Dell EMC World 2017 Thoughts
As every year, for quite some time, we had the Dell EMC World (formerly known as EMC world) in Las Vegas, Nevada from May 8th to May 11th.
What made it even more special than other EMC worlds before it is that this was the first time Dell Technologies and EMC came together as a single company,
marking it the first trade show ever since the long anticipated $67 billion mega-merge of 2016.
At this year’s Dell EMC World 2017, (now affectionately referred to as DEW), Michael took the stage like the rock star CEO that he is, with Van Halen thumping over the sound system. Last year Dell looked confident in the direction the company was headed, this year at DEW in Las Vegas he looked downright pumped.
Enclosed is the 14th generation of Dell Servers.
The OpenManage console represents direct integration between Dell server and EMC storage resources, giving the customer a unified UI for the platform. As you can imagine, this will be a strong selling point with IT managers as they will be able to take advantage of this expanded set of common APIs giving them a familiar feel and the ability to control and provision resources across a combined Dell-powered infrastructure. If there’s one take-away I had from the show, it was that Dell Technologies’ goal is to build a soup-to-nuts platform for IT transformation – from compute and cloud, to big data analytics, storage and storage management, virtualization, and security.
Of course, there was quite a bit of emphasis on storage and the different products for software define storage (SDS) like Scale IO and multiple hardware configurations than go from hybrid to all flash super high performance.
Finally, it is was worth mentioning some innovation on AR/VR technolgy. One of these collaboration was done with Dari, using its industrial AR application portfolio with smart helmets and glasses, providing guided work and powerful data virtualization and remote expert instructions.
Another quite interesting development, was that Nike showcased cutting-edge athletic shoe conceptualization and design on Canvas, with its innovative pen and totem interface giving designers and artists the ability to stay in their creation flow while still having access to critical tools and controls.
What made it even more special than other EMC worlds before it is that this was the first time Dell Technologies and EMC came together as a single company,
marking it the first trade show ever since the long anticipated $67 billion mega-merge of 2016.
At this year’s Dell EMC World 2017, (now affectionately referred to as DEW), Michael took the stage like the rock star CEO that he is, with Van Halen thumping over the sound system. Last year Dell looked confident in the direction the company was headed, this year at DEW in Las Vegas he looked downright pumped.
It is not unusual to seeing top CEO’s excited about a company’s competitive prospects but whether it was in Michael’s opening keynote or the follow-on sessions with top Dell Technologies execs, the strategic advantage of the company’s now more tightly integrated and massive portfolio, was more than palpable. Take, for example, the announcement of the company’s 14th generation Dell PowerEdge Servers. The May 8th press release underscores key benefits, like exponential increases in low latency NVMe storage and a 50% increase GPU-compute density, but there’s also a tighter coupling with software defined storage (SDS) environments and Dell's new OpenManage Enterprise console.
Enclosed is the 14th generation of Dell Servers.
The OpenManage console represents direct integration between Dell server and EMC storage resources, giving the customer a unified UI for the platform. As you can imagine, this will be a strong selling point with IT managers as they will be able to take advantage of this expanded set of common APIs giving them a familiar feel and the ability to control and provision resources across a combined Dell-powered infrastructure. If there’s one take-away I had from the show, it was that Dell Technologies’ goal is to build a soup-to-nuts platform for IT transformation – from compute and cloud, to big data analytics, storage and storage management, virtualization, and security.
Of course, there was quite a bit of emphasis on storage and the different products for software define storage (SDS) like Scale IO and multiple hardware configurations than go from hybrid to all flash super high performance.
Finally, it is was worth mentioning some innovation on AR/VR technolgy. One of these collaboration was done with Dari, using its industrial AR application portfolio with smart helmets and glasses, providing guided work and powerful data virtualization and remote expert instructions.
Another quite interesting development, was that Nike showcased cutting-edge athletic shoe conceptualization and design on Canvas, with its innovative pen and totem interface giving designers and artists the ability to stay in their creation flow while still having access to critical tools and controls.
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