· New Dell EMC Cloud for Microsoft Azure Stack turnkey platform provides simple, fast path to hybrid cloud with Microsoft Azure
· Dell EMC ranked No. 1 in the worldwide cloud IT infrastructure market for revenue and market share for 2016, according to IDC
· New IDC study, commissioned by Dell EMC, shows that 79.7% of large organisations have a hybrid cloud strategy and 51.4% already use both public and private cloud
Dell EMC has announced Dell EMC Cloud for Microsoft Azure Stack, a new turnkey, hybrid cloud platform that offers a simple and fast path for implementing and sustaining a hybrid cloud based on Microsoft Azure Stack. The new platform helps organisations to standardise on the Microsoft Azure ecosystem to accelerate their digital transformation with automated IT service delivery for traditional and cloud-native applications.
“Cloud is an operating model, not a place, and adopting a hybrid model has become the clear choice,” said Peter Cutts, Senior VP, Hybrid Cloud Platforms, Dell EMC. “Making hybrid cloud platforms simple and turnkey enables businesses to rapidly develop and deploy new applications, optimise resources, control costs and deliver the best possible customer experiences.”
The new Dell EMC Cloud for Microsoft Azure Stack combines Dell EMC’s leadership in worldwide cloud infrastructure with its long history of partnering with Microsoft, which includes shipping the industry’s first Microsoft-based hybrid cloud in October 2015. According to IDC, Dell EMC was No. 1 in the worldwide cloud infrastructure market for 2016 with US$5.7 billion in revenue and 17.6% market share*.
The new offering complements turnkey platforms Dell EMC Enterprise Hybrid Cloud, introduced more than three years ago, and Dell EMC Native Hybrid Cloud that integrates hardware, software and automation to simplify IT service delivery and reduce time to market.
Interoperability between public and private cloud resources has quickly become a top requirement for many organisation. The turnkey Dell EMC Cloud for Microsoft Azure Stack delivers a consistent experience across Azure public cloud and private cloud with Azure Stack. It is engineered with Dell EMC PowerEdge servers and Dell EMC Networking. As a hybrid cloud platform, it is built, sustained and supported as a singular platform with a turnkey stack.
Dell EMC Cloud for Microsoft Azure Stack offers a true hybrid cloud that speeds application development and deployment by providing a consistent programming surface between Azure and Azure Stack. As a result, organisations can cost-effectively access, create and share traditional and cloud-native application services securely in Azure and Azure Stack to ensure business results, without sacrificing security, protection, service quality and availability.
Integrations with Dell EMC backup and encryption technologies provide a consistent means of protecting and securing data across customers’ Azure-based public and on premises cloud environments. Furthermore, the adoption of Pivotal Cloud Foundry on Azure will extend to Dell EMC Cloud for Microsoft Azure Stack, continuing to deliver the promise of hybrid models with consistent services, APIs and consumption models for on- and off-premises.
Dell EMC services offers support along the journey, from strategic planning through implementation, operations and ongoing support. Dell EMC experts provide hands-on guidance to optimise and expand the customer’s hybrid cloud platform to meet business objectives. These activities include developing and customising service catalogues, enabling identity and access management systems, and extending monitoring and metering systems to Azure Stack. Dell EMC provides support throughout the lifecycle of the platform with each component backed by automated proactive, predictive tools and a dedicated Technical Account Manager (TAM) with its ProSupport Plus service.
Laura DuBois, Group VP, Enterprise Storage, Servers and Infrastructure Software, IDC said, “Interoperability enables organisations to adopt new cloud solutions with minimal changes to process, tools and staff, which enhances the ability to lead and drive IT and digital transformations. Turnkey solutions, like Dell EMC Cloud for Microsoft Azure Stack, address the current challenges with private and public cloud adoption, including consistency with current tooling, access to value added services, and ongoing lifecycle assurance for the platform.”
To understand how companies are transforming business and to analyse the benefits, costs and drivers associated with the use of cloud deployment models, Dell EMC commissioned analyst firm IDC to conduct a global survey of 1,000 mid- to large-sized organisations that are using and/or evaluating private and public cloud.
The IDC Cloudview Survey finds that 79.7% of large organisations, defined as those with 1,000 or more employees, report that they already have a hybrid cloud strategy. In addition, 51.4% already use both public and private cloud infrastructure resources with an additional 29.2% expecting to in the next year**.
The survey results, published in the IDC white paper The Power of Hybrid Cloud, also reveal that total cost of ownership is one of the top drivers of cloud adoption. Other criteria for future IT infrastructure decisions on workloads supported by cloud environments includes physical and data security (34%) and operation flexibility (33%) in addition to flexibility of economic models. This study underscores the value of turnkey hybrid cloud, which balances the pros and cons of different cloud deployment models.
