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With information technology at the heart of most every process in

organizations today, the opportunity for success and threat of failureride substantially on the proper leverage of IT. There is a team of players

in most organizations that have their own goals yet must work together

to ensure success. Cloud computing is seen by many as the key

strategy but there is substantial disagreement about the right approach.

Multiple players with conflicting goals

Each line of business manager is responsible for ultimate success

in achieving organizational goals. They must acquire and delight

customerswhether internal or externaland urgently needs to rely on

an evolving set of core capabilities enabled by IT.

Todays CIO must drive IT to become a source of innovation and

facilitation that enables the bigger organizational goals. The externalchallenge is to do this with legacy architectures that often have separate

silos of functionality that are inefficient and difficult to change.

Application development must rapidly design, test and deploy new

or enhanced application functionality and may want to leverage new

technology. They may perceive their infrastructure and operations

team as an impediment to progress and often look to external cloud

services instead.

Infrastructure & Operations is tasked with implementing, maintaining

and scaling infrastructure, and providing the right service levels while

staying on budget. Barriers include inefficient, complex manual processes

which are often the largest drain on productivity. Application developers

aligned with business units may be seen as undermining these efforts bypurchasing outsourced cloud services.

How to satisfy these multiple agendas?

Dell cloud solutions can overcome these barriers by providing

organizations with private cloud solutions implemented on dedicated

cloud infrastructure. These solutions are designed to seamlessly

connect with public cloud hosted by a service provider to attain hybrid

cloud flexibility. This can facilitate the right outcomes for your entire

organization by empowering workers through an application optimized

service-centric IT delivery platform.

The path to private cloud for todays data center starts with virtualizing

your information technology infrastructure including: servers, storage,

Dell private cloud solutions

Building a private cloud withDell will help your organization

empower users and customers

with the right service levels,

optimize application delivery

total cost of ownership, and

enable service-centric IT

that accelerates business

responsiveness.

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networking and clients. This enables resource abstraction

from the underlying hardware, and pooling of resources

for efficient utilization. The next step is to establish

software control of your virtualized infrastructure to enable

programmatic provisioning and configuration of the right

resources. Finally, implement policy-based automation to

optimize service delivery across the platform.

With this foundation of private cloud infrastructure built to

suit your applications, you can connect to a public cloud

provider hosting cloud services based on a compatiblecloud services layer to complete the transition to flexible

hybrid-cloud capability.

Dell provides an end-to-end cloud solution for building

your private cloud including:

Flexible modular portfolio of intelligent platform building

blocks

Heterogeneous management tools

Open options for implementation and leading

integration for each: Microsoft Cloud OS, VMware

vCloud, and OpenStackincluding the Dell Red Hat

OpenStack

Private Cloud Solution A complete line of services from design to

development, implementation and support

A robust community of cloud hosting partners that can

host private or public cloud infrastructure.

The Dell private cloud solution will provide an agile

and flexible platform as a foundation for delivering new

capabilities quickly to market. It can enable scaling those

services in response to market demands and timing.

It will help you achieve the lowest possible total cost of

ownership for infrastructure required to deliver critical

capabilities. And it will provide the right user experience

across devices and locations, minimize the risk of serviceinterruptions and minimize data loss with integrated

data protection.

Any cloud capability on your terms

As organizations plan the next phase of their Information

Technology strategy it is likely that they will consider

adopting a private cloud approach and may even adopt

a hybrid cloud solution for the ultimate flexibility. Dell

provides a complete end-to-end cloud solution featuring

hardware, software, and services that provides a great

on-ramp to the cloud. Dell takes a practical approach that

allows our customers to leverage existing investments,

apply cloud capabilities incrementally, and simplifymanagement of your cloudenabling Any Cloud

capability on your terms.

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