Dell bolsters IoT, 5G and big data initiatives with DSS 9000
Dell EMC recently rolled out its “hyperscale-inspired” rack scale infrastructure known as DSS 9000. Sprint and Telefonica are the first companies to leverage the technology for their software-defined data center and cloud computing initiatives.
The DSS 9000 is equipped with compute, storage, power, cooling and open management. These features are available in a rack that can scale up to 96 nodes using Intel Xeon Scalable processors.
“Carriers and service providers need hyper-scale inspired infrastructure to balance the need to innovate at the speed of business while spending less,” said James Mouton, senior vice president of extreme scale infrastructure at Dell. “With the DSS 9000, we are leveraging our 10 years of experience working with industry titans to make it easier to purchase, optimize, deploy, manage and service infrastructure at scale.”
Several service providers are gravitating toward software-defined networks (SDN) with the shift toward 5G, the internet of things (IoT) and big data. Dell said the DSS 9000 can minimize the total cost of ownership (TCO) by 27%, which they believe will advance competition with the deployment of these types of technologies. Telefonica said it will use DSS 9000 to build a software-based global network, whereas Sprint said it is using the device to manage future (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV) based networks.
CenturyLink said it chose DSS 9000 on account if its public and private cloud offerings. Sprint also chose DSS 9000 to test its latest Clean CUPS Core for Packet Optimization (CUPS), an open source NFV and SDN-mobile core reference solution unveiled earlier this year.
“Our cloud infrastructure offerings are designed to help customers maintain control, increase visibility and be more agile so they can run both cloud-native and traditional applications more efficiently,” said Steve Nolen, senior product manager at CenturyLink Technology Solutions. “We chose the DSS 9000 to be the backbone of our Private Node offering because of its flexible design and ability to give our customers a build-to-order private cloud solution. Our public cloud offerings are also offered on the DSS 9000, providing a consistent and reliable experience for customers who have both public and private cloud needs.”
