Dell unveiled its new data centre switching platform

Dell S6000 Data Centre Switching Platform
Dell S6000 Data Centre Switching Platform
Dell Networking unveiled its new S6000, the industry’s highest-density 1RU 10/40GbE switching platform for highly-virtualized data centres. A fixed form factor design, the S6000 doubles the density and throughput while consuming up to 50% less power than previous generation top-of-rack switches.

Built-in advanced virtualization and automation features help customers scale larger virtual deployments in a smaller physical footprint, and helps solve the challenge of bridging virtualized and non-virtualized aspects of the infrastructure.

Today’s data centres are going through substantive and rapid change requires growth in server virtualization and cloud deployments are driving denser deployments with significantly increased bandwidth requirements.

The predominance of East-West traffic inside data centres generated by newer workloads such as Hadoop, virtual desktop infrastructure, web and cloud applications is causing many customers to consider new network architectures to maximise efficiency and economics.

“Virtual environments are expanding while physical footprints remain constant, resulting in massive density increases in servers and storage. Networks need to keep up. That’s what inspired the S6000,” said to Shabbir Ahmad – Regional Sales Director, Networking, EMEA Emerging Markets. “The S6000 platform can help customers unify virtualized and non-virtualized IT elements, providing a gateway to a software-defined enterprise.”

“The S6000 delivers a re-imagining of the data centre backbone,” said Joel Jaeggli, Zynga network engineer and Dell S6000 beta tester. “The 40Gb/s data centre core transition begins in earnest with the arrival of high-density fixed-configuration switches.”

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