Dell APEX
Unlock innovation, efficiency, and agility with Dell APEX by benefitting from both a public and private cloud infrastructure.
What is Dell APEX?
Dell APEX is an end-to-end solutions portfolio offered through an as-a-Service and subscription model. It allows your organisation to pay only for the services they consume, providing a flexible and cost-effective approach to managing your IT infrastructure.
Dell APEX encompasses a range of offerings, including storage-as-a-service, servers, networking, and hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI). It is designed to support various data and workload requirements, enabling you to provision scalable, metered infrastructure services quickly across multiple cloud, edge, and data centre environments.
Customers utilising Dell APEX have experienced enhanced efficiency and effectiveness in their IT operations.
What are the benefits of Dell APEX?
Dell APEX offers several key benefits that enable organisations to streamline their IT operations and unlock greater efficiency:
Scalable and elastic storage-as-a-service:
flexibly allocate storage resources based on your changing needs, without the burden of upfront hardware investments. Administrators can easily provision and manage storage resources through a cloud-based management interface
Simplified multicloud management:
Dell APEX Console serves as a centralised platform for managing multicloud environments. It provides organisations with a unified interface to deploy and optimise Dell APEX solutions across various cloud, edge locations, and data centres
Comprehensive cloud services:
with options like APEX Hybrid Cloud, APEX Private Cloud, APEX Flex on Demand, and APEX Data Center Utility, organisations will choose the most suitable cloud service based on their specific requirements
Enhance agility and control:
by adopting Dell APEX, organisation will leverage the agility and scalability of cloud deployment models while maintaining control over their applications and data
Use cases for Dell APEX
Dell APEX caters to a wide range of use cases, enabling organisations to leverage the benefits of cloud deployment models, even if they haven’t fully migrated their IT infrastructures to the cloud. Some notable use cases include:
Dell APEX provides a platform for developing AI-optimised solutions that’ll scale and perform across clouds, on-premises, and at the edge.
For computationally intensive workloads, Dell APEX offers the ability to aggregate computing power and improve performance. Harness the power of HPC for tasks such as scientific research, data analysis, and simulations.
APEX will help modernise and manage your entire Microsoft data estate. It provides the necessary infrastructure and support to optimise Microsoft workloads, enabling you to leverage the full potential of Microsoft technologies.
APEX assists your organisation with running applications or full desktops securely on any device, anywhere.
With increasing popularity of containerisation and cloud-native applications, APEX provides a robust platform for deploying and managing modern, cloud-native apps and DevOps workflows.
Dell APEX supports traditional relational database management system (RDBMS) solutions and complex database environments.
Dell APEX solutions
The catalogue for Dell APEX offers a range of solutions that cater to different infrastructure needs. These solutions are designed to provide you with the flexibility, control, and agility required to support your digital transformation journey. Take a look at some of the key APEX solutions now:
The Dell APEX Cloud Platform for Microsoft Azure is a comprehensive solution designed to extend and optimise the Azure Hybrid Cloud experience for on-premises environments. It integrates seamlessly with Microsoft Azure, providing users with an enhanced and efficient cloud computing platform.
Dell APEX Cloud Platforms
These platforms are engineered to deliver a streamlined, automated experience in a turnkey solution. Dell APEX Cloud Platforms support multiple cloud ecosystems, providing you with the flexibility to choose the cloud environment that best suits your needs.
With Cloud Platforms you’ll simplify your cloud management and optimise your cloud-native operations. The platforms bring choice, consistency, and control to cloud deployments, enabling you to leverage the benefits of cloud technologies while maintaining control over your applications and data.
Dell APEX Cloud Platform serves as a bridge between on-premises data centres and the Azure cloud, facilitating a cohesive and integrated IT environment. Through this platform, organisations will improve operational efficiency, scalability, and seamless hybrid cloud experience tailored to their needs.
It’s Data Storage Services offer on-premises storage infrastructure that can be consumed as a service. This scalable, elastic consumption model for storage enables you to pay for storage resources on a per-use basis. Administrators can provision and manage storage resources using a cloud-based management interface, providing a seamless and flexible storage solution.
These services also remove the complexities of traditional storage infrastructure, allowing you to focus on your core business objectives. By leveraging these services, you’ll optimise your storage costs, improve data management, and ensure high availability of your critical data.
Hybrid Cloud is built on VMware Cloud Foundation, providing you with a comprehensive solution for managing your entire cloud environment. It’ll give you full workload automation and orchestration while also streamlining your operations and improving your overall efficiency.
With Hybrid Cloud, you’ll seamlessly extend your on-premises infrastructure to public clouds and this flexibility will give you the benefits of both a public and private cloud set up.
Flex on Demand offers a custom-tailored IT infrastructure solution for organisations with unique requirements. It provides storage, server, and HCI resources in a flexible procurement model managed by Dell Financial Services.
With Flex on Demand, you’ll have the ability to scale your infrastructure resources up or down based on your needs, paying only for the resources consumed. This pay-per-use model provides cost predictability and flexibility, enabling you to align your infrastructure costs with business demands.
An entry-level infrastructure-as-a-service, Private Cloud is based on VMware VCF. It is specifically designed for edge environments, remote/ branch offices, and remote locations.
Private Cloud provides your organisation with a cost-effective and scalable infrastructure for distributed environments and lets you deploy and manage private cloud environments with ease, ensuring consistent performance and reliability.
Backup and data protection are critical components of a robust IT infrastructure. Dell APEX Backup Services provide secure and efficient scale for backup storage. With Dell APEX, organisations will benefit from fully managed backup solutions that ensure data integrity and simplify the backup process. The scalable nature of Dell APEX Backup Services allows organisation to align their backup resources with their evolving data protection requirements.
Dell APEX FAQs
Dell APEX Backup Services provide a simple, flexible, and cost-effective way to protect your data from any source to any destination. You can choose from a range of backup options, including cloud, hybrid, and on-premises solutions, and pay only for what you use. You can also manage your backup services through a single portal and get access to support and guidance from Dell.
Dell APEX Backup Services use encryption, deduplication, and compression to secure your data in transit and at rest. You can also leverage Dell’s global network of data centres, which are certified to meet various industry and regional standards, such as ISO, SOC, and GDPR. Additionally, you can monitor and audit your backup activities and policies through the APEX Console.
Talk to our Dell Technologies Specialists today
Arrange a free chat with one of our Dell Technologies Specialists today to explore the catalogue of Dell APEX’s solutions further and find which is best suited for your organisation.
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