknown files in contained environment to detect malicious behaviors and prevent infections while Threat Extraction provides sanitized risk-free files to the users instantly.

Anti-Ransomware protection stops ransomware in its tracks and reverses the damage automatically, ensures organizations are protected against malicious extortion attacks that encrypt business data and demand ransom payment for its retrieval. Zero Phishing proactively blocks access to new and unknown deceptive websites and safeguards user credentials by preventing the use of corporate passwords on external websites.

SandBlast Agent captures forensics data with continuous collection of all relevant system events, and then provides actionable incident analysis to quickly understand complete attack lifecycle. With visibility into the scope, damage, and attack vectors, incident response teams maximize productivity and minimize organizational exposure.

Features:

• Threat Emulation: Evasion resistant sandbox technology
• Threat Extraction: Delivers sanitized risk-free files to users in real-time
• Anti-ransomware: Prevents and remediates evasive ransomware attacks
• Zero-Phishing: Blocks deceptive phishing sites and alerts on password reuse
• Anti-Bot: Identify and isolate infected hosts
• Anti-Exploit: Protects applications against exploit based attacks
• Behavioral Guard: Detects and blocks malicious behaviors
• Endpoint Antivirus: Protects against known malware
• Forensics: Records and analyzes all endpoint events to provide actionable attack forensics reports

Benefits:

• Advanced threat protection and automated endpoint forensic analysis for all malware types
• Prevents and remediates evasive ransomware attacks
• Proactively blocks known, unknown and zero-day malware
• Provides instant actionable understanding of attacks
• Automatically remediates infections
• Protects users credentials

Secure virtual environments Multi-layered security protections for virtual environments including next-generation firewall and advanced threat prevention Inspect all traffic—from inter-VM to perimeter—in the virtual network Permit secure access to remote systems and networks Unified management of virtual and physical environments Consistent security policy and uniform security management across both physical and virtual infrastructures Visibility into virtualization configuration and security changes Separation of duties between virtualization and security teams Licensing is based on virtual cores used and supports dynamic allocation ideal for elastic workloads Thanks to Check Point vSEC Virtual Edition (VE), we have a virtual security solution that fully integrates into our dynamic virtualized environment with all the performance, security and functionality we’ve expected from our physical Check Point gateways for years. Features Full protections with Check Point Software Blades Check Point vSEC Virtual Edition provides the full protections of the Check Point Software Blade architecture. Firewall, IPS, Antivirus, Anti-Bot Software Blades protect services in the public cloud from unauthorized access and attacks. Application Control Software Blade helps prevent application layer denial of service attacks and protects your cloud services. IPsec VPN Software Blade allows secure communication into cloud resources. Mobile Access Software Blade allows mobile users to connect to the cloud using an SSL encrypted connection with two factor authentication and device pairing. Data Loss Prevention Software Blade protects sensitive data from theft or unintentional loss. SandBlast Zero-Day Protection Blades provide the most comprehensive protection against malware and zero-day attacks. Consolidated logs and reporting for hybrid cloud environments Get visibility and enforcement across your virtual infrastructures using the Next Generation SmartEvent Software Blade. Simplify compliance and audits with unified logs and reporting. Centralized management for virtual and physical infrastructures Manage vSEC VE using your existing on-premise Check Point Unified Security Management Solution. Enforce a consistent security policy for corporate assets across both virtual and physical infrastructures from a single console.

Dell EMC Avamar enables fast, efficient backup and recovery through its integrated variable-length deduplication technology. Avamar is optimized for fast, daily full backups of physical and virtual environments, NAS servers, enterprise applications, remote offices and desktops/laptops.

By deduplicating data - identifying only unique daily changes - Avamar reduces backup storage by up to 30x and network bandwidth consumption by up to 99%. Data is always encrypted and compressed in-flight to meet security and compliance regulations. And with Dell EMC Data Domain Cloud Tier, you can natively tier backup data to the cloud for long-term retention.

