Dell to shake up Oz cloud market

Australian IT.

Dell will offer public, private and hybrid cloud services to businesses looking to rent computer and storage in an infrastructure-as-a-service delivery model. Dell is one of VMware's largest customers globally. The computer company has reaped $200 million in savings thanks to virtualisation.

Dell says it's one of the first providers authorised to provide VMware vCloud Datacenter Services for enterprise-class public, private and hybrid clouds, according to Information Management.

This partnership will also build private clouds for customers, according to Mark Bilger, VP and CTO of Dell Services, says eWeek.

By extension between the two, Dell Services will be providing hyper-cloud solutions between the private cloud data centres and Dell's public cloud offering.

Dell and VMware are connecting a lot of dots: customers to the cloud, data centres to data centres, and data centres to outside public cloud services. There is no question that this is a full cloud service offering with many options for customers to consider.

This will be a multi-tenant environment for running virtual systems. It provides access to vCPUs, memory, storage networks, IP addresses, firewalls and catalogue capabilities.

Utilising VMware vCloud Connector, the hybrid cloud offering provides management of on- or off-premise private cloud and Dell's Public cloud offering, reports CBR.

Dell is currently offering the Dell Cloud with VMware vCloud Datacenter Service with beta customers, and the offering will be available in the US in the fourth quarter of this year with rollout planned for EMEA and APJ in 2012.