New Paths to Microsoft Hybrid Cloud with Dell EMC

Microsoft is hosting its annual Home windows Server Summit - an online event that people encourage you to definitely join wherever you might be!  One of the leading styles is “Innovations in Microsoft Hybrid Strategy: an in-depth dive into Microsoft’s hyper-converged technologies and the way to add hybrid services from Azure.”

Among Microsoft’s greatest partners, Dell EMC has collaborated with Microsoft to build up hybrid solutions for a long time. Our Azure-dedicated portfolio today includes support for Azure Stack and Azure Stack HCI.  Azure Stack, extra time of Azure on-premises that may operate on Dell EMC hyperconverged engineered systems, enables users to consistently build and run cloud applications anywhere over the Azure ecosystem, while using Azure Portal with Azure IaaS and PaaS services. With Azure Stack HCI, a BYO on-prem private cloud solution, users can run virtualized workloads inside a familiar and versatile way - however with the efficiency of Dell EMC hyperconverged infrastructure - and fasten to Azure public for hybrid scenarios for example cloud backup and cloud-based monitoring.

Both of these different choices provide our joint customers having the ability to select how they acquire a hybrid cloud atmosphere in Azure that addresses their own goals. Today we’re very happy to announce that Dell EMC has expanded our Azure Stack HCI portfolio with Storage Spaces Direct Ready Nodes supporting Home windows Server 2019.

This latest offering leverages the Home windows Server Datacenter license to supply software defined storage, using Hyper-V virtualization lower towards the storage level.  These multi-node clusters provide economical volumes rich in performance and occasional latency, using common management tools.  Additionally to the previous 15 use situation-driven configurations under WSSD, Dell EMC has added:

• Home windows Server 2019 to any or all 15 configurations, offering more choice and expandability
• Our recently released storage dense PowerEdge R740xd2 like a new chassis platform, permitting more demanding workloads
• QuickStart - a 4 node, 2 switch configuration that’s a simple to buy and deploy, finish-to-finish high availability solution
• Dell EMC PowerSwitch 25GbE networking to improve throughput
• A brand new upgrade service, taking customers from existing Storage Spaces Direct Ready Node architectures to Home windows Server 2019 with ongoing support entitlement
• Integrated and unified systems management using the OpenManage Integration 7.1.1 for Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager that simplifies cluster creation and maintenance tasks

2019 has additionally been a large year for Dell EMC Cloud for Microsoft Azure Stack as we’ve released several inclusions in our platform:

• In March, we announced Dell EMC’s Tactical Azure Stack to create Azure-based services in the cloud towards the edge. This ruggedized form of Azure Stack offers an Azure-consistent cloud inside a harsh, mobile, or forward-deployed atmosphere.
• Today, we’re announcing Azure Stack has become on our PowerEdge R840 platform. Being an all-flash system, it's a four-socket server validated and tested for Microsoft’s hybrid cloud solution.  Designed and configured to aid high end and knowledge-intensive workloads in Azure Stack environments, the R840 enables people to leverage the utmost amounts of computing sources and SSD capacity obtainable in a 2U footprint.
• We’re also excited to announce we currently provide a metered usage consumption model for Azure Stack infrastructure, with Flex when needed from Dell Financial Services. This measured service capacity aligns using the OPEX type consumption model that buyers desire.

Dell EMC includes a lengthy good reputation for co-engineering with Microsoft which new enhancements further strengthen our joint portfolio across hyperconverged infrastructure and hybrid cloud solutions. By cooperating to provide innovative services faster and much more frequently, we are able to be a real partner of change for the customers within this Digital Transformation era.