Avamar is available standalone or as a component of Dell EMC Data Protection Suite, which offers you a complete suite of data protection software options.

Key features:

• Backup and recovery optimized for virtual environments
• Enables application-consistent recovery of enterprise applications
• Uses variable-length deduplication for high performance and lower cost
• Delivers simple, one-step image recovery
• Provides intuitive centralized management and encryption for data security
• Integrated with Dell EMC Data Domain systems for enhanced scalability

MODERNIZE Modernize your business with automated IT service delivery for all Microsoft Azure Stack apps. INNOVATE Innovate with cloud-native apps to digitally transform your business. ACCELERATE Accelerate Microsoft Azure Stack adoption with confidence. Dell EMC today announces Dell EMC Cloud for Microsoft Azure Stack, a new, turnkey, hybrid cloud platform that offers a simple and fast path for implementing and sustaining a hybrid cloud based on Microsoft Azure Stack. The new platform helps organizations standardizing on the Microsoft Azure ecosystem to accelerate their digital transformation with automated IT service delivery for traditional and cloud-native applications. As a result, organizations can better engage with their customers, reduce time to market for new services, and free-up resources to focus on adding business value. “Cloud is an operating model, not a place, and adopting a hybrid model has become the clear choice,” said Peter Cutts, senior vice president, Hybrid Cloud Platforms, Dell EMC. “ Making hybrid cloud platforms simple and turnkey enables businesses to rapidly develop and deploy new applications, optimize resources, control costs and deliver the best possible customer experiences.” The new Dell EMC Cloud for Microsoft Azure Stack combines Dell EMC's leadership in worldwide cloud infrastructure with its long history of partnering with Microsoft, which includes shipping the industry's first Microsoft-based hybrid cloud in October 2015. According to IDC, Dell EMC was No. 1 in the worldwide cloud infrastructure market for 2016 with $5.7 billion in revenue and 17.6% market share. The new offering complements turnkey platforms Dell EMC Enterprise Hybrid Cloud, introduced more than three years ago, and Dell EMC Native Hybrid Cloud that integrate hardware, software and automation to simplify IT service delivery and reduce time to market for customers around the globe. CONSISTENT EXPERIENCE FOR ON-PREMISES PRIVATE AND PUBLIC CLOUD Interoperability between public and private cloud resources has quickly become a top requirement for many organizations' IT infrastructures. The turnkey Dell EMC Cloud for Microsoft Azure Stack delivers a consistent experience across Azure public cloud and private with Azure Stack. It is engineered with industry leading Dell EMC PowerEdge servers and Dell EMC Networking. As a Hybrid Cloud Platform, it is built, sustained and supported as a singular platform with a turnkey stack. Dell EMC Cloud for Microsoft Azure Stack offers a true hybrid cloud that speeds application development and deployment by providing a consistent programming surface between Azure and Azure Stack. As a result, organizations can cost-effectively access, create and share traditional and cloud-native application services securely in Azure and Azure Stack to ensure business results, without sacrificing security, protection, service quality and availability. Integrations with Dell EMC best-in-class backup and encryption technologies provide a consistent means of protecting and securing data across customers' Azure-based public and on premises cloud environments. Furthermore, the adoption of Pivotal Cloud Foundry ® on Azure will extend to Dell EMC Cloud for Microsoft Azure Stack, continuing to deliver the promise of hybrid models with consistent services, APIs and consumption models for on- and off-premises. DELL EMC SERVICES SIMPLIFY DEPLOYMENT AND MANAGEMENT Dell EMC services are available for every step of the journey—from strategic planning through implementation, operations