IT Consulting: Networking Assessment
Networking design
from Dell™ provides
the right answers to
accelerate the benefits of
network infrastructure
optimization.
Do the following questions
relate to your network
infrastructure?
• Are you currently looking
at options for converged
infrastructures?
• Are you planning on or already
have a large virtualized server
environment?
• Are you exploring UCS or FCoE
deployments?
• Is your organization interested in
10Gig Ethernet infrastructures?
• Are you experiencing
performance issues with your
virtualization environment?
• Is your organization planning on
a network refresh?
• Are you wondering if
consolidation would impact your
application performance?
Take the next step with Dell
Dell Global Infrastructure Consulting Services can help you take full
advantage by optimizing your Networking infrastructure, which can lower
total cost of ownership, lower latency, increase agility, and reclaim IT staff
time.
We provide a detailed network infrastructure analysis report based on
collected information, which includes:
• Inventory of networking element asset report
• Identify out-of-date network devices and resources
• Network infrastructure score cards based on industry best practices,
utilization statistics, alternative consolidation scenarios, and blueprint of
your current environment in relation to best practices
• Recommendations about industry trends in relation to data center
networking standards and application performance improvement
• Blueprint drawing of your current data center network environment
• High-level executive presentation coupled with detailed technical report
covering the networking areas examined and recommendations for
optimization or remediation
Realize the benefits
• Obtain a complete understanding of your current network capacity and
utilization
• Get recommended solutions to existing issues
• Increase throughput for high-performance applications — 10 Gigabit
Ethernet (10GbE) is 10 times faster than its predecessor
• Reduce cabling complexity — more bandwidth with fewer cables
• Reduce power and cooling expenses — use fewer cables, switches, NICs
• Reduce network management complexity
• Use in-house IP networking and Ethernet expertise while choosing
from a variety of network equipment solutions — Ethernet is a familiar,
established standard
• Spend less time managing your network and more time innovating and
improving your IT
IT Consulting: Networking Assessment

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Less Effort More Effort

Dell’s Networking Assessment service allows your

organization to optimize networking infrastructure
More Impact across the entire data center to improve network
performance. The Dell Network Assessment
quadrant report helps you identify and prioritize
areas which can be optimized quickly, using less
effort and resulting in high impact.
Less Impact

Dell Network Assessment Quadrant Report

Plan data center initiatives based on concrete data, analysis, and trends.
Take the guesswork out of datacenter initiatives and achieve optimal results based on concrete data and analysis.
Organizations can accelerate data center initiatives by using Dell Global Infrastructure Consulting Services to execute
networking plans.

• Decompose network infrastructure problems and concerns using the right instrumentation tools
• Provide future network behavioral analysis and capacity planning
• Identify application dependency mapping over the network based on their workload associations

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