Today at Microsoft Ignite in Orlando, FL, Dell EMC announced a series of updates further supporting Microsoft data center environments. These updates were included Dell EMC XC Series, Dell EMC Cloud for Microsoft Azure Stack, and Dell EMC Ready Bundle for Microsoft SQL Server. The above mentioned products span hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) to hybrid cloud and data analysis demonstrating Dell EMC’s commitment to customers operating in Microsoft environments.
Dell EMC’s XC Series are HCI appliances ideal for running virtualized workloads. Customers can run their virtualized workloads on their choice of hypervisor, including Microsoft Hyper-V. There has been an uptick in the popularity for running Microsoft workloads, including SQL, Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft SharePoint on the XC Series. Noting this Dell EMC has made a series of updates and improvements, including:
Another big announcement for Microsoft Azure customers today is that Dell EMC has been approved to deliver Azure through the Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) Direct and Indirect Microsoft partner model worldwide. This approval comes from the company’s proven track record of global expertise of both Azure and hybrid cloud platform. Dell EMC can now offer comprehensive, end-to-end Azure Stack hybrid cloud solutions, including Azure services and solutions, to both customers and channel partners globally. And this same note, Dell EMC Cloud for Microsoft Azure Stack is now shipping.
On the hardware side of things, Dell EMC has added support for Dell EMC PowerEdge 14th generation servers to the Dell EMC Ready Bundle for Microsoft SQL Server and the Dell EMC Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct Ready Nodes. This will give customers more powerful compute performance capabilities. Unity Storage has also been added to the Dell Ready Bundle for Microsoft SQL Server. According to Dell EMC, adding Unity gives customers high performance and affordable flash optimized architecture that supports several of VMs while delivering high IOPS at low latency for running demanding Microsoft SQL Server workloads.
Availability
Dell EMC XC Series updates and the Dell EMC Ready Bundle for Microsoft SQL and Dell EMC Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct Ready Nodes updates are expected to be available in the fourth quarter of 2017.
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