and ongoing support. Dell EMC experts provide hands-on guidance to optimize and expand the customer's hybrid cloud platform to meet business objectives. These activities include developing and customizing service catalogs, enabling identity and access management systems, and extending monitoring and metering systems to Azure Stack. Dell EMC provides support throughout the lifecycle of the platform with each component backed by automated proactive, predictive tools and a dedicated Technical Account Manager with ProSupport Plus. With Hybrid Cloud Platforms backed by Dell EMC Services, organizations can focus on delivering differentiated application services rather than building and managing their infrastructure.  NEW STUDY REVEALS KEY DRIVERS FOR HYBRID CLOUD ADOPTION To understand how companies are transforming business and to analyze the benefits, costs and drivers associated with the use of cloud deployment models, Dell EMC commissioned analyst firm IDC to conduct a global survey of 1,000 mid- to large-sized organizations that are using and/or evaluating private and public cloud. This IDC Cloudview Survey finds that   79.7% of large organizations (with 1,000 or more employees) report they already have a hybrid cloud strategy . In addition, 51.4% already use both public and private cloud infrastructure resources with an additional 29.2% expecting to in the next year. 2 The survey results, published in the IDC White Paper, The Power of Hybrid Cloud, also reveal that total cost of ownership is one of the top drivers of cloud adoption. Other criteria for future IT infrastructure decisions on workloads supported by cloud environments includes physical and data security (34%) and operation flexibility (33%) in addition to flexibility of economic models. This study underscores the value of turnkey hybrid cloud, which balances the pros and cons of different cloud deployment models. AVAILABILITY: Dell EMC Cloud for Microsoft Azure Stack is expected to be available direct and from partners worldwide in the second half of calendar year 2017. PARTNER AND CUSTOMER QUOTES: Mike Neil, corporate vice president, Enterprise Cloud, Microsoft Corp. “Microsoft and Dell EMC are continuing our longtime alliance by investing in Microsoft Azure Stack on Dell EMC infrastructure to meet rising customer expectations for solutions that deliver a top-quality public and on-premises cloud experience, to rapidly transform, and innovate through applications built for the cloud. With Dell EMC Cloud for Microsoft Azure Stack, our shared customers have the support and solutions to enable them to be more efficient and innovative with a best-in-class, hybrid cloud platform.” Peter Pluim, Executive Vice President IDM, Atos “Our Atos Hybrid Cloud for Microsoft Azure Stack, based on the DELL EMC Cloud for Microsoft Azure Stack platform, provides a secure yet flexible cloud foundation, on which businesses can pivot their business models, respond swiftly to the market and create exceptional customer experiences. Like our partner Dell EMC, we believe digital is a fundamental part of an organization's strategy. With this offering, we further increase our ability to support our customers in their digital transformation, providing a complete end-to-end cloud offering, and continue to be a trusted partner in their ongoing digital journeys.” Tomoshiro Takemoto, Senior Managing Director, Cloud Computing Service Division, Nomura Research Institute, Ltd. (NRI) “Dell EMC Cloud for Microsoft Azure Stack is the best enterprise-ready hybrid cloud because it has strong competitive advantages including security and reliability features, on top of Azure Stack, to support real world digital transformation. Many customers need this type of enterprise hybrid cloud for their agile innovation while maintaining traditional IT systems. By combining our ‘mPLAT Suite' that realizes integrated management of the multi-cloud environment with Dell EMC technology, we can provide customers with the best hybrid cloud solutions to solve issues, such as cloud silos, through rapid modernization.”

