Can Dell survive in the cloud era despite killing its public cloud offering?
June 10, 2013
Grazed from ComputerWeekly. Author: Archana Venkatraman.
Dell has ditched the public cloud IaaS [infrastructure as a service] offerings it built on the OpenStack platform and on VMware’s vCloud suite, in favour of converged infrastructure, private cloud and a cloud partner programme. But will the strategy help the troubled supplier secure a future in the cloud era?
At its Enterprise Forum 2013 event in San Jose, Dell made its biggest storage and server announcement in a long time, which included products such as VRTX, Active Infrastructure 1.1, modular datacentre, Dell Compellent SAN 6.4 and flash arrays…
The company also revealed it is deepening its alliance with Oracle for pre-integrated systems for datacentres and shared its converged infrastructure strategy. But there was not much about the public cloud at the event. Dell began building and beta-testing its Openstack-based public cloud and said it will be made available in the fourth quarter of 2013…
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