Public cloud infrastructures: Dell and Microsoft pave their way with a new alliance.

If Dell was incapable to offer customer choice, flexibility and scalability, henceforth this is possible. Its strategic alliance with Microsoft aims to help this company deliver Windows Azure to Dell customers worldwide through the Dell Cloud Partner Program. This means current and future customers will be targeted via a central point of solution integration, control and direct support, lessening the complexity and challenges of deploying cloud environments.

Dell Cloud Manager is adding support for Windows Azure Compute on top of the

already supported Windows Azure Storage.

According to Dell, this offering now brings the governance, business agility, and open approach of Dell Cloud Manager to Windows Azure users for both Compute and Storage.

If unfamiliar, Connectikpeople recalls that Dell Cloud Manager is a cloud infrastructure management solution for deploying and managing enterprise-class applications and the consumption of cloud services in public, private and hybrid clouds.