Dell Technologies has introduced its new APEX Cloud Platform for Microsoft Azure, designed to simplify hybrid/multicloud and help your customers innovate faster.
During this year’s Dell Technologies World, Dell took the wraps off its new platform in front of a packed house in Las Vegas. The announcement put the spotlight on a decades-long relationship with Microsoft as well as Azure’s position in the pantheon of top-tier public cloud platforms.
The timing is perfect for IT organizations. In a recent survey conducted by TechTarget’s Enterprise Strategy Group, 87% of respondents said their application environments would become distributed throughout a multicloud environment over the next two years. And 81% reported anticipating app and data portability challenges across locations, including data centers, the public cloud and the edge.
Now, as a Dell Technologies partner, you can empower your customers with a new slate of Azure-focused APEX tools to help them modernize, optimize and analyze better.
Dell’s new platform can help grow your own business, too. Adding APEX Cloud Platform for Microsoft Azure to your solution portfolio will better position you to win in the large and growing infrastructure/multicloud market.
Adding value with Dell APEX
Chances are, your customers are looking for innovations that will help them increase efficiency and lower costs. The collaboration between Dell and Microsoft may be just the innovation they’ve been waiting for.
Dell’s new APEX Cloud Platform for Microsoft Azure on-prem infrastructure platform optimizes the delivery of Azure hybrid cloud, simplifying management and governance across dispersed locations. By optimizing for both data center and edge deployments, Dell ensured that these new tools would be well-suited to a wide range of use cases.
For instance, the platform is designed to deliver a consistent Azure experience across dispersed locations and deployments. The new Dell APEX Cloud Platform Foundation Software provides deep integrations and automation that simplify initial deployment and ongoing operations through familiar Microsoft WAC and Azure Portal UIs.
The Dell APEX Cloud Platform for Microsoft Azure also helps enterprises unleash their application value by optimizing the delivery of developer-friendly Azure Arc-enabled services like AKS and others. And it delivers consistent security and governance by integrating with Azure management and governance services and ensuring continuous compliance with the entire infrastructure stack.
Give your customers a new way to focus on driving innovation from their Microsoft data estates. By deploying the Dell APEX Cloud Platform for Microsoft Azure, they’ll gain the facility to:
- Modernize Microsoft SQL environments to maintain a competitive edge. This holistic approach to modernizing Microsoft data platforms includes adopting Linux and containerization.
- Embrace Azure Hybrid Cloud for optimal data placement. By bringing Azure data services on-premises, your customers can simplify storage procurement, provisioning and management.
- Access and analyze to make better-informed decisions. APEX Cloud Platform for Microsoft Azure makes it easy to deploy and align component requirements to meet data ingestion and analytics needs.
- Deliver and optimize Azure hybrid cloud at Edge locations. The APEX Cloud Platform for Microsoft Azure is available in edge-friendly form factors and node configs that lower cost and complexity at the edge while simplifying governance with centralized Azure Arc.
The new Dell APEX Cloud Platform for Microsoft Azure provides innovative solutions for both data centers and the edge. By helping your customers deploy the platform, you can empower them to accelerate from ideas to innovation. To learn about more ways you can add value for your customers and grow your business, visit the Dell Partner Portal today.
