Dell Technologies Cloud is a suite of infrastructure solutions designed to make hybrid cloud environments and hybrid cloud storage easier to deploy and manage. With a portfolio of solutions designed for hybrid cloud, Dell Technologies offers a simpler and faster path to deployment of hybrid cloud environments. 

Dell Technologies Cloud includes a turnkey platform with Dell Technologies VxRail hardware and VMware Cloud Foundation software. This hybrid cloud solution also offers a fully managed, subscription-based Data Center-as-a-Service solution, and access to the world’s broadest cloud provider ecosystem. 

Additionally, Dell Technologies Cloud Validated Designs provides best-of-breed infrastructure from Dell Technologies that is interoperable with VMware Cloud Foundation and delivered as pre-tested designs with deployment guidance. These hybrid cloud storage solutions enable organizations to build their own infrastructure to meet the varied demands of hybrid workloads and storage in cloud environments. 

Dell Technologies hybrid cloud storage solutions with Validated Designs include:

• Dell EMC PowerMax. PowerMax is a game changer for hybrid and multi-cloud storage. As the world’s fastest data storage array, PowerMax offers true scale-out design, end-to-end NVMe and storage class memory for persistent storage. With PowerMax, IT teams can consolidate everything on a single array while meeting the highest levels of automation, data protection and AI/ML – along with six 9s availability in each array.
• Dell EMC Unity XT. Dell EMC Unity XT All-Flash and Hybrid Flash arrays set new standards for storage with compelling simplicity, blazing speed, all-inclusive software, optimized efficiency and hybrid cloud storage enablement. Ideal for the needs of resource-constrained IT professionals in large or small companies, Unity XT systems are designed for performance, optimized for efficiency and built for hybrid cloud environments.

Dell Technologies provides additional solutions for hybrid cloud storage that help unlock innovation and reduce complexity.

• Dell EMC Cloud Data Protection products protect workloads running in the cloud, manage backup and recovery to the cloud, and tier storage for long-term retention in the cloud.
• ClarityNow provides a unified view of all file and object storage on premises and in the cloud.
• Dell EMC Isilon CloudPools software automates tiering to seamlessly integrate the cloud as an additional storage tier for Isilon clusters.
• CloudIQ simplifies daily storage management tasks of monitoring, analyzing and troubleshooting storage environments. 
• Dell EMC Unity Cloud Edition and Cloud Tiering Appliance enable deployment of a virtual storage appliance in the cloud or automatic tiering of storage to the cloud.

What is cloud storage?

Cloud storage is a way of storing data that involves sending it via the Internet to remote servers where it is stored, managed, backed up and made available to users as needed. Data in cloud storage is stored in logical pools across a variety of commodity servers that may be located on an enterprise’s premises or in a remote data center managed by third-party. 

What is hybrid cloud storage?

Hybrid cloud storage is a storage architecture that connects on-premises storage systems to cloud storage, treating the entire architecture is a single storage system. Hybrid cloud storage enables IT teams to move data from on-premises systems to the cloud or vice versa in order to reduce costs, improve performance and address security, data sovereignty and latency concerns. 

What is cloud object storage?

Cloud object storage is a storage architecture that manages data as objects rather than files. An object contains data, metadata and a unique global identifier. Object storage is considered a better architecture for cloud applications because it is able to scale massively and can be accessed via common APIs.