Dell EMC to execute for longevity in new data centers

#Dell #EMC, as a combined company, will execute for longevity in next generation data centers, says Krista Macomber, senior analyst, Data Center TBR. The Dell EMC World 2016 customer and partner event showcased the benefits of scale and early product integration from the newly combined Dell EMC organization. Customers are turning at a quickening pace to increasingly converged and virtualized IT assets and “as a Service” IT delivery to evolve their underlying infrastructure from a cumbersome cost center to an agile enabler of business productivity and advantage. In this climate of heavy disruption, incumbent vendors must disrupt long-standing business models in kind for future relevancy. Discussions at Dell EMC World 2016 indicated that the heritage Dell and EMC organizations have completed initial planning and are beginning to collaboratively execute on a portfolio and go-to-market vision that more effectively addresses customers’ quickly evolving workload requirements as a combined company. Today’s rapidly modernizing business environment requires customers to undergo substantial IT and process change. For its part, the Dell EMC organization will differentiate by providing more comprehensive next-generation infrastructure capabilities as a combined company. It will also mesh the heritage Dell stance as the IT organization for its large concentration of midmarket customers with the heritage EMC cachet in providing reliable innovation for mission-critical large enterprise workloads, to serve as an adviser that maps customers’ evolving workload and application requirements to optimized underlying IT resources. This strategy will enable Dell EMC to maximize its core strengths, go to market with a clear and sticky value proposition, and hone in on the divergent requirements of the vast customer base, spanning SMBs to large enterprises, that it addresses. To serve as this next-generation IT enabler, Dell EMC has identified three core tenets it will execute on: modernizing the underlying IT architecture, automating service delivery and management, and enabling hybrid cloud-driven operations transformation. While Dell EMC will lead the infrastructure modernization charge, it will heavily tap VMware for automation, and Virtustream as well as other third-party cloud service provider partners such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google to support cloud transformation. With these tenets, Dell EMC is establishing a framework that astutely distills the major pillars of data center modernization initiatives that are inherently plagued with complexity, but is also flexible enough to be adapted to customers’ particular requirements.

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