Subscribe to your preferred on-premises infrastructure and services with ease
Dell APEX Infrastructure offers unmatched choice and consistency, enabling you to customize capabilities and services to fit your unique needs and achieve differentiated outcomes. Pay only for what you use each month, entirely on your terms. Experience exceptional simplicity, agility, and control with Dell APEX Infrastructure.
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Align costs with usage through a modern pay-per-use consumption model
Achieve greater cost efficiency and resource optimization with Dell APEX Infrastructure
Design Dell APEX Infrastructure in 3 easy steps
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Choose your technology
Select your choice of Server, Storage, Cyber Resilience, Cloud Platforms, Private Cloud and HCI Solutions. Configure capabilities to align with your unique requirements.
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Select your services
Deployment and support are required with Dell APEX Infrastructure. You can add additional infrastructure and managed services to support your people, processes, and workloads, ensuring your business needs are met.
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Pay for what you use
Gain financial flexibility by aligning expenses with actual usage rather than anticipated needs. Enjoy peace of mind with capped monthly billing at 85% of total installed capacity—an offer unmatched by other infrastructure providers.
Available with Dell Flex on Demand for Storage, Data Protection, and VxRail. Dark sites, non-metered deployments, and customers non-compliant with their contract terms are not eligible. 85% billing cap excludes servers.
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FAQs
What is Dell APEX Infrastructure?
Dell APEX Infrastructure is an as-a-Service solution that provides on-premises hardware, software and services with a flexible, pay-per-use consumption model. It delivers the agility of cloud experience while giving you the performance and control of infrastructure located in your own data center. This model helps you align IT spending directly with your actual resource usage or consumption.
How does the pay-per-use model for APEX Infrastructure work?
Dell deploys infrastructure with additional buffer capacity meters usage, and you are billed based on your committed capacity amount and buffer usage, which prevents over-provisioning and eliminates large up-front capital expenditures. This approach provides greater financial flexibility, more predictable IT spending and reduces risk.
What are the primary benefits of using Dell APEX Infrastructure?
The key benefits include greater cost efficiency by paying only for what you use, improved agility with faster resource deployment, and enhanced control over your on-premises environment. It also simplifies IT operations and can reduce unplanned downtime, enabling your team to focus on strategic initiatives.
How is APEX Infrastructure different from traditional IT procurement?
Unlike traditional procurement that requires large upfront capital investments and long purchasing cycles, APEX Infrastructure can shift IT spending to a more predictable operating expense (OpEx) model. It provides the agility to scale resources on demand, eliminating the risks of over-provisioning or under-provisioning associated with fixed capacity purchases.
Can I scale my infrastructure capacity with Dell APEX?
Yes, you can seamlessly scale capacity up or down to meet changing business demands. Dell provides pre-deployed buffer capacity, so when you need more resources, they are available almost instantly. This ensures your infrastructure can grow with your business without service interruptions or lengthy procurement processes.
What types of infrastructure are available through Dell APEX Infrastructure?
You can choose from a wide range of Dell's industry-leading technologies, including servers, storage, data protection, hyperconverged infrastructure and cyber resilient solutions. This enables you to customize your on-premises infrastructure to meet the specific performance and workload requirements of your organization.
What happens if my usage unexpectedly spikes?
Dell APEX Infrastructure is designed to handle usage spikes by providing buffer capacity that is installed and ready for immediate use. You can tap into this additional capacity as needed and pay for it as part of your monthly consumption. This enables business continuity without the risk of performance degradation during peak demand.
What kind of support and services are included?
Every Dell APEX Infrastructure subscription includes required deployment and support services to ensure your environment is set up correctly and runs smoothly. You can also add optional management and other services to further support your IT team, processes, and workloads for a complete solution.
How does APEX Infrastructure improve IT staff efficiency?
By offloading routine infrastructure management, monitoring, and maintenance tasks to Dell, APEX Infrastructure frees up your IT staff to focus on higher-value projects. The simplified, subscription-based model reduces the administrative burden of procurement and capacity planning, boosting overall team productivity.
Is Dell APEX Infrastructure a good fit for unpredictable workloads?
Yes, it is an ideal solution for managing unpredictable or fluctuating workloads. The pay-per-use model and scalable capacity enable you to match resources precisely to demand, avoiding the cost of idle infrastructure during slow periods while ensuring performance during peaks.
How does Dell APEX Infrastructure provide financial predictability?
APEX Infrastructure offers predictable monthly billing based on a consistent rate for your consumption, eliminating surprise overage fees. For products metered and billed on storage or memory usage, billing is capped at 85% of total installed capacity, providing a clear ceiling on your monthly expenses and giving you greater financial control.
How do I get started with designing a Dell APEX Infrastructure solution?
Getting started involves three simple steps: first, you choose the server, storage, or cyber resilient technology you need and configure it for your workloads. Next, you select the required deployment and support services. Finally, you transition to a pay-per-use model that aligns your IT costs with your actual usage.
Does APEX Infrastructure help reduce unplanned downtime?
Yes, Dell APEX Infrastructure can significantly reduce unplanned downtime. The solution is built on Dell's reliable hardware and includes proactive monitoring and support services that help identify and resolve potential issues before they impact your operations.
How does APEX Infrastructure compare to a public cloud solution?
APEX Infrastructure provides the commercial flexibility and agility of the public cloud but with the security, control, and performance of on-premises infrastructure. This is ideal for organizations that need to keep data and applications in their own data center due to regulatory, performance, or data sovereignty requirements.
What is the advantage of having pre-deployed buffer capacity?
Pre-deployed buffer capacity ensures that you can scale your infrastructure almost instantly without waiting for new hardware to be ordered, delivered, and installed. This agility allows your business to respond quickly to new opportunities or unexpected demand, providing a significant business advantage.