Dell EMC says that its turnkey hybrid cloud platform, 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. As organisations increasingly move towards hybrid cloud as an enabler for IT transformation and adopt hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) for mission critical workloads, Dell EMC EHC on VxRail Appliances allows organisations to start small and grow as their demand for hybrid cloud services expand.
“It’s clear that enterprises are moving to hybrid cloud models, and they’re looking for us to help simplify standing-up and managing these environments, which inevitably includes multiple cloud stacks, cross-cloud technologies and a combination of various off-premises and on-premises clouds,” said Chad Sakac, president, Dell EMC Converged Platforms and Solutions Division. “Hyper-converged infrastructure has quickly proven effective for core data center workloads and is becoming the answer for the on-premises part of hybrid cloud. Adding Dell EMC VxRail Appliances as an infrastructure option for Dell EMC Enterprise Hybrid Cloud helps us simplify hybrid cloud for smaller enterprises and a broader set of customers.”
The Dell EMC VxRail Appliance family of fully integrated, preconfigured and pre-tested HCI appliances offers the industry’s only HCI appliances powered by VMware vSAN™ and jointly engineered with VMware. Since VxRail Appliances launched a year ago today, Dell EMC has sold more than 8,000 VxRail nodes — exceeding 65 petabytes of storage and 100,000 cores — to more than 1,000 customers in dozens of industries across 78 countries.
According to IDC research, revenue from Dell Technologies’ HCI portfolio, including VxRail Appliances, VxRack Systems and XC Series, outgrew the total HCI market—one of the fastest growing IT markets — by more than two-fold and represents 28 per cent of hyper-converged systems sold in the third quarter of 2016.1
Dell EMC EHC on VxRail helps meet rising customer demands for an HCI-based turnkey hybrid cloud solution. Industry analyst and research firm 451 Research notes in a new report that three out of four hyper-converged deployments are in the core data center, and hybrid cloud is the next frontier for HCI.
Dell EMC Enterprise Hybrid Cloud on Dell EMC VxRail Appliances
Dell EMC EHC is delivered as a fully designed, integrated and tested engineered solution, enabling an IT organisation to deliver value to the business considerably faster than by building their own hybrid cloud infrastructure. EHC on VxRail Appliances offers customers a turnkey hybrid cloud optimised for deployments ranging from 200 to 1000 virtual machines, and:
• A platform optimised for smaller deployments, offering a cost-effective, smaller footprint with the flexibility to start small and grow 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 organisations to take advantage of the latest EHC enhancements.
