Dell Technologies unveiled new Dell APEX offerings across cloud platforms, public cloud storage software, client devices, and compute to create a multicloud by design experience. Dell has expanded APEX capabilities spanning data centers to public cloud and client devices. The new offerings enhance operations and innovation through improved management and mobility of applications and data.
Dell Technologies unveiled new Dell APEX offerings across cloud platforms, public cloud storage software, client devices, and compute to create a multicloud by design experience. Dell has expanded APEX capabilities spanning data centers to public cloud and client devices. The new offerings enhance operations and innovation through improved management and mobility of applications and data.
Dell has categorized it as a ground-to-cloud and cloud-to-ground strategy. Dell has also expanded the APEX as-a-Service and subscription portfolio by bringing that to the entire sales portfolio.
From a ground-to-cloud perspective, Dell has taken Project Alpine and made it a whole new catalog of products called APEX Storage for Public Cloud. Dell is taking its Storage-as-a-Service and moving it to the public cloud.
Dell APEX Cloud Platforms are a portfolio of fully integrated, turnkey systems integrating Dell infrastructure, software, and cloud operating stacks that deliver consistent multicloud operations by extending cloud operating models to on-premises
and edge environments.
Workloads can be placed in locations based on performance, cost, and security requirements with data mobility across a common multicloud storage layer. Data can be moved seamlessly between on-premises environments and Dell APEX Block Storage for Public Cloud deployments. The systems are designed to accelerate IT and developer productivity using familiar management tools and software-driven automated deployment and lifecycle management.
The cloud platforms, developed in collaboration with Microsoft, Red Hat, and VMware, include:
- Dell APEX Cloud Platform for Microsoft Azure enhances the Azure hybrid experience with full-stack software integration and automated lifecycle management through Microsoft native management tools and engineering collaboration between Dell and Microsoft. The platform is ideal for application modernization and delivers faster time to value of Azure based on Azure Arc-enabled infrastructure with consistent operations and governance across on-premises data centers, edge locations, and the Azure public cloud using Azure Arc.
- Dell APEX Cloud Platform for Red Hat OpenShift simplifies container-based application development and management, wherever applications are developed and deployed, through full stack software integration and automation with a hybrid cloud application platform powered by Kubernetes. Customers can run containers and virtual machines side by side, natively within Kubernetes, with a unified experience for a wide variety of workloads, including AI/ML and analytics, with broad GPU support across any hybrid cloud footprint. This offering represents engineering collaboration between Dell and Red Hat, using enterprise Kubernetes and backed by Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
- Dell APEX Cloud Platform for VMware gives customers the flexibility to deploy vSphere on a fully integrated system with highly scalable, high-performance Dell software-defined storage. This new offering joins Dell APEX Private Cloud and Dell APEX Hybrid Cloud within the broader Dell APEX portfolio to offer more choices for VMware customers on their multicloud journey.
Dell APEX Storage For Public Cloud Enriches The Public Cloud Experience
Delivering on the promise of Project Alpine, Dell brings the performance and advanced software capabilities of its industry-leading enterprise data storage to public clouds while delivering operational simplicity with a unified approach to Dell cloud storage and Kubernetes management.
Dell APEX Block Storage for Amazon Web Services (AWS), Dell APEX Block Storage for Microsoft Azure, and Dell APEX File Storage for AWS combines Dell’s enterprise-class storage performance, scalability, and cyber-resilience with public cloud
economics and services, such as analytics and artificial intelligence (AI).
Organizations can fine-tune their cloud strategies based on business needs, and maximize existing skillsets through advanced data mobility and management consistency between Dell on-premises storage and public clouds. This approach avoids the need to refactor applications and retrain staff.
Dell APEX Block Storage can rapidly expand performance and capacity for mission-critical workloads through a scale-out architecture. Increased resiliency is achieved by distributing data efficiently across multi-availability zones. Dell APEX File Storage delivers enterprise-class file performance and capabilities in the public cloud. Customers can support various performance-intensive workloads, including AI, machine learning, media and entertainment, and life sciences.
Dell APEX Protection Storage For Public Cloud
These offers join Dell APEX Protection Storage for Public Cloud as part of Dell’s portfolio of software-defined storage for public clouds. Dell APEX Protection Storage delivers industry-leading data protection storage for AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and Alibaba Cloud, with over 17 exabytes of data protected by Dell software in public clouds to date.
Dell APEX Console enhancements include new management, deployment, data mobility, and discovery software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings that make it easier for operations teams to maintain multicloud storage and Kubernetes clusters.
- Dell APEX Navigator for Multicloud Storage is SaaS that centralizes, simplifies, and secures management of Dell APEX Block and File Storage with easy configuration, automated deployment, storage monitoring, and data mobility
between on-premises and public cloud environments. This allows organizations to manage their multicloud estate consistently and securely at scale, optimizing workload placement to match their business needs. - Dell APEX Navigator for Kubernetes is SaaS that simplifies Kubernetes storage management, bringing advanced data services, such as data replication, application mobility, and observability, to containers with easily deployed and managed Dell Container Storage Modules.
PCs And Servers Get The Cloud Experience
Dell expands the Dell APEX portfolio to help users easily handle day-to-day IT operations, speed infrastructure deployment, control costs, and manage device takeback securely and sustainably through an as-a-Service experience.
- Dell APEX Compute delivers scalable, secure bare metal compute resources in a data center, edge environment, or colocation facility. Customers can support virtualized or container-based environments by installing the hypervisor
or operating system of their choice. Organizations will be able to meet their workload, and IT operations needs with scalable and secure compute resources available through a predictable monthly subscription. - Dell APEX PC-as-a-Service (PCaaS) helps companies simplify IT and deploy the latest client technology with predictable costs4 while freeing up capital to invest in modern employee experiences.5 Organizations can customize offerings across the entire PC portfolio with flexible one- to five-year terms and scaling up or down as needed. Early customers using Dell APEX PCaaS have reported 50 percent less help desk effort, 30 percent savings in support costs, and 50 percent less time spent onboarding employee devices.
Access to Databricks’ Lakehouse Platform Made Simple
To provide customers greater freedom to extract insights from data wherever it resides, Dell and Databricks have announced a new, multifaceted relationship to connect on-premises data in Dell’s enterprise storage platforms and the Databricks Lakehouse Platform.
Dell customers can connect Databricks in the public cloud with Dell object storage, on-premises or in a co-location facility, to analyze data in place, store results, and securely share it with third parties using Databricks’ Delta Sharing capabilities. Dell and Databricks are collaborating to jointly engineer more integrations to deliver a seamless experience for Dell object storage within the Databricks Lakehouse Platform.
Availability
- Dell APEX Cloud Platforms will be globally available starting in the second half of 2023.
- Dell APEX Block and File Storage for AWS are globally available now.
- Dell APEX Block Storage for Microsoft Azure will be globally available in the second half of 2023.
- Dell APEX Navigator for Multicloud Storage will be available in the United States with planned future geographic expansion during the second half of 2023.
- Dell APEX Navigator for Kubernetes will be available in the United States, United Kingdom, France, and Germany during the second half of 2023.
- Dell APEX PC-as-a-Service is available now in North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific.
- Dell APEX Compute is available now in North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific.
- Dell object storage and Databricks Lakehouse Platform connection are available today, with access to public cloud data coming soon.
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