Dell Technologies is doubling down on its optimistic Apex consumption-base-as-a-Service portfolio with two new launches, along with integrating more deeply with public cloud providers with the goal of delivering a true multi-cloud experience to customers.
Caitlin Gordon, Dell Technologies’ Vice President of product management said, “As we’ve evolved at Dell Technologies with this focus on as-a-service, the cloud and Apex, we’ve also seen the hyperscalers evolve in what they know they can deliver and what the value is that Dell Technologies can bring. “We are going to really double down and focus on the big themes of, ‘How do we deliver more software and services to our customers to simplify the experience? And how do we partner really strategically with a broad ecosystem of cloud partnerships like hyperscalers, ISVs like SAP, and data centre providers like Equinix?’.”
Dell’s new SaaS-based Apex Backup Services aims to provide simplified and secure cloud data protection that can be deployed in minutes and scaled on-demand. Apex Backup Services provides end-to-end scalable, secure data protection with centralized monitoring and management for SaaS applications, endpoints and hybrid workloads, including resilient security capabilities to protect against cyberattacks with instant detection, rapid response and accelerated recovery.
The Apex Multi-Cloud Data Services delivers storage, including file, block and object, as well as data protection as-a-Services with synchronic access to all major public clouds through a single console. Integrated with the Apex Console, the offer allows organizations to easily connect storage and data protection to preferred public clouds and services which helps avoid public cloud vendor lock-in, excessive egress fees and the cost and risk associated with moving data from one cloud to another.
Dell is also extending its storage portfolio with Project Alpine to deliver seamless storage across public clouds. Gordon added, “We are bringing our flagship block and file storage software to the major public clouds. Today, our flagship block and file storage platforms are predominantly consumed and purpose-built appliances. So, what we’re doing is we’re actually taking that software that runs on those appliances, we’re abstracting that from the underlying purpose-built hardware that it runs on today, to enable it to run on general-purpose instances in the cloud.”
