FireHost Teams With Dell For Secure Managed Private Cloud
February 6, 2015
Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Ericka Chickowski.
FireHost this week teamed up with Dell Services to roll out a converged infrastructure solution that brings together Dell compute and server hardware with FireHost’s cloud architecture to create a secure, single-tenant managed cloud. Known best for its security-focused public cloud platform, FireHost steps out with this move into the managed private cloud market for the first time.
"Our secure managed private cloud offering provides the channel with a physical, converged readymade rack that can be deployed on site," says John Funk, director of global partnering for FireHost. "By us offloading some of the security and compliance burden from customers through our secure managed service approach, the channel has a unique talking point and can position themselves more strategically in accounts as a partner who enables customers to scale toward other key business priorities."…
As Funk explains, putting certain workloads and data into off-premise, multi-tenant clouds is completely off the table for many organizations. The partnership’s resulting managed private cloud service is meant to especially help service the healthcare, government, financial and retail industries that are constrained by compliance and security concerns that wouldn’t allow them to take advantage of even the most bullet-proof public cloud services. By teaming up, FireHost will be joining the Dell Cloud Onsite Service and has provided the back-end capability to connect to the rest of FireHost’s multi-tenant infrastructure…
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