Hybrid Cloud Model

As enterprises have moved to the cloud over the past decade, they typically end up using multiple clouds, both public and private. Public clouds offer an incredible breadth of features and services and elastic capacity that allows for rapid application development. Public clouds also offer cost savings, as enterprises must pay only for the resources they consume and public clouds can scale easily to ensure high availability. 

On the other hand, private clouds excel in situations where low latency is critical, or where data sovereignty regulations necessitate specific location requirements. Private clouds can also offer cost savings on operations where capacity consumption is predictable, and many organizations prefer that certain workloads be kept on-premises because of policy, security or compliance requirements. 

As the capabilities of public and private clouds continue to evolve, application and data portability enable enterprises to continually choose the best cloud resource for a given workload. But to ensure seamless portability and the cohesive use of resources, organizations need a cloud platform that can deliver consistency across all environments, providing a common set of tools for managing policies, security, compliance and optimization. That’s where Dell Technologies Cloud provides enormous value.

Dell Technologies Cloud is a suite of enterprise cloud solutions combining the expertise of Dell Technologies and VMware to provide a consistent management experience across public clouds, private clouds and edge locations. This jointly engineered hybrid cloud solution includes robust hardware and software backed by professional and financial services that help enterprises mitigate the complexity of the hybrid cloud model and multi-cloud architecture.

Dell Technologies Cloud includes:

• VMware Cloud Foundation on VxRail, a turnkey platform for running, managing, automating and securing hybrid cloud infrastructure. This jointly engineered HCI system enables organizations to run traditional workloads alongside cloud-native, container-based applications for consistent and seamless operations.
• Dell Technologies Cloud Validated Designs, a collection of pre-tested infrastructure that comes with deployment guidance and enables enterprises to build hybrid cloud infrastructure with independent scaling of storage and compute resources.
• VMware Cloud on Dell Technologies, a fully managed Data Center-as-a-Service solution that delivers cloud-like ease of use for on-premises workloads. This solution also enables unparalleled consistency between local environments and public cloud environments.
• Support for partner clouds, including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure and more than 4,200 additional cloud providers, enabling enterprises to seamlessly extend the hybrid cloud experience.

By simplifying management of hybrid cloud computing with Dell Technologies Cloud, enterprises can:

• Achieve a consistent experience across all clouds. Dell Technologies Cloud helps to lower management overhead, increase efficiency of cloud processes and reduce risk by making it easier to enforce security policies across all hybrid cloud environments.
• Move quickly without disruption. Rather than facing prolonged and costly re-platforming efforts when moving to cloud, enterprises can easily embrace new cloud operating models without limiting innovation.
• Reduce costs with flexible pricing models. With tools to manage hybrid cloud environments more easily, IT teams can rely on flexible consumption and payment options for public, private and edge cloud resources, minimizing expense and creating cost predictability.
• Migrate to the cloud more easily. With pre-engineered and pre-tested infrastructure, IT teams can get up and running quickly while reducing TCO and minimizing risk.
• Deploy workloads to the ideal cloud environment. Dell Technologies Cloud enables easier workload mobility by allowing IT administrators to use familiar tools and models for application deployments and migrations.

What is a hybrid cloud model?

In cloud computing, a hybrid cloud consists of two or more public, private and edge clouds that are connected by a common management plane, with orchestration tools that enable data and application portability. 

What is multi-cloud architecture?

A multi-cloud architecture consists of two or more clouds that are essentially unconnected, where each public, private or edge cloud must be managed through a separate platform. 

What is hybrid cloud consistency?

Hybrid cloud consistency refers to the ability to use a common set of tools and a consistent management experience to orchestrate workloads on a hybrid cloud, rather than relying on multiple toolsets for each cloud resource.