Dell demonstrates dedication to private cloud cause

Dell has launched a new Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) private cloud offering to build upon the success of its existing public and hybrid cloud services.

The new Dell Cloud Dedicated service is designed to meet the regulatory requirements of hosting highly sensitive data in the cloud by assigning individual servers to each customer.

However, the normal benefits associated with cloud computing, including scalability, rapid deployment and self service access will not suffer, Dell claimed.

"Dell Cloud Dedicated makes it simple for users to operate production workloads that would be limited to custom, on-premise deployment," said the company in a statement.

"Because there is no capital outlay required and the infrastructure is managed by Dell, organisations can quickly take advantage of private cloud computing as an extension of their data centre."

Dell Cloud Dedicated will be initially available to US customers, but the vendor has confirmed the expansion of its public and hybrid cloud offerings to the UK, France, Ireland and Mexico.

The VMware vCloud Datacentre Services based Dell Cloud will be available from September.

Nnamdi Orakwue, vice president for Infrastructure Cloud Services at Dell, said: “We continue to expand our cloud offerings and availability to help make sure that regardless of a customer’s requirements, Dell’s cloud services can meet their needs today and help them plan for the future.

“As part of Dell’s continuing efforts to build, operate, connect, deliver and simplify cloud solutions for customers we are making it easy for customers to access and adopt cloud solutions, and taking a big step into the private cloud space with Dell Cloud Dedicated.”