To accelerate adoption of open source
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Dell today announced the availability of
the Dell OpenStack-Powered Cloud Solution offering – an open source, on-premise
cloud solution based on the OpenStack platform, running on Ubuntu—to select
regions in Europe and Asia. Customers in these geographies seeking alternatives
to existing cloud options based on proprietary, licensed software models can
now utilize the Dell OpenStack-Powered Cloud Solution, which integrates the
OpenStack cloud operating system, cloud-optimized Dell PowerEdge C servers, the
Dell-developed Crowbar deployment and management software framework, and
award-winning services from Dell. John Igoe, Executive Director of Cloud and
Big Data Solutions for Dell, will be presenting at World
Hosting Days today and sharing further details on the company’s news.
The Dell OpenStack-Powered Cloud Solution comes with an OpenStack-optimized
reference architecture designed to help customers quickly integrate, deploy and
manage their IT resources in an open source cloud environment. Tested,
validated, and supported by Dell, the reference architecture is based on Dell
PowerEdge C Series servers—comprised of the C6100, C6105, C2100 and, in the
coming weeks, Dell’s new C6220 and R720 —which capture the efficiencies and
design lessons learned from some of the world’s largest hosting and cloud
providers, while being engineered to maximize revenue per-square foot within
the data center.
This solution also incorporates Dell’s popular Crowbar software framework,
which manages the OpenStack deployment from the initial server boot to the
configuration of the primary OpenStack components, allowing users to complete
bare metal deployment of multi-node OpenStack clouds in hours, as opposed to
days. Once the initial deployment is complete, Crowbar can be used to maintain,
expand, and architect the complete solution, including BIOS configuration,
network discovery, status monitoring, performance data gathering, and alerting.
Crowbar is an open
source software project (Apache 2.0 license) with a thriving community
behind it where users, customers, and partners leverage Crowbar’s modular
design to build in their own capabilities. Additionally, those customers who
purchase the Dell OpenStack-Powered Cloud Solution receive training,
deployment, and support on the Dell Crowbar software.
Dell has been part of the OpenStack community since its creation, and the
expertise in servers, software, and services is the underpinning of the Dell
OpenStack-Powered Cloud Solution.
“As early supporters of solutions based on open-standards like OpenStack and
Hadoop, Dell remains committed to providing open, standards-based solutions
that enable customers to integrate new technologies without sacrificing
performance or existing IT investments. Utilizing and integrating the
efficiencies of the PowerEdge C line with optimized software and tailored
services, the Dell OpenStack Cloud Solution enables users to take a server out
of the box and be up-and-running on an OpenStack cloud in mere hours,” said
John Igoe of Dell. “With Dell’s tested and validated designs in infrastructure,
software, and services, customers can build out their IT presence and lower
in-house costs.”
"Morphlabs leverages Dell's Openstack Crowbar technology to further
enhance automation in the deployment of our all-SSD mCloud Rack, the most price
performant converged private cloud infrastructure on the market," says
Winston Damarillo, the founder and CEO of Morphlabs. "Dell's expertise in
the OpenStack project combined with their Hyperscale PowerEdge C platform are
key ingredients that turbo-charge the mCloud Rack, the leading Enterprise
Dynamic Infrastructure Platform."
Jane Silber, CEO at Canonical concludes; “Ubuntu Server has featured OpenStack
for two years and will continue to release updates at the same cadence with
OpenStack in the coming years. The integration and availability of Ubuntu in
the Dell OpenStack-Powered Cloud Solution is ideal for the growing number of
organisations that want to build open source, scalable and cost effective cloud
infrastructures quickly and simply. We're excited to be a core part of Dell's
cloud offering as it expands its OpenStack solution, and to continue to support
Dell and OpenStack in the coming years.”
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