As I had previewed during our Q1 earnings call last month, I recently sat down with Brad Anderson, SVP and head of our Enterprise business, to get some more insight into our virtualization strategy, how it relates to our Server and Storage business, and virtualization's impact on the industry and Dell. Simply put, our mission at Dell is to Simplify IT by eliminating complexity in customer computing environments. There are a number of ways we are doing this - and virtualization is a critical enabler.

Virtualization has been growing rapidly because it solves real customer problems related to space, cost, and power. One of the things to keep in mind is that dynamic virtualized server environments work best when matched with an equally dynamic storage solution and that's why storage virtualization is of equal importance. In addition, you may also be interested in a host of virtualization related topics on Direct2Dell, our blog site for customers, which might further augment the v-log that follows.  

We hope you find this discussion helpful. The vlog format is a new way for us to have a conversation with you and we look forward to your feedback. We have included a few supporting slides in PDF format in conjunction with the vlog that you can download or print. As always, we will respond to your questions and comments posted on this blog site as well as via email and over the phone. So please feel free to post on this site or contact us directly. We look forward to hearing from you! 

Click here to view the PDF file associated with the vlog.