Cloud Computing

With cloud computing, IT can seize a strategic leadership role, adapting quickly and automatically to changing business needs and paradigms. Implementing cloud solutions requires more than technology. It works best when it’s integrated with an organizational strategy in a symbiotic relationship.

Using a Dell cloud solution with seamless integration and open software solutions, IT can leverage a much larger cloud ecosystem without concerns for exit strategies and lock-in risks. Our cloud solutions adapt to you, not the other way around — it’s as simple as that.

Dell OpenStack™-Powered Cloud Solutions
Get everything you need to build and manage your open source cloud ecosystem with the combined power of Dell PowerEdge™ C servers and the OpenStack-Powered Cloud Solution platform.

Dell Cloud with VMware® vCloud™ Data Center Service
Extend your internal data center by transitioning your VMware virtualized workloads into the Dell public cloud with our secure, manageable and flexible public cloud application.

Dell Boomi™ Data Integration
Gain all the advantages of a pure software-as-a-service integration platform in less time, at less cost and with less complexity than conventional integration products and appliances.

Dell Cloud Client Solutions
Enable your virtual client solutions with Dell OptiPlex™ desktops and Dell remote access devices while improving security without limiting access to workforce resources.

Dell Desktop as a Service
Leave hosted virtual desktop hardware expense, maintenance and worry to us with our virtual desktop-as-a-service solution.

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It’s a misconception that cloud computing is only for IT and that there is just one way to use it. Dell’s as-a-service cloud solutions help organizations of all sizes deliver real-time business results and rapid time to value. For midsized organizations or enterprises, cloud computing brings you closer to your colleagues and customers, and simplifies solutions for everything from analytics to X-ray images.

The ability to meet the demands for data and software as a service (SaaS) correlates directly with innovation and customer satisfaction. Through cloud-enabled web applications, end-user devices and email services, Dell can help you deliver productivity without compromising security, integration or mobility.

Dell Cloud Business Applications
Add cloud applications at your own pace with Dell’s family of trusted cloud applications that integrate with each other and with your software.

Dell Boomi™ Data Integration
Gain all the advantages of a pure SaaS integration platform in less time, at less cost and with less complexity than conventional integration products and appliances.

Dell Cloud Solution for Web Applications
Reduce cost and simplify management as you address cloud issues such as unpredictable traffic, underprovisioning and migration.

Dell Email Management Services
Eliminate downtime, reduce the risk of data loss, securely archive email, and block spam and virus attacks.

Dell Cloud Clinical Archive
Budget to suit your needs using Dell’s off-site managed solution with flexible payment options, including a fee-per-study model that eliminates the need for capital investment.

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How do you develop your IT infrastructure so it adapts automatically to your needs? With Dell™ Data Center Solutions and reference architectures, your organization can realize the benefits of cloud computing, increase IT infrastructure, gain flexibility and have more choices — all with minimal capital expenditures.

Dell has a proven track record of helping leading organizations, such as Microsoft Corporation and eBay, build their cloud environments, as well as running one of the largest virtualized environments in the industry ourselves. We can apply this expertise to help you create the cloud environment that’s right for you.

Preconfigured Cloud Virtualization Solutions
Simplify your migration to a virtual infrastructure with pretested and preconfigured data center virtualization for small and medium business, as well as enterprise-class private clouds.

Hadoop® and Dell Crowbar
Expand your open source toolkit with Crowbar, a cloud deployment framework originally developed by Dell to support Dell's OpenStack™ and Hadoop-powered solutions.

Cloud Infrastructure
Make Dell your one-stop shop for the components of a complete cloud solution that includes services, software and hardware.

• Modular Data Centers
  Take advantage of the hyperefficient, snap-together modular data center with rapid deployment capability and flexible cooling options.  

• Servers
  Create a robust cloud solution with our deep cloud server experience and our line of servers optimized for cloud computing.

• Storage
  Derive the full value of your IT investments while protecting vital enterprise data, ensuring high business continuity, and maintaining flexibility and scalability.

• Networking
  Increase your business agility, improve your network resilience and reduce your total cost of ownership with simplified, automated, industry-standard enterprise efficiencies.

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How do you make your cloud ecosystem more proactive, efficient and secure? Changing resources, multiple vendors, the pace of innovation and an expanding landscape of security threats require we go beyond traditional IT practices and management.

Adopting the Dell principles of cloud computing, organizations can integrate and manage heterogeneous environments from a single console and deliver robust, secure cloud capabilities without adding staff or appliances. Some of the most risk-averse organizations across the globe, such as Nokia, ProStrakan and Bodycote, trust Dell to make security simple.

Dell Virtual Integrated System
Use virtual desktop and server workload management to free up IT staff by automating management through user and server provisioning.

Dell Quest Cloud Management Tools
Simplify the management of your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructures to reduce costs and improve efficiency with our integrated portfolio of solutions.

Dell Cloud Security
Reduce security costs for your enterprise with network security and managed security services from Dell SecureWorks™, a leader in information security.

• Mobile Device Management
  Increase user productivity by including the widest range of personal devices in your IT strategy.

• Disaster Recovery and Application/Data Backup
  Protect both data and applications continuously; move across virtual, physical and cloud environments; and recover everything with AppAssure™.

• Data and Application Security
  Take advantage of Dell’s security expertise, whether you’re optimizing backup and restore operations, securing your cloud environment or implementing full-scale site recovery plans.

• Network and Data Center Security
  Keep prying eyes away from your data in flight — on the network and on the systems it serves — with scalable protection from Dell.

• Endpoint Security and Management
  Secure all of today's endpoint and wireless digital devices — laptops, tablets, phones and more — with solutions and services that balance protection and productivity.

VMware® vCloud™ Connector
View, operate and transfer your computing resources across vSphere™ and vCloud Director in your private cloud environment, as well as in public clouds from vCloud service providers.

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How do you build-in security and what cloud services are best for you? Whether you’re just getting started with cloud computing or already have a well-defined plan, Dell™ Cloud Services can help you develop a successful strategy that achieves your unique business goals. Our cloud services range from an overview of cloud technology, to a discussion of your business and IT goals, to an infrastructure assessment and explanation of how you might benefit from cloud. Working together, we can develop and implement a best practice-based strategic plan for cloud computing success in your data center and end-user environment

Managed Cloud Services
Learn how the unique, enterprise-class online bundles from Dell can make getting started with cloud simpler and safer than ever.

Efficient Architecture and Cloud Workshop
Begin your journey with an introduction to cloud computing. Learn how you can transform your data center with software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and infrastructure as a service (IaaS) using a public, private or hybrid cloud infrastructure.

Cloud Roadmap Accelerator
Discover the right cloud computing solution for you. Based on an in-depth analysis of your current architecture, Dell will help you determine which applications to place into public, private or hybrid clouds, along with a road map for implementation.

Cloud Design
Partner with Dell to design and implement a cloud computing solution customized for your organization with SaaS, PaaS and/or IaaS.

Cloud Implementation
Partner with Dell to design and implement a cloud computing solution customized for your organization with SaaS, PaaS and/or IaaS.

Application Modernization Services
Overcome IT challenges by relying on a single application modernization partner to help manage your rehosting and rearchitecting needs.

Application Modernization Tools & Hosting
Reduce costs and enhance efficiency by migrating and modernizing legacy applications and data.

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