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Source: Corporate. delltechnologies.com analyzed and the benefit of it can be seen everywhere because the entire world is being digitally transformed. But it is not what it looks like. It is becoming increasingly fragmented among heterogeneous environments. Data is increasingly siloed across a multi-cloud world. Now think about the explosion in the edge and the amount of data and compute that’s going to be required at the edge. There are autonomous factories, all kinds of moving vehicles, aeronautical vehicles, transportation, delivery services, hospitals, buildings. And the demands of performance, latency, cost, security, compliance are all going to require orders of magnitude of more data and processing power at the edge than in all of the clouds combined. It means a massive build-out in edge computing. A highly distributed model processing data with Artificial Intelligence making decisions in real-time. And if the environment is fragmented right now, as everything in the world becomes intelligent and connected, as
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infrastructure gets exponentially more distributed and more verticals are included, the fragmentation explodes along with it. This can be a future problem that creates enormous complexities. Worse will be that Artificial intelligence and Machine Learning won’t work if data is fragmented in hundreds or thousands of different places and databases. Without data integration or coordination, it is just noise and some kind of chaos. So, the integration and the security of data are the biggest challenges going forward. The promise of all this data and the progress from all this data is just a promise unless all the data is brought together to do something useful with it, while at the same time protecting it and securing it. And Dell Technologies can do this. They are positioned to be the open simplifier, preserving and moving data across this environment in an increasingly fragmented environment. This was the whole plot of bringing together Dell and EMC and VMware with a leading developer
platform, with cloud integration, and security. They are integrating its innovation across Dell Technologies to create a simple data application and operations environment that is simple, open, and unified. The applications and workloads can move safely in virtual machines and containers through an abstracted infrastructure that is software-defined, intelligent and autonomous. DELL TECHNOLOGIES CLOUD PLATFORM There is also the deep technical integration that’ is going on between VMware and Pivotal, setting the standard for how you manage and develop in Kubernetes. Its 600,000 vSphere customers have 70 million virtualized workloads. And, this is bigger than all the public clouds combined. By integrating Kubernetes into vSphere, customers can operate their development environment with the same management and automation tools that