Dell and Google partner to expand cloud offering
Dell Technologies and Google Cloud launch Dell Technologies Cloud OneFS for Google Cloud to help organisations control data and application growth. As well as ease the flow of files across their private clouds and Google Cloud.
OneFS for Google Cloud delivers a native cloud experience. It combines Dell Technologies2, with Google Cloud’s analytics and compute services and will help organisations move and access computing and demanding workloads, “as large as 50 petabytes”.
According to a recent report from Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), while file data often accounts for at least half of an organisation’s on-premises data, very little of it is stored in public clouds, primarily due to performance and scale limitations.
Deepak Patil, senior vice president and general manager, Cloud Platforms and Solutions at Dell Technologies said, data and workloads exist everywhere – at the edge, in core data centres and public clouds.
“While data and apps are multiplying, IT resources and budgets are not. For companies to turn their data into competitive differentiators, they need a way to manage it seamlessly and consistently, no matter where it resides,” he said.
Matt Eastwood senior vice president enterprise infrastructure, Cloud, developers, and alliances at IDC said businesses acknowledge they need both public and private clouds as the technology foundation to deliver much needed agility, scale and speed.
“What’s important is not to push one cloud or infrastructure approach over another, but to provide simple, consistent operations across all,” he said.
For organisations like Translational Genomics Research Institute it makes sense to have hybrid cloud technology, said James Lowey, chief information officer at the non-profit organisation.
“We’re keenly aware of is that our patients don’t have the luxury of time,” he said. “It’s really important to take our workflows and be able to compute against the data where it lies.”
In taking a hybrid approach, the Institute can have these cloud native workflows and run them on internal resources and private and public clouds.
“We moved our entire high-performance computing infrastructure to an [Dell EMC] Isilon storage foundation,” he said. Having OneFS in Google’s cloud allows us to take the data from our private cloud in our high-performance computing lab into the public cloud.”
Dell is also reducing the barrier of entry and improving overall capabilities for hybrid cloud deployments with additional Dell Technologies Cloud advancements.
Dell Financial Services has also released the Payment Flexibility Program to help customers manage cash flow, and preserve capital. The zero per cent interest rate program extends to Dell Technologies Cloud customers and requires no up-front payment and provides up to a 180-day payment holiday.
