In what is being described by Dell as a timely attempt to benefit from the customers’ inclination towards development of private cloud computing platforms inside their corporate data centers, the company, on March 24, introduced a collection of hardware software and services that support cloud computing infrastructures.

The core of Dell’s newly-announced server package is the new ‘Dell PowerEdge C-series’ servers, which have been particularly designed for supporting high performance, energy-efficient computing at an reasonable total ownership cost.

In a statement, Steve Schuckenbrock - president of Dell’s large enterprise business – said that the company was looking to gain from the users’ potential shift from competing platforms to x86 servers. Clearly, Dell is banking on development of private cloud computing systems within corporate and academic data centers, and expects the move to propel the sales of its newest line of servers and software.

Noting that the preference for private cloud systems “is starting now,” Forrest Norrod, the VP and general manager of server platforms at Dell, said that the practicability of building private cloud systems vis-à-vis the public cloud services is fast gaining momentum with IT managers.

Further adding that while some corporations are well-versed with public cloud computing customer relations management applications, Norrod said that a few corporations have worked with either of the two Dell partner services - Amazon EC2 or Microsoft new Azure service.