The newly formed Dell Data Center Solution Division has released its first offering, called Dell Cloud Computing Solution, to address the needs of businesses operating hyper-scale computing environments.
These environments typically require very efficient data centers with optimized components, and are critical to many businesses like major providers of goods and services over the Internet, financial services organizations, national government agencies, institutional university and laboratory environments and upstream petroleum producers.
In a press release, the company indicated that this solution is the next evolution of its traditional build-to-order model , with designed-to-order custom hardware and supporting services ultimately easing the task of IT infrastructure planning and management for large enterprise customers.
The company said that the solution combines its global presence, operational excellence, superior supply chain and engineering capabilities with custom hardware and services based on customers' unique current and future growth needs.
By optimizing the performance of customers' IT infrastructure for their specific applications, Dell hopes to eliminate the so-called "feature tax" often incurred by customers seeking to leverage general-purpose servers, storage, and networking equipment and services.
Key features of the customizable Dell Cloud Computing Solution include:
a) Capacity Planning for the Data Center - Dell assesses the business needs and requirements of each customer in the context of physical and logical limitations.
b) Designed-to-Order Hardware - Prototyping and building hardware solutions that are optimized for specific customer requirements.
c) Component Optimization - Dell engineers work at the component level to "right size" and optimize for performance and total cost of ownership, without delivering unnecessary components or features.
"The infrastructure requirements of Web 2.0 companies are distinctive and differ in many ways from the needs of traditional enterprise IT customers," said Matt Eastwood, program vice president for IDC's Enterprise Platforms Group. "Dell recognizes that these customers have unique compute density, power density and manageability needs and the Data Center Solutions Division has been created to offer this growing customer segment access to IT infrastructure solutions tailored for their unique business requirements."
"Businesses requiring hyper-scale computing environments - where infrastructure deployments are measured by up to millions of servers, storage and networking equipment - are changing the way they approach IT to drive revenue growth and decrease operational expenses," said Brad Anderson, senior vice president, Dell Product Group.
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