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IIHT chooses Dell to provide 'Datacenter-as-a-Service' on its Cloud
IIHT Cloud Solutions Pvt. Ltd,. a subsidiary arm of IIHT Limited,
announced Dell as its trusted solution platform to realize its vision of creating
one of the world's first vertical cloud services solution for IT Training, Test
and Development Industry. The IIHT Cloud Solutions formed a consortium of best
solution providers comprising of ESDS and Nestor to power its Cloud Platform.
The IIHT Cloud is one of the India's largest cloud installations. The multi-million
dollar ESG (Enterprise Solutions Group) and datacenter deal follows similar
cloud infrastructure wins for Dell in India in recent months. This is also the
first Dell Force 10 win in India post acquisition.
Mahesh Bhalla
Exe. Director & General Manager,
Consumer & SMB, Dell India |
Commenting on the win, Mahesh Bhalla, Executive Director and
GM, Consumer and SMB, Dell India, said, “Our continued success in delivering
datacenter solutions to SMB’s is testament to our robust portfolio of storage,
server and networking solutions and related services.”
Shivajee R Sharma, President and CIO, IIHT Cloud Solutions
Pvt. Ltd. “When we decided to pioneer an Infrastructure-as-a-Service Cloud,
servicing the Training, Test and Development segment, our value proposition
was very clear 'Own Virtual Data Centers and not just Virtual Machines'. As
an architect my challenge was to build a cloud platform which gives an experience
as close to a real Data Center infrastructure and is highly capable of supporting
real-time experiential cloud service which is accessible anywhere, anytime and
on any device instantly on demand. The Dell Blade solutions enabled us to build
the scale and density required for the cloud and Dell Force10 z9000 network
switches allowed us to build a highly scalable 320 Gbps throughput IP SAN to
support the instant provisioning. With Dell’s customer engagement skills
and expertise in providing enterprise solutions, they clearly emerged as our
choice for being the end-to-end solutions provider.”
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Dell solution components
- Dell Power EdgeTM M610 Blade servers
- Dell Power EdgeTM R510 Rack Servers
- Dell Power Vault MD 1220 Storage
- Dell Power Connect M6220/M6348 Ethernet Switches
- Sell Force 10 Z9000 10Gb Ethernet switches
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Adding to this, Suresh Reddy, GM, Global Commercial Channel,
Dell India said, “It is one of the largest Cloud deals in the country and
showcases our growing strength in the enterprise solutions business. With product
enhancements, innovations and acquisitions, we have gradually strengthened our
solutions portfolio and the results are beginning to show.”
Commenting on the consortium, Sharma said “While selecting the consortium
partner with data center co-location services to host our Cloud solution, we
were looking for partner with expertise and experience of Cloud platform and
ESDS with its indigenously developed Cloud fabric for its Web hosting services
clearly emerged as the best Data Center co-location service provider for us.
Nestor a core member of the consortium, with its expertise in handling the end-to-end
deliveries and it's deep relations with IT OEM's worked with us on this project
from the beginning as our preferred solution partner.”
Piyush Somani, MD, ESDS said, “The consortium powered
by Dell’s technology has provided us with solutions that will help us run
the servers at much lower power consumption as compared to competition enabling
us to save the cost of operations. Also, our customers will have a single point
of contact for both hardware and networking support.”
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