Dell Technologies on Wednesday made a handful of announcements[1] that play into its strategy of moving all of its products to an as-a-service model. One of the announcements was Cloud Console, a service that aims to be the control layer for on-premise, multi-cloud, and edge deployments.
Speaking with media, Sam Grocott, senior vice president of Dell Technologies business units marketing, touted Cloud Console as a new online platform that "delivers a unified and seamless experience for customers to manage their entire cloud and as-a-service journey".
"With just a few clicks customers will be able to browse a marketplace of cloud products, services, and solutions and then order, buy, and transact a service or solution your business needs," he said.
"Customers are going to be able to deploy workloads and manage their multi-cloud resources all through a single pane of glass and monitor the cost in real time and add cloud and as-a-service solutions just with a few short clicks."
Cloud Console is in public preview for a handful of the company's customers from Wednesday.
"The world has decided it is a hybrid cloud and it is a multi-cloud world. So whether it's multiple public clouds, multiple cloud partners across a hybrid environment … that's the future and the reality. It's not going to be one way or the other, it's all ways," Grocott said.
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But to Grocott, many challenges that customers are faced with in a hybrid cloud world come down to the control point.
"As an organisation, do you want to maintain the control point and make sure that you've got control over all of the decisions and priorities of how your infrastructure is being deployed, managed, and utilised