Providing “Build-to-Buy” options for Customers
On the heels of completing its historic merger as well as a successful Dell World event held last week in Austin, Dell is breaking records in Barcelona. With its largest show presence to date, Dell is showcasing its unrivaled collection of products and solutions for OpenStack customers.
As a premier sponsor of this event, Dell will spotlight its commitment to the OpenStack community with a suite of offerings tailored to meet customers wherever they are on their OpenStack journey and its strong partner ecosystem. These will be showcased in multiple breakout sessions and product demonstrations.
With Dell, 1+1=3. By combining the OpenStack solutions from pre-merger Dell and EMC, Dell has extended the scope and reach of its solutions to a broader set of partners and customers. By integrating the portfolio into its “Build, Extend, and Optimize” strategy, the organization now offers a comprehensive OpenStack approach enabling customers to leverage foundational elements to “build” their OpenStack Cloud, then apply emerging technologies to “extend” their OpenStack Cloud with new workloads, and finally, leverage proven solutions to “optimize” their implementations.
The combined Dell has taken this strategy a step further and has formalized solutions that are available for customers to leverage today. The solutions are designed to correspond to a customer’s stage of OpenStack deployment. Dell is bringing these solutions to market via a “Build-to-buy” continuum with the goal of meeting their customers wherever they may land on this continuum. The “build” end of the spectrum is geared for DIY customers, while the “buy” side is tailored more for those who wish to reduce risk, accelerate time-to-value, and realize lifecycle assurances by deploying an engineered system.
The robust set of solutions available in Dell’s “Build-to-Buy” offering includes four key components: Reference Architectures, Validated Solutions, Engineered Systems, and Hybrid Cloud platforms. Some of the key offerings include:
- VxRack System with Neutrino turnkey OpenStack IaaS engineered system
- Validate solution for OpenStack with Red Hat
- Optimized OpenStack solutions with Canonical, Mirantis, Red Hat, and SUSE
- Partner plug-ins for ScaleIO, VNX, and XtremIO
- Data protection extensions for OpenStack
- NFV architecture for wide range of Linux and OpenStack distributions
- OpenStack services portfolio from assessment to implementation
Visit our Everything OpenStack community page to learn more about these and other exciting solutions.
Optimized OpenStack solutions – Optimized Reference Architectures
It all starts with the community. Dell has increased its steadfast commitment and contributions to the community with product drivers across its portfolio (servers, networks and storage), with key projects (Cinder, Glance, Ironic, Manila and Swift), and with its most current OpenStack releases. In addition to leading the Cinder project, Dell is now leading two new OpenStack projects: EC2 API and Project Shovel and is active in QA, product and other working groups.
If you are attending the OpenStack Summit in Barcelona, please visit us at Booth #A1 or join us in one of our fifteen breakout sessions to experience first-hand the breadth of OpenStack products now available through Dell. Follow us on #Dell and #OpenStack.