The JBGeorge Tech Blog

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It’s hard to believe that it’s only been eight months since Dell, the company I work for, brought the Dell OpenStack-Powered Cloud Solution to market. 

It was a great day for Dell in that we were

• the first to bring an OpenStack based, on-premise cloud solution to market
• the first to make available a software framework like Crowbar (extending Opscode’s Chef tool)
• the first to provide a referencable Dell OpenStack customer in DreamHost

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Being the agile team we are, we were very focused in our launch.  We launched the solution in North America first, while we learned about the open source cloud needs of Europe and Asia and what our customers in those regions needed from an OpenStack solution.

We listened.  We learned.  We built.  We tested.  We took learnings back to our solution.  And we retested.  And got more customer input.  And retested.  And we built in our learnings.

(Should be a very familiar song and dance to the innovators out there.)

And that journey brings us to today.

With that exprience under our belt, I’m proud to say our team has reached our next milestone….

At World Hosting Days in Germany today, Dell will be announcing that our OpenStack-Powered Cloud Solution will be launching in the UK, Germany, and China.

  
Our executive director, John Igoe, will be on stage at the event to talk through more details on the launch, supported by a great group of folks to help answer questions on the announcement and the solution.

As we take the Dell OpenStack-Powered Cloud Solution into these new regions, it continues to feature:

• A validated and OpenStack-optimized reference architecture based on Dell’s infrastructure portfolio, including Dell PowerEdge C series and new 12G servers
• Open source OpenStack cloud software
• Dell developed Crowbar software to enable quick and easy deployment + continous integration
• Deployment, support, and consulting services

We’re very excited by the news today, and anticipate this will help accelerate OpenStack as a movement and a community. 

We’ve seen the OpenStack community grow so quickly and our friends in Europe and Asia are a strong part of what makes the OpenStack open source movement so great.  In fact, I am happy to report that we’ve already begun enablng some of our customers in those areas to start with our solution.

If you’re interested in learning more about what Dell is doing with OpenStack, and more on the Dell OpenStack-Powered Cloud Solution, you can visit www.Dell.com/OpenStack or drop us an email at OpenStack@Dell.com.

Until next time.

JOSEPH
@jbgeorge

More info:

• Dell.com/OpenStack
• Dell.com/Crowbar
• Crowbar’s public repository
• The Dell OpenStack case study featuring DreamHost
• RobHirschfeld.com – our lead architect’s blog
• BartonGeorge.net – our web / tech marketing director’s blog