Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Denver – Aug 26, 2010 Phoenix – Sept 23, 2010 Washington, DC – Oct 21 Five Most Recent Posts News: Inside Nimsoft’s Unified Monitoring Solution News: Wikipedia to Build Second US Data Center, Suffers Outages News: Uptime Institute Releases New Data Center Operational Sustainability Standard News: Dell To Acquire Data Center Software Developer Scalent News: IBM to Buy BigFix to Advance Smarter Data Centers (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — In an effort to bring the full benefits of data center virtualization to its customers, technology provider Dell ( www.dell.com ) has signed an agreement to acquire Scalent ( www.scalent.com ), a private company that provides software that makes data center infrastructure dynamic, easily scalable and highly efficient. According to Dell’s announcement last week, the Round Rock, Texas-based company will integrate Scalent technology into its Advanced Infrastructure Manager solution. Currently, AIM simplifies data center management by enabling a single administrator to dynamically allocate compute, storage and network resources for physical and virtual application workloads. It enables dynamic deployment and repurposing of infrastructure without the need for physical server, cable or storage area network changes. “Scalent provides a critical building block for our Virtual Integrated System, the most open, capable and affordable converged infrastructure solution available,” Dell enterprise product group senior vice president Brad Anderson said in a statement