Dell EMC Simplifies Hybrid Cloud Adoption with New Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Solution

Dell EMC Simplifies Hybrid Cloud Adoption with New Hyper-Converged
Infrastructure Solution

SINGAPORE – February 17, 2017

News Summary:

·         Dell EMC Enterprise Hybrid Cloud, expanded to include Dell EMC
VxRail hyper-converged infrastructure, offers a turnkey hybrid cloud optimized
for smaller enterprise deployments

·         VxRail Appliances demonstrate substantial customer adoption in the
first year with an unprecedented 8,000 nodes sold in more than 70 countries

·         The CSI Companies, College of the Ozarks and proALPHA Business
Solutions simplify their IT infrastructure with VxRail Appliances

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Dell EMC today announced
that its turnkey hybrid cloud platform, Dell EMC Enterprise Hybrid Cloud (EHC),
will be available for the first time on Dell EMC VxRail Appliances,
the company’s hyper-converged infrastructure offering that has seen substantial
market adoption since its launch one year ago. As organizations increasingly
move towards hybrid cloud as an enabler for IT transformation and adopt
hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) for mission critical workloads, Dell EMC
EHC on VxRail Appliances allows organizations to start small and grow as their
demand for hybrid cloud services expand.

“It’s clear that
enterprises are moving to hybrid cloud models, and they’re looking for us to
help simplify standing-up and managing these environments, which inevitably
includes multiple cloud stacks, cross-cloud technologies and a combination of
various off-premises and on-premises clouds,” said Chad Sakac, president, Dell
EMC Converged Platforms and Solutions Division. “Hyper-converged infrastructure
has quickly proven effective for core data center workloads and is becoming the
answer for the on-premises part of hybrid cloud. Adding Dell EMC VxRail
Appliances as an infrastructure option for Dell EMC Enterprise Hybrid Cloud
helps us simplify hybrid cloud for smaller enterprises and a broader set of
customers.”

“Since its launch last
year, we have seen a strong demand for VxRail Appliances in the Asia Pacific
region, as organizations are increasingly turning to hyper-converged
infrastructure for simplicity, agility and speed,” said Matt Oostveen, Chief
Technology Officer, Asia Pacific, Dell EMC Converged Platforms & Solutions.
“Seeking innovative new ways to test and deploy workloads, organizations in the
region are looking to hybrid cloud models as a way of achieving their IT and
business objectives. Coupling the Dell EMC Enterprise Hybrid Cloud platform
with the VxRail Appliance will help organizations reach these objectives by
simplifying the complexity of designing, building and maintaining their own
hybrid cloud.”

The Dell EMC VxRail Appliance family of fully integrated, preconfigured and pre-tested
HCI appliances offers the industry’s only HCI appliances powered by VMware
vSAN™ and jointly engineered with VMware. Since VxRail Appliances launched a
year ago today, Dell EMC has sold more than 8,000 VxRail nodes—exceeding 65
petabytes of storage and 100,000 cores—to more than 1,000 customers in dozens
of industries across 78 countries.

According to IDC
research, revenue from Dell Technologies’ HCI portfolio, including VxRail
Appliances, VxRack Systems and XC Series, outgrew the total HCI market—one of
the fastest growing IT markets—by more than two-fold and represents 28 percent
of hyper-converged systems sold in the third quarter of 2016.1

Dell EMC EHC on VxRail
helps meet rising customer demands for an HCI-based turnkey hybrid cloud
solution. Industry analyst and research firm 451 Research notes in a new report that three out of four hyper-converged deployments are in
the core data center, and hybrid cloud is the next frontier for HCI.

Dell EMC Enterprise
Hybrid Cloud on Dell EMC VxRail Appliances

Dell EMC EHC is
delivered as a fully designed, integrated and tested engineered solution, enabling
an IT organization to deliver value to the business considerably faster than by
building their own hybrid cloud infrastructure. EHC on VxRail Appliances offers
customers a turnkey hybrid cloud optimized for deployments ranging from 200 to
1000 virtual machines, and:

•       A platform optimized for smaller deployments, offering a cost-effective, smaller footprint with the
flexibility to start small and grow as requirements evolve.

•       Simplified, automated installations of the Enterprise Hybrid Cloud software stack on VxRail
Appliances that reduces deployment time, costs and risk.

•       Subscription-based support with
professional services that allows organizations to take advantage of the latest
EHC enhancements.

An Evaluator Group study, released today, demonstrates why hybrid cloud is the true end
state cloud model. The elastic economics of the public cloud (including Amazon
Web Services, Azure, Google Cloud Engine and others) are an excellent fit for
workloads that will scale in unknown or transient ways. As the report shows,
for workloads that will exist for years, simple, cost effective HCI platforms
can deliver a better TCO for the on-premises half of the hybrid cloud model.

