Dell EMC EHC simplifies adoption of hybrid cloud

Dell EMC Enterprise Hybrid Cloud has expanded to include Dell EMC VxRail hyper-converged infrastructure. It offers a turnkey hybrid cloud optimized for deployments across enterprises of all sizes. Throwing more light on this, Anshuman Rai, Director Sales, Converged Platform & Solutions Division (CPSD) - Dell EMC speaks to VARINDIA on availability of Enterprise Hybrid Cloud (EHC) on VxRail, the business benefits that customers can drive from it and how it can be an enabler in the modernization of data centers -  

Many organizations are looking for ways to drive more business value, redefine their business models, and build an enhanced customer experience in an increasingly digital world. A hybrid cloud helps organizations innovate rapidly while still delivering enterprise-grade performance, resiliency, and security.

Dell EMC Enterprise Hybrid Cloud delivers on this by combining the control, reliability and confidence of private cloud with the simplicity, flexibility, and cost efficiency of public clouds to transform delivery of IT services. A one-of-kind hybrid-cloud platform, Dell EMC Enterprise Hybrid Cloud delivers automated infrastructure services for traditional enterprise applications across private and public clouds with greater speed, scalability, and agility while reducing costs and minimizing risks.

Dell EMC Enterprise Hybrid Cloud (EHC) will be available for the first time on Dell EMC VxRail Appliances, the company’s hyper-converged infrastructure offering that has seen substantial market adoption since its launch a year ago. With EHC on VxRail, organizations of all sizes get –

•    A platform optimized for easy deployments, offering a cost-effective, smaller footprint with the flexibility to scale out as requirements evolve.
•    Simplified, automated installations of the Enterprise Hybrid Cloud software stack on VxRail Appliances that reduces deployment time, costs and risk.
•    Subscription-based support with professional services that allows organizations to take advantage of the latest EHC enhancements.

“Dell EMC Enterprise Hybrid Cloud, expanded to include Dell EMC VxRail hyper-converged infrastructure, reduces the entry point for a turnkey hybrid cloud optimized for deployments across enterprises. It extends the value of the VMware SDDC by offering a rich set of workflows such as backup, encryption and database-as-a-service plus integrations with applications from industry leading suppliers like Pivotal, Puppet, and Servicenow. It is built and sustained as one hardware and software stack, with full version control to simplify life cycle management. It reduces our customers’ support burden by offering one-call support for the entire hardware-software stack,” says Anshuman Rai, Director Sales, Converged Platform & Solutions Division (CPSD) - Dell EMC.
Demand for HCI on a higher side…

Digital transformation is the need for all organizations to stay relevant in their markets. It needs modernization of data centres with simplicity. Hyper Converged appliances are the fastest way to modernize data centres as they come packed with technologies like software defined, Scale out, cloud and flashand they are packed with many data protection options. Industry experts are projecting that 30% of traditional storage will move to HCI.

“Dell EMC has experienced strong customer demand for HCI Appliances, exceeding expectations and positioning Dell EMC to be the industry’s top HCI appliance provider. We have the most comprehensive portfolio of HCI solutions catering to each customer segment and every workload. We are seeing a higher double digit growth in business in India. VxRail, an HCI solution, jointly engineered with VMware, was launched early last year and within a year Dell EMC’s VxRail Appliances demonstrated substantial customer adoption with over 120 nodes being sold in India,” explains Anshuman.

The demand for Dell EMC Enterprise Hybrid Cloud is across workloads and verticals. Dell EMC has customers ranging from manufacturing to BFSI to IT-ITES and airlines. The key used cases are around VDI, private cloud and even analytics.
And so…

Designed, tested, and integrated by Dell EMC, it is a one-of-kind hybrid cloud platform with automated workflows and application blueprints. The Enterprise Hybrid Cloud is built on Dell EMC converged and hyper-converged infrastructures providing enterprises of all sizes with flexible deployment choices as the foundation for infrastructure-as-a-service. Organizations can now deliver IT-as-a-Service to meet their specific business needs with add-on options for data protection, VM encryption, Microsoft workloads, application life cycle automation for continuous delivery, ecosystem extensions, and more. IT can start delivering value to the business two times faster with Enterprise Hybrid Cloud than by building your own IT-as-a-Service platform. 

With VMware cloud foundation, Dell EMC Enterprise Hybrid Cloud solution is the most feature rich and easy to use platform in the market. On top of this its single ownership of the solution makes the customer experience seamless.