AI workloads: Dell enhances Azure with new solutions [Video]

The announcement from Dell Technologies Inc. this week that it would introduce new products and services for Microsoft Corp. compute platforms points towards continued enterprise customer interest in data protection, resilience and security. It also highlights customer interest in simplifying deployment of AI workloads in multicloud environments such as Microsoft Azure.

“Listening to customer feedback in this space, we’re providing a big enhancement to the APEX File Storage for Microsoft Azure offer,” said Varun Chhabra (pictured), senior vice president of product marketing at Dell. “We’re basically introducing a Dell-managed version. This, we believe, will be a cornerstone for AI-driven workloads on Azure, bringing managed capability and managed advanced file services. Customers are looking for their data in Azure to be able to run demanding analytic workflows, HPC workflows, AI workflows on top of that data, that file data sitting on structured data that’s sitting in Azure.”

Chhabra spoke with theCUBE Research’s Rob Strechay at …