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The Dell APEX Cloud Platform is a new family of products that are designed to seamlessly extend the customer’s cloud operating model of choice to run on-premises. Customers have recognized the power and flexibility of the cloud operating model but understand that not all workloads are good candidates for relocation to a public cloud provider. This may be due to regulatory reasons, security reasons, or even cost reasons. Even when a workload is not suitable for running in a public cloud there are benefits to adopting the cloud operating model. These include flexibility to easily change where an application or service will run, maintaining both a common application architecture and deployment models, and ensuring consistent policies and governance.