Dell Apex Openshift provides a scalable cloud solution for businesses. It's built on Red Hat OpenShift, a leading container application platform.
With Dell Apex Openshift, you can deploy and manage applications in a hybrid cloud environment. This flexibility is a major advantage for businesses with complex IT needs.
Dell Apex Openshift supports a wide range of applications and services, including Kubernetes and containerized workloads. This means you can run your existing applications alongside new ones, without worrying about compatibility issues.
By leveraging the power of Red Hat OpenShift, Dell Apex Openshift enables businesses to accelerate their digital transformation journeys.
What is Dell Apex Openshift?
Dell APEX Cloud Platform for Red Hat OpenShift is a fully integrated application delivery platform purpose-built for Red Hat OpenShift.
It combines Dell's industry-leading infrastructure products with Red Hat OpenShift to deliver a leading platform for managing cloud-native workloads across cloud boundaries.
Red Hat OpenShift is a Kubernetes-based open-source container platform that allows developers to automate the deployment, scaling, and management of applications.
This platform provides a set of developer and operational tools, enabling a consistent environment across on-premises and cloud infrastructures, thus supporting a streamlined and simplified DevOps process.
The Dell APEX Cloud Platform for Red Hat OpenShift emphasizes the simplification of managing multi-cloud environments, enabling effortless movement of applications and datasets across various cloud environments without sacrificing security, performance, or reliability.
Benefits and Features
The Dell APEX Cloud Platform for Red Hat OpenShift simplifies multicloud operations, accelerates application deployment, and optimizes workload placement.
By integrating Red Hat OpenShift, Dell's platform eliminates the complexities associated with deploying and managing Kubernetes, offering a turnkey, integrated bare-metal solution.
This platform automates Red Hat OpenShift deployment, slashing deployment time by 90 percent.
The Dell APEX Cloud Platform for Red Hat OpenShift is designed to enable more effortless movement of applications and datasets across various cloud environments without sacrificing security, performance, or reliability.
This is crucial for organizations operating in diverse and complex IT landscapes.
The platform combines high-performance infrastructure based on Dell PowerEdge servers with OpenShift's modern container orchestration, accelerating application delivery and enabling organizations to realize the benefits of faster time-to-market and competitive advantage.
The Dell APEX Container-as-a-Service Solution is delivered as a subscription service, making it easy to manage and maintain.
Dell also offers a fully managed service for OpenShift, where Dell manages the entire stack, allowing customers to focus on applications and less on hardware management.
This service is available both on-premises and in the cloud, making it a flexible option for organizations.
The Dell Validated Design for Red Hat OpenShift AI on the APEX Cloud Platform provides a simplified guide for deploying a digital assistant using a Large Language Model (LLM) and the Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) framework.
This integrated multicloud solution demonstrates how RAG can be securely used with an organization's own data on-premises.
The platform has been jointly validated by Red Hat and Dell, ensuring that it meets the standards and requirements of both entities for deploying Red Hat OpenShift.
This validated design is part of Dell's broader initiative to support AI-enabled applications and provide organizations with the necessary infrastructure and guidance to realize the full potential of AI applications for their business.
The Dell Validated Platform for Red Hat OpenShift streamlines deployment processes and management of on-premises infrastructure for container orchestration with fully documented deployment and configuration guidance.
This means that Dell's hardware and software teams have put in the work to ensure the Validated Platforms are easy to consume.
The support matrix for these systems should greatly benefit from this effort.
AI and Automation
Dell's APEX Cloud Platform for Red Hat OpenShift offers a simplified guide for deploying a digital assistant using a Large Language Model (LLM) and the Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) framework.
82 percent of IT decision-makers prefer an on-premises or hybrid model when it comes to Generative AI (GenAI), highlighting the importance of a multicloud architecture that maximizes data value while keeping complexity in check.
The APEX Cloud Platform is optimized for running Red Hat OpenShift AI and supports even more GPUs, empowering users with the flexibility to tailor their infrastructure precisely to their unique requirements.
