Dell traps Microsoft cloud in smaller box

Dell is putting Microsoft’s cloud in a smaller box for everybody outside the web-tier super league. On Wednesday, the companies are expected to unveil Dell Hybrid Cloud System, with bridges into Microsoft’s Azure and packed in a PowerEdge R730 rack server. Wrapped in the hardware will be Microsoft’s Azure Pack, System Center …

[MyffyW]

offer to return the system should you not be satisfied after an initial six months

Must read the T&Cs of that offer. I wonder what hoops one has to jump through to get the refund? Or is six months interest on the 9K it costs enough to fund such generosity?

[CarbonLifeForm]

$9000 /month for 400 VMs comes to $22.50 per VM per month.

Really, that's a pretty low monthly outlay. And it would all be internal to a company, one would expect, so those 400 VMs would make the corp's IT staff's life easier. Not a bad price point really.