Cloud Computing Services

The remarkable growth of cloud computing services enables enterprises today to work with multiple providers as they seek the optimal cloud resources and cost flexibility for running specific workloads. By aligning the needs of applications and requirements of the business with the advantages of different cloud offerings, IT teams can improve application efficiency and performance while reducing costs and accessing new services like containers, serverless technologies, data analytics and AI/ML platforms.

While working with multiple cloud computing services offer tremendous benefits, it also adds additional complexity. Each cloud service and cloud platform comes with its own set of tools, different SLAs, inconsistent security postures and unpredictable costs. Managing multiple cloud computing services can result in a higher operational expenses and incompatible silos of infrastructure and ultimately may prove ineffective at scale. As a result, enterprises may have a harder time achieving the levels of innovation that originally spurred their move to the cloud.

To solve this challenge, many organizations are moving from a multicloud architecture to a hybrid cloud model. While multicloud solutions provide access to a cloud computing services with no means for connecting them, a hybrid cloud unifies public, private and edge cloud resources with a consistent management experience for orchestrating workloads across clouds more easily.

The key to benefiting from a hybrid cloud is to choose a partner with solutions that can simplify deployment and management of hybrid cloud infrastructure. That’s where Dell Technologies can help.

APEX uses the expertise of Dell Technologies to provide a simple and secure path for enterprises to adopt hybrid cloud infrastructure. This jointly engineered solution provides a consistent operating model and simplified management across private clouds, public clouds and edge locations, reducing the cloud and complexity of multiple clouds and allowing application and business requirements to determine which cloud resources and cloud computing services are ideal for each workload.

APEX includes:
• VMware Cloud Foundation on VxRail(VCF) , a fully integrated Dell Technologies HCI system that’s jointly engineered with VMware and delivered as a turnkey option.
• VMware Cloud on Dell Technologies, a Data Center-as-a-Service that’s offered as a fully managed, subscription-based service for data center and edge locations.
• APEX Validated Designs, a collection of best-of-breed Dell Technologies storage, compute and networking resources that are pre-tested for interoperability with VMware Cloud Foundation.
• Dell Technologies partner clouds with support for more than 4,200 major cloud providers, including AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform.

When managing hybrid cloud computing services with APEX, enterprises can:
• Simplify management and operations with a common set of tools and consistent infrastructure.
• Optimize costs with flexible hybrid pricing models.
• Align workloads with the right cloud computing services and an optimal mix of public, private and edge cloud resources.
• Simplify migration by leveraging pre-engineered solutions.
• Enforce security policies across all IT environments and maintain visibility and control over applications and data.
• Accelerate innovation with access to elastic capacity for rapid scale up and scale down.

What are cloud computing services?
Cloud computing services are highly scalable hardware and software resources that can be accessed via the Internet. Cloud computing services include everything from infrastructure (servers, storage and networking) to applications, databases, analytics, intelligence, software development platforms and more.

What is IaaS vs PaaS vs SaaS?
Cloud computing services generally fall into three buckets: Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). IaaS offerings provide computing infrastructure like virtualization, servers, storage and networking. PaaS solutions provide a platform for developing, testing and deploying applications. And SaaS offerings provide applications that can be accessed via a web browser.