Joe CaraDonna, Dell Technologies & Rich Sanzi, Google Cloud | CUBE Conversation, May 2020
Joe CaraDonna and Rich Sanzi join Stu Miniman for a digital CUBE Conversation. #CUBEConversation #theCUBE https://siliconangle.com/2020/05/22/latest-rollouts-dell-google-vmware-target-physics-complexity-cost-moving-cloud-data-cubeconversations/ Latest rollouts from Dell, Google and VMware target physics, complexity and cost of moving cloud data Dell Technologies Inc. made a number of announcements this week that, at first glance, boosted a cloud infrastructure portfolio that it launched last year. A closer examination of the latest news reveals trends and market positioning among several of the world’s largest technology players that will be interesting to watch as the year plays out. Dell’s releases included a partnership with Google Cloud to simplify management of private and public cloud storage. The two companies have teamed up to launch general availability for Dell Technologies Cloud OneFS for Google Cloud, which combines Dell’s Isilon file storage with Google Cloud’s analytics and compute services. “Our Isilon customers have been asking us for a long time to bring this type of capability to the cloud,” said Joe CaraDonna, vice president of engineering technology at Dell Technologies. “They want to bring high-performance workloads to the cloud, but they need a scalable file system that can keep up with the demand, and that’s what we set out to solve.” CaraDonna spoke with Stu Miniman, host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. He was joined by Rich Sanzi, vice president of engineering at Google Cloud. Miniman also spoke with Chhandomay Mandal, director of product marketing at Dell Technologies, and Travis Vigil, senior vice president of product management at Dell Technologies in separate interviews. They discussed how the latest partnership addresses speed and scalability, improved Kubernetes and bandwidth support, a new midrange storage system, and growing signs of price pressure in the cloud market. (* Disclosure below.) Increased scale and speed Dell’s partnership with Google Cloud is aimed at the hybrid market, a cornerstone of its platform launched one year ago. Customers can now connect Isilon systems running OneFS file storage with Google Cloud environments without having to endure complex technical modifications at the same time. “Customers are looking for scalable solutions which enable them to bring their existing applications to the cloud and not have to make a ton of changes,” Sanzi explained. “It is a full fidelity solution that has the performance and scale of what customers are expecting from on-premises. That’s one of the things that’s great about the Dell offering.” Speed is also a key factor in this latest partnership. An ESG Research study commissioned by Dell found significant increases in read/write capabilities for OneFS. “Results for throughput were 200 gigabits per second on the read and 100 gigabits per second on the write,” CaraDonna said. “These are game-changing numbers. It’s numbers like that that enable compute intensive high-performance workloads in Google Cloud.