PowerEdge Server Advantage

PROTECT

- Secure Boot - Authenticated Firmware Updates - System Security Lockdown - System Erase

Protect: your customer and your business (Key Takeaway)

integrated security from PowerEdge protects one of the most important assets of your company - your infrastructure. - When you have the ability protect your infrastructure with a deep layer of defense, detect quickly if breached, and recover rapidly to a trusted base, then you have a Cyber Resilient Architecture. PowerEdge has been designed on this Cyber Resilient Architecture. - Dell EMC is the trusted partner with end-to-end server ecosystem and lifecycle security. Whether you realize it or not, there are multiple touches in the supply chain before that server infrastructure makes it to you. At Dell EMC, we are protecting that environment and ensuring a robust supply chain . - Secure manageability provides a robust approach to tackling IT system security which included establishing a H/W root of trust ensuring every bit written at the BIOS / Firmware level is verified. By employing role-based authentication and out -of-band management, a secure chain of trust is created around the server ecosystem to enable trusted and secure management. Characteristics like integrated security help make PowerEdge servers the bedrock of the modern data center.

AUTOMATE

- Integrated Support - iDRAC9 - HTML5 GUI and Group Manager - SupportAssist - Quick Sync 2.0 OpenManage Mobile - NextGen Console OpenManage Enterprise

SCALE

- Thoughtful Engineering & Design - Workload Optimization - Boot Optimized Storage Solution (BOSS) - Highest Storage Density & NVMe Capabilities - Acceleration Technologies Support > FPGA - GPU

Adapt and Scale: to dynamic business needs (Key Takeaway)

The scalable business architecture of PowerEdge helps you provide optimized performance for a multitude of workloads. - Modern architecture requires adaptability and scalability. A scalable business architecture delivers on this promise. - Scalable business architecture helps you manage a wide-variety of workloads efficiently and turns it into a competitive advantage for your company - For example, if you are running real time analytics, the 6X more NVMe drives of PowerEdge R740XD can dramatically improve throughput and performance - You can get 33% more instances or up to 192 VDI users per server out of your virtual desktop infrastructure. Characteristics like the scalable business architecture help make PowerEdge servers the bedrock of the modern data center.

Automate: to sustain and grow (Key Takeaway)

Use OpenManage to eliminate or automate routine management and free up skilled resources. - The embedded SupportAssist capability designed into every PowerEdge server links back to our world-class operations centers. The unique combination of SupportAssist and ProSupport Plus means that when something goes wrong, the server opens a support ticket and we start working on fixing the problem. No calls into support are necessary. This means that we can get it fixed up to 90% faster. The process is predictive and responsive. We've even had customers tell us that a tech showed up to replace a drive before they got an alert that it had failed. - We have fundamentally taken a different approach to server management. We do something called agent-free management. When you think about your environment, you have a variety of workloads and operating systems. Installing an agent into each one of those environments to manage the server adds a lot of complexity. We decided that there is a better way to do that through agent-free where we take all of our management out-of-band and without compromising on the capability you need for a modern data center. - Click a button, configure servers. Save up to 99% of your time configuring servers. Characteristics like automation help make PowerEdge servers the bedrock of the modern data center.