Another day, another forecast; this one from Informa-owned analyst company Omdia, which says global market revenue from “mission-critical” data centre storage will reach $103 billion by 2028. The projected growth is down to more sales and higher prices, it said, as digital transformation extends...
Telecommunication networks are becoming more and more essential every day and, in the process, gaining new opportunities. These opportunities will drive new business growth and create exciting areas for revenue generation. However, as with all opportunities, challenges exist and for communication service providers (CSPs),...
MobiledgeX CEO: 'Seamster is meant to help everybody in the world be successful when it comes to edge computing'
Seamster, the global edge computing initiative dedicated to enterprise use case exploration and adoption, launched this week during a virtual event with support from members from...
Latency-sensitive 5G use cases require edge computing investment
If you surveyed the greater telecoms industry, you'd likely get a long list of definitions of what (or where) exactly the edge of the network is; similarly, you'd probably return with a litany of potential deployment strategies--operator-led,...
LAS VEGAS--This week during Dell Technologies World the family of companies made clear how its hybrid, multi-cloud strategy spanning edge, core and cloud is an imperative for enterprise digital transformation. And, while the digital transformation of telcos will serve as a catalyst for operators'...
The value of 5G comes from ‘giving voice’ to the internet of things
LAS VEGAS--As hybrid, multi-cloud IT strategies gain adoption by enterprises, including communications service providers, 5G is “knocking on the door,” according to K.C. Choi, Dell EMC’s SVP of Global Systems Engineering. And...
We are entering the ‘data era,’ Dell Technologies Vice Chairman Jeff Clarke says
LAS VEGAS--At a high-level, digital transformation encompasses technology investments that allow a business to capture, analyze and use data to improve operational efficiencies and create new revenue streams. A necessary and complex...
Dell SVP discusses 5G as driver of AI, network disaggregation
LAS VEGAS--Digital transformation, driven by the intersection of distributed multi-cloud computing, internet of things devices generating data and powerful 5G connectivity, is key to the long-term viability of Dell Technologies’ global customer base--that’s a prominent...
LAS VEGAS--Dell Technologies CEO Michael Dell took a circumspect look at the company's mission and future during a presentation that kicked off programming at the annual Dell Tech World.
Dell characterized his namesake group of brands "the essential infrastructure company," and noted a $20 billion...
HANNOVER, Germany--The current conversation around 5G is very much consumer-facing. If you attended Mobile World Congress Barcelona this year, chances are you heard more than once about the coming wave of 5G smartphones and hot spots. And while this is certainly an auspicious and...
The combination of 5G, IoT and edge requires a multi-cloud strategy
With device support and scaling networks, 2019 will be a big year for the commercialization of 5G but is still very much in the early days. Enhanced mobile broadband that brings higher data speeds...
Dell EMC CTO John Roese laid out a vision of the transition to 5G where the technology exists in small, mostly industrial pockets around the world for the first couple of years before becoming pervasive enough to make real inroads in the consumer space:...
5G is the first generation of cellular born in the cloud.
Like electricity and water, cellular connectivity has become a commodity that’s an essential part of modern society, the medium that will allow innovation in real-time data environments. and its ability to innovate in real-time...
The Linux Foundation has started a new umbrella organisation, LF Edge, to establish an open, interoperable framework for edge computing that is independent of hardware, silicon, cloud, or operating system.
The launch “changes the IoT and edge computing landscape,” it said in a press note....
The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) has announced results from a pair of testbeds investigating, alternatively, artificial intelligence (AI) for smart buildings management and ways to connect up old factories to new smart manufacturing tools.
In the first case, Dell EMC and Toshiba have developed an...
The City of Delft, in the Netherlands, has appointed Dell EMC and Nokia as the leading parties in a public-private partnership to introduce semi-autonomous barges on the city’s underused canals to reduce traffic on its congested streets. The pair will provide compute, storage, data...
VMware bolsters its position in CSP service assurance with agreement to buy Dell EMC's service assurance suite, team
VMware has agreed to buy Dell EMC's service assurance software for network performance monitoring and root-cause analysis in communications service provider networks, saying that the capabilities will...
MetaSwitch and Dell EMC offer joint solution
Telecommunications software company MetaSwitch and Dell EMC announced a collaboration, which involves combining the former company's Composable Network Protocols (CNP) IP routing and MPLS networking stacks with the latter company's EMC OS10 Open Edition. As part of the collaboration,...
Dell EMC announces Virtual Edge Platform (VEP) family
Dell EMC is taking open networking to the edge for next-generation access with the introduction of a new family of products, referred to as the VEP family. The VEP family includes the EMC VEP4600 along with three...
Following reports that Dell Technologies is evaluating a reverse merger with VMware, the latter company's CEO Pat Gelsinger on Friday commented on the evolving situation.
"We are not in a position to speculate on the outcome of Dell’s evaluation of potential business opportunities. Dell has...
Projects emphasize the role of distributing compute power to the network edge, and taking a vertically-focused approach to IoT solutions development
The marriage of the internet of things (IoT) with artificial intelligence-powered data analysis is the animating principle of Dell Technologies' IoT strategy, which, as...
Q&A with director of Dell EMC's Extreme Scale Infrastructure Unit on the network edge, telco's real estate advantage compared to hyperscale players and more
Jyeh Gan, director Dell EMC's Extreme Scale Infrastructure unit, laid out the dynamics driving increased competition between wireless carriers and hyperscale...
Dell EMC and BT partner on PoC to use disaggregated switches to manage network traffic
Dell EMC and BT announced they are collaborating on a trial centered on how disaggregated switches can create flexible, open networks. The companies are tag teaming a proof-of-concept at BT...