Notably, Dell is introducing the NVIDIA L40S GPU to support even the most demanding AI applications, making it an ideal choice for organizations that need to run complex AI workloads.
Dell Services bring deep expertise to accelerate time to value of the Red Hat OpenShift AI platform, leveraging Dell's proven methodology to craft a winning strategy aligned with high-value AI use cases.
The APEX Cloud Platform now supports hosted control planes for Red Hat OpenShift, which helps reduce management costs, optimize cluster deployment time, and separate management and workload concerns so customers can focus on their applications.
By utilizing RAG techniques, Dell's trusted professional services experts can tailor models with your data, seamlessly integrating them into AI Avatars, chatbots, or other applications, yielding more relevant and impactful results.
Implementation and Support
Our Dell Apex OpenShift implementation experts will work closely with you to drive tangible business value. We'll accelerate time to value of the Red Hat OpenShift AI platform using Dell's proven methodology.
With ProConsult Advisory Services and Implementation Services, we'll craft a winning strategy aligned with high-value AI use cases. We'll minimize data preparation and LLM training efforts, equipping your team with essential skills and best practices.
By leveraging RAG techniques, we'll tailor models with your data, seamlessly integrating them into AI Avatars, chatbots or other applications. This will yield more relevant and impactful results, freeing you to focus on innovation and maximizing ROI now and in the future.
Join Summit
We're excited to invite you to Red Hat Summit, where you can discover the full potential of Dell APEX Cloud Platform for Red Hat OpenShift.
Stop by our booth to learn more about our solution and check out our demos, which showcase the power of Red Hat OpenShift AI.
You can learn more about the event by visiting the provided link.
Availability
Dell APEX Containers for Red Hat OpenShift is planned for availability in the US in early 2023, with broader availability to follow.
The Dell Validated Platform for Red Hat OpenShift has been available globally since September 30, 2022.
Dell's hybrid cloud solution with Red Hat OpenShift is planned for availability in 2023.
The various channels for staying up-to-date on Dell's Red Hat OpenShift offerings include a newsletter, YouTube, a podcast on iTunes and Spotify, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, and an RSS feed.
Apex Cloud Platform
The Dell APEX Cloud Platform is a game-changer for organizations looking to deploy, manage, and run containers alongside virtual machines on-premises. It's a fully integrated application delivery platform purpose-built for Red Hat OpenShift.
The platform combines high-performance infrastructure based on Dell PowerEdge servers with OpenShift's modern container orchestration, accelerating application delivery and enabling organizations to realize the benefits of faster time-to-market and competitive advantage. This is crucial for organizations operating in diverse and complex IT landscapes.
The APEX Cloud Platform emphasizes the simplification of managing multi-cloud environments, allowing for effortless movement of applications and datasets across various cloud environments without sacrificing security, performance, or reliability. It's designed to enable more streamlined and simplified DevOps processes.
The platform is jointly engineered with Red Hat, ensuring that it meets the standards and requirements of both entities for deploying Red Hat OpenShift. This assures a level of reliability and effectiveness.
Dell APEX Cloud Platform now supports hosted control planes for Red Hat OpenShift, which helps reduce management costs, optimize cluster deployment time, and separate management and workload concerns. This allows customers to focus on their applications.
The APEX Cloud Platform is optimized for running Red Hat OpenShift AI, supporting even more GPUs to empower users with the flexibility to tailor their infrastructure precisely to their unique requirements.
Sources
- https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevemcdowell/2023/10/26/dell-brings-openshift-to-apex-cloud/
- https://www.storagereview.com/news/dell-unveils-apex-cloud-platform-for-red-hat-openshift
- https://nand-research.com/dell-introduces-apex-cloud-platform-for-openshift/
- https://www.storagereview.com/news/dell-broadens-openshift-solutions
- https://www.dell.com/en-us/blog/dell-and-red-hat-transform-ai-complexity-into-opportunity/
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