Launched in 1994, when Bill Clinton was serving his first term as president, Dell EMC’s PowerEdge server line continues to be an important mainstay of the company’s business.

PowerEdge keeps on ticking along. Although the company doesn’t break out specific PowerEdge financial results, servers and networking is a $20-billion business growing at 28% year-over-year, according to Ashley Gorakhpurwalla (pictured), president and general manager of server and infrastructure systems at Dell EMC.

“We are operating from the smallest customer, you need one, all the way up to customers who need a million servers,” Gorakhpurwalla said. “We’re able to operate in a consistent PowerEdge tenet across all of that space.”

Gorakhpurwalla spoke with Stu Miniman (@stu) and Dave Vellante (@dvellante), co-hosts of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, during the Dell Tech World event in Las Vegas. They discussed recent enhancements to the server line, how data demands will change future architectures, and Dell EMC’s approach to delivering for customers (see the full interview with transcript here). (* Disclosure below.)

Support for new Intel CPUs

Earlier in April, Dell EMC announced a refresh of its PowerEdge server line to support new Intel Corp. central processing units. “We launched Cascade Lake with Intel bringing Optane into server class memory,” Gorakhpurwalla said. “The industry has been waiting for it, and we’re ready to deliver now.”

That Dell EMC continues to enhance PowerEdge speaks to an important shift taking place in how server architectures will be optimized moving forward. Gorakhpurwalla is certainly mindful of this as his company considers future enhancements.

“I think most of the architectures that we develop today are highly optimized for bringing data into a processor, calculating and storing,” Gorakhpurwalla explained. “We’re not necessarily bringing the data, describing the rules, called software, and then getting the answers anymore. We kind of know the answers already, we want it to calculate rules for us, and that’s the output.”

As it powers through a third decade, Dell EMC’s approach to what its server business can deliver for customers has remained consistent.

“Our standard is if you do business with us, we want you to win in your segment,” Gorakhpurwalla said. “We want you to transform faster than your competition. We think we can do that for people.”

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the Dell Tech World 2019 event. (*Disclosure: Dell Technologies Inc. sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither Dell nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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