Dell Picks Joyent For New Private Cloud Solution; Announces New Servers Aimed At Cloud Providers

Dell made a couple of moves to further its cloud computing ambition by announcing a new partnership with Joyent, which provides a cloud computing software platform that enables public and private cloud deployment for service providers and enterprise customers, and also announced a new line of PowerEdge C servers that are aimed at service providers and enterprise customers looking to build out cloud-based infrastructure.

The Dell Cloud Solution for Web Applications (DCS) combines hardware, software and services into one package that customers can then deploy within their own data center to create a private cloud. Dell calls it a "turnkey private PaaS [platform as a service] solution."

The PowerEdge C servers are the outgrowth of testing and experience over the last couple of years with companies like Amazon, Facebook and Microsoft. The Intel Xeon-based servers are built for cloud computing environments. Clearly, Dell wants to be the arms dealer of choice for the next big wave of computing and infrastructure build out.

To round things out, Dell announced three new partners as part of its nascent Cloud Partner Program: Aster Data (web analytics), Canonical/Ubuntu (open source cloud platform software), and Greenplum (data warehousing software).

According to Joyent:

Dell has chosen Joyent’s software as the core for their cloud solution for web applications. They aren’t building on Joyent as a hosted platform, but rather allowing anyone to build out a cloud like Joyent.com, using our software. That means that Joyent is now the first (and only) software company that manages its own infrastructure for a large-scale public cloud, has built the entire software platform for that public cloud, and makes the software available for anyone else to build their own cloud.

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Dell Chooses Joyent Software to Power Cloud Computing

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