Dell’s downsized cloud ambitions might actually work out
May 24, 2013
Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: David Linthicum.
According to my friend Brandon Butler at Network World, "Dell has dramatically shifted its cloud computing strategy, canceling plans it once had to launch a public cloud service based on the OpenStack open source platform, and discontinuing an EMC VMware-based public cloud it already has on the market."
What is Dell going to do now? Give up on computing and move to agriculture? Go back to building computers in dorm rooms? Nope. The company will focus more on private clouds — OpenStack-flavored private clouds, to be exact…
Dell also said it has a new "partner ecosystem," with just three providers now. These partnerships will connect those partner public cloud services to Dell customers’ private clouds. Also, Dell will sell the technology it just purchased from the cloud management/governance company Enstratius. In addition, it will sell more Boomi, the integration-on-demand provider it purchased a few years ago. Beyond the tools it acquired and has partnered with, Dell has core enterprise relationships to bring to the table — and these could make all the difference…
Read more from the source @ http://www.infoworld.com/d/cloud-computing/dells-downsized-cloud-ambitions-might-actually-work-out-219216