Dell has unveiled a number of products and partnerships at the VMworld '09 conference.
The hardware vendor has expanded its Flexible Computing portfolio by incorporating VMware VIEW into its Virtual Remote Desktop solution.
The company has also extended its OEM agreements with Brocade and Scalent.
Under its agreement with Brocade, both vendors would deliver integrated toolsets to manage application delivery and deployment on computers, network and storage infrastructures.
The Brocade and Dell solution would help "provide capital and operational expense savings" by deploying server and storage virtualisation broadly across the data centre, said Dell.
Dell has also simplified the deployment and management of virtual environments by delivering an OEM version of Scalent's V/OE, an open infrastructure management solution.
Praveen Asthana, vice president of Dell Enterprise Storage and Networking, said the need for increased enterprise efficiency, combined with the rapid evolution and adoption of virtualised architectures, changed the way enterprise technology was built and deployed.
"The future of enterprise computing does not lie in a proprietary, monolithic stack," he said.
"The next-generation datacentre - or the Efficient Datacentre - will be standards-based from the computer to the networking fabric, fully virtualised and cloud enabled."
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