A week after beating out Hewlett Packard to become the largest supplier of storage capacity in the world, Dell is refreshing its virtualization portfolio with three new operations management solutions.

The new releases include Foglight for Storage Management 3.0, which according to Dell offers enterprises “complete visibility” into their infrastructure. The platform also packs a point and click performance monitoring tool, support for Compellent, EqualLogic and EMC systems, and built-in data analytics that empower admins to troubleshoot problems using graphs and diagrams.

Storage Management 3.0 is joined by Foglight for Virtualization Enterprise Edition and Standard Edition. The former introduces support for vCloud Director, View and vSphere, while the latter is essentially a scaled-down version designed for small- and medium-sized business (SMB) environments. It features automated resource optimization and new capacity management capabilities, in addition to a reworked interface that provides a “more intuitive approach to capacity management and planning.”

“As Infrastructure and Operations professionals are faced with increased expectations to deliver business value, they are expected to not only reduce the total cost of the data center, but also drive agility, quickly deploy new applications, and deliver the highest level of performance,” stated Dell Software executive director John Maxwell. “Dell Software’s virtualization operations management suite helps simplify the complexity of today’s modern data centers to help I&O professionals deliver on these top priorities, resolve problems before they affect business-critical applications, and ensure the highest level of customer satisfaction.”

Dell’s increased focus on virtualization and dominant position in the storage market are working to its advantage, but these factors fail to overshadow the 72 percent profit decline it recorded this past quarter. Hewlett Packard also experienced double-digit drops in its consumer and services groups, but as SiliconANGLE founding CEO John Furrier pointed out, “HP is on the right track in ‘eating their own’ before the competition ‘eats them’.”