Bring high bandwidth and zero downtime to your storage network with Connectrix switches. Connectrix B-Series, Connectrix MDS Series and Connectrix D-Series offer you a range of enterprise, departmental, edge switches and top-of-rack switches for small to large enterprise environments.  All 16 and 32Gbs switches are NVMe-ready. Connectrix Switches available:

• DS-6505B: Up to 24 ports, 16Gbps max
• DS-6510B: Up to 48 ports, 16Gbps max
• DS-6520B: Up to 96 ports, 16Gbps max
• DS-6610B: Up to 24 ports, 32Gbps max
• DS-6620B: Up to 64 ports, 32Gbps max
• DS-6630B: Up to 128 ports, 32Gbps max
• MP-7800B: Up to 16 8Gbs ports and 6 GigE ports
• MP-7810B:  Up to 12 32Gbs ports and six 1/10GbE SFP+ ports
• MP-7840B: Up to 24 16Gbs port plus 16 1/10 GigE and 2 40 GigE ports
• MDS-9132T: Up to 32 ports, 32Gbps max
• MDS-9148S: Up to 48 ports, 16Gbps max
• MDS-9396S: Up to 96 ports, 16Gbps max
• MDS-9148T: Up to 48 ports, 32Gbps max
• MDS-9396T: Up to 96 ports, 32Gbps max
• MDS-9250i: Up to 40 FC ports, 2 x 10 GigE ports, 8 FCoE ports and 16Gbps max
• CNX-S4048: Up to 54 ports, 48 10 GbE SFP capable ports and six 40 GbE QSFP capable ports

Key features:

• Offers Fibre Channel connectivity of up to 32 gigabits per second and Gigabit Ethernet speeds up to 40 GbE
• Scales from 8 to 128 ports per system
• Uses redundant components and multipath deployment to ensure high availability and failover
• Monitors your storage networking environment automatically with resilient networking features

With Data Protection Advisor, you’ll be able to unify and automate monitoring, analysis and reporting across backup and recovery environments while reducing complexity, lowering costs, and eliminating manual efforts. INCREASE VISIBILITY Data Protection Advisor provides real-time protection assurance as environments change. It offers comprehensive, end-to-end data protection environment visibility in a single, unified product.  REDUCE COSTS Consolidate information enterprise-wide to reduce administrative efforts, accelerate problem resolution, and forecast resource and capacity planning. PROVE PROTECTION Understand potential risks and data protection strategy exposures across multiple backup and recovery products so applications are recoverable and data is safe. LESSEN COMPLEXITY Use an automated, unified approach to managing the data protection environment, greatly simplifying the monitoring process and tuning the environment to maximize utilization. AUTOMATE PROCESSES Remove manual data collection, analysis, alerting, and reporting effort for key backup and recovery management to drive an efficient, risk-managed, and simplified environment.

The self-service backup is offered fully within the guardrails and oversight of the IT team. Through superior automation and oversight, our suite discovers storage, databases and VMs and places them into pre-designed protection plans to better stream-line operations and meet stringent SLOs. This combination of application admin empowerment, admin coordination and IT control reduces risk and increases efficiency throughout the data center.   Data Protection Suite for Applications Includes:

• Dell EMC Data Protection Advisor  
• Dell EMC Data Domain Boost for Enterprise Applications  
• Dell EMC Enterprise Copy Data Management 

Product: Data Protection Suite Products  Solution For: Backup and Disaster Recovery 

Whether your organization is a small office or a large data center, leverages on-premises resources or applications in the cloud, NetWorker provides a common user experience to protect your data. Centralized Backup and Recovery
NetWorker delivers centralized backup and recovery operations for complete control of data protection across diverse computing and storage environments.

• Virtual and physical environments

• Critical business applications

• Storage area networks (SANs), network-attached storage (NAS), and direct-attached storage (DAS).

• Backup storage options including, tape drives and libraries, virtual tape libraries, disk arrays, deduplication storage systems, and object storage in the cloud.

