LAS VEGAS--When Michael Dell took the stage to open Dell Technologies World earlier this week in Las Vegas, it was difficult to imagine that the expansive, innovative company he leads started four decades ago selling souped-up IBM clones out of a University of Texas...
LAS VEGAS—Here at Dell Technologies World, there’s crystal clear acknowledgement that AI will be a very material force multiplier as essentially all companies endeavor to become technology companies. There’s also clear acknowledgement that doing AI isn’t as simple as writing a check to a...
Editor’s note: Michael Dell wrote a book, Play Nice but Win, published in 2021, that covers the early days of Dell which were marked by rapid growth and portfolio expansions, its transition from public to private and back to public, and otherwise reflects on...
Combining Dell infrastructure and services with NVIDIA GPUs and software, operators can bring gen AI to bear across OSS, BSS, core and RAN
Operators have access to a wealth of highly-contextualized data that, with the right approach, could be leveraged for a range of internal-facing...
There’s a disconnect between network infrastructure miniaturization and air-cooling techniques; liquid cooling is key to delivering vRAN for public and private networks
Operators globally are undertaking major radio access network (RAN) modernization projects with an emphasis on new distributed and open architectures and RAN virtualization...
Dell Technologies, Microsoft and Vodafone Business are combining private 5G and hybrid cloud at the on-premise edge in managed service offering
The needs of modern enterprises are becoming increasingly complex, increasingly quickly. The digital transformation imperative clearly involves leveraging hybrid cloud architectures extended all the...
The latest Dell Technologies PowerEdge XR8000 telco-grade servers feature the Intel 4th Gen Xeon Scalable Processors with optional vRAN Boost
With RAN modernization in the U.S. ongoing, and significant investment ramping in Europe and other markets, operators are increasingly focused on virtualization of radio access...
Casa Systems, Dell Technologies and Intel collaborate on a scale-up/scale-down approach to 5G core power management that doesn’t impact network performance
Whatever the 5G use case is, one of the results for operators is the need to serve more throughput per subscriber. At the same...
The Dell PowerEdge R7615 features AMD x86 cloud-native CPUs for telco cloud and network in power- and space-constrained environments
At the recent Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, a primary theme was the accelerating cloudification of telco networks in the move to 5G Standalone and decentralization...
With a private network-ready solution, Dell Technologies is tapping NVIDIA AI acceleration for manufacturing use cases
Leveraging its expertise in enterprise IT at the edge, and layering in cellular connectivity and AI processing powered by partner NVIDIA, Dell Technologies is looking to help industrial enterprises...
Be future-ready with Dell’s end to end portfolio of AI solutions
Dell Technologies showcased the latest generation of commercial Intel-powered devices at Mobile World Congress Barcelona 2024, all of which are equipped with AI enhancements. Gazal Shah, the Latitude product manager at Dell Technologies, explained...
As operators move on net-zero goals, the distribution of compute out of data centers could enable new use cases, new business models and new sustainability benefits
Mobile network architectures have been changing as operators look to gain deployment flexibility and vendor choice with radio access...
With the Microsoft Azure HCI Stack, Dell and Orange make cloud, connectivity and cybersecurity easy to consume, letting enterprises focus on doing what they do best
The vision of Industry 4.0 is important and clear. It’s about making industries smarter—using technology to become more operationally...
Leveraging Dell Technologies hardware, software and supply chain, DISH faced a “race against the clock.” And delivered
After nearly two decades of strategic spectrum acquisition followed by extensive partner ecosystem development effort, DISH Wireless began building a first-of-its-kind 5G Standalone network using Open RAN and...
In building and operationalizing its open, cloud-native 5G Standalone network, “Dell's been with us from day zero”
In June 2023, DISH Wireless announced it had hit a very important goal—its 5G Standalone network, built from the ground up using Open RAN and cloud-native principles, was...
With focuses from client