Dell is purchasing Scalent, a supplier of server-virtualization management software, Dell proclaimed. Terms of the deal were not revealed.

Dell plans to roll Scalent's infrastructure management software into its own Advanced Infrastructure Manager (AIM) data-center software package.

Scalent's Infrastructure Manager Software package gives the aptitude to direct both physical and virtual servers devoid of creation any physical alters to the network.

It might work with both VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisors. The corporation pitched its software for managing quick and lively deployments of servers, and as well as a disaster revival tool. Like Scalent's software, Dell's AIM permits a manager to assign compute, storage and virtual application workloads from a single comfort.

The PC huge in Round Rock, Texas, is no stranger to Scalent's software. In September 2009, Scalent signed an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) agreement with Dell, for Dell to present Scalent's Infrastructure Manager Software below its self name.

Dell anticipates completing the buy of Scalent, a confidentially detained corporation, by the end of this month.