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The military need for rugged, reliable, long-term technology

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As the role of technology becomes more critical to military and defense organizations, the need for reliability has increased. Dell is proud of its commitment to the national defense market, which is unique in its demand for technology that is reliable in extreme conditions has a long lifecycle that will keep this technology supported and operating in the field for years with a minimum of upgrades.

We’ve ruggedized our hardware to withstand extreme and hazardous environments. Our systems are all based on open standards to allow simple and streamlined compatibility with existing technology. They also deliver the advanced levels of processing power needed in today’s systems, while using open standards to ensure intuitive operation. And with lifecycles of over 20 years for some products in use in the field, Dell has invested in long lifecycle products to help achieve longer stability and reliability with total lifecycle management.

This year at the International Defense Exhibition and Conference (IDEX) in Abu Dhabi, we showcased a portfolio of products demonstrating these characteristics, including:

Intelligent, agile, modular, versatile solutions that also bring simplicity to the infrastructure are becoming more crucial in the field. The Dell FX architecture offers a standardized hardware platform that can cater to project needs ranging from Virtual Desktop Infrastructure solutions to big data analytics, private clouds and software-defined enterprises.

This converged architecture is designed to give enterprises the flexibility to tailor the IT infrastructure to specific workloads and the ability to scale and adapt the infrastructure as needs change over time. It is based on a modular, building-block concept that makes it easy for enterprises to focus processing resources where needed. FX components are being rolled out through mid-2015, and will enable organizations to improve existing infrastructure as well as design and implement more effective and responsive infrastructures in the future.

Data intensive environments demand a new approach to storage and a move away from costly legacy systems that restrict business innovation and agility. The Storage SC Series’ intelligent automation, innovative data placement, and versatile hybrid storage architecture combine to redefine the economics of enterprise storage.

Storage SC Series arrays provide a unified platform for performance, adaptability and machine-driven efficiency. They enable applications to run faster even as data expands, reduce costs, and simplify data control. Dell’s Storage Center OS and software helps achieve better business results by getting the maximum productivity return from every solid-state drive or hard disk drive.

Security is, of course, paramount in the defense environment, with a need for tight integration of live intrusion prevention, malware protection, and application intelligence and control with real-time visualization. The SonicWALL next-generation firewall (NGFW) delivers a deeper level of network security than traditional firewalls that only focus on stateful packet inspection and access control rules.

Dell SonicWALL NGFWs are designed using a scalable, multicore hardware architecture and a patented, single-pass, low-latency, Reassembly-Free Deep Packet Inspection engine that scans all traffic, regardless of port or protocol. Every byte of every packet is inspected while maintaining the high performance and low latency required by our military customers. To combat emerging threats effectively and address productivity concerns, organizations need an Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) with advanced anti-evasion capabilities, the ability to decrypt and inspect every SSL-encrypted connection crossing the network on any port, granular control over and visibility into application and user activity across the network, and network-based malware protection that leverages the power of the cloud. This is provided by SonicWALL.

No market has challenges as extreme as those faced in defense, and Dell takes pride in delivering computing hardware and components to meet those challenges, in theater, in border security, in airspace, and in intelligence.