Cloud Server

A cloud server is a virtual server that is operated in a cloud environment and accessed via the internet. Cloud servers provide the same functions as physical servers, but they offer several additional benefits.

• Ease of provisioning and maintenance. A cloud server can be provisioned far more quickly than physical servers, and the responsibility for managing and upgrading servers belongs to the service provider rather than an enterprise’s IT staff. 
• Cost-effectiveness. Cloud servers enable enterprises to avoid the capital costs of provisioning hardware and software on premises. And a cloud server saves money by allowing businesses to pay only for the resources they use. 
• Scalability. With a cloud server, enterprises have access to elastic cloud capacity for scaling up and down quickly and easily. 
• Integration. Cloud servers can be easily integrated with other infrastructure such as cloud networking and cloud storage.
  

Managing a single cloud server is not a significant challenge. But when multiple Cloud servers are combined with other cloud services and public, private and edge cloud environments, IT teams can quickly become overwhelmed by the difficulty of managing multi-cloud solutions. The task of cloud migration – critical to moving applications and workloads to the right Cloud resource – can stretch out to days, weeks or months as administrators are limited by unfamiliar tools and inconsistent infrastructure.

Dell Technologies Cloud is a suite of cloud solutions that make it easier to deploy and manage a hybrid cloud. Providing a single operational hub with a consistent operating model, Dell Technologies Cloud simplifies management of cloud servers, applications, storage, networking and other resources across public cloud, private cloud and edge locations.

Dell Technologies Cloud includes:

• A robust, hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) platform with cloud management/orchestration software and full stack integration, providing everything IT teams need to run, manage, automate and secure an application portfolio across multiple clouds
• Pre-tested, best-of-breed infrastructure from Dell Technologies that IT teams can used to build hybrid cloud infrastructure with independent scaling of storage and compute.
• Data Center-as-a-Service delivered as a fully managed, subscription-based service that brings the simplicity and agility of the public cloud to data center and edge locations.
• Partner Clouds, extending a seamless hybrid cloud experience to major providers like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and more than 4,200 additional cloud partners.

The foundation of Dell Technologies Cloud is an HCI platform, VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) on VxRail, and a set of software components, VCF, that greatly simplify deployment and lifecycle management of hybrid cloud. VCF provides a complete set of software-defined services for compute, storage, networking and cloud security, along with cloud management tools for running traditional or containerized enterprise apps in private or public cloud environments. Dell Technologies HCI platform can support the most demanding workloads and applications. Together, these technologies provide the simplicity, flexibility and economics of public cloud as well as the security, control and reliability of private cloud infrastructure.

What is a cloud server?

In cloud computing, a cloud server is a virtual server that provides a business with compute power delivered via the internet.  

What are the benefits of a cloud server?

A cloud server enables enterprises to avoid the capital expense and effort of provisioning, deploying, managing and upgrading physical servers on-premises. A cloud server provides compute power on-demand, enabling easy scalability as computing requirements change. With a cloud server, enterprises pay only for the resources they consume, helping to significantly reduce costs. 

What is cloud computing?
Cloud computing provides convenient, on-demand access to a shared pool of virtualized computing resources that can be provisioned quickly and accessed via the Internet or a dedicated network connection. Cloud computing enables businesses to access compute power, storage, networking and other IT technologies as-a-service, avoiding the need to provision physical infrastructure on-premises.