UPDATED 18:30 EDT / OCTOBER 22 2020

CLOUD

Cloud Console moves Dell further along ‘as-a-service’ path for on-premises support

Dell Technologies’ recent unveiling of its Cloud Console underscores an evolution in the company’s view of the dynamics between public and private clouds. Dell is leveraging its presence in the on-premises world to deliver innovation that can meet customers wherever they are.

“At Dell, we think of cloud as an operating model and an operating experience rather than a destination,” said Dipak Prasad (pictured), director of cloud product management and technical marketing at Dell EMC. “Until now, that has only been delivered in a consistent way by public cloud vendors, which leads people to believe that cloud is a destination not an operating model. We think we are capable of bringing those experiences, those tenets of the cloud operating model to the on-premises experience and taking location out of the conversation.”

Prasad spoke with Jeff Frick, host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio, during the Dell Technologies World Digital Experience event. They discussed delivering the speed of cloud to on-premises environments and providing customers with resource options to enhance processing when needed. (* Disclosure below.)

Leveraging Dell’s supply chain

The announcement of Dell Technologies Cloud Console is in keeping with the company’s declared strategy of moving its full product portfolio to an “as-a-service” model. Cloud and various service solutions can be added by customers with just a few clicks and delivered expeditiously.

“We’re really bringing that speed of cloud to their on-premises experience,” Prasad said. “Customers can, in a self-service way, order those resources and have it show up and be operational in their environment in 14 days. Our strengths are in supply chain management that allows us to build capabilities across the world in areas from where we can ship to customers almost on an on-demand basis.”

Dell’s Cloud Platform also offers customers the option to procure instance blocks to scale cloud resources based on predefined configurations.

“It’s how much processing power, memory and storage they need,” Prasad said. “They define their requirements to us in those terms, and we will deliver those instance capacity blocks to them in their data center.”

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the Dell Technologies World Digital Experience event. (* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for Dell Technologies World. Neither Dell Technologies, the sponsor for theCUBE’s event coverage, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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