Dell
Commences Cloud Computing Charge,
Dell sharpened its enterprise cloud computing strategy,
launching a host of new products and services—including new cloud-specific servers—to
deliver turnkey cloud solutions and start "taking the guesswork out"
of cloud computing.
At its massive Solutions for the Virtual Era product
launch in San Francisco, Dell revealed a host of new products and services. As
part of the launch, Dell pulled the curtain off of its new turnkey cloud
solutions play. The offerings piggyback on the roughly three years of
experience Dell has amassed with cloud offerings in its Data Center Solutions
group.
The Round Rock, US-based company said it is offering
new integrated solution stacks, services and hardware to ease the deployment
and management of cloud environments.
In a blog post outlining Dell's new cloud solutions,
Dell cloud evangelist Barton George said the company's new solutions feature
tested and supported cloud solution stacks tying together hardware, software
and services that ease customers' ability to deploy and manage cloud environments.
First to market will be Dell's cloud platform for Web
applications. Working with cloud software provider Joyent, Dell will offer a
turnkey private Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solution comprising pre-tested,
pre-assembled and fully-supported hardware, software and services—all sold and
supported by Dell. The PaaS offering will thwart key challenges of Web app
development and deployment like unpredictable traffic and fear of
under-provisioning and migration. Dell said the solution is aimed at enterprise
application developers looking to develop applications in the cloud to be
deployed in the cloud, George wrote.
Dell also added new ISV partners to the mix to help
lead customers through deployments. George said the cloud Partner Program will
be available to cloud ISVs, through which Dell will offer cloud solutions and
blueprints optimized and validated for Dell's cloud platforms. At first, Dell will work with three partners: Aster Data, which will provide Web analytics;
Canonical, which offers an open source Infrastructure-as-a-Service private cloud; and Greenplum, a self-service data warehousing vendor.
Dell said it will continue to work with VMware and
Microsoft on the Evolutionary cloud side, and Microsoft and Dell will work
together on joint solutions on the Windows Azure platform with Dell offering
services and Microsoft investing in Dell hardware for the Azure infrastructure,
Dell said.
Dell also launched a new line of hyperscale-inspired
PowerEdge C servers, which includes the PowerEdge C1100, C2100 and C6100
targeting HPC, data analytics, gaming, social networking and, of course, cloud computing. The servers are based on Dell-created designs that are in use by
large Web companies and cloud providers. The C1100 is a high-memory,
power-efficient, cluster-optimized compute node server; the C2100 is a high
performance data analytics, cloud computing platform and cloud storage server;
and the C6100 is a four-node cloud- and cluster-optimized, shared
infrastructure server.
Lastly, Dell unveiled a suite of professional cloud servers geared toward helping customers prepare for and implement cloud computing solutions. Dell's Integrated Solution Services will deliver cloud lifecycle management and also include cloud readiness assessment services, and
additional services around cloud design, deployment, management and
maintenance.
By Andrew R Hickey, ChannelWeb
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