New offering runs in the company's data centers and offers enterprise class, secure public, private and hybrid clouds.
Dell, alongwith VMware, Inc., a cloud infrastructure provider, yesterday announced the availability of the Dell Cloud based on VMware vCloud Data Center Services designed to provide a seamless multi-tenant environment for running virtual systems. The company says that this is its the first public and hybrid cloud offering and supports its strategy to provide customers next-generation computing solutions composed of hardware, software and services. It will also offer consulting, application and infrastructure services to help companies transform their legacy IT environment and integrate these cloud services effectively in their business.
It avers that the company and VMware will provide Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) choice for customer organizations, hosting and outsourcing firms, system integrators and service providers. The offer provides automation, multi-level security and availability in order to manage on-demand capacity, workload scalability, or as a platform to respond to changing business needs more rapidly.
The company claims that to address one of the greatest concerns customers have with cloud implementations, it delivers a complete, multi-layer enterprise security solution. Through the acquisition of SecureWorks and strategic partnerships with VMware and Trend Micro, its top priority is securing critical IT assets for the customer through the multi-layer provisioning of services. The company protects the data center's infrastructure through the management and monitoring of network firewalls, web application firewalls, intrusion detection and prevention systems, and vulnerability scanning. Virtual data centers are also protected with security boundaries allocated to specific organizations. Log monitoring and reporting provides visibility into relevant security controls to help customers demonstrate compliance with industry standards.
It mentions that Dell Cloud with VMware vCloud Data Center Services includes several options for customers:
Public - Dell Cloud with VMware vCloud Data Center Service is an enterprise-class, secure offer of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IAAS) hosted in a secure company data center. This service provides access to vCPUs, memory, storage networks, IP addresses, firewalls, and catalog capabilities.
Private - Utilizing the same expertise, service and technology delivered in its own data centers, the company will build private clouds at either its customer's data center or its own data centers leveraging VMware offerings including VMware vSphere and VMware vCloud Director as well as its vStart offering.
Hybrid - The company and VMware provide a single source to substantially simplify the management of customers' physical and VMware vSphere-based virtual data center infrastructure adding flexibility to customer requirements. Utilizing VMware vCloud Connector, the hybrid cloud solution provides management of on- or off-premise private cloud and the company's Public cloud offering.
The company adds that it is currently offering the Dell Cloud with VMware vCloud Data Center Service with beta customers. The offering will be generally available in the U.S. in the fourth calendar quarter this year with rollout planned for EMEA and APJ in 2012.
"Dell is excited to announce with VMware our first public cloud offering that will provide customers with a secure, enterprise solution. With one of the largest bases of VMware installed customers, we will be able to provide seamless interoperability with existing VMware environments," said Steve Schuckenbrock, President, Dell Services.
"Dell's new VMware vCloud Data Center Services offering will leverage its deep expertise with VMware virtualization and private cloud deployments to provide customers with multiple IT services options across private, public and hybrid cloud solutions. Our expanded partnership will enable enterprises to improve efficiency and agility by leveraging internal and external resources in a compatible, compliant and flexible manner, based on a common architecture developed and certified together by VMware and Dell," stated Scott Aronson, Senior Vice President, Global Channels and Alliances, VMware.
"Our customer surveys show data security and privacy still top the list of concerns about implementing cloud services, and Dell's new cloud is designed to address those concerns. Interestingly, this offering should allow Dell to address surveyed customers' second greatest concern, which is migrating systems with on-premise data or applications to the cloud," said Gard Little, IDC.
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