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Dell EMC Expands Broad Microsoft Support, Delivering New Innovations across Cloud and Converged Infrastructure
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News Highlights:
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New Microsoft Azure Cloud Services from Dell EMC help customers easily
adopt hybrid cloud, streamline operations and extend the functionality
of their IT infrastructure
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Dell EMC customers worldwide experience the positive benefits and
improved business results from the Dell EMC Hybrid Cloud System for
Microsoft (News - Alert)
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New Dell EMC Validated Systems for Microsoft Exchange and Validated
Systems for Microsoft SQL provide fast and flexible infrastructure for
business intelligence and collaboration
Full Story:
Dell EMC today announced broadened support of Microsoft environments
with new Microsoft Azure Services, Validated Systems for Microsoft
Exchange and SQL, as well as customer momentum for the Dell EMC Hybrid
Cloud System for Microsoft. The new services and validated systems can
enable customers to increase business agility, improve efficiencies and
lower costs with highly customizable hybrid cloud and infrastructure
solutions.
"For more than 30 years, Dell EMC and Microsoft have focused on
delivering best-in-class, innovative solutions that span the entire
Microsoft product portfolio to organizations all over the world," said
Jim Ganthier, senior vice president, Validated Solutions Organization,
Dell EMC Converged Platforms Solution Division. "Together, we are
working to both simplify and accelerate customers' journey to the cloud,
helping them build individualized cloud solutions that are
future-proofed for business and IT transformation."
Through this alliance, Dell EMC today announced availability of a new
suite of Azure
Cloud Services, which enables customers to easily adopt hybrid cloud
services, increasing efficiencies and extending the capabilities of
their IT infrastructure. These cloud services are hosted, managed and
delivered from Azure. Backed by Dell EMC enterprise-grade service level
agreements, 24/7 tech support and service health monitoring, customers
pay only for the services consumed and without long-term contracts. The
new services include:
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Azure Backup - a flexible, secure, scalable backup solution in
Microsoft's cloud management portfolio. With no capital investment and
consumption-based pricing, this service delivers significant cost
savings while protecting data running in virtual machines or on
physical servers, as well as in Azure.
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Azure Dev/Test Labs - a service that allows developers and
testers to create and provision Windows and Linux environments quickly
using reusable templates and pre-provisioned environments in Azure. As
a result, customers can minimize time and waste, control costs and
scale-up load testing efficiently.
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Azure Business Continuity Solution - utilizes multiple Azure
services delivered with Dell EMC consulting, provisioning, break/fix
support, and single-source pay-as-you-go billing. This solution brings
enterprise-class business continuity to small businesses by making it
accessible and radically simpler without having to design, build, or
maintain it on their own.
Dell EMC Hybrid Cloud System for Microsoft Gains Momentum (News - Alert), Help
Businesses to Simplify Cloud Delivery, Management and Scale
Since introduced
in October 2015, customers from financial services to technology
providers have selected the Dell
EMC Hybrid Cloud System (DHCS) for Microsoft to power their hybrid
cloud environments. These customers are benefiting from the industry's
first integrated, hybrid cloud solution that offers simplified,
automated deployment and maintenance capabilities and unparalleled
hybrid cloud governance, control, and policy-based automation for Azure
with an optional, unique payment solution to reduce investment risk:
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Glarner Kantonalbank, an innovative
digital Swiss bank, wanted to upgrade its already successful hybrid
cloud. Glarner Kantonalbank chose the DHCS, installed with the help of
Dell EMC Deployment Services, in the first rollout of its kind in
Europe. As a result, it can expand and become a full service provider
of digital services for other banks.
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CGI Group Inc.,
the fifth largest independent information technology and business
process services firm in the world, offers private cloud deployments
with a customized approach to meet clent requirements. With DHCS, the
company significantly improves time-to-value for clients by
simplifying deployments, reducing risks, and cutting deployment time
by up to 50 percent.
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PeeringOne,
a Malaysian-based cloud provider, needed to meet growing customer
demand for cloud services and guarantee reliability and performance.
The modular scale-out architecture of the DHCS enabled PeeringOne to
minimize capital expenditure and leverage cost savings to ensure
compelling customer price points.
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Pulsant, a UK-based cloud
hosting company, increasingly required a hybrid cloud based on
Microsoft technology. After running a successful proof of concept, the
company deployed two DHCS appliances and expects its new hybrid cloud
offerings to drive up to $2 million (US) in new business.
