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Will 5G blur the boundaries between network and compute?
Michael Dell is famous for saying, “Cloud is not a place; it’s a way of doing IT,” and the ways of “doing” information technology are changing as rapidly as the industry itself. As the lines between solutions blur, the decision-making process becomes less of a choice between A and B, and more of an open buffet where a customer ...
The obvious perks of automated checkout for the world’s largest cosmetics franchise
Transforming a retail business is more than providing virtual points of sale and opening products to online purchases. Physical stores are also undergoing major changes, as automation revolutionizes the check-out process. “Before digital transformation we lost sales because [of] … long [checkout] lines,” said Fernando Almeida (pictured), head of infrastructure datacenter at Grupo Boticário, a large perfume ...
‘Transformational certifications’ help narrow digital transformation skills gap
Automation, artificial intelligence and machine learning are buzz words that sound cool, but the C-suite needs to value skill-set transformation as they introduce new tech to the workplace. No matter how advanced the hardware and software, humans are still the backbone of any successful business. “You can have a common digital vision for your company, for your infrastructure, but ...
PowerEdge server line flexes further with kinetic composability
It’s fun to visualize the cloud as a nebulous haze filled with floating data, but as we all know, there is physical hardware behind the magic of cloud. Digitally transformed companies are using new technologies to extract insights from their data and applying them to gain an edge over their competitors, demanding ever increasing agility and ...
Toshiba and Dell collaborate to make memory faster, more secure
As the digital transformation of business gathers speed, information technology shifts from a cost-center item to a potential revenue stream. Speed and security have become key performance factors for memory, as technologies such as machine learning and artificial intelligence require real-time analysis, and C-suite security fears heighten the demand for data protection. “If you’re the ...
How VxRack Flex is bringing scalability to hyperconverged infrastructure
Why do-it-yourself if you don’t have to? The trend is for faster, simpler and more flexible as the nuts and bolts of system architecture become buried deeper and deeper under the hood. “We’ve quickly determined we can drive much better customer experience, much better customer outcomes as we lean more towards an appliance or an engineered system versus ...
Digital revolution leads to Dell EMC sales force evolution
As technology transforms society, sales managers become trusted advisers and companies weigh the social impact of their operations. “We’ve gone beyond the, ‘Hey, what do you do and how do you do it?’ … Now it’s like, ‘What is your purpose?’” said John Byrne (pictured), president of North America Commercial Sales at Dell Technologies Inc. “Our purpose is to ...
Open-converged infrastructure delivers on hype for Credit Union
Hyperconverged infrastructure solved many issues associated with storage arrays, but they still give information technology teams headaches over high costs, neighbor noise, time delays, and potential data loss. Open-converged infrastructure is touted as a solution to these problems, and the performance claims can seem too good to be true. “[When our back-up jobs] finished a third of the time faster, ...
Data protection strategies in a cloud-based environment
Bouncy businesses may seem like a Monty Pythonesque joke, but no one is laughing when it comes to cyberattacks. The risk is real, and the ability to recover fast if an attack happens could be the most useful security measure a business can put in place. “You can protect all that you want, there’s still no 100 ...
Hyperconverged VxRail was key to this hotel’s digital transformation
Businesses are feeling the urgency to step up and digitally transform as customers demand the level of service that only advanced technology can provide. Looking for a solution to serve its expanding guest capacity, Celtic Manor Resort Ltd, a hotel group based in Wales, U.K., deployed Dell EMC VxRail, a hyperconverged appliance that combines compute, storage, networking ...
