Building on its portfolio of open, flexible solutions, Dell
today announced the expansion of key open source software and cloud
initiatives including packaged commercial offerings around the
OpenStack open source cloud project, the Hadoop open source big
data project, and the Dell-led Crowbar and Dasein open source
projects and communities, and new Cloud Transformation
Services.
OpenStack Cloud Solutions
To better enable customers to implement OpenStack in IT
environments, the Dell OpenStack-Powered Cloud Solution is now
available with new options. Specifically, the latest update of the
Dell OpenStack-Powered Cloud Solution offers OpenStack Grizzly
support, support for Dell Multi-Cloud Manager (formerly
Enstratius), and extended reference architecture support, including
the Dell PowerEdge C8000 shared infrastructure server solution,
high density drives, and 10Gb Ethernet connectivity.
Additionally, Dell now offers Dell Cloud Transformation
Services. The new consulting services provide
expert assistance with assessing, building, operating and
running cloud environments, and enable and accelerate enterprise
OpenStack adoption. Dell’s expertise spans the hybrid cloud
spectrum, with service options ranging from cloud readiness
assessment, infrastructure design and operations, and application
design and modernization. As a result, Dell customers can achieve
increased efficiency and greater realization of cloud computing’s
business benefits.
Hadoop Big Data Solutions
To streamline Hadoop deployments, the Dell Cloudera Hadoop
Solution now supports the newest version of Cloudera Enterprise.
Updates allow customers to perform real-time SQL interactive
queries and Hadoop-based batch processing, simplifying the process
of querying data in Hadoop environments.
To provide choice in Hadoop solutions for the enterprise, Dell
has tested and certified the Intel Distribution for Apache Hadoop
on Dell PowerEdge servers. Dell Solution Centers validated the
reference architecture and developed a technical whitepaper that
simplifies the deployment of Intel Distribution on the Dell
platform. From Dell Solution Centers worldwide, Dell helps
customers architect solutions and run proof of concepts at Dell to
enhance overall solution value and experience.
These updates come on the heels of two recent software
enhancements also designed to expand Dell’s support of customers’
Hadoop investments. The newest SharePlex release enables customers
to replicate Oracle data directly to Hadoop, while Kitenga
Analytics provides added functionality to help organizations better
understand and analyze data stored in Hadoop.
Dell-Led Open Source Projects
The latest release of the Crowbar operations platform enables
users to further streamline configuration, deployment and ongoing
management of their cloud and big data environments. Specifically,
Dell has released RAID and BIOS configuration capabilities to the
Crowbar open source community, completing Dell’s open source
contribution of Crowbar as a complete operational platform for
continued community development.
The Dell-led Crowbar open source project continues to evolve
with contributions from individual community members as well as key
technology players, such as SUSE. SUSE has integrated Crowbar
functionality as part of SUSE Cloud to make OpenStack-based private
cloud deployments seamless. SUSE Cloud 2.0 is currently in beta and
will be generally available in the fall. These contributions enable
customers of Dell and SUSE to benefit from broader adaptability and
increase the velocity of development in cloud environments.
Also available now are the Project Sputnik Cloud Launcher and
profile tool, and coming soon, a free trial on the Joyent
high-performance public cloud for those who purchase the Dell XPS
13 developer edition laptop. Project Sputnik, a client-to-cloud
platform for developers, is made up of three components: the cloud
launcher, profile tool, and the Ubuntu-based XPS 13 developer
edition. The profile tool is designed to provide access to a
library of community-created profiles, such as Ruby and JavaScript
on GitHub, and to configure and quickly set up development
environments and tool chains. The cloud launcher creates a seamless
link from the client to the cloud, to facilitate ongoing
development of application environments.
Dell also confirmed its commitment to further develop and
support the Dasein open source project, as pioneered by recently
acquired Enstratius. Dell continues to contribute heavily to
Dasein, keeping it relevant to various cloud platforms and
offerings within the industry, including the latest OpenStack
Grizzly release and the Dell Multi-Cloud Manager, to:
- Simplify sophisticated enterprise
management and reporting across more than 20 cloud
environments,
- Allow programmers to build applications
with a “write once, run against any cloud” philosophy using an open
source cloud abstraction library, and
- Enable cloud, commercial software and
enterprise IT organizations to use the Dasein library to develop
cloud operations and monitoring tools in a cloud-agnostic way that
promotes flexibility and limits vendor lock-in.
Supporting Quotes
“Crowbar is just one of the ways of Dell demonstrates our
commitment to open source, and the efforts that Intel and SUSE have
made with their contributions to the Crowbar project is a testament
to the progress the community has made,” said Joseph George,
director of Cloud and Big Data Solutions, Dell. “This level of
collaboration is exactly the model that Dell has sought to foster
with the Crowbar project – it is great to help this community grow
and thrive.”
“Dasein is the backbone of Dell Multi-Cloud Manager, and is
invaluable to users ranging from commercial software vendors to
individual developers,” said George Reese, executive director of
Cloud Computing, Dell. “Dell appreciates the unique approach Dasein
takes in abstracting infrastructure services, and is making a
significant investment in growing both its capabilities and its
community to build more flexible, cloud-agnostic solutions.”
“Datacenters everywhere are being transformed by the rapid
diffusion of innovations through open source, especially in Apache
Hadoop and OpenStack,” said Girish Juneja, general manager of Big
Data Software and CTO of the Datacenter Software Division at Intel.
“Our collaboration with Dell on the reference configuration for the
Intel Distribution for Apache Hadoop on Dell PowerEdge servers
streamlines the customer experience. And to simplify the deployment
of trusted compute pools solution in OpenStack, we collaborated
with Dell to enable Intel TXT in Crowbar.”
"Simplification of cloud deployment is critical to our
customers, and our collaboration with Dell on the Crowbar
installation framework was vital in delivering that
simplification,” said Gerald Pfeifer, director of product
management for SUSE. “Crowbar is a key element of our jointly
engineered enterprise offering, the Dell SUSE Cloud Solution,
Powered by OpenStack. Working together, Dell and SUSE are
accelerating enterprise OpenStack adoption with high-quality,
end-to-end private cloud solutions and services.”
“As one of the first strategic cloud infrastructure partners
selected by Dell, we continue to work closely together to offer our
combined customer base high-performance cloud infrastructure
solutions,” said Henry Wasik, President and CEO, Joyent. “With
Project Sputnik, Dell, Canonical and Joyent have joined forces to
create a powerful platform for developers who want to drive the
maximum value and performance that cloud computing can offer.”
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