Drew Engstrom

Virtualization is a strategic initiative at Dell and so we have spent considerable time planning and seeking the requirements of hundreds of our customers of all types and sizes and across many geographies. What we found was pretty revealing, although not particularly surprising: virtualization has matured to the point where it is not just viewed as a red-hot, "solve everything" technology, but as an effective means for our customers to meet specific business needs and objectives. Ultimately this means that virtualization -- whether we're talking about server virtualization, storage virtualization, I/O virtualization or hypervisors -- is "just" a really good tool that helps IT organizations do things more effectively and less expensively.   At Dell, our intention is to partner with the very best and most relevant technologies the industry has to offer and then integ... (more)