Dell CloudRunner Offers Marketplace of SMB Cloud Apps

July 21, 2015 Off By David
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Grazed from TheVarGuy. Author: Charlene OHanlon.

Dell is hoping its new cloud marketplace offering will ease the transition for solution providers looking to enter the cloud fray. Through a partnership with IT-as-a-service provider CloudRunner—and with support from Microsoft (MSFT)—Dell has created the CloudRunner offering, which provides a platform of services accessible on all types of devices at any time.

Aimed mostly at the SMB space in the healthcare, financial services and legal verticals, CloudRunner aggregates all the necessary business apps along with enterprise-grade security and compliance in one monthly subscription pricing model. “The SMB market changed overnight, empowering SMBs to no longer have to worry about IT,” said Darrin Swan, director of Worldwide Sales and Business Development, Dell Service Provider Program…

“Service providers now can be a part of that, creating a cloud platform under their own brand. We give them a marketplace featuring the line-of-business apps they need in a cloud-based environment, a billing system … everything they need to be a cloud service provider.”…

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