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Dell commits to open-source software for its future clouds

The company said its upcoming public and private cloud products will be built around OpenStack, a package of software for running clouds that has received broad backing from the technology industry from companies such as HP, Cisco, IBM, Red Hat and Intel.

“Dell is increasing its commitment to OpenStack as its open-source cloud platform of choice for public and private cloud,” Dell said in a statement on Wednesday.

Dell said it will also offer other cloud products based on other technologies, such as VMware.

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