2030 Moonshot Goals outlined by Dell Technologies

At the Dell Summit 2019, recently held at Austin-Texas, the Tech giant announced two new services - Dell EMC PowerOne and Dell Technologies on Demand and defined the vision for Dell Technologies for 2030. Discussions on industry transformation with 5G, automation and IT and power of compute in the next decade were also the highlights of the event. Michael Dell took the centre stage with the theme - The next data decade. According to him, there is a focus on advancing sustainability, cultivating inclusion, gender equality, and one-for-one recycling.

Michael Dell, Chairman and CEO, Dell Technologies said, "We are rapidly rushing forward to a connected and intelligent world, as 5G is coming around the corner, along with artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning and neural networks. All the physical aspects are becoming instrumented and connected and digitized. That's creating this stream of data in the digital universe; it's everywhere and in everything. It's in our homes or buildings or cars or in the entire world. This is digital transformation." 

“Dell has always been a technology optimist. We are democratizing access to technology. Today, technology is more connected, and more powerful. There has been an astonishing world. There is 5G, AI, neural networks, etc., coming along. We can do much more. We are now looking at the next data decade. The opportunity is to put all of this data to work. Dell unlocks the power of technology and makes it work to solve problems.”

“In 2007, the entire cellular network in the US consisted of 86 petabytes of data, but today, 86 petabytes moves across the cellular network in 18 hours. Ten years from now, 86 petabytes will move across the cellular network in only 10 minutes. "This is why we call it the next data decade," he said.

On Demand and Power One to address emerging trends

The company set the stage to introduce Dell Technologies On Demand, a set of consumption-based and as-a-service offerings on the industry’s broadest infrastructure portfolio that deliver IT with the agility of cloud and the control, performance and predictability of on-premises infrastructure. The company is expanding its extensive flexible consumption portfolio to support Dell EMC PowerEdge servers and the new Dell EMC PowerOne autonomous infrastructure system.  From building a micro-sensor into a small finger ring to transforming autonomous vehicles, including aircraft by redefining artificial intelligence (AI), Dell seems determined to shape the world by the next decade through a revolution in processing and storing data. On Demand is a consumption-based and as-a-service offering that delivers IT with the agility of cloud and the control, performance, and predictability of on-premises infrastructure.

The on demand model offers three pay per use consumption models including Pay As You Grow, that lets users to pay on deployment schedules; Flex On Demand, offering monthly payment solutions across the entire Dell Technologies portfolio; and Data Center Utility, which delivers to cover business requirements across the ecosystem.  

Flex On Demand is available in 23 countries, with a total of 50 countries having access to the option through Dell Technologies' partner ecosystem. On Demand will not be available in the Indian markets as of now but shall be available by early 2020. As part of this new offering, the company is also expanding its flexible consumption portfolio to support Dell EMC PowerEdge servers, in addition to the new Dell EMC PowerOne autonomous infrastructure system. 

Jeff Clarke, Vice Chairman, Dell Technologies said, "The multi-cloud world is here and will only grow, which means customers need on-demand and consistent infrastructure that yield predictable outcomes across all of their clouds, data centres, and edge locations. Dell Technologies On Demand makes it possible for organisations to plan, deploy, and manage their entire IT footprint. They can choose how they consume and pay for IT solutions that meet their needs with the freedom and flexibility to evolve as their needs change over time."

To this Michael Dell added, “Unlocking the power of data will advance humanity more than any other force over the next decade. We are committed to making that power broadly available to communities around the world so we can all move forward together.”

Dell Technologies has also introduced Dell EMC PowerOne autonomous infrastructure proclaimed as making it easier to deploy, manage, and consume IT. PowerOne integrates PowerEdge compute, PowerMax storage, PowerSwitch networking, and VMware virtualisation into a single system, and it is designed to deliver the services, security, and resiliency required by mission critical and emerging artificial intelligence and machine learning applications. PowerOne autonomous infrastructure automates IT which helps customers to focus less on managing technology and more on benefiting from it. PowerOne components include: PowerOne Controller, PowerEdge MX, PowerSwitch, PowerMax, and PowerProtect. The Dell EMC PowerOne autonomous infrastructure with built-in intelligence can automate thousands of tasks and deliver ready-to-run resources in a few clicks, shifting IT staff from routine to strategic objectives. This helps remove the complexity of managing multiple clouds by bringing consistent infrastructure and operations across private clouds, public clouds, and edge locations.

These All-in-one system with automation for Dell EMC PowerEdge servers, PowerSwitch networking, PowerMax storage and options for PowerProtect data protection that is deployed, managed and maintained holistically.

It is available through Dell Technologies on Demand with a portfolio of flexible payment options, supports acquisition of system capabilities as needed to balance CAPEX and OPEX.

PowerOne possesses a built-in, advanced automation engine that takes advantage of a Kubernetes microservices architecture and uses Ansible workflows to assist users by automating the component configuration and provisioning, delivering a customer-managed data centre-as-a-service. PowerOne caters to large enterprises, financial and healthcare sectors.

John Roese, President and Chief Technology Officer, Products and Operations, Dell Technologies said, "PowerOne is Dell Technologies instantiated as an all in one autonomous system. It is the first time after we've done the end-to-end product refresh of our infrastructure products that we are putting all of the Power branded products together in a new form factor, a new system, and that system really has one goal: Building infrastructure in a way that is frictionless and low effort and easy, compared to the current status quo."

Roese said, “Two things, that is Innovation and automation are Core to PowerOne. You can't build autonomous infrastructure with dumb products, so we've made our products smart, we've invested AI intelligence in them. It also provides integration into cloud management toolsets, such as VMware vRealize.”

"PowerOne is now joining the Dell Technologies Cloud portfolio to help customers build this multi-cloud infrastructure. It brings the data centre, physical infrastructure into the cloud world at an entirely new level,” he said.

PowerOne will be available from 22 November 2019 through the company's newly announced Dell Technologies on Demand offering.

Sustainable measures towards Society and the Planet

Along with the new services, Dell also emphasized the company's push for societal change in its 2030 Progress Made Real plan. Over the next decade, Dell Technologies will use its global scale, broad technology portfolio and expertise to yield meaningful and measurable impact on society and the planet.

Michael Dell said, “We feel women will comprise 50 percent of our global workforce by 2030. We need everyone’s participation in the digital economy. There are going to be hundreds of jobs coming by 2030. We are looking at touching a billion lives by 2030. I am very excited to see the role Dell is going to play. We are looking at data to help build a much better world in the future.”

Over the next decade, with a focus on cultivating inclusion, Dell committed to having 50% of the company's global workforce occupied by women, with 40% of global managers being female. Dell aims to advance sustainability by recycling an equivalent product for every product bought, use 100% recycled or renewable material in all packaging, setting emissions goals across facilities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 60% per unit revenue by 2030Dell is not only helping the enterprise grow technologically, but is socially responsible too.