Dell EMC VxRail
Appliances Customer Momentum

Dell EMC has
experienced strong customer demand for VxRail Appliances, exceeding
expectations and placing Dell EMC on track to be the industry’s top HCI
appliance provider. One year from its launch, VxRail Appliances have proven
that HCI is an excellent approach for mainstream IT as customers increasingly
use these systems for data center core applications.

For example, The CSI Companies, one of fastest growing US staffing firms, turned to VxRail
Appliances to run core applications supporting its quickly expanding business.
With VxRail, The CSI Companies simplified IT management and operations while
improving performance to offer employees faster access to applications and data
and reduce payroll processing time from hours overnight to only 15 minutes.

“Since implementing
the VxRail Appliance, our team has been able to focus less on routine
management, and more on delivering desired business value,” said Matt Greaves,
director of IT for The CSI Companies. “When we invested in the VxRail
Appliance, we were looking for a ‘wow’ factor. As soon as the implementation was
completed, we couldn’t believe the performance — how fast everything processed
and how crashes were completely eliminated.”

College
of the Ozarks, the Missouri-based liberal arts college, has deployed
VxRail Appliances to increase its overall IT system performance and reliability
in support of its faculty and students. The college’s IT staff has found that
VxRail’s simple management has freed-up time to work on other projects.

“Our Dell EMC VxRail
Appliances require much less administrative time and lets us deploy virtual
machines much more quickly than our previous, conventional IT infrastructure,”
said Frankie Youngblood, systems and security administrator, College of the
Ozarks. “VxRail simply works. It’s given us back time to work on IT services
and new applications to help our faculty and students, which is fundamentally
more valuable than time otherwise spent making sure our IT systems are running
smoothly every day.”

Global ERP software
vendor, proALPHA Business Solutions, powers its academy cloud platform with Dell
EMC VxRail. The new platform is simpler for the team to manage from its
headquarters in Germany and enables customers around the world to access its
online training programs much faster and easier in order to get more out of
their software solutions.

“Dell EMC VxRail
Appliances are a small, powerful way to accomplish our business needs,” said
Markus Gehm, cloud specialist, ProALPHA Business Solutions. “VxRail has enabled
us to transform the way we deliver training to our customers, allowing us to
deliver better service to customers at no increased cost to our business.”

Additional Quotes:

Henry Baltazar,
research director, 451 Research

“With the
hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) market growing relatively rapidly over the
last few years, Dell EMC has grown its own presence with last year’s
introduction and subsequent customer adoption of VxRail Appliances. As
customers are increasingly ramping-up their HCI deployments, hybrid cloud is
the next obvious destination. This makes the combination of Dell EMC Enterprise
Hybrid Cloud and VxRail a worthy solution for consideration.”

Yanbing Li, senior
vice president and general manager, Storage and Availability Business Unit,
VMware

“Dell EMC VxRail
Appliances, powered by VMware vSAN and vSphere®, provide a simple,
cost-effective hyper-converged solution that can help organizations support a
wide range of applications and workloads. The addition of VxRail Appliances as
a central infrastructure option for Enterprise Hybrid Cloud is a natural fit,
and we look forward to continued innovation with Dell EMC as we help customers
simplify their IT operations, while empowering them to lower capital and
operational costs.”

Jean-Noel Olivier,
deputy chief information officer, Bordeaux Métropole:

“Our Bordeaux
Métropole’s IT organization faced a challenge as France’s new urban Métropoles
model meant that IT departments from 14 major cities merged with their
respective smaller surrounding cities in 2015. We needed to unify our
workforce, operations and infrastructure and make the transition to an
effective service provider to meet a 2017 deadline for delivering responsive
government services and effectively serving all 750,000 citizens across the
Métropole. With great success, we turned to Dell EMC and its Enterprise Hybrid
Cloud, which has given us the opportunity to harmonize our processes and
consolidate 1,000 applications in a flexible and secure environment.”

DeMond Sullivan, chief
technology officer, Cumberland Group, a Dell EMC Channel Partner

“Dell EMC VxRail
Appliances have become increasingly intriguing as a market leading
hyper-converged infrastructure offering for customers struggling with the time
they spend on routine data center management when they know IT staff could be
providing higher value for their organizations. This is a perfect marriage of
the simplicity and value of VxRail Appliances with the turnkey, quick to deploy
and ease of management from Dell EMC Enterprise Hybrid Cloud platform. This
combination makes standing up a robust hybrid cloud even more accessible and
cost-effective for smaller and medium-sized enterprise deployments.”

Availability:

·         Dell EMC Enterprise Hybrid Cloud with Dell EMC VxRail Appliances
has planned general availability on March 31, 2017.

 1 Based on the IDC WW Quarterly Converged Systems Tracker, December 22, 2016.