Dell EMC HCI gear pushes multi-cloud strategy
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Dell EMC will use its HCI systems when it bundles software to encourage multi-cloud environments and push adoption of the company's own multi-cloud strategy. LAS VEGAS -- Dell EMC demonstrated the growing strategic importance of its hyper-converged infrastructure systems business with products that piece together software-defined and multi-cloud strategies for IT shops. At its annual VMworld conference here, the company showed off its VxRack software-defined data center (SDDC), which now integrates with an updated version of VMware Cloud Foundation. A new configure-to-order service lets users better align a system with its workloads. VxRail is now preconfigured to serve as an IaaS platform and infrastructure platform for PaaS, and more efficiently architect and implement an SDDC with VMware's NSX and vRealize Suite. And Validated Designs for VxRail now supports distributed multi-availability zones architectures and multisite deployments with disaster recovery. Meanwhile, VMware unwrapped Cloud Assembly, a new SaaS-based cloud management software that will function as part of VMware Cloud Services. Further, the software integrates with VxRail. VxRail will be the first HCI appliance jointly developed by Dell and VMware to work with VMware Cloud Services, VMware execs said. Lastly, Dell EMC disclosed vSAN Ready Nodes support on its recently released PowerEdge MX server. This...
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