The time when IT operated only within the confines of its own data centers is long gone. Organizations across industries embrace multiple public clouds to enhance efficiency, foster agility and optimize workload placement. Today, eight out of ten enterprises either utilize or are planning for multicloud environments[1].
Multicloud promises the liberty to select tailored capabilities from various cloud platforms to meet specific business objectives. Yet, this freedom is often constrained. Each cloud environment functions as an isolated ecosystem, laden with proprietary tools and lacking the interoperability and uniformity needed for seamless operations. These silos complicate managing dispersed data and workloads, governing security and compliance, maintaining consistent performance, and curbing costs.
Dell Technologies’ multicloud by design approach addresses these challenges head-on. Our approach is consistent and focused on enabling seamless operations across IT ecosystems to deliver meaningful business outcomes.
Multicloud by design
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- Brings management consistency to storing, protecting and securing data across multicloud environments.
- Optimizes and expands cloud stacks to ensure seamless operations across hyperscalers and on-prem infrastructure. This allows you to run workloads based on business requirements, rather than technical limitations.
- Helps streamline IT operations by bringing a cloud operating model to dedicated IT environments.
Achieving management consistency from “Ground to Cloud”
Managing data across multiple public clouds and private environments often leads to unnecessary complexity when disparate tools are involved. One solution is standardizing the management experience with tools and user interfaces familiar to your teams.
For instance, if your team already excels with a specific storage platform, deploying its software-based counterpart in the public cloud can leverage existing expertise. This not only enhances consistency and data mobility across environments but also reduces time spent managing infrastructure.
Additionally, it optimizes existing public cloud investments, making operations more efficient and cost-effective.
Extending and Optimizing Cloud Stacks from “Cloud to Ground”
Organizations increasingly demand consistency when deploying and operating apps. Research by IDC predicts that by 2025, 75% of businesses will favor technology partners offering a unified deployment experience across cloud, edge, and dedicated environments[2].
Our strategy bolsters this demand by extending major cloud stack experiences to data centers, and edge environments.
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- Dell APEX Cloud Platforms for Microsoft Azure, Red Hat OpenShift, and VMware are engineered to offer a seamless, automated experience through turnkey, engineered solutions. They elevate workload mobility and ensure operational uniformity across diverse environments, empowering organizations to run cloud-native applications on-premises while adhering to strict security, compliance, and performance standards.
- These engineered solutions provide robust APIs across all platforms which allow for upstream automation for provisioning and lifecycle management.
- Dell Technologies’ Cloud Platforms support both virtualized and containerized applications. Combining this with powerful API’s, developers have the freedom to automate and deploy infrastructure within their workflow using their preferred software in the environment that best meets their needs. This flexibility boosts workload agility and fosters innovation, no matter where applications or data reside.
True multicloud success hinges on collaborating with vendor-neutral partners like Dell Technologies. Embracing multivendor diversity ensures a flexible and robust multicloud ecosystem, tailored to your business.
Operating in more cloud-like way in dedicated IT environments
Many organizations have data or workloads that cannot move to the public cloud but still desire a cloud-like experience within their dedicated IT setups.
Embracing an as-a-Service delivery model such as Dell Technologies’ APEX Subscriptions for dedicated IT infrastructure, you can bring the cloud experience on-premises.
For workloads requiring the flexibility to leverage Hyperscaler services, a cloud adjacent model combined with APEX offers the ideal solution. This approach places workloads within the same physical proximity as Hyperscalers, all while keeping your data securely anchored to your on-premises infrastructure.
You can streamline the lifecycle of traditional infrastructure, from deployment to support decommissioning, reduce IT workload, speed deployment, cut costs and help manage end-of-life assets more securely and sustainably.
Pay-per-use subscriptions like Dell Technologies’ APEX, align expenses with actual usage, avoiding the pitfalls of traditional procurement, such as over-provisioning or resource underutilization and lengthy deployments timelines.
These models offer the best of both worlds: the control and security of a private cloud paired with the agility and scalability of public cloud consumption. You can simply harness the benefits of cloud innovation while operating seamlessly within your data center or colocation.
Simple & robust data protection for multicloud
As organizations embrace hybrid and multicloud, the shortcomings and complexities of conventional data protection methods become apparent. In a time that 75% of businesses worry their current data protection strategies can’t keep up with the rising cyber threats[3], the demand for simpler, cloud-based data protection solutions has never been more evident.
A critical factor to address in this process is the lack of robust data protection offerings from most SaaS providers. This puts more pressure on IT teams, who are already grappling with the diverse demands of managing dispersed data across the enterprise.
Organizations seek robust, as-a-service options that are easy to deploy and manage while ensuring top-notch security for their critical data assets.
Dell Technologies’ APEX Protection Storage delivers simple, secure, flexible and efficient data protection for cloud and on-premises workloads, in a software-defined virtual appliance form factor. Based on Dell PowerProtect Data Domain, the #1 purpose-built backup appliance, you get industry-leading deduplication, scalability, reliability, performance and unparalleled data integrity to help ensure reliable recovery—all while supporting a broad ecosystem of backup and archive applications. Deploy Dell Technologies’ APEX Protection Storage in public cloud to protect your cloud native workloads, and on-premises to cost-effectively protect onsite applications.
Dell Technologies’ APEX Backup Services delivers a powerful, secure backup-as-a-service solution for seamless long-term data retention and built-in compliance automation. Through a single, streamlined console, you can efficiently manage SaaS applications, endpoints, and hybrid workloads with consistency and ease. Our offering provides robust, scalable, and on-demand data protection, with a low total cost of ownership. With Dell handling platform maintenance and continuous feature updates, there’s no infrastructure to manage, so you can deploy and start protecting your data within minutes.
Dell Technologies’ multicloud-by-design strategy redefines how organizations navigate, optimize and protect multicloud environments, ensuring the freedom to innovate without compromise. It paves the way for operational excellence across all IT environments.
[1] June 2024, State of Cloud Strategy Survey, commissioned by HashiCorp and conducted by Forrester Consulting.
[2] Oct 2022, IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Cloud 2023 Predictions.
[3] Oct 2023, Dell Technologies Innovation Index, commissioned by Dell Technologies and carried out by Vanson Bourne.
