Dell to open Cloud Computing Research Center in Dublin

Beijing time June 8 Morning news, Dell said in Tuesday, the company will open a new research and development Center in Dublin, the center will focus on cloud application development and distribution mechanism. Dell says the research center will serve as a "proof-of-concept lab" for cloud applications, focusing on the development of cloud services reference architectures.　　Dell says the goal of the center's research and development work is to help users easily move to cloud computing services. The creation of this research and development center is part of Dell's 1 billion dollar plan for the next 3 years, designed to support its cloud computing, services and data storage offerings.　　At a meeting held in Beijing earlier this year, Dell said the money would be used to develop data centers and facilities to study technologies such as cloud computing and virtualization. Dell said the Dublin Research and Development Center will focus on developing software as a service (SaaS) and storage-as-service products, and will focus on developing OpenStack-related performance.　　OpenStack is a cloud operating system developed by Rackspace and NASA. Dell is traditionally known as a hardware provider, but the company has taken strong steps to develop a software portfolio because it is trying to become a competitive enterprise service provider. Dell has started providing servers for deployment in the cloud infrastructure and has started providing consultancy services to help users develop, deploy, and support cloud services.　　Last November, Dell bought software, a service company, Boomi, and bought security company SecureWorks earlier this year. Dell also said it would establish a consulting and customer Support Center in Limerick, Ireland (Limerick). Dell will hire 150 employees for both centers, including developers, engineers, and it architects. (Tangfeng)