With businesses aggressively embracing digital transformation, it has become imperative organisations to transform their IT infrastructure for driving better business outcomes and attaining a competitive edge. In 2019, Dell Technologies accelerated the digital transformation journey for their customers – through an innovative and holistic range of products and solutions by revamping their IT infrastructure – enabling organisations to gain agility and scalability for their future growth strategy.
Sharing a year round up of some of the major announcements made by the brand in the year 2019:
Dell Technologies, in collaboration with Intel and Vanson Bourne conducted a study by surveying 4,600 business leaders (director to C-suite) from mid- to large-sized companies across the globe to score their organizations' transformation efforts. The study revealed that India is the most digitally mature country in the world. Leaders in India are more aware of the need to prioritize digital transformation throughout their organization: 91% of business leaders believe that digital transformation should be more widespread, compared to 78% globally. Almost half (48%) (51% globally), believe they'll struggle to meet changing customer demands within five years.
Dell EMC unveiled the results of a survey of more than 2,200 IT decision makers across 18 countries globally on the maturity of their data protection strategies and how they value data. The study revealed an increasing growth rate of data of 130% in Indian organizations (vis-a-vis globally: 569%) and an impressive jump in data protection "adopters" of nearly 50 percentage points (48%) since 2016. The Index also uncovered an increase in the average amount of data managed – from 2.79 petabytes (PB) in 2016 to 6.43PB in 2018 in India (vis-à-vis globally: 1.45 petabytes (PB) in 2016 to 9.70PB in 2018) and that the Index uncovered an increase in the average amount of data managed – from 2.79 petabytes (PB) in 2016 to 6.43PB in 2018 in India (vis-à-vis globally: 1.45 petabytes (PB) in 2016 to 9.70PB in 2018) and that 93% of Indian respondents see the potential value of data (vis-à-vis globally:92%).
Dell Technologies in partnership with Institute for the Future (IFTF) launched a three-report series – Future of the Economy, Future of Work & Future of Connected Living – exploring how emerging technologies could change our lives, work and the economy over the next decade.
The report offered insights around how the emerging technologies such as – 5G, IoT, AI, Blockchain have the potential to enable large-scale shifts that could transform the future of the economy by 2030 – allowing individuals, organizations and governments to collaborate more seamlessly and unlock new sources of revenue and inclusion.
Dell Technologies Summit 2019 was hosted in Austin, Texas themed around converting data into action to change the way enterprises do business and address some of the world's most pressing problems. The Summit highlighted new generation technologies that can help enterprises to make the most of the data.
Dell Technologies Forum, the brand's flagship event took place across 4 Indian cities – Delhi, Hyderabad, Mumbai & Bengaluru – with "Real Transformation" as an overarching theme. These forums witnessed dedicated content sessions from the Dell Technologies companies such as VMware, RSA and Pivotal. By bringing together the industry thought leaders, the strategic partners and the customers, all under one roof, these forums provided insights into the next technological revolution.
Dell Technologies introduced PowerProtect DD Series Appliances, the next- generation of its Data Domain protection storage appliances, enabling organizations to protect, manage and recover data at scale across diverse environments. In addition, Dell Technologies also announced new enhancements to Dell EMC Cyber Recovery, now Dell EMC PowerProtect Cyber Recovery, and to Dell EMC PowerProtect Software that will provide customers with cyber resiliency and support for workloads on PowerProtect DD Series Appliances.
With 29.6% industry share (as per vender revenues), Dell Technologies maintained its leadership in Indian external storage market, as per IDC Q2, 2019 report. The company also witnessed a strong YoY growth of 32.5% Q2 2019 in the same segment.
Dell Technologies introduced a portfolio of all-new Dell EMC PowerEdge servers that are designed to address the demands of the modern data center. Engineered to unlock the full potential of 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processors. The new servers offer customers improved performance and easier to manage and secure platforms.
Dell EMC announced new updates to VxBlock which provides higher scalability, broader choice of components for consolidating mixed workloads and the flexibility to incorporate new technology while protecting previous investments in the system. With sizing, design and deployment resources, Ready Stack enables customers and channel partners to build their own converged infrastructure, with flexibility of component choice and expert guidance, all from a single trusted vendor. The new updates deliver cloud operations faster and more efficiently and protects high-value, mission-critical workloads with new storage and data protection options.