Dell, Microsoft Partner on Windows Azure Appliance for Cloud 
Dell is teaming up with Microsoft Corp. to use the Windows Azure platform appliance as part of its Dell Services Cloud for designing and delivering cloud services. Dell SaaS’s, powered by Windows Azure appliance, will be a key brand and delivery vehicle for commercial cloud solutions, both companies said.
Dell is teaming up with Microsoft Corp. to use the Windows Azure platform appliance as part of its Dell Services Cloud for designing and delivering cloud services.
Dell SaaS’s, powered by Windows Azure appliance, will be a key brand and delivery vehicle for commercial cloud solutions, according to Peter Altabef, president, Dell Services.
- Dell will use the Windows Azure platform appliance to deliver private and public cloud services -- for its own use and for customers.
- Further, Dell and Microsoft will partner on development of a Dell-powered Windows Azure platform appliance for enterprise data centers,
“With the Microsoft partnership and the Windows Azure platform appliance, Dell is expanding its cloud services capabilities to help customers reduce their total costs and increase their ability to succeed,” Altabef said in a statement,
The cloud appliance partnership will power Dell’s platform-as-a-service (PaaS) cloud. With its deployment strategy, Dell PaaS powered by the Windows Azure platform appliance, Dell will offer customers more services, including cloud-based hosting services, and help users move applications more easily and rapidly to the cloud, he added.
“With the Microsoft partnership and the Windows Azure platform appliance, Dell is expanding its cloud services capabilities to help customers…”
Peter Altabef
President
Dell Services
Dell
“Microsoft and Dell have been building, implementing and operating massive cloud operations for years,” said Bob Muglia, president, Microsoft Server and Tools, in the statement. “Now we are extending our longstanding partnership to help usher in the new era of cloud computing, by giving customers and partners the ability to deploy Windows Azure platform in their datacenters.”
Dell Services will begin implementing the Windows Azure platform appliance and it will also provide advisory services, application migration, and integration and implementation services, according to both companies.
