Virtustream and Dell EMC announced a strategic alliance with Samsung SDS to deliver Virtustream Enterprise Cloud in South Korea. With a growing economy, South Korea is home to several Fortune 500 companies and global enterprises and thus is a region that is primed to take full advantage of Virtustream’s unique capabilities and proven expertise in moving mission critical applications to the cloud. Samsung SDS customers will benefit from superior application performance and efficiency delivered by Virtustream’s enterprise-class cloud platform and Dell EMC’s infrastructure solutions. Samsung SDS selected Virtustream and Dell EMC to provide enterprise cloud services, because its unique consumption-based billing method significantly reduces costs for its customers and provides high levels of application performance, security and risk management. As a part of this new offering, Samsung SDS will license and implement Virtustream’s xStream® software, which is an integrated cloud management platform that enables service providers such as Samsung SDS to deliver enterprise-class, IT-as-a-Service to their customers. To ensure seamless operation and sustainable high-performance cloud services, Virtustream will leverage Dell EMC’s VxBlock systems as the foundation of Samsung SDS’ new cloud service. VxBlock systems, combine the robust performance of all-flash storage with cutting-edge data services and unmatched scalability backed by VMware virtualization technologies.