
Six months ahead of cloud service launch in Europe, Dell has widened the scope of its cloud offerings for the members of PartnerDirect in the entire UK and Europe. Various US partners of the company were interested in extending leeway of Dell's cloud services but now, when it has been six months since its launch in the region, the company decided to do so. The company has officially launched the services which would be offered under the PartnerDirect program. Along with this, Dell has also disclosed its third cloud storage channel certification in the region which would be probably the last of its channels.

SUSE, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider, launched its first cloud product which is commercially supported, on 29th August, 2012 at the CloudOpen Conference. SUSE Cloud, powered by OpenStack, is a platform of cloud management that is automated and enables easy constant management and rapid deployment of an IaaS, private cloud.
