A Revolutionary Approach to Cloud Building

As more and more companies move toward private clouds over the next three to five years, most will do so in a methodical, evolutionary way.

Dell believes that a complete clean-slate approach is best for enterprises faced with:

• Greenfield opportunities involving no legacy infrastructure
• The need to support scalable cloud-native Web 2.0 applications
• A requirement to build out at such a scale that resiliency and availability are architected into the software

This revolutionary approach makes use of cloud-native applications that are designed for greater scalability and use across a multitude of servers and are therefore extremely efficient and responsive. A revolutionary cloud also requires specialized servers optimized for specific workloads. Dell offers a next-generation server series that is particularly suited to revolutionary cloud environments. PowerEdge™ C servers — powered by Intel® Xeon® quad- and six-core processors — are extremely dense, have ultra-fast memory subsystems and expansive disk capacity.

To guide enterprises on a revolutionary path to the private cloud, Dell draws from its experience helping a select group of the world's largest Internet companies build public cloud infrastructures. Dell's intention — as evidenced by key strategic partnerships with cloud pioneer Joyent and cloud ISVs Aster Data, Canonical and Greenplum — is to deliver its cloud hardware in simple-to-deploy modules.

Further reading included in this white paper:

• A profile on Intel's building of a private cloud for its office and enterprise groups
• CIO.com's Bernard Golden on how cloud computing applications will change application architectures
• Forrester's James Staten on why hybrid cloud computing may be the smartest strategy
• CIO.com's Rick Swanborg on four key concerns for organizations planning to build a cloud

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