Cloud Computing

Hybrid cloud computing enables IT teams to deploy workloads across public, private and edge cloud platforms, choosing best-of-breed solutions that are optimal for business-critical workloads. Public clouds provide pay-as-you-go, on-demand cloud computing resources as well as access to new technologies like serverless computing and real-life time analytics. Private clouds offer advantages in security, data governance and data locality, while edge cloud platforms provide decentralized processing that can help reduce costs while providing low-latency experiences.

This hybrid approach to cloud computing offers benefits in application performance, cost savings, flexibility and scalability. But it also creates a management challenge: each cloud platform comes with its own tools and processes and requires a different set of skills. In addition to the time lost toggling between cloud platforms, managing multiple platforms can create more risk, increase the complexity of migrating workloads, raise operational costs, require new talent or additional training, reduce speed to market and inhibit innovation.

To reap the benefits of hybrid cloud computing infrastructure, organizations must control the chaos of a hybrid infrastructure by adopting solutions for consistent operation and infrastructure virtualization. That’s precisely what you’ll find with APEX.

For organizations seeking ways to cost-effectively combat the challenges of data management, Dell Technologies provides intelligent data systems that drastically reduce the cost and complexity of managing and protecting data. 

Intelligent data systems from Dell Technologies include:

• Data protection and backup appliances. Dell Technologies appliances include cloud-enabled protection storage, software-defined solutions and integrated appliances that dramatically simplify data management.

• Data protection and backup software. Next-generation data backup and protection software from Dell Technologies helps to protect data capital, simplify data management and unlock more value from business data assets.

• Data protection and backup solutions. Dell Technologies Cyber Recovery solutions help protect critical data, identify suspicious activity and perform data recovery when needed. Virtualization solutions provide protection for VMware environments and deliver higher performance, superior deduplication, lower bandwidth usage and a lower cost to protect. And Dell Technologies Cloud data management technology enables in-cloud backup, long-term retention to the cloud and cloud disaster recovery while ensuring greater cloud data security.

APEX includes: 

• VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) on VxRail, a turnkey solution that provides the simplest path to hybrid cloud infrastructure. This platform provides consistent infrastructure and operations and automated lifecycle management for the entire cloud infrastructure stack. 
• APEX Validated Designs, providing pre-tested, best-of-breed infrastructure that’s interoperable with VCF
• VMware Cloud on Dell, a fully managed Data Center-as-a-Service solution that provides robust on-premises Infrastructure-as-a-Service capabilities at core data center and edge locations. 
• Partner clouds, delivering a simple way to extend hybrid clouds to public cloud services like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure and 4,200 additional cloud partners.

What is cloud computing?

Cloud computing is an information technology model where on-demand computing resources (including networks, servers, storage, applications and services) are provided over the internet or a dedicated network, with payment based on usage.

What are the advantages of cloud computing?

Cloud computing enables IT teams to rapidly provision and release computing resources with minimal effort, increasing flexibility, reducing costs and allowing organizations to quickly scale up or down as needed.

What is hybrid cloud computing?

A hybrid cloud is a cloud environment that uses a combination of public, private and edge cloud resources. Hybrid cloud computing enables IT teams to choose the ideal cloud platform for each workload to improve application performance and reduce costs.