Performance and Security
NetWorker delivers enterprise-class performance and security to meet even the most demanding service level requirements.
Integration with advanced technologies such as array-based snapshots (both block and file) and the VMware vStorage APIs for Data Protection provides fast, efficient, and non-disruptive backup.
Superb performance includes:

• Deploy a vProxy in less than 5 minutes

• Protect thousands of virtual machines with a single server

• Protect thousands of virtual machines through a single vCenter

• Support for 256-bit AES encryption

• Secure lockbox control

• Enhanced user authentication

• Role based authorization

BENEFITS
CENTRALIZED MANAGEMENT

• Simplifies and automates backup and recovery operations

• Integration with DPC offers centralized alerting, reporting and search

• Management of Data Domain from within the NetWorker UI

DATA DOMAIN INTEGRATION

• Enables long-term retention of backups to the cloud with Data Domain Cloud Tier

• Instant access and recovery of VMware Image backups

• Reduce infrastructure utilization and cost

CLOUD BACKUP AND RECOVERY

• Cost effective backup to object storage in the cloud

• Simplified deployment in native cloud formats

• Flexible backup and recovery for Azure Stack

The Dell EMC NFV Ready Bundle for VMware combines hardware, software, and Dell EMC engineering and is designed to create a more flexible, scalable, and agile platform for CSPs. It includes open standards-based Dell EMC cloud infrastructure hardware (compute, networking) and a choice of a Virtual Infrastructure Manager (vCloud Director or VMware Integrated OpenStack) with vSAN or Dell EMC ScaleIO. The solution is pre-validated with VMware vCloud NFV Platform, and it encompasses both hardware and software. This specific software bundle is optimized around Dell EMC cloud infrastructure hardware. The pre-validated solution minimizes adoption time and significantly reduces time to service from weeks to days/hours. In addition, the solution provides carrier-grade reliability to meet SLA requirements. At its core, the VMware vCloud NFV Platform includes the vSphere virtualization platform, vSAN, NSX, vCloud Director or VMware Integrated OpenStack for the VIM, and vRealize Operations for operations management. Deploying VMware vSphere as host nodes and virtual machines will allow the gaining performance, security, and operational advantages. As an alternative to vSAN, Dell EMC ScaleIO can be used as the software-defined storage option for the Dell EMC NFV Ready Bundle for VMware if it is more suitable for your storage needs. In addition, there are two VIM options available with the Dell EMC NFV Ready Bundle for VMware. You can select either VMware vCloud Director or VMware Integrated OpenStack depending on which option best fits your VIM requirements.  Dell EMC NFV Ready Bundle for VMware benefits:

• Ease of ordering: The full bundle is orderable from Dell EMC. No need to purchase vCloud NFV Platform software separately.
• Choice: VMware vCloud NFV provides a choice of Virtual Infrastructure Manager, giving you the flexibility to deploy on OpenStack or using vCloud Director.
• Long lifecycle deployment: The solution includes long-life Intel® Xeon® processors which reduces your investment risk and protects your investment in the solution for the long-term.
• Seamless customer experience: Dell EMC provides a single point of contact for pre-sales and post-sales support for the entire solution and length of your deployment for peace of mind.
• World-class professional services: The solution includes Dell EMC professional services that spans consulting, deployment, and design support to guide your deployment needs.
• Customizable solution: The solution is prescriptive, but it can be customized to address each customer’s unique virtual network function (VNF) workload requirements. 

The new scalable business architecture of Dell EMC PowerEdge servers enable customers to meet dynamic business needs with performance optimized for traditional and cloud-native workloads. The new Dell EMC PowerEdge server portfolio is enhanced to:

• Increase application performance and response time – With 19X more Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) low latency storage than the prior generation, Dell EMC leads the industry in driving industry standards in NVMe via Express Flash
• Get results from PowerEdge faster – One-click BIOS tuning enables quick-and-easy deployment of many processing-intensive workloads
• Access to the right data at the right time – With enhanced storage capacity and flexibility, customers can tailor their storage configurations to their application needs, this is especially critical in a software-defined-storage (SDS) environment

Systems management features:

