{"id":659140,"date":"2013-05-20T13:34:19","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T17:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=647239"},"modified":"2013-05-20T13:34:19","modified_gmt":"2013-05-20T17:34:19","slug":"dell-backs-away-from-openstack-public-cloud-steps-up-to-enstratius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/659140","title":{"rendered":"Dell backs away from OpenStack public cloud, steps up to Enstratius"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dell has changed up\u00a0its cloud strategy again. As of Monday, it has officially backed off on plans to anoint OpenStack as the basis its upcoming public cloud and said it will rely instead on third parties to offer that capability. Dell will act as the single-source supplier front-ending all these diverse clouds, and that decision\u00a0makes\u00a0<\/del>Enstratius, which Dell bought two weeks ago<\/a>, the focal point of its cloud strategy.<\/p>\n

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Nnamdi Orakwue, VP of Dell Cloud<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The company\u2019s first public cloud partners are Joyent, ScaleMatrix and ZeroLag. The rationale: Dell customers don\u2019t want to be locked into a single cloud vendor and would like assurances that workloads can be moved as needed if their requirements change or their current cloud is not up to snuff. ZeroLag gives Dell a VMware-based cloud option.<\/p>\n

There are two takeaways from the news, Nnamdi Orakwue, VP of Dell Cloud,\u00a0said in an interview on Monday. \u201cFirst, private cloud success is our bread and butter there our top priority on the open-source side is OpenStack. The second is multi-cloud management and helping our customers deal with it via Enstratius.\u201d The Enstratius management offering supports more than 20 different clouds.<\/p>\n

Orakwue acknowledged that Dell\u2019s cloud strategy has been a work in progress. Late last year, the company said its public cloud would be based on OpenStack <\/a>and would come out a year later than expected. Today\u2019s news changes that.<\/p>\n

Dell may add other cloud partners to the mix later and could take an equity stake in some of them. (GigaOM\u2019s Derrick Harris wrote in 2011 that Joyent would be a smart investment for Dell <\/a>if it\u2019s serious about the cloud biz.)<\/p>\n

On the one hand, Orakwue said Dell will be \u201cplatform agnostic,\u201d on the other he said OpenStack is clearly its platform of choice on the private cloud side. You have to wonder if that\u2019s a consolation prize for the OpenStack faithful.<\/p>\n

Things are heating up on the public cloud front for sure.\u00a0VMware is expected to re-announce its public cloud platform<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 which will run in as-yet-unnamed partner data centers \u2014 on Tuesday and the whole topic of public, private and hybrid cloud deployments will doubtless come up at\u00a0GigaOM\u2019s Structure event<\/a>\u00a0in San Francisco next month.<\/p>\n

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