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Bringing Infrastructure-as-a-Service to the data center

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solutions have enabled enterprises to innovate rapidly by scaling easily, reducing costs and increasing performance of business-critical infrastructure. But despite the benefits, provisioning Infrastructure-as-a-Service can’t address the requirements of every workload. To ensure security, data sovereignty and low latency, many enterprises are still investing in on-premises infrastructure and private clouds. The result is multicloud and hybrid cloud environments that make cloud computing significantly more costly and harder to manage.
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Dell APEX provides a solution – a portfolio of infrastructure-as-a-service solutions that simplify operations across a multi-cloud landscape. APEX makes it possible to deploy best-of-breed Dell software innovations in public clouds and extends the agility and cost-savings of modern cloud software to on-premises environments.

The advantages of Infrastructure-as-a-Service

Infrastructure-as-a-Service solutions provide enormous benefits for enterprises. Rather than making capital investments in hardware, storage, servers and the staff to maintain them, enterprises can quickly and easily provision IaaS resources whenever needed, paying only for the infrastructure services they consume. IaaS solutions enable organizations to:
Significantly reduce the expense of provisioning and maintaining infrastructure.
Improve business continuity and disaster recovery by ensuring that infrastructure is available after outages or disasters.
Accelerate speed to market by providing additional compute power and storage, provisioning virtual machines in minutes or hours rather than days or weeks.
Remain focused on growing the business, rather than maintaining IT infrastructure.
Scale up and down easily as demand peaks and ebbs.
Despite these benefits, many organizations are uncomfortable moving certain workloads to the cloud. On-premises infrastructure provides more security and control, especially over data sovereignty, and it may provide higher performance for workloads where low latency is critical. For organizations that want the benefits of cloud services with the control of on-premises infrastructure, Dell APEX can help.

Dell APEX Infrastructure-as-a-Service

To enable enterprises to better harness the benefits of the public cloud in on-premises environments, Dell APEX offers Infrastructure-as-a-Service solutions that extend cloud and container orchestration ecosystems to on-premises environments with modern cloud software on trusted Dell infrastructure.

Infrastructure-as-a-Service offerings from Dell

Dell APEX IaaS solutions include compute, storage, data protection and client device as-a-Service offerings.
Compute and HCI provide simple, on-premises cloud experiences with scalable compute resources as subscriptions. Dell APEX Private Cloud makes it easy to get started and to scale for VMware workloads across data center and edge locations, while Dell APEX Compute provides scalable, secure compute with bare metal.
Storage solutions elevate both public and private cloud storage capabilities. Dell APEX Storage for Private Cloud allows organizations to customize storage solutions with elastic file, block and backup target services. Dell APEX Storage for Public Cloud makes it easy to optimize data with enterprise-class block, file and protection storage.
Cyber & Data Protection safeguards business operations with a range of protection services. Dell APEX Backup Services scale on demand to simplify data protection. Dell APEX Data Storage Services Backup Target provides sufficient scale and secure backup storage. Dell APEX Cyber Recovery Services protect critical data in a convenient subscription service.
High Performance Computing provides a fully managed solution that lets IT teams stay focused on HPC workloads rather than deploying, monitoring, optimizing, supporting and decommissioning technology.
Client Device as-a-Service options include Dell APEX Managed Device Service, designed to shift the burden of day-to-day support and PC management away from overburdened IT teams. Dell APEX PC-as-a-Service offerings modernize IT departments with customizable software plans on top-rated Dell devices.

Benefits of Data Center Infrastructure-as-a-Service

With Infrastructure-as-a-Service offerings from APEX, enterprises can bring the benefits of public cloud to the data center, transferring best practices for management and security to all clouds and edge locations. With Dell APEX, organizations can:
Leverage the ease and agility of the cloud experience on-premises while retaining control over the IT environment.
Streamline the lifecycle of traditional infrastructure – from deployment to operations to decommissioning – while simplifying or offloading management of the technology stack.
Allow IT teams to dedicate more time to urgent priorities.
Enjoy a consistent management experience across on-premises and cloud environments.
Achieve the same on-premises functionality, performance and resiliency in public cloud environments by deploying best-of-breed Dell software innovations in public clouds.
Enhance data mobility and operational consistency across environments.
Decrease operating costs with a comprehensive range of hosting, outsourcing and application management services.

What is cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service?

Cloud infrastructure is the technology required to build a cloud and to offer cloud computing services. Cloud infrastructure includes hardware for compute, storage and networking as well as virtualization or abstraction technology that can manage a collection of diverse physical hardware as a single pool of resources and make them available to customers as a service.

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) enables companies to provision virtualized computing resources – including servers, storage and networking technology – through the Internet or a dedicated connection. IaaS solutions allow businesses to avoid the cost and complexity of provisioning and managing their own infrastructure. Instead, infrastructure is maintained and supported by third-party providers, enabling IT teams to remain focused on other priorities that can move the business forward.

IaaS is one of several types of cloud computing models – including Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) – that use the cloud as a service.

Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) is an IT model that provides developers with a cloud-based environment for developing, testing, running and managing applications. PaaS offerings provide best-of-breed tools without requiring capital expense for hardware and software.

The principal difference in IaaS vs PaaS is the scope of services. IaaS solutions provide access to a broad range of virtualized infrastructure, while PaaS offerings specifically provide access to platforms for developing applications. Another way of describing IaaS vs PaaS is that IaaS solutions are designed to give organizations more control over cloud systems, while PaaS is designed to give developers more flexibility and ease of use as they write software.

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