• Unify the server management experience and provide full data center monitoring – OpenManage Enterprise is a new virtualized enterprise system management console with application plug-ins, an easy-to-use interface and customizable reporting
• Speed troubleshooting and maximize server uptime – The enhanced iDRAC 9 provides up to 4 times better systems management performance over the prior generation
• Enable faster remediation - ProSupport Plus with SupportAssist can reduce time to resolve parts failure by up to 90%
• Improve power efficiency and compute density – Automatic multi-vector cooling enables more GPU accelerators in a single configuration, increasing up to 50% more VDI users per server

The differentiated security features in the server:

• Prevent unauthorized or inadvertent changes – System Lockdown, an industry-first feature, prevents configuration changes that create security vulnerabilities and expose sensitive data
• Secure data center through a cyber-resilient architecture – Features such as SecureBoot, BIOS Recovery capabilities, signed firmware and iDRAC RESTful API (compliant with Redfish standards) provide enhanced protection against attacks
• Ensure privacy – System Erase quickly and securely erases user data from drives or wipes all non-volatile media when a server is retired

The new design of the Dell EMC PowerEdge 14th generation server portfolio has already won a user-experience design award, with a completely reimagined portfolio identity to mirror how customers interact with servers:

• Improve airflow – A new streamlined front profile moves air efficiently, optimizing power for application performance
• Deliver an intuitive user experience – Server configuration and monitoring is now possible via a handheld smart device with Quick Sync feature
• Be eco-friendly – Introduction of hemmed edges as a structural element, eliminates the use of paint on the server reducing environmental impact

Services are a critical component of the Dell EMC next generation server strategy include:

• Our IT Transformation Workshop, where Dell EMC consultants help customers compare their efforts to best-in-class peers and identify key priorities to accelerate their transformation to a modern, cloud-enabled infrastructure and IT model
• Award-winning ProDeploy Enterprise Suite accelerates technology adoption, saving time and money with up to 91% less IT effort and up to 39% faster deployments than in-house resources
• ProSupport Enterprise Suite, services which are fully integrated with the PowerEdge 14th generation server’s intelligent management and automation features, include ProSupport Plus with SupportAssist, Dell EMC’s automated, proactive and predictive technology that can resolve hardware issues up to 90% faster

SmartFabric Services Robust yet simple fabric automation that goes beyond the ordinary

• Plug and Play fabric deployment with simplified I/O Aggregation providing a single pane of glass view
• Physical topology validation and compliance checking
• Automated per-VLAN Quality of Service assignment based on traffic types
• Self-healing fabric detects misconfigurations and link failure conditions and adjusts where possible

Scalable fabric architecture Multi-chassis scalable fabric architecture that can grow with your specific needs

• Fabric expansion capability using 25GbE connectivity across multiple chassis
• Single networking domain across the fabric providing a single pane of glass view
• SmartFabric Services provides a robust fabric-level automation framework

The power of open choice An array of hardware platforms, operating systems and management services

• Choice of unique Open Networking modular switches
• Choice of Dell EMC OS10 or select 3rd party OS’s
• Choice of leveraging standards-based open automation tools

Highest performance connectivity Optimum connectivity to servers and storage platforms in the chassis for demanding workloads

• High-performance 25GbE and 32G FC connectivity within the chassis
• High throughput and low latency performance throughout the chassis
• Multi-rate 100GbE uplinks to data center leaf/spine fabric

Dell PowerEdge is a server line by Dell, following the naming convention for other Dell products: the PowerVault (data storage) and the PowerConnect (data transfer & switches). Below is an overview of current and former servers within Dell's PowerEdge product line. Different models are or were available as towers, 19-inch racks or blades. In the current naming scheme, towers are designated by T, racks by R, and blades by M (for modular). The 19" rack-servers come in different physical heights expressed in rack unit or U. Most modern servers are either 1U or 2U high while in the past the 4U was more common. Over the years, many different types of PowerEdge servers have been introduced and there was wide variety of product and family codes used within the PowerEdge name. Itanium servers The Dell Itanium-based servers were introduced before this new naming-convention was introduced and were only available as rack servers.
New naming convention Since the introduction of the Generation 10 servers in 2007 Dell has adopted a standardized method for naming their servers; the name of each server is now represented by a letter followed by 3 digits. The letter indicates the type of server: R (for Rack-mountable) indicates a 19" rack-mountable server, M (for Modular) indicates a blade server, whilst T (for Tower) indicates a stand-alone server. This letter is then followed by 3 digits.

