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Multi-Cloud Data Services

If your organization is going to compete and win with data, you need multi-cloud. It’s a durable, scalable solution that allows you to extract more value from your data and drive new innovations across your business.

A multi-cloud data strategy is your key to competing in a data-driven market

  • Mitigate risks: Cyber threats can quickly overwhelm a single platform, and because cloud providers report outages differently, it’s not always clear which platform has the lowest downtime. Distributing your cloud strategy across multiple providers reduces your exposure to a single point of failure.
  • Expand geographies: GDPR and data sovereignty often require data in close proximity to geographic locations, which can limit your cloud options. A multi-cloud approach provides you with the flexibility to adopt local solutions that fulfill compliance requirements while allowing you to leverage your preferred cloud in other geographies.
  • Optimize workloads: Multi-cloud lets you choose the best cost and performance combinations for your workloads. Combine Azure’s low-priority VMs, AWS spot instances, and preemptible VMs from Google Cloud for your fault-tolerant and short-lived workloads. At the same time, use reserved instances, GCP sole-tenant nodes, and other cloud VM types to meet specific workload needs.
  • Stimulate innovation: Major cloud providers dedicate resources to creating innovative services so you don’t have to. However, no single public cloud can provide the best option for every situation and every workload. A multi-cloud approach allows you to access best-in-class services from more than one hyperscale cloud provider at a time to drive new business models.
  • Defy data gravity: Sharing a common datastore between clouds unlocks innovations from every cloud while eliminating data gravity concerns and avoiding storing multiple (possibly out-of-sync) copies of the same data.
  • Avoid vendor lock-in: Cloud providers release new, unique features every month, but without a multi-cloud strategy, your options are limited. As your data grows, so do the costs, risks, and time required to move to a different vendor.

Dell Technologies Multi-Cloud Solutions

Faction and Dell have partnered to create Multi-Cloud Data Services, a powerful enterprise-grade solution for multi-cloud data services, data protection, and more.

Together, Faction and Dell solve problems across industries

  • Multi-cloud storage: Connect your environments running on AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or Oracle cloud directly to a Dell EMC storage appliance. Faction facilitates this via our patented Layer 2 network connectivity, providing low-latency, high-throughput access to your data and applications stored on storage powered by Dell EMC.
  • Data Protection in the Cloud: Replicate from your on-premises storage appliance powered by Dell EMC directly to a Faction cloud location in close proximity to hyperscale cloud providers. Once replicated, you can seamlessly connect your data to multi-cloud using Faction’s connectivity solutions.
  • Cyber Recovery: Safeguard your critical data from cyber-attacks with a secure data vaulting service that includes a logically air-gapped vault built upon secure, multi-cloud-enabled infrastructure. When data recovery is required, you can choose to restore your data from your vault to AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud, or back to your on-prem environment.
  • Disaster Recovery with Superna Eyeglass: Use your Superna solution, integrated with PowerScale, to efficiently copy and orchestrate user and environmental data to a Faction data center for DR with a full DR workflow for managing failover of on-prem workloads into public clouds.

Date Warehouse & Analytics

Break down data silos and get faster time to insights using a cloud data warehouse deployed on Faction Cloud Control Volumes, the industry’s leading multi-cloud data services platform.

Unlock more value from your cloud data warehouse

  • Eliminate data silos and data ingestion: Create a single source of truth by centralizing your data in one secure location. No need to ingest data into the public cloud every time; simply analyze your data with on-demand cloud services from multiple public clouds simultaneously.
  • Accelerate time to insight: Get on-demand cloud provisioning for AI/ML and analytics services when you need them, and access data that is already presented to all clouds.
  • Avoid vendor lock-in: When your data is stored outside of the cloud, you remove egress costs, avoid lock-in from proprietary cloud data services, and simplify your path to multi-cloud and application interoperability.

Cloud Control Volumes

Faction Cloud Control Volumes allow you to share your data across apps and clouds in real time while optimizing performance and costs.

Save you time, money and reduce complexity

  • Flexible performance tiering: Choose the performance tier that matches your workloads and only pays for the resources you need.
  • Durable and persistent storage: CCVs are more durable and persistent than public cloud solutions. Data remains intact when cloud resources are decommissioned.
  • Ultra-low latency connection: CCVs are directly connected to public clouds via Faction’s proprietary, patented Layer 2 network connectivity, enabling data to be processed in two milliseconds or less.

VMware Private Cloud

Faction delivers a hosted private cloud powered by VMware. It’s the management, control, and governance you’re used to with VMware on-premises, but with better workload performance and ability to scale.

A Faction-managed and hosted private cloud protects your business and improves your bottom line

  • Change CapEx to OpEx: Faction supplies the data center space, network connectivity, and operations you need to run your business. So instead of large capital expenses, you pay only a monthly subscription fee.
  • Maintain control: Some private cloud hosts put limitations on how your team can act in the data center. Faction keeps your team in the driver’s seat – full visibility and full control with full admin access to your VMware vCenter.
  • Protect your data: Utilize VMware Site Recovery Manager, a proven disaster recovery solution, to replicate on-premises, and we’ll provide all the managed services you need if disaster strikes.