Built for the Futureof MulticloudDell APEX Cloud Platform for Microsoft Azure
brings the simplicity of Azure operations
on premises and to the edge.

Today’s IT Landscape Is MoreComplex Than Ever
The IT landscape for enterprise organizations presents
unprecedented levels of complexity in today’s fast-paced
business world. Organizations are generating, collecting,storing and sharing data across diverse locations within
their operational footprints, including branch offices,
satellite healthcare facilities, distribution centers andpoints of purchase, in addition to core data centers. And
they need to effectively use the full potential of their data,
wherever it’s located.
Organizations need to provide new and innovative
applications and services quickly to optimize operations,be more agile and gain a competitive edge. Many are
adopting a multicloud strategy to power their innovations
and accelerate application roll-out. However, if not doneright, multicloud computing can lead to more complexity,
spiraling costs and suboptimal business outcomes.
The Dell Technologies multicloud-by-design approachto hybrid and multicloud deployments is designed toaddress common pitfalls and limitations as customers
embark on their hybrid and multicloud journeys. With thisstrategy, organizations can utilize public cloud and onpremises resources flexibly to support their applicationneeds. This helps ensure operational efficiency andenables organizations to navigate rapid development
and deployment cycles with ease. By taking theseapproaches, organizations can achieve agility,efficiency and responsiveness to meet dynamic
business demands.

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More Complex Than Ever

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Barriers to Innovation
with MulticloudManagementcomplexity

Limitedmulticloud ​visibility

Unpredictablecloud costs

Skills gaps

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Unlock Innovation Across Your Azure Hybrid Cloud
Extend your Azure cloud deployments on premises withDell APEX Cloud Platform for Microsoft Azure, a purposebuilt integrated platform that delivers a consistent
management experience across clouds. This platform iscollaboratively built with Microsoft to optimize the Azure
hybrid cloud experience for enterprises.

Through extensive integrations and numerous
automations, the platform empowers IT organizations
to bridge the cloud divide and unleash application value
while hardening security and governance.

Azure Arc

Integrated and automatedCommon building blocks

Infrastructure management
and orchestration (M&O)

ComputeData center

Software-definedstorage (SDS)Edge

APEX Cloud Platform for Azure is built collaboratively with Microsoft for optimizing Azure hybrid cloud environments.

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Bridge theCloud Divide

Harden Securityand Governance

Dell APEX Cloud Platform Foundation Software provides
deep, cross-layer integrations and intelligent automationthat simplify initial deployments and cluster creation, inaddition to streamlining ongoing operations across thecomplete technology stack.
IT admins can also use familiar tools, such as
Windows Admin Center and the Azure portal, for asimple, consistent and centralized way of operating
dispersed Azure deployments. With the Dell APEX Cloud
Platform Foundation Software, organizations benefit
from consistent operational experience across their
IT footprints.

UnleashApplication Value

Dell APEX Cloud Platform for Microsoft Azure mitigates
potential security and compliance risks effortlessly byintegrating with Azure management and governanceservices. IT can use the centralized Azure portal toenforce consistent full-stack security and governancepolicies across locations, including edge deployments.
Dell APEX Cloud Platform for Azure takes a full-stackapproach to security with sophisticated controls andmultilayered protection from security threats.
Advanced lifecycle-management capabilities help
ensure that the full technology stack always remains incompliance and up to date. Furthermore, by deliveringdeveloper-friendly app and data services on premises,
application teams can avoid data and application sprawl
across insecure or noncompliant locations.

The platform empowers organizations to innovate fasterby boosting DevOps productivity and IT agility with a
responsive cloud operational model that’s deliveredon premises. Designed to support containerized apps
alongside virtualized workloads, the platform accelerates
app modernization and DevOps initiatives by optimizing
delivery of Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) and otherAzure Arc–enabled app and data services on premises.
API-driven programmability also enables simpler
DevOps and app workflows. Data center and edgeoptimized node configurations with flexible compute,storage and graphics processing unit (GPU) resources
help address a broad set of workloads across data
centers and edge locations, helping to drive
innovation everywhere.

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A Hybrid Cloud Platform Ready for Multiple Use Cases
Dell APEX Cloud Platform for Microsoft Azure can help organizations
reach their business and operational goals in a variety of ways:› Modernize infrastructure. Organizations can update
and refresh hardware with a modern, standards-based
infrastructure that supports both virtual machines(VMs) and containers.
› Accelerate app modernization. Azure Arc–enabledservices, combined with extensive automation
capabilities, empower IT to simplify DevOps andaccelerate container adoption.
› Optimize data-intensive workloads. Supercharge theworkloads that power your enterprise. With a solutionthat delivers outstanding transactional and throughput
performance that can scale linearly, IT organizations
can optimize workloads ranging from traditional andcloud-native databases to modern AI, machine learning(ML) and analytics apps.

› Gain data insights faster. IT teams can help
customers get insights from data faster with AI/ML
through centralized management, scalable throughput
and input/output (I/O) performance and broad GPU
support to enhance infrastructure performance.
› Simplify virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI)
management. The turnkey solution optimizes thedelivery of Azure Virtual Desktop service on premises,
enabling IT organizations to simplify their VDI initiatives
and enhance data security.
› Gain insights from the edge. With consistentdelivery of Azure Arc–enabled services, centralized
management and governance through the Azure
portal and node configurations optimized for edge
deployments, IT organizations can uncomplicate theedge and better ensure operational simplicity.

Flexible Configurations for Data Center, Edge
and Remote Office/Branch Office (ROBO)

Dell APEX Cloud Platform
MC-660Dell APEX Cloud Platform
MC-760Dell APEX Cloud Platform
MC-4000x/45x0x*› 1U rack mount› All flash, all NVMe

› 2U rack mount› All flash, all NVMe, hybrid› 2U rack or flex mount› Multi-node chassis› Ruggedized› 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable
processors with up to 112 cores› 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable
processors with up to 112 cores› 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable
processors with up to 20 cores

Memory› Up to 8 TB

› Up to 8 TB

› Up to 512 GBStorageoptions› Up to 153 TB solid-state drive (SSD)
capacity› Up to 184 TB SSD capacity› Up to 240 TB hard-disk drive (HDD)
capacity› Up to 11.5 TB› Expandable to 34.5 TB› Up to two single-wide› Up to six single-wide› Up to two double-wide› Up to two single-wide› Single double-wide

Formfactor
CPU cores

GPUs*Available in Q1 2024.

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Dell APEX Cloud Platform for Microsoft Azure is theresult of extensive engineering collaboration between
Dell Technologies and Microsoft.
This turnkey platform provides deep integrations
and intelligent automation between layers of theDell Technologies and Microsoft technology stack,accelerating time-to-value while reducing complexity andboosting IT agility and productivity. Centralized app, data,management and governance services
delivered via Azure simplify app environments while
delivering consistent management and governanceacross locations.
With Dell APEX Cloud Platform forMicrosoft Azure, organizations can efficiently
drive innovation everywhere.

Take control of your hybrid multicloud infrastructure todaywith Dell Technologies and Microsoft.
Learn more at www.dell.com/apex.

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