Dell Launches OpenStack Infrastructure as a Service Cloud Solution

By Justin Lee,July 26, 2011

Dell OpenStack Cloud Solution integrates various hardware and software

(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- IT giant Dell (http://www.dell.com/) announced on Tuesday it has launched the Dell OpenStack Cloud Solution, a new cloud solution based on the OpenStack platform.

The solution comes four months after Dell, along with Equinix and Rackspace Hosting, first announced it was developing the OpenStack cloud demonstration and test environment.

The solution allows customers to integrate the OpenStack cloud operating system, cloud-optimized Dell PowerEdge C servers, the Dell-developed "Crowbar" OpenStack installer, and services from Dell and Rackspace Cloud Builders.

The Dell OpenStack Cloud Solution is designed to help customers quickly integrate, deploy and manage their IT resources in an OpenStack environment.

Tested, validated, and supported by Dell, the reference architecture is based on Dell PowerEdge C Series servers.

The solution incorporates Dell's Crowbar software framework, which manages the OpenStack deployment from the initial server boot to the configuration of the primary OpenStack components.

As a result, users are able to complete bare metal deployment of multi-node OpenStack clouds in a matter of hours, as opposed to days.

Once the initial deployment is complete, Crowbar can be used to maintain, expand, and architect the complete solution, including BIOS configuration, network discovery, status monitoring, performance data gathering, and alerting.

Dell has also released open source code for Crowbar to the community to enable users to build functionality to meet their specific system needs. It is working with the community to submit Crowbar as a core project in the OpenStack initiative.
Having been a member of the OpenStack community since its inception, Dell has worked closely with many key OpenStack partners, including Rackspace, Citrix, Opscode, Canonical, and Intel. Dell OpenStack Cloud Solution uses the current OpenStack release, Cactus.

With support for top public cloud application programming interfaces from Amazon and Rackspace, as well as extensive support for all of the major virtualization technologies from Citrix, Microsoft, and VMware, OpenStack and the Dell OpenStack Cloud Solution provide "all the components necessary to deliver a comprehensive cloud offering," according to the press release.

"Dell is an active participant in the OpenStack community because it brings our customers open APIs, capable practices for cloud operations, and affordable infrastructure," said Mark Linebaugh, vice president of next generation computing solutions at Dell. "Utilizing and integrating the efficiencies of the PowerEdge C line with optimized software, and tailored services, the Dell OpenStack Cloud Solution enables users to go from unboxing servers to running a usable OpenStack cloud in mere hours. The ability to quickly develop, deploy, and deliver open source cloud services can translate not only to lower costs, but also the flexibility to rapidly add new features and meet customer needs on demand."
The new OpenStack Cloud solution is just another component of Dell's aggressive cloud-focused strategy, which encompasses a $1 billion investment throughout the year to deliver new cloud services, technologies, and data centers.

  
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Dell to Acquire Data Center Networking Firm Force10 Networks

By Nicole Henderson,July 20, 2011

Force10's website notifies customers of Dell's intention to acquire the company

(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Dell (http://www.dell.com/) announced on Wednesday that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire data center networking provider Force10 Networks (http://www.force10networks.com/). Dell says it has had a successful partnership with Force10 for more than six years. The terms have not been released.
According to the press release, Force10's networking solutions will support Dell's data center portfolio and enable the company to offer its customers a broad range of enterprise offerings.

“Today’s datacenter networks are too complex and require too much manual intervention. What worked in the past is no longer viable in the virtual era,” Brad Anderson, senior vice president, Enterprise Solutions Group, Dell stated. “Dell’s approach of offering customers open, capable and affordable solutions aligns with Force10’s approach to offering customers new levels of flexibility, performance, scale and automation which is fundamental to changing the economics of data center networking.”

Dell says it has taken "significant steps" over the past few years to expand its enterprise portfolio. In May, Dell's president for Greater China and South Asia Amit Midha said Dell is interested in buying "everything around data centers."

