Dell terminates public Cloud service project has been issued redundancy notice

http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/17197.html "> Beijing time May 21 news, according to foreign media reports, Dell has decided to terminate the public cloud services project, Rely on Joyent and other partners to provide infrastructure services.

Dell has issued layoffs to affected employees in Friday, according to people familiar with the matter. The Dell Public Cloud project has more than 300 employees. It is not clear which employees will be affected or whether Dell will provide other jobs to the affected employees.

A Dell spokeswoman said the company would not comment on personnel issues.

Dell said in a statement today that it would shut down its public cloud services and provide its clients with a partner cloud service. Dell planned to use the open Cloud services infrastructure OpenStack to provide public cloud services, competing with rivals such as Amazon, Hewlett-Packard and Google.

Factors, including withdrawal pressures, prompted Dell executives to rethink public cloud services. Dell will continue to develop private cloud services based on its own technology.

The cloud services market needs scale, and there is enough resources to build infrastructure. Given the current financial situation, Dell's involvement in the cloud services market will be a major challenge.