Dell Services With Cloud Management, Security and BC Services

Dell, Inc. is introducing enhancements to its private cloud services and extending its capabilities to offer secure, compliant cloud services for enterprise workloads.

The Dell Cloud Onsite Service allows customers to run demanding private cloud applications and critical workloads on their own premises with full management and support from Dell. In addition, the Cloud Dedicated Service, a hosted private-cloud offering, has expanded its long list of accreditations and certifications by adding PCI compliance to facilitate secure hosting of payment card data, as well as new DR services allowing for application recovery to maintain BC.

Cloud Onsite Service
Organizations with data sensitivities that prohibit the use of an off-premise solution can now benefit from managed private cloud services within their own data centers by using Cloud Onsite Service. Remote management of Dell’s private cloud solutions and the Dell OpenStack-Powered Cloud Solution allow support from Dell at the infrastructure layer.

Payment Card Industry Compliance for Dell Cloud Dedicated
Dell is committed to offering compliant cloud services to enable customers to manage sensitive workloads. In keeping with its record of compliance with healthcare security and privacy standards (HIPAA and HITECH), security standards (ISO27001) and audit standards (SSAE16 SOC1 Type II), the Cloud Dedicated service is newly recognized as compliant with PCI DSS 2.0 Level 1 Service Provider by Stratum Securityhttp://stratumsecurity.com/. PCI compliance requires merchants, banks and organizations that transmit, store and process credit cards to ensure that data is secure or face financial penalties.

In addition, the Cloud Dedicated Service helps customers ensure that virtual workloads in the hosted private cloud solution are PCI compliant because of a number of add-on security services from Dell SecureWorks, including quarterly PCI Scanning services, Vulnerability Management Service, Web Application Scanning Service and Global Threat Intelligence Service.

BC Solutions for Dell Cloud Dedicated
A September 2013 commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Dell Services found that improved DR and BC was a top consideration in customers’ decision to adopt cloud (78% of customers cited it as very important or important).

Dell simplifies BC planning for enterprises with its new DR service option for its hosted private cloud, Cloud Dedicated. The enterprise solution focuses on common, complex recoverability scenarios. With options for multi- or single-tenant clouds, users can match each workload to the most appropriate DR solution, optimizing budget and ensuring that BC plans can be rolled out across the organization.

The Cloud Dedicated Service also makes file-level backup and restore simple with a new backup solution. This service delivers fast, reliable protection for VMs, even when powered off, helping IT reduce the cost of cloud-based backup. The cloud backup solution stores backup images in-house on a different storage array than primary data, and customers can set retention cycles based upon standards they already have in place, ensuring corporate compliance.

“BC, security and compliance are consistently at the top of our customers’ priorities for their private cloud infrastructures,” said Jeremy Ford, executive director, cloud services for Dell Services. “We have always focused on helping them host mission-critical workloads with industry-leading security and recovery solutions, whether they manage their private cloud or we do. These new private cloud infrastructure services are a continuation of Dell’s leadership in helping customers remain compliant and secure and build on our overarching strategy to enable private clouds for our customers.”