When you invest in new servers for your data center, you’re doing more than just selecting hardware—you’re also choosing a manageability solution. When your administrators have efficient, feature-rich tools available to deploy, monitor, maintain, and secure your infrastructure while improving its energy efficiency, they can handle the day-to-day management easily and devote more time to innovations that move your organization forward. By choosing to purchase from a vendor with robust manageability tools, you could be saving yourself time and money down the line.

We assessed the server management portfolios of Dell™ and Supermicro®, comparing three tools from Dell against two tools from Supermicro.