Mike Neil, Corporate VP, Enterprise Cloud, Microsoft said, "Microsoft and Dell EMC are continuing our longtime alliance by investing in Microsoft Azure Stack on Dell EMC infrastructure to meet rising customer expectations for solutions that deliver a top-quality public and on-premises cloud experience, to rapidly transform, and innovate through applications built for the cloud. With Dell EMC Cloud for Microsoft Azure Stack, our shared customers have the support and solutions to enable them to be more efficient and innovative with a best-in-class, hybrid cloud platform.”
Peter Pluim, Executive VP IDM, Atos said, “Our Atos Hybrid Cloud for Microsoft Azure Stack, based on the Dekk EMC Cloud for Microsoft Azure Stack platform, provides a secure yet flexible cloud foundation, on which businesses can pivot their business models, respond swiftly to the market and create exceptional customer experiences. Like our partner Dell EMC, we believe digital is a fundamental part of an organisation’s strategy. With this offering, we further increase our ability to support our customers in their digital transformation, providing a complete end-to-end cloud offering, and continue to be a trusted partner in their ongoing digital journeys.”
Tomoshiro Takemoto, Senior MD, Cloud Computing Service Division, Nomura Research Institute, a thinktank and systems integrator, said, “Dell EMC Cloud for Microsoft Azure Stack is the best enterprise-ready hybrid cloud because it has strong competitive advantages including security and reliability features, on top of Azure Stack, to support real world digital transformation. Many customers need this type of enterprise hybrid cloud for their agile innovation while maintaining traditional IT systems. By combining our mPLAT Suite that realises integrated management of the multi-cloud environment with Dell EMC technology, we can provide customers with the best hybrid cloud solutions to solve issues, such as cloud silos, through rapid modernisation.”
Interested?
Dell EMC Cloud for Microsoft Azure Stack is expected to be available direct and from partners in Singapore in 2H17.
Watch the video introducing an engineered hybrid cloud platform for Microsoft Azure Stack
*2016 IDC Worldwide Quarterly Cloud IT Infrastructure Tracker, published April 2017.
**IDC white paper, sponsored by Dell EMC, The Power of Hybrid Cloud, May 2017
· Dell EMC ranked No. 1 in the worldwide cloud IT infrastructure market for revenue and market share for 2016, according to IDC
· New IDC study, commissioned by Dell EMC, shows that 79.7% of large organisations have a hybrid cloud strategy and 51.4% already use both public and private cloud
Dell EMC has announced Dell EMC Cloud for Microsoft Azure Stack, a new turnkey, hybrid cloud platform that offers a simple and fast path for implementing and sustaining a hybrid cloud based on Microsoft Azure Stack. The new platform helps organisations to standardise on the Microsoft Azure ecosystem to accelerate their digital transformation with automated IT service delivery for traditional and cloud-native applications.
“Cloud is an operating model, not a place, and adopting a hybrid model has become the clear choice,” said Peter Cutts, Senior VP, Hybrid Cloud Platforms, Dell EMC. “Making hybrid cloud platforms simple and turnkey enables businesses to rapidly develop and deploy new applications, optimise resources, control costs and deliver the best possible customer experiences.”
The new Dell EMC Cloud for Microsoft Azure Stack combines Dell EMC’s leadership in worldwide cloud infrastructure with its long history of partnering with Microsoft, which includes shipping the industry’s first Microsoft-based hybrid cloud in October 2015. According to IDC, Dell EMC was No. 1 in the worldwide cloud infrastructure market for 2016 with US$5.7 billion in revenue and 17.6% market share*.
The new offering complements turnkey platforms Dell EMC Enterprise Hybrid Cloud, introduced more than three years ago, and Dell EMC Native Hybrid Cloud that integrates hardware, software and automation to simplify IT service delivery and reduce time to market.
Interoperability between public and private cloud resources has quickly become a top requirement for many organisation. The turnkey Dell EMC Cloud for Microsoft Azure Stack delivers a consistent experience across Azure public cloud and private cloud with Azure Stack. It is engineered with Dell EMC PowerEdge servers and Dell EMC Networking. As a hybrid cloud platform, it is built, sustained and supported as a singular platform with a turnkey stack.
Dell EMC Cloud for Microsoft Azure Stack offers a true hybrid cloud that speeds application development and deployment by providing a consistent programming surface between Azure and Azure Stack. As a result, organisations can cost-effectively access, create and share traditional and cloud-native application services securely in Azure and Azure Stack to ensure business results, without sacrificing security, protection, service quality and availability.
