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Dell developed highly-customized server platforms for Microsoft tailored to their physical facility, operating processes and application workload.
Dell's supply-chain expertise and manufacturing infrastructure enables the fast delivery of custom-built, fully-configured rack solutions to support the rapid growth of Windows Azure. Global scale, data centre planning and deployment expertise and customized services enable Microsoft to speed deployment, maximize energy efficiency and minimize total cost of ownership.
"Hyper-scale computing environments - where infrastructure deployments are measured by up to millions of servers, storage and networking equipment - are changing the way organisations are thinking about their data centre requirements", stated Brad Anderson, senior vice president, Dell's Business Product Group.
"Today's announcement is another example of Dell's innovative approach of working with customers to design and build an infrastructure fully optimized for their hyper-scale computing environments", stated Forrest Norrod, vice president and general manager of Dell's Data Center Solutions Division. |