Why Dell for Cloud

The Dell Difference

When you're venturing into new territory, you want to make sure you have the right guide. That's Dell. Dell™ Data Center Solutions (DCS) builds cloud environments for some of the world's largest search engines and cloud service providers.

That experience gives Dell insights into the unique challenges of the hyperscale computing environments and what it takes to design, build and deploy highly efficient cloud solutions — whether it's for a global enterprise or a small or midsize business. And we have the knowledge and expertise to tune your company's cloud solution for maximum performance and efficiency.

If your path to the cloud involves taking advantage of public clouds, we have you covered. Dell IT Management Software as a Service (SaaS) has over 10,000 customers and more than 6,000,000 mailboxes and devices under management, making us one of the largest providers of SaaS IT solutions in the world. Whether your best approach is one of our services or a cloud managed by another provider, we can help you develop a winning strategy.

We help you:
  • Accelerate time to value — You can get results faster with scalable, efficient and flexible solutions from the Dell cloud partner ecosystem.
  • Simplify the cloud — With easy one-stop Dell shopping, you can get optimized cloud solutions backed by Dell-coordinated service and support.
  • Remove the guesswork — To make your next steps clear, Dell provides reference architectures for deploying optimized cloud solutions created with certified partner products.
  • Find certified solutions — Dell and its cloud partners work to help ensure that specific Dell hardware and partner software combinations have been tested and are optimized for your workloads.
  • Consolidate business applications onto one database grid to enable increased scalability.
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    See how Dell VIS Creator gives you secure, automated deployment and management of physical, virtual and cloud-based workloads, whether in a private, public or hybrid cloud.

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    Video: Darren Thomas on the Dell | VMware Alliance

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    Darren Thomas of Dell Storage discusses how the Dell | VMware alliance is innovating for the cloud and beyond.

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    Provisioning Application Workloads With VIS Creator

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    Learn how VIS Creator can help IT organizations to efficiently provision a multivendor virtual application workload from a single platform.

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    Video: Private Cloud Provisioning With VIS Creator

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    07 Apr 2011

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    Building blocks for data center DNA

    07 Apr 2011

    By simplifying and automating deployment, provisioning and management processes for virtualized systems, the Dell Virtual Integrated System (VIS) architecture empowers end users to access the resources they need in minutes — rather than days or weeks.

  8. Managing virtualized data centers efficiently

    Managing virtualized data centers efficiently

    07 Apr 2011

    The widespread adoption of VMware virtualization has created many facets to managing data centers. The Dell Advanced Infrastructure Manager (AIM) software enables administrators to manage highly virtualized environments.

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    Cloud Computing — A Dell Point of View

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    Get the lay of the land on cloud computing and learn how Dell products, solutions and services can help your organization enter the cloud era.