Integrations with Dell EMC backup and encryption technologies provide a consistent means of protecting and securing data across customers’ Azure-based public and on premises cloud environments. Furthermore, the adoption of Pivotal Cloud Foundry on Azure will extend to Dell EMC Cloud for Microsoft Azure Stack, continuing to deliver the promise of hybrid models with consistent services, APIs and consumption models for on- and off-premises.
Dell EMC services offers support along the journey, from strategic planning through implementation, operations and ongoing support. Dell EMC experts provide hands-on guidance to optimise and expand the customer’s hybrid cloud platform to meet business objectives. These activities include developing and customising service catalogues, enabling identity and access management systems, and extending monitoring and metering systems to Azure Stack. Dell EMC provides support throughout the lifecycle of the platform with each component backed by automated proactive, predictive tools and a dedicated Technical Account Manager (TAM) with its ProSupport Plus service.
Laura DuBois, Group VP, Enterprise Storage, Servers and Infrastructure Software, IDC said, “Interoperability enables organisations to adopt new cloud solutions with minimal changes to process, tools and staff, which enhances the ability to lead and drive IT and digital transformations. Turnkey solutions, like Dell EMC Cloud for Microsoft Azure Stack, address the current challenges with private and public cloud adoption, including consistency with current tooling, access to value added services, and ongoing lifecycle assurance for the platform.”
To understand how companies are transforming business and to analyse the benefits, costs and drivers associated with the use of cloud deployment models, Dell EMC commissioned analyst firm IDC to conduct a global survey of 1,000 mid- to large-sized organisations that are using and/or evaluating private and public cloud.
The IDC Cloudview Survey finds that 79.7% of large organisations, defined as those with 1,000 or more employees, report that they already have a hybrid cloud strategy. In addition, 51.4% already use both public and private cloud infrastructure resources with an additional 29.2% expecting to in the next year**.
The survey results, published in the IDC white paper The Power of Hybrid Cloud, also reveal that total cost of ownership is one of the top drivers of cloud adoption. Other criteria for future IT infrastructure decisions on workloads supported by cloud environments includes physical and data security (34%) and operation flexibility (33%) in addition to flexibility of economic models. This study underscores the value of turnkey hybrid cloud, which balances the pros and cons of different cloud deployment models.
Mike Neil, Corporate VP, Enterprise Cloud, Microsoft said, "Microsoft and Dell EMC are continuing our longtime alliance by investing in Microsoft Azure Stack on Dell EMC infrastructure to meet rising customer expectations for solutions that deliver a top-quality public and on-premises cloud experience, to rapidly transform, and innovate through applications built for the cloud. With Dell EMC Cloud for Microsoft Azure Stack, our shared customers have the support and solutions to enable them to be more efficient and innovative with a best-in-class, hybrid cloud platform.”
Peter Pluim, Executive VP IDM, Atos said, “Our Atos Hybrid Cloud for Microsoft Azure Stack, based on the Dekk EMC Cloud for Microsoft Azure Stack platform, provides a secure yet flexible cloud foundation, on which businesses can pivot their business models, respond swiftly to the market and create exceptional customer experiences. Like our partner Dell EMC, we believe digital is a fundamental part of an organisation’s strategy. With this offering, we further increase our ability to support our customers in their digital transformation, providing a complete end-to-end cloud offering, and continue to be a trusted partner in their ongoing digital journeys.”
Tomoshiro Takemoto, Senior MD, Cloud Computing Service Division, Nomura Research Institute, a thinktank and systems integrator, said, “Dell EMC Cloud for Microsoft Azure Stack is the best enterprise-ready hybrid cloud because it has strong competitive advantages including security and reliability features, on top of Azure Stack, to support real world digital transformation. Many customers need this type of enterprise hybrid cloud for their agile innovation while maintaining traditional IT systems. By combining our mPLAT Suite that realises integrated management of the multi-cloud environment with Dell EMC technology, we can provide customers with the best hybrid cloud solutions to solve issues, such as cloud silos, through rapid modernisation.”
Interested?
Dell EMC Cloud for Microsoft Azure Stack is expected to be available direct and from partners in Singapore in 2H17.
Watch the video introducing an engineered hybrid cloud platform for Microsoft Azure Stack
*2016 IDC Worldwide Quarterly Cloud IT Infrastructure Tracker, published April 2017.
**IDC white paper, sponsored by Dell EMC, The Power of Hybrid Cloud, May 2017
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