Elastic Cloud Computing

Dell Technologies elastic cloud offerings have dramatically changed the way that enterprises conceive of consuming computing resources. Elastic cloud services enable IT teams to quickly and easily add or release processing, memory and storage resources as business needs require, while paying only for the resources they consume.

This fundamental transformation of enterprise computing offers enormous benefits.

• Easy scalability. With on-demand computing resources, IT teams can quickly provision the exact services and infrastructure they need to support the business.
• Reduced costs. Enterprises can reduce IT budgets by paying only for the resources they consume, and by avoiding the need for capital investments in IT infrastructure.
• Greater redundancy. With easy access to off-site computing resources, IT teams can take advantage of more flexible, reliable and affordable backup and recovery solutions.
• More capacity. Elastic cloud storage services provide virtually unlimited storage capacity.
• High availability. With the ability to add resources and redundancy as needed, it’s easy to avoid unnecessary slowdowns or service interruptions.
• Easier management. With cloud services, IT teams no longer need to worry about deploying, maintaining and upgrading individual pieces of IT infrastructure.
  
  

To take advantage of these benefits, many enterprises have adopted multiple cloud services, allowing specific workloads to run on the cloud resources that can deliver optimal performance and economics. But the need to manage multiple and diverse cloud solutions is taking its toll on IT teams. With no common infrastructure, operations or management experience among multiple cloud services, IT administrators can quickly be overwhelmed by the complexity of managing cloud architecture and migrating workloads between public, private and edge cloud resources.

The result is added cost, lost productivity and limits on the promise of innovation that brought enterprises to the cloud in the first place.

To move forward, enterprises need a solution that enables a true hybrid cloud infrastructure, where elastic public cloud resources, private cloud infrastructure and edge locations can be easily managed with a common set of tools and infrastructure. That’s why more enterprises today are turning to solutions from Dell Technologies.

Dell Technologies is the #1 ranked cloud infrastructure provider, delivering solutions that unlock innovation and reduce the complexity of cloud computing. With Dell Technologies, organizations can extend a consistent operating model across private and public clouds, creating a lasting multi-cloud strategy to unify environments and reduce risk across all elastic cloud resources.

Cloud offerings from Dell technologies include:

• Dell Technologies Cloud, a suite of cloud infrastructure solutions that simplify operations and improve cloud economics with a consistent management experience across public, private and edge cloud resources.
• Cloud-enabled infrastructure, providing data storage and data protection solutions that allow IT teams to align workloads with the right cloud and the right SLA for business requirements.
• Data Protection for cloud, multi-cloud and hybrid cloud, helping enterprises transform their data centers to enable greater operational efficiency, scalability and resiliency across all cloud infrastructure.
   

Dell Technologies Cloud combines the expertise of VMware and uses the expertise of Dell Technologies in a suite of cloud infrastructure solutions designed to simplify management of cloud environments. By providing a consistent operating model and simplified management across private cloud, public clouds and edge locations, Dell Technologies Cloud reduces the barriers to adoption of elastic cloud services and allows IT teams to let application and business requirements determine where workloads are run.

Dell Technologies Cloud includes:

• VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) on VxRail, a fully integrated hyperconverged infrastructure system jointly engineered by VMware and de-engineered by Dell Technologies, delivered as a turnkey option.
• Dell Technologies Cloud Data Center-as-a-Service, offering a fully managed subscription-based service for data center and edge locations.
• Dell Technologies Partner Clouds, providing support for all major cloud providers and more than 4,200 additional cloud partners.
• Dell Technologies Cloud Validated Designs, delivering Dell EMC best-of-breed storage, compute and networking resources that have been pre-tested for interoperability with VCF.
  

What is elastic cloud computing?

In cloud computing, elasticity is defined as "the degree to which a system is able to adapt to workload changes by provisioning and de-provisioning resources in an autonomic manner, such that at each point in time the available resources match the current demand as closely as possible".

What is Elastic Cloud Storage?

Elastic Cloud Storage (ECS) is the leading object-storage platform from Dell EMC. ECS supports both traditional and next-generation workloads and can be deployed as a software-defined model or as a turnkey appliance. ECS enables organizations to capture, store, protect and manage unstructured data at public cloud-like scale while managing it behind the enterprise firewall.