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Managing IT infrastructure in a data center is becoming increasingly difficult due to growing complexity in advancing technologies and user requirements. The evolving need to change data center infrastructure can affect stability, performance, costs, and upgradability. Dell 3-Tier Platform solutions are proven, tested, and optimized to help organizations meet their long-term data center needs for mixed workloads. The 3-Tier Platform solution that this guide describes provides the simplicity of a flexible, validated converged infrastructure (CI) that is based on: