Dell ISV (Independent Software Vendor) Partner Program and OpenManage Connections

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Dell ISV (Independent Software Vendor) Partner Program and OpenManage Connections

Simplify IT management with ISV Certified Partner Products

The Dell ISV Partner Program in PartnerDirect is focused on simplifying the management of disparate infrastructure platforms, applications, and IT services. Founded upon industry standards and our open approach to manageability, Dell and ISV Partners help our customers Simplify IT by:

Helping to speed technology deployment and configuration.
Building simplicity and manageability into every platform and solution.
Providing practical, flexible answers to our customers' IT challenges.

The ISV Partner Program enables leading systems management vendors to seamlessly integrate Dell platform management into their tools. The integrated functionality is then validated and certified by our engineers.

Together, Dell and ISV Certified Partners help make Dell platforms easier for you to deploy and manage in any size IT infrastructure from a systems management solution that best fits the needs of both your IT environment and your budget.

Dell also offers OpenManage^TM Connections to provide management of Dell PowerEdge Servers from other popular third-party management consoles.

Dell ISV Advanced and ISV Basic Certified Partners

ISV Advanced and ISV Basic Certified Partners provide seamless integration of Dell OpenManage hardware management functionality within their systems management solutions. Customers can efficiently and cost-effectively manage Dell platforms utilizing ISV Certified partner products.

DELL ISV ADVANCED

CERTIFIED PARTNERS:

BMC Software

Microsoft

Symantec

DELL ISV BASIC

CERTIFIED PARTNERS:

Aternity

Dorado Software

KACE

LANDesk

Nagios

Novell

Platform

ScienceLogic

Veeam

ISV Advanced Certified Partner Products

Certified Functionality: Deploy Dell PowerEdge Blades and Servers. Monitor Dell PowerEdge Blades and Servers. Update Dell PowerEdge Blades and Servers.

Certified Products: BMC BladeLogic Operations Manager, Performance Manager, Configuration Manager.

Customer Benefit: Monitor the health of diverse operating systems, multiple business applications, and multi-vendor server environments through a single console to hasten detection, isolation, and resolution of IT issues that affect business performance. Automate change management, release management, and configuration management into a closed-loop process encompassing all phases of the change life cycle.

Certified Functionality: Deploy Dell PowerEdge Blades and Servers. Monitor Dell Blades, Servers, Storage, Printers, and Dell Precision^TM workstations, Latitude^TM notebooks, and OptiPlex^TM desktops. Update Dell Blades, Servers, and Business Clients.

Certified Products: Microsoft System Center Operations Manager, System Center Essentials, Systems Center Configuration Manager, and System Center Virtual Machine Manager, Microsoft Operations Manager, Systems Management Server.

Customer Benefit: Manage your entire infrastructure, desktop to data center, physical and virtual environments, from a single management framework. Reduce the number of consoles required to manage all your Windows applications, Dell Blades, Servers, Storage, Printers, and Business Client systems in a multi-vendor hardware environment.

Certified Functionality: Deploy Dell PowerEdge Blades and Servers. Monitor Dell PowerEdge Blades and Servers. Update Dell PowerEdge Blades and Servers.

Certified Products: Symantec's Altiris Deployment Solution for Dell Servers, Altiris Monitor Solution for Dell Servers, Altiris Patch Management Solution for Dell Servers.

Customer Benefit: Configure, monitor, patch, and inventory Dell Blades and Servers as well as heterogeneous hardware and software environments from the same central management console and database.

ISV Basic Certified Partner Products

Certified Functionality: Monitor Dell Precision workstations, Latitude notebooks, and OptiPlex desktops.

Certified Products: Aternity Frontline Performance Intelligence.

Certified Functionality: Update Dell PowerEdge Blades and Servers.

Certified Products: Dorado Redcell Infrastructure Manager.

Certified Functionality: Update Dell PowerEdge Blades, Servers, and Business Clients.

Certified Products: KACE KBOX 1000 Series Systems Management Appliance

Certified Functionality: Update Dell PowerEdge Blades and Servers.

Certified Products: LANDesk Server Manager.

Certified Functionality: Monitor Dell PowerEdge Blades and Servers.

Certified Products: Dell OpenManage Nagios Plug-in for the Nagios^® network monitor.

Certified Functionality: Deploy Dell PowerEdge Blades and Servers. Update Dell PowerEdge Blades and Servers.

Certified Products: Novell ZENworks Linux Management - Dell Edition

Certified Functionality: Dell Server Smart Energy Management.

Certified Products: 1E NightWatchman Server.

Certified Functionality: Monitor Dell PowerEdge Blades and Servers.

Certified Products: Platform Platform HPC Workgroup Manager - Dell Edition

Certified Functionality: Monitor Dell PowerEdge Blades and Servers.

Certified Products: ScienceLogic EM7 Meta-Appliances

Certified Functionality: Monitor Agent-less monitoring of Dell PowerEdge Blades and Servers.

Certified Products: Veeam/nworks Management Pack for VMware for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager.

OpenManage Connections for Third-Party Management Consoles

OpenManage Connection Features:

In context launch of Dell OpenManage server management functionality
Discovery and display of Dell PowerEdge servers on enterprise topology maps
Dell server event management and support for event-driven policy execution
Access to server asset and inventory information

OpenManage Connection Offerings:

Dell ISV Partner Program Registration and Information

Dell invites ISVs (Independent Software Vendors) to join us in transforming the way customers deploy, utilize, and experience technology. The ISV Partner Program offers global Industry Software Vendors access to Registration, Dell systems management toolkits, technical documentation, integration guides and engineering support through Dell PartnerDirect.

Currently the ISV Partner Program is available to Independent Software Vendors located in the United States, Canada, India, and other English-speaking countries in the Asia-Pacific region. Later phases will continue our global expansion.

To become a member of the Dell ISV Partner Program, the first step is to participate as an ISV Registered Partner. More information on Dell ISV Partner Program requirements, benefits, and support is available at http://www/dell.com/ISV.