Intelligent Data Management (IDM) is Dell’s overall approach to help enable IT organizations to evolve from managing the storage of their data, to managing and delivering the data as strategic information. IDM comprises a set of hardware and software solution technologies and services frameworks that offer organizations the optimal balance between storage infrastructure cost efficiency, performance, and scalability, while enabling tight alignment between business processes and supporting applications, so that enterprise information can be managed, protected and optimally utilized throughout its useful life.