Dell Technologies World: 5 Highlights from Michael Dell
Dell Technologies CEO Michael Dell welcomed customers and partners to the firm’s first in-person event in three years.
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“The on-prem / off-prem debate is over,” declared Dell. “The future is multicloud with workloads and data flowing seamlessly across the entire environment. Today 90% of customers already have both on-prem and public cloud environments, and 75% are using three or more different clouds.
The CEO said Dell Technologies has been “hard at work innovating the technologies and building the ecosystem to enable true multicloud.”
He once again proclaimed Edge computing as “the next frontier where data becomes a competitive advantage. Immediately at the point of creation, an automated intelligent continuous cycle of data collection, protection, analysis and improvement.”
Dell also talked of the importance of distributed data, and distributed computing power.
“Ten percent of the data in the world today is processed outside of data centers. But by 2025, 75% of enterprise data will be processed outside of a traditional centralised datacenter or cloud. 5G mobile networks to handle the volume of data at the edge are a huge catalyst for that growth.”
However, multicloud needs to be organised into something “much less complex,” said co-COO Chuck Whitten.
“It needs to deliver on the promise of the cloud experience; ease and agility no matter where an organisation has decided to put applications and data and to link the two megatrends. It needs to help you rapidly extract value from data, not lock up your data in silos. It shouldn’t slow analysis, and it shouldn’t slow your decision-making. Multicloud also needs to be more developer-friendly, with a consistent set of tools so that developers can create once, run anywhere, manage consistently and protect continuously. And we’ve heard you loud and clear that it needs to be consumable, many ways including as a service.”
The world, he said, needs multicloud by design, not by default. As such, Dell Technologies is working on “the great unsolved infrastructure challenge.”
“We’ve been on a journey over the last year to deliver software and services that simplify multicloud complexity,” he said.
Whitten also pointed to today’s news that the company is expanding the PowerProtect Cyber Recovery offering it launched last year. The solution enables customers to host their cyber recovery vaults in public clouds. Launched initially for Amazon Web Services (AWS), Dell is expanding it to Microsoft Azure.
Because workloads follow data, the distributed future will much bigger than you could imagine. And so will the attack surface, said Dell.
“Ransomware attacks are the number one threat for most organisations and are occurring every 11 seconds with an average cost of $13 million per occurrence.
“Cyber resiliency assessments help you identify cyber risks and vulnerabilities with actionable recommendations. An air gapped fault solution should be an important part of any response and recovery strategy for maximum control and maximum security, for your data and your infrastructure.
Dell described the “the pull from channel partners on Apex,” the firm’s managed services infrastructure business, which it started rolling out last year.
“The partners are all over this,” he said. “They see the same trends that are out there with customers. We’ve stood up specific teams to help our partners with the Apex journey and evolution. There’s an enormous role for partners here; obviously, an incredible part of our ecosystem. Over 50% of our orders last year were through channel partners, and so we’re all in to help them with that evolution.”
Dell indicated Apex would be a hot topic Tuesday at the Dell Technologies Partner Summit.
“We’re seeing [partners] actively engaged here. But we have an aggressive roadmap of adding more capabilities, features and functions, to be able to build that out,” he added.
On Tuesday, we learned Dell Technologies co-COO Jeff Clarke will announce some “big innovations” in software-defined storage. Dell said the news “will further extend our storage capabilities to the public clouds giving you a true multicloud experience, including co-los and Edge.”
Dell also explained that the company was making its infrastructure programmable to support containers and modern application development environments like Kubernetes, Tanzu and OpenShift.
“Containerized apps are really transforming IT and modern application delivery,” he said.
The company will continue to partner with VMware to deploy Tanzu, he added. Additionally, Dell said the firm was making everything available with Apex.
“But the epicentre of focus for many customers is changing from infrastructure to developers. And we’re embracing developers, making all our solutions API-driven and developer-ready.”
On Tuesday, we learned Dell Technologies co-COO Jeff Clarke will announce some “big innovations” in software-defined storage. Dell said the news “will further extend our storage capabilities to the public clouds giving you a true multicloud experience, including co-los and Edge.”
Dell also explained that the company was making its infrastructure programmable to support containers and modern application development environments like Kubernetes, Tanzu and OpenShift.
“Containerized apps are really transforming IT and modern application delivery,” he said.
The company will continue to partner with VMware to deploy Tanzu, he added. Additionally, Dell said the firm was making everything available with Apex.
“But the epicentre of focus for many customers is changing from infrastructure to developers. And we’re embracing developers, making all our solutions API-driven and developer-ready.”
Michael Dell Monday welcomed customers and partners to the first in-person Dell Technologies World in three years, in Las Vegas. The CEO highlighted how over that period, technology has become “even more important, even more essential.”
The company has announced it is expanding its new Apex managed infrastructure services portfolio with cyber recovery offerings. Partners will also this week get their first look at Project Alpine, Dell’s effort to bring its software-defined block and object storage to public clouds.
The big talking points on stage at Dell Technologies World, however, remain data and multicloud.
“We’re already solving the tough problems of security, multicloud and Edge alongside customers who are hitting the gas on creating their future,” said Dell.
The slideshow above features the key takeaways for partners from day one of Dell Technologies World.
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