Tech Mahindra & Dell Technologies: Redefining Virtualization with Innovative Solutions

Today, businesses are transitioning from traditional to modern hypervisor models due to constrained scalability, escalating costs, and the limitations imposed by vendor lock-ins. Modern workloads require greater operational flexibility, resource efficiency, and cloud-readiness. As a result, organizations are adopting open, disaggregated infrastructure solutions to improve agility, optimize costs, and maintain long-term flexibility. In light of these shifting business needs, Tech Mahindra and Dell Technologies have formed a strategic partnership to deliver innovative hypervisor solutions that enhance the resilience, adaptability, and future readiness of modern IT environments.

Joint Solution Overview: Driving Innovation with Tech Mahindra and Dell

The collaboration between Tech Mahindra and Dell aims to simplify access to IT infrastructure by delivering an open, adaptable ecosystem capable of supporting multiple hypervisor environments. This is particularly significant as it addresses the growing dissatisfaction with traditional hypervisors by offering a comprehensive suite of end-to-end solutions, including strategic consulting and the development of customized hypervisor roadmaps. These offerings enable enterprises to accelerate IT modernization efforts and enhance infrastructure agility more effectively.

Disaggregated Infrastructure: The Key Differentiator

One of the defining strengths of Dell’s software-defined infrastructure solution, along with its robust managed services, is its adoption of disaggregated infrastructure. This delivers a level of flexibility and scalability that traditional hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) often lacks.

Unlike HCI, which integrates computing, networking, and storage into a single unified system and can lead to vendor lock-in, disaggregated infrastructure offers several distinct benefits:

• Flexibility Beyond Vendor Lock-in:  Open, adaptable infrastructure supporting multiple hypervisors and seamlessly running diverse workloads without being constrained by proprietary platforms, which avoids vendor lock-in.
• Independent Scaling: Facilitates the ability to independently scale, compute, and store resources, ensuring optimal resource utilization and a reduced hardware footprint. The technology is especially valuable for demanding workloads such as AI, edge computing, and containerized applications.
• Cost Efficiency: Enhances server utilization, minimizing the need for additional hardware. The resulting efficiency lowers software licensing costs and reduces physical infrastructure requirements, such as the number of network ports.
• Operational Efficiency: Simplifies lifecycle management through faster patching, streamlined updates, and minimal downtime. Storage remains available without requiring node-by-node offline periods.
• Financial Flexibility: Enables organizations to maximize the value of their existing compute resources through a consumption-based commercial model while ensuring investment protection and greater cost predictability.

Dell’s Disaggregated Infrastructure Solutions

The following solutions address specific infrastructure demands and workload requirements:

• PowerFlex:  A robust, software-defined infrastructure solution that supports multiple operating systems through a unified storage architecture.  The solution is ideally suited for workload consolidation and high-performance use cases, including AI, analytics, and business-critical applications such as SAP.
• ACP Azure with SDS PowerFlex: This integration with Dell APEX Cloud Platform for Microsoft Azure delivers enterprise-grade storage, optimized workload management, and scalable infrastructure, ensuring a consistent and reliable Azure experience across multi-cloud environments
• ACP Red Hat OpenShift: A turnkey platform engineered to streamline and enhance on-premises OpenShift deployments with deep integration and optimized operations for managing containerized applications with greater efficiency.
• NativeEdge: A simplified edge infrastructure management solution that automates deployments and minimizes IT overhead, enabling streamlined operations at distributed sites.

Dell X TechM: Disaggregated Infrastructure Solutions and Services for Diverse Workloads

Dell Technologies and Tech Mahindra offer a comprehensive portfolio of hypervisor alternatives and infrastructure solutions to meet the diverse needs of modern enterprises. The collaboration combines Dell’s industry-leading technologies and Tech Mahindra’s domain expertise to support workloads across various operating environments.

Consulting and Infrastructure Services:

Tech Mahindra takes a consulting approach to help customers identify the correct alternative hypervisor and infrastructure solution through various phases, including assessment, design, deployment, and operation. These phases are interconnected to deliver comprehensive IT solutions.

• Assessment Phase: Begins with evaluating the customer’s current capabilities and future needs. This involves gathering data, conducting interviews, and presenting findings that include detailed recommendations.
• Design Phase (Day 0): In this phase, bespoke services are designed, including technology onboarding, architecture design, and planning a robust implementation strategy.
• Deployment Phase (Day 1): Focuses on the practical implementation of the designed solutions. Activities include hardware installation, software configuration, end-to-end testing, project documentation, and knowledge transfer.
• Operation Phase: Involves ongoing support and management to ensure the solutions continue to meet performance standards. This includes lifecycle management, monitoring, and addressing any operational issues that arise post-deployment.

A Future-Ready IT Strategy

The hypervisor solutions developed collaboratively by Dell Technologies and Tech Mahindra represent a game-changing advancement for businesses aiming to modernize and streamline their IT environments. Disaggregated infrastructure provides organizations with increased flexibility, improved cost management, and enhanced operational efficiency. This approach also enables them to overcome the limitations associated with traditional hypervisor models.

The collaboration exemplifies both companies' commitment to innovation and customer-centricity, equipping businesses with the tools they need to embrace future opportunities.