Dell Technologies World kicked off in Las Vegas again this year., with a jam-packed few days of innovation and insights into the future of technology.
With their schedules set for an exciting week ahead, our team captured their experiences throughout the event and share the key highlights.
Hear from our Senior Solutions Architect Imran Arshad, on his experience and takeaways from this year's Dell Technologies World 2024.
With another fantastic Dell Technologies World in the bag, it was the best yet! Joining our CEO Justin Harling and Head of Technical Services Mark Birchall for an insightful week, from the moment we entered the event, it was clear that Dell continues to excel at technological innovation, leading the industry towards an exciting future.
Key highlights
AI and AI Factory
During the week, I joined several enlightening AI Keynotes and sessions, providing a comprehensive overview of Dell’s and Nvidia, engineered solution for AI factory. No wonder Jensen Huang loves Micheal Dell so much!
Dell AI Factory was the main event built on:
- XE9680 with Nvidia Blackwell GPUs, and XE9680L capable of running a ridiculous 72 GPUs in a rack
- PowerScale F910 announced boosting AI performance
- Broadcom 400G PCIe Gen 5.0 NICs with Dell PowerSwitch Z9864F-ON providing massive bandwidth
- Dell Enterprise Hub on Hugging Face
- Copilot+ PCs powered by Snapdragon processors
- AI at the Edge use cases
Also discussed was Dell's Data Lakehouse architecture built on ECS/Object/Scale/ PowerScale, and powered by #Starburst. Also mentioned were some interesting additional capabilities from #Zetaris.
One of my favourite sessions, showed how North-Western Medicine Hospital saved 40% of Radiologist time using their own AI to generate Radiologist reports - the power of AI really is incredible!
APEX File/Block and Navigator.
There are some great Multi-Cloud File and Block solutions now available from Dell, fully available on AWS, Azure and GCP. APEX Navigator I think, is the key as it automates deployment, management, updates, and data movement between on-premises and APEX Block and File solutions.
The PowerFlex sessions were also interesting - a big future ahead with some exciting developments to come making it even more competitive.
Native Edge
The Native Edge sessions showed how Dell’s solutions are revolutionising edge computing, described as the cloud moment for the edge. Increased visibility, automated processes, improved security, and streamlined deployment, reducing TCO.
There is also extensive future development, including support for BareMetal Kubernetes, high availability (HA) enhancements and SaaS based management capability, which we would all love to see!
PowerStore
There were a few pleasant surprises this week. one being the PowerStore Prime 4.0 enhancements.
Introducing new features such as:
- Lifecycle Extension Pro-support
- improved compression efficiency
- 5:1 data reduction guarantee
- Stretched cluster support for Windows and Linux systems
These enhancements are designed to optimise performance, reliability, and customer experience ensuring that PowerStore is now primed to take the market by storm.
In conclusion, it has been a phenomenal week, highlighting Dell's strategic end to end vision and initiatives, particularly in AI across On-Prem, Multi-Cloud, Edge computing and Devices Fittings. Looking forward to next year already!
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