Force10 is nearly a $200 million company, according to the press release. The company operates in more than 60 countries worldwide though it says 60 percent of its business is in North America.

“We are excited to work with Dell. Combining Dell’s global scale, reach and enterprise portfolio with our innovation in high-performance networking provides our customers the best end-to-end solution for today’s and tomorrow’s data centers,” Henry Wasik, chief executive officer, Force10 Networks said in a statement.

Dell says it is committed to maintaining and growing Force10's channel program in the same way it did with past acquisitions of Compellent and EqualLogic.

Founded in 1999, Force10 is headquartered in San Jose with research and development operations based in Silicon Valley. Dell says it plans to keep Force10’s existing operations in Chennai, India as well.

  
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Dell Opens its First Asia-Pacific Cloud Data Center in Shanghai

By Justin Lee, July 07, 2011

Dell's Lee Morgan and Alex Yung, and others at the launch of the company's new cloud data center

(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Technology giant Dell (http://www.blogger.com/News/www.dell.com) announced Wednesday it opened a data center in Shanghai in support of its cloud initiative, which it revealed earlier this year, according to a blog post on the company's website.
Marking the first of its kind for Dell in the Asia-Pacific and Japan regions, the data center will host public and private clouds and provide customers with off-premise application and storage services.
The cloud computing data center will also conduct research and development of reference architectures for services related to cloud technology.

In April, Dell revealed its plans to invest $1 billion over the next three years to deliver "solutions, services and cloud-based delivery options" to launch and sell cloud services.

At the time, Dell said that a part of this budget would go towards building multiple data centers around the world, as well as facilities to research cloud and virtualization technologies.

Last month, Dell opened a cloud data center in Ireland, and will open 12 additional cloud data centers this year, including in Paris, Tokyo, Sydney, New York and Sao Paulo.

The company also recently opened data centers in Singapore, Frankfurt, Washington, DC, Chicago and Austin.

Since it announced its entry into the cloud services market, Dell has been quickly building out its cloud software and hardware portfolio.

The company has already acquired 11 companies in the last two years. In May, Dell said it is looking to buy more companies to build this portfolio.

As a seller of servers designed for scale-out environments, Dell's cloud data centers can only help its chances of selling more servers and growing out its data center services.
Dell has already sold servers in the Chinese market for more than 10 years, but the company is currently trying to expand its enterprise business in the fast growing Chinese IT market.

The company said it will hire employees for the new cloud data center, but did not disclose an exact number.

 
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Dell Looks to Acquisitions to Expand Server Business

By Nicole Henderson,May 31, 2011  

An image of Dell's EqualLogic server from its website

(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Technology giant Dell (http://www.dell.com/) is looking to acquisitions to expand its server market, according to a report by Bloomberg.

According to the report, Amit Midha, Dell's president for Greater China and South Asia said on Tuesday that  Dell is interested in buying "everything around data centers."

"We want to continue to bring innovation through acquisitions," Midha said in a statement.

Earlier this year, Dell bought virtualized storage firm Compellent Technologies for about $960 million to build out its storage offerings.

The data center market apparently makes up half of Dell's profit, Bloomberg reports.

Recently, Dell entered the cloud hosting market with a plan to invest $1 billion this year on cloud services like email archiving and a hosted virtual desktop.

Midha says Dell has about 70 percent of the market for servers in the US, and 60 percent in China.

There has been an increase in demand from Chinese IT firms looking for servers for search-engine, e-commerce and social networking services, Midha says.

According to the report, China is Dell's largest market by revenue outside of the US.

The Wall Street Journal reports that Dell plans to spend approximately $100 billion in China over the next 10 years.

In April, Chinese-government owned server manufacturer Inspur launched its "smart cloud" container based cloud data center product. The modular container-based design has grown in popularity for cloud providers including HP, Sun Microsystems and Microsoft.

Recently, Singapore has been the focus of data center and Web hosting expansion. Specifically, Web hosting provider Tata Communications announced its plans to invest $357 million in Singapore over the next four years.

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