Data Centre Magazine December 2020 | Page 67

be pushed out from a central control panel , rather than installed one-byone , and virtual machines have better potential to scale without creating pain points compared to portals and shared drives .

“ While multi-cloud is already most organisations ’ reality , there ’ s also a need to create a consistent cloud experience across on-premises , offpremises and edge environments ,” says Loake . He adds that , for many enterprises , the last few years have seen the level of diversity in the application landscape increase dramatically , which has increased the complexity of creating a consistent cloud experience . Multi-cloud deployments are further compounding the problem , even as they deliver strategic benefits to their users . “ Solving this complexity is one of the biggest IT challenges that we see organisations facing in 2020 ,” he says .

In order to increase stability , resilience and ability to scale , while reducing costs and disruptions , several players in the industry , including Dell , are offering data-centre-as-aservice ( DCaaS ) solutions as a way for companies to cut through the complexity of the modern hybrid cloud landscape .

Using VMware Cloud on Dell EMC “ combines the simplicity and agility of the public cloud with the security and control of an on-premises infrastructure ,” Loake explains . “ The

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