Dell updates private cloud to become PCI compliant
October 1, 2013
Grazed from NetworkWorld. Author: Brandon Butler.
Looking to solidify its refocused efforts on private cloud platforms, Dell today rolled out new features to improve security and manageability of its offerings. Dell now offers a payment card industry (PCI)-compliant cloud computing service. It also rolled out a new choice that allows customers to rent Dell-owned and operated hardware in their data centers. Dell is also expanding its cloud-based applications, adding a disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) option.
The moves come months after Dell announced plans to refocus its cloud computing strategy more on its private cloud business, instead of the public cloud market. The company had been developing an OpenStack-powered public cloud, but it halted those development efforts to focus on private and managed clouds this summer…
Jeremy Ford, Dell’s executive director for cloud services, says that today’s moves fall in line with the company’s philosophy of offering customers choice. Dell offers customers everything from a range of private cloud offerings based on VMware, OpenStack or even Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisors…
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