Dell plugs hole in virtualization stack

VIS is a set of software products designed to ease the provisioning and management of physical and virtual systems, including servers, networks and storage gear. It aims to compete with offerings just as Cisco's Unified Computing System and Hewlett-Packard's Blade System Matrix, which was recently rebranded as CloudSystem Matrix.

What Dell calls the Director component of VIS

Netuitive's software will be used as what Dell calls the Director component of VIS. The other parts are Advanced Infrastructure Manager, derived from its Scalent acquisition, and the Self-Service Creator, from a partnership with Dynamic Ops.

"Even though Dell will face strong competition from its larger rivals at the top end of this market, the Netuitive deal should help Dell gain clients in the mid-market and provide it with a innovation ideally suited to the complex issues of large, mature organizations," he wrote.

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