Cloud Data Storage

Combining the power of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) and Dell Technologies, Dell Technologies Cloud offers a suite of solutions that make it simpler and faster to deploy and manage hybrid cloud environments. This solution improves the hybrid cloud experience with a consistent operating model and infrastructure for easier management across public clouds, private clouds and edge locations. Dell Technologies Cloud includes a robust hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) platform in VxRail and cloud management/orchestration tools in VCF, giving IT teams control of a fully integrated cloud platform.

As part of this suite of solutions, Dell Technologies Cloud Validated Designs provides best-of-breed Dell Technologies Cloud data storage solutions that have been pre-tested and validated with VCF. Using storage technology through Validated Designs, organizations can bring cloud capabilities to demanding storage workloads, building their own hybrid cloud infrastructure with prescriptive building blocks. This Dell Technologies offering enables rapid time-to-value and improved performance with independent scaling of storage and compute. Validated Designs also enhances the enterprise’s ability to leverage existing investments for hybrid cloud environments

Cloud data storage solutions available through Dell Technologies Cloud Validated Designs include:

• Dell EMC PowerMax NVMe. With end-to-end NVMe, real-time machine learning, storage class memory for persistent storage and bandwidth up to 350 GB per second, PowerMax is the world’s fastest data storage array. This cloud storage solution is designed with a multi-controller, active/active scale-out architecture, with in-line, global de-dupe and compression features that add extreme efficiency to the data center. PowerMax makes it possible to consolidate block, file, mainframe and IBM i workloads and modern, real-time analytics apps on a single array. PowerMax also offers the gold standard in replication, six 9s availability and data-at-rest encryption that is FIPS 140-2 validated.
• Dell EMC Unity XT All-Flash and Hybrid Flash arrays. This midrange cloud data storage solution delivers unified storage speed and efficiency that’s designed for a multi-cloud world. With all-inclusive software, ultra-fast speed, optimized efficiency and multi-cloud enablement, Unity XT solutions are designed for performance, optimized for efficiency and built for hybrid cloud environments.

Dell Technologies also offers cloud-enabled infrastructure for storing and protecting data that seamlessly extend the data center to the cloud.

• CloudIQ provides health monitoring, insights and analytics to monitor, analyze and troubleshoot storage environments. 
• ClarityNow offers a unified view of all file and object storage on premises and in the cloud.
• Dell EMC Cloud Data Protection products simplify backup and recovery, protect workloads running in the cloud, and tier cloud storage for long-term retention.
• Dell EMC Unity Cloud Edition and Cloud Tiering Appliance lets IT deploy a virtual storage appliance in the cloud or automatically tier storage to the cloud.
• Dell EMC Isilon CloudPools software offers policy-based, automatic tiering that seamlessly integrates with the cloud as an additional storage tier for Isilon clusters.

What is cloud storage?

Cloud data storage is a technology for storing data in which data is transmitted via the Internet and stored on remote systems that may span multiple servers and locations. Cloud storage may be delivered by a service provider or installed on premises in a company’s own data center, or some combination of both.  

What is cloud object storage?

Cloud object storage is a format for storing data in the cloud, where data is managed as objects that contain data, metadata and a global identifier. Object storage is ideal for cloud applications because of its ability to scale massively and for its accessibility through common APIs. 

What is hybrid cloud storage?

Hybrid cloud storage is a way of managing cloud storage that relies on both on-premises and off-site storage resources. Hybrid cloud storage connects on-premises systems with cloud storage and can be managed as a single, homogenous storage solution.