• The first digit refers to the number of sockets in the system: 1 to 3 for one socket, 4 to 7 for two sockets, and 8 or 9 for four sockets.
• The middle digit refers to the generation: 0 for Generation 10, 1 for Generation 11, and so on.
• The third digit indicates the make of the CPU: 0 for Intel or 5 for AMD.

For example: The Dell PowerEdge M610 is a two-socket server of the 11th generation using an Intel CPU whilst the R605 is a two-socket AMD-based rack-server of the 10th generation. Blade servers Since Generation 10 there are models for the M1000e enclosure. The blade-servers in Generation 8 and Generation 9 are using another enclosure that is not compatible with the current M1000e system. In form-factor there are two models: half-height and full-height. In an enclosure you can fit 8 full or 16 half-height blades (or a mix). Each server has two or four on-board NIC's and two additional Mezzanine card-slots for additional I/O options: 1 Gb or 10 Gb Ethernet cards, Fibre Channel HBA's or InfiniBand slots. Apart from USB connectors a blade-server doesn't offer direct connections: all I/O goes via the midplane of the enclosure.

Dell EMC PowerPath provides automated path management and tools that enable you to satisfy aggressive service-level agreements without investing in additional infrastructure. PowerPath includes PowerPath Migration Enabler for non-disruptive data migrations and PowerPath Viewer for monitoring and troubleshooting I/O paths. Dell EMC PowerPath/VE is compatible with VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V-based virtual environments. It can be used together with Dell EMC PowerPath to perform the following functions in both physical and virtual environments:

• Standardize Path Management: Optimize I/O paths in physical and virtual environments (PowerPath/VE) as well as cloud deployments.
• Optimize Load Balancing: Adjust I/O paths to dynamically rebalance your application environment for peak performance.
• Increase Performance: Leverage your investment in physical and virtual environment by increasing headroom and scalability.
• Automate Failover/Recovery: Define failover and recovery rules that route application requests to alternative resources in the event of component failures or user errors.

Dell EMC SourceOne data archiving enables organizations to efficiently capture, index, store, manage, retrieve and dispose both structured and unstructured data to meet enterprise needs. SourceOne provides seamless access to archive content from email, file, and Microsoft SharePoint. It ultimately helps companies reduce IT, operational, and labor costs, as well as meet both corporate management and regulatory requirements needs. SourceOne provides tools to accelerate search of unstructured content, increasing accuracy of discovery against deduplicated, centralized archives.
Key offerings:

• Dell EMC SourceOne Email Management for Microsoft Exchange

• Dell EMC SourceOne Email Management for IBM Lotus Notes Domino

• Dell EMC SourceOne for File Systems

• Dell EMC SourceOne for Microsoft SharePoint

Additional offerings:

• Dell EMC SourceOne Discovery Manager

• Dell EMC SourceOne Email Supervisor

BENEFITS Reduce Cost
SourceOne helps to reduce the overall cost of data ownership in two ways. It reduces primary storage cost by archiving aged email and information content to the less costly storage tiers and reduces the costs associated with data and information discovery during legal and eDiscovery processes.

Take Control of PST Files
SourceOne provides users unlimited mailboxes and improves server performance by eliminating duplicated, scattered PST files. Properly managing PST files minimizes the chance of critical business data loss and organizational compliance failures.

Reduce Legal and Compliance Risks
When it comes to litigation readiness, speed and efficiency matter. SourceOne allows users to properly index and search relevant business data with ElasticSearch technology and web-version Discovery Manager for quick litigation and compliance readiness.