Dell APEX Cloud Platform for Red Hat OpenShift: Analysis of Operational Efficiency

According to The Futurum Group’s research, several of the biggest challenges companies face in IT include budgets, staffing, and other limitations for their IT departments. These issues along with a desire to align expenditures with revenue have helped drive the adoption of cloud computing models, Dell’s APEX Cloud Platforms provide several options for companies who seek cloud operating efficiency. APEX Cloud Platform provides cloud operating models, along with the additional security, performance and control of running applications on premises. 

As companies look to re-architect their applications to leverage micro-services and container native processes, they are evaluating new operating platforms. Red Hat OpenShift is one of the leading cloud native platforms leveraging Kubernetes for deploying applications consistently both in private and public cloud environments. Dell offers the APEX Cloud Platform for Red Hat OpenShift, which allows companies to run one of the leading virtualization and cloud native Kubernetes platforms on-premises or hosted in a datacenter of their choice. 

The Futurum Group compared and evaluated the implementation and overall efficiency of a traditional, do-it-yourself deployment of Red Hat OpenShift compared to Dell’s APEX Cloud Platform for Red Hat OpenShift, combined with Dell’s storage options for APEX Cloud which include PowerFlex scale out storage, which is deployed on either new or existing clusters. The Dell APEX solution includes installation as part of the included Dell ProSupport. This evaluation included a hands-on testing of the do-it-yourself (DIY) installation within The Futurum Group Lab, in comparison to the Dell APEX Cloud Platform installation which was performed in Dell’s lab facilities. 

In our latest Lab Insight Report, Dell APEX Cloud Platform for Red Hat OpenShift: Analysis of Operational Efficiency, completed in partnership with Dell, The Futurum Group has evaluated the impact of network speed on storage, applications and evaluated the security and cyber resiliency features of Dell Servers with Broadcom NICs. 

In this Lab Insight, you will learn:

• How Dell ACP for Red Hat OpenShift was 5.8x faster to place into operation compared to an equivalent DIY OpenShift deployment 
• Why Day-1 operations were 5.5X faster, 20m for Dell vs. 1h 50m for DIY OpenShift
• And how expanding Dell APEX compute cluster was 12X faster than a DIY OpenShift expansion 

If you are interested in learning more, be sure to download your copy of Dell APEX Cloud Platform for Red Hat OpenShift: Analysis of Operational Efficiency today.