At Dell Tech World, data protection provides strategic leverage in the hybrid-cloud wars

Data is a precious business asset. In the emerging hybrid-cloud market, any solution provider that doesn’t enable strong end-to-end data protection is a nonstarter. As Wikibon reviews the recent spate of industry announcements in hybrid cloud, we keep returning to data protection as table stakes. If a provider has failed to address it with robust solutions […]

Dell Takes Hybrid Cloud by Storm

Dell’s strategy relative to Alibaba, AWS, Microsoft Azure and other cloud providers is to go all-in on hybrid cloud. Wikibon believes this strategy is coherent and strong. Adoption of the Dell Hybrid Cloud architecture should be evaluated by enterprises for existing “Fat Middle”* workloads. In contrast, enterprise executives should evaluate future Dell initiatives and explore alternatives for the major Dell shortcomings. These include native cloud functionality, support for workloads with very demanding performance and recovery SLAs, and the Edge.

Dell and VMware will need to invest heavily and execute strongly for success. VMware in particular will need to move to a cloud-first continuous update model rather than its current traditional version model. Wikibon believes Dell will probably succeed and may become the major vendor for hybrid cloud, and is a good horse for enterprise executives to back.