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Dell has partnered with Faction Inc. to deliver a fully managed, cloud-based service to address various cloud use cases. Faction is a multicloud platform-as-a-service provider and VMware partner that offers multicloud attached storage from various co-locations. The service is available in several locations in the United States and in Europe. In this hybrid-cloud solution, Dell ECS powered by Faction provides the storage layer or data lake for the Snowflake Data Cloud.