Dell Provides Infrastructure for Microsoft’s
New Cloud Computing Platform
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Dell Provides Hardware and Services for Windows®
Azure™
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Dell Custom-Designed Infrastructure Enables Microsoft to Speed
Deployment, Maximize Energy Efficiency and Minimize TCO
ROUND ROCK, Texas (Business Wire EON/PRWEB ) October 27, 2008 --
Dell
(NASDAQ:DELL) today announced that Microsoft
Corp. is working with Dell’s Data
Center Solutions (DCS) division to build-out and power Windows
Azure, Microsoft’s cloud services platform
hosted in Microsoft data centers.
The News:
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Microsoft
is working with Dell’s Data
Center Solutions (DCS) division to build-out and power Windows
Azure, Microsoft’s cloud services operating
system hosted in Microsoft data centers. Dell developed highly-customized
server platforms for Microsoft tailored to their physical
facility, operating processes and application workload:
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Dell’s supply-chain expertise and
manufacturing infrastructure enables the fast delivery of
custom-built, fully-configured rack solutions to support the rapid
growth of Windows Azure.
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Global scale, data center planning and deployment expertise and customized
services enable Microsoft to speed deployment, maximize energy
efficiency and minimize total cost of ownership.
Quotes:
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“Hyper-scale computing environments –
where infrastructure deployments are measured by up to millions of
servers, storage and networking equipment –
are changing the way organizations are thinking about their data
center requirements,” said Brad Anderson,
senior vice president, Dell’s Business
Product Group.
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“Today’s
announcement is another example of Dell’s
innovative approach of working with customers to design and build an
infrastructure fully optimized for their hyper-scale computing
environments,” said Forrest Norrod, vice
president and general manager of Dell’s
Data Center Solutions Division.
Additional Information:
Dell
Cloud Computing Solutions
Dell
Cloud Optimized Solutions
Dell’s
Designed-to-order Hardware
Dell
DCS Project Management
Dell
DCS Custom Services
Dell’s
In The Clouds Blog
Windows
Azure
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Microsoft
Professional Developers Conference
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