New Validated Systems Drive Business Intelligence and Collaboration
Efforts
Dell EMC's converged infrastructure leadership spans tested and
validated reference architectures, solution bundles, validated systems
and turnkey, fully engineered systems for a variety of use cases. The
Dell EMC converged infrastructure portfolio covers the "build" to "buy"
continuum, so customers can easily and effectively adopt key
technologies, such as flash, software-defined storage and scale-out
architectures, in industry leading offerings, purpose built for wherever
they are in their digital transformation journey. In support of its service-defined
infrastructure approach, Dell EMC today unveiled two additions to
its Validated
Systems portfolio:
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Dell EMC Validated System for Microsoft SQL is designed for superior
performance, significant cost savings and scalability for future
needs. It allows customers to process in-memory online transaction
processing (OLTP) workloads up
30 times faster with Microsoft SQL Server 2016, as well as
consolidate sprawling legacy databases with the latest Dell EMC PowerEdge
R830 servers for a modern data warehousing solution with
exceptional performance and total cost of ownership.
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The Dell
EMC Validated System for Microsoft Exchange is a pre-architected
and validated datacenter solution for email workloads. The highly
scalable system delivers faster time to value by shortening the
design, delivery and configuration time for Exchange Server 2016.
Designed for exceptional scalability, this converged system lowers
cost of ownership through resource consolidation, optimized storage
design and efficient system management built on the Dell EMC PowerEdge
R730xd server.
These new Dell EMC Validated Systems can be configured, quoted and
ordered in minutes, while lifecycle management tools allow customers to
easily deploy, scale and update systems.
Customer Quotes:
Mike Oreno, system administrator at ARIIX "With Microsoft
Azure Backup services from Dell EMC, we are saving more than 65 percent
compared to our previous solution. Rather than waiting for a report at
the end of the month, we can see exactly how much data was backed up
each night. This insight saves time and helps us be more proactive
supporting the business."
Ralf Luchsinger, chief information officer at Glarner Kantonalbank "We
estimate that the Dell EMC Hybrid Cloud System for Microsoft solution
will have paid for itself within a year as a result of the team being
able to take a lot of services back in-house that we'd previously
outsourced. Additionally, we can be creative rather than reactive with
our hybrid cloud from Dell EMC. We're in a good place to stay ahead of
the competition."
Dimitris Karabinis, solutions architect in CGI's (News - Alert) U.S. Global
Infrastructure Services and Onshore Delivery "The Dell Hybrid
Cloud System is helping us prepare for whatever the future may hold with
its extraordinary scalability and ease of installation. It enables us to
focus less on building and maintaining infrastructure and more on
delivering the high-value services our clients need going forward."
Wong Chee Voon, managing director at PeeringOne "We can
offer customers in Malaysia the full value of cloud IT for improving
business performance while reducing costs using our Dell EMC Hybrid
Cloud System for Microsoft. Since deploying the system, we have realized
120 percent sales increase through multiple cloud architectures and
maximized returns with implementation time cut by 80 percent."
Stuart Nielsen-Marsh, Microsoft cloud services product manager at
Pulsant "We are excited about the potential applications of the
Dell EMC Hybrid Cloud System for Microsoft. This is just the beginning
of an exciting journey into the hybrid cloud for us and our customers,
and we couldn't have better partners than Dell EMC and Microsoft on
board."
Partner Quote:
Aziz Benmalek, vice president, Worldwide Cloud and Hosting Services
at Microsoft "Dell and Microsoft have a long history of working
together to speed customers' journey to hybrid cloud. We are pleased to
extend our alliance with Dell EMC to help even more customers leverage
hybrid cloud on their terms with Microsoft Cloud Services."
Availability:
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Azure Backup, Azure Dev/Test Labs and Dell EMC Validated System for
Exchange are available today.
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Azure Business Continuity Solution has planned availability in October
2016.
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Dell EMC Validated System for Microsoft SQL has planned availability
in early 2017.
Additional Resources:
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Suite on the Microsoft Azure platform here
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Dell Unveils its Best Mobile Thin Clients Yet with Enterprise-Class
Performance and Security here
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Dell EMC Hybrid Cloud System for Microsoft web
page
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Microsoft Azure Cloud Services from Dell EMC web
page
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Dell EMC Validated System for Microsoft Exchange web
page
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About Dell EMC
Dell EMC, a part of Dell
Technologies, enables organizations to modernize, automate and
transform their data center using industry-leading converged
infrastructure, servers, storage and data protection technologies. This
provides a trusted foundation for businesses to transform IT, through
the creation of a hybrid cloud, and transform their business through the
creation of cloud-native applications and big data solutions. Dell EMC
services customers across 180 countries - including 98 percent of the
Fortune 500 - with the industry's most comprehensive and innovative
portfolio from edge to core to cloud.
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