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This was the first time the annual event took place in Dell’s hometown of Austin, Texas.
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Attendees gathered for food, drinks and conversation at the Welcome Reception sponsored by Intel.
Clarke told attendees “we have stabilized the business over the last two years.”
“We’ve reclaimed share of 375 basis points over the last two years,” he said. “We’ve established a collaboration model … with VMware that now works across the entire Dell Technologies estate and we’ve added a tremendous amount of sales capacity in coverage for the business. We’ve really set ourselves up for success, and we’re now at a point where we really can take on the next level of challenges and create more value for our customers.”
Dell outlined the company’s “moonshot” 2030 goals. Among the goals is setting the pace in privacy and transparency by fully automating data control processes to make it easier for customers to access, delete or share their personal data.
“The integration and security of data are really our biggest challenges going forward,” he said. “And the promise of progress from all of this data is really just a promise unless we can bring it all together and do something useful with it, while at the same time protecting it and securing it. And we believe Dell Technologies is the only company with the capability to do that.”
Shekar Ayyar, VMware‘s vice president and general manager of telco and edge cloud, and Jennifer Felch, Dell’s chief digital officer, talked about how 5G and IoT will redefine cloud computing. 5G is going to allow industries like manufacturing, health care, automotive and many others to reinvent themselves, Ayyar said.
“At the very basic level, 5G is going to offer us orders of magnitude with larger bandwidth as well as data capacity for communication, up to 10, maybe 100 times the bandwidth that people are used to on their mobile phones,” he said. “What some of you may not know is that this is going to get delivered over multiple, simultaneous channels or slices to our mobile devices, as well as to our IoT endpoints. In addition to this, 5G will redefine cloud computing as we know it today. It’s going to become a much more distributed world, distributed pools of infrastructure capacity that are going to be resident at the edges of our networks compared to what we have today, which is hyperscale clouds concentrated in certain points across the globe. If you put all of this together, we are going to be experiencing an unimaginable scale of data creation and consumption at the endpoints and IoT devices supported by the edge infrastructure.”
John Roese, Dell’s president and CTO, told attendees that 2020 marks “our first step into the next data decade.”
“Our opinion is the limiting factor in unlocking this data era and this data decade is not a technology or business model problem,” he said. “The real problem is human capacity in the system. Today, the humans of the IT world, specifically developers, are still spending too much of their time dealing with low-level infrastructure tasks instead of building the algorithms and writing the code that are going to transform our businesses. And the best way for us at Dell to make sure that isn’t a catastrophic problem is to change the way that we build platforms for the digital business by aggressively moving to automate the IT infrastructure. And to be more direct, at Dell, we don’t just think automation is important to the future world, we actually believe that to build an AI-powered, digital business, in some cases it’s critical that if you don’t do it at extreme levels, you won’t get to the outcome you’re expecting.”
Matt Baker, Dell’s senior vice president of ISG Strategy; Jeff Boudreau, president of Dell’s infrastructure solutions group; Tom Burns, Dell’s senior vice president and general manager of networking and solutions; and Bill Wavro, president and general manager of Dell Financial Services, talked about what the next data decade will mean to business. The challenge of managing data will be the challenge of the next decade, with lots of opportunities for business.
Sam Burd, president of Dell’s client solutions group; Meghana Padwardhan, the group’s vice president; and Darrel Ward and Ed Ward, senior vice presidents, talked about priorities going forward when designing and building future generations of Dell PCs. Burd said Dell is going to continue investing in this area, and “we’re going to continue to evolve and innovate there.”
Dell’s Rugged laptops are put through their paces in the Extreme Computing Test Lab, led by systems principal engineer Anthony Bundrant. Testing includes exposure to extreme temperatures, dropping the laptops on wood, steel and concrete, spraying them on all sides with water, and opening and closing the laptops 150,000 times.
During a tour of the Extreme Computing Test Lab, visitors are shown how Dell Rugged laptops are hosed down with extreme pressure, and then checked for any potential damage.
In the Design Innovation Lab, Don Curlee, director of engineering at Dell, talked about the company’s new reusable tote for shipping big server products to large enterprise customers. With the tote, no cardboard is required for packing.
In Dell’s Wireless Design Lab, Hermes, a robot, tests the Wi-Fi range of laptops. The lab is focused on 4G, 5G, Wi-Fi, antennas and Bluetooth.
In Dell’s Wireless Design Lab, Hermes, a robot, tests the Wi-Fi range of laptops. The lab is focused on 4G, 5G, Wi-Fi, antennas and Bluetooth.
Last week’s Dell Technologies Summit 2019 highlighted the technology giant’s ambitious plans for the next 35 years.
This was the first time the annual event took place in Dell’s hometown of Austin, Texas. The overall theme was preparing for the next “data decade” and turning data into action to address society’s most-pressing issues.
Michael Dell, Dell’s chairman and CEO, told attendees “our world is being digitally transformed” and the acceleration toward everything connected and digitized is creating an enormous data stream. The challenge will be unlocking the power of data to solve the greatest challenges.
Dell’s 2030 goals include one-for-one recycling, women making up 50% of its global workforce, and providing access so everyone can participate in the digital economy. In addition, Dell will use digital tools to make it easier to get insights from, measure and monitor compliance issues using digital data.
Dell also talked about the importance of partners in its growth plans, saying $52 billion in orders came through partners in the last year.
Jeff Clarke, Dell’s vice chairman, said his company has rebuilt its “innovation engine and powered up our portfolio.”
“Today we’re taking a big step forward,” he said.
During the conference, Dell rolled out PowerOne autonomous infrastructure and “On Demand,” a set of consumption-based as-a-service offerings. Both will provide multiple new opportunities for partners, said Joyce Mullen, Dell’s president of global channel, embedded and edge solutions.
Scroll through our slideshow above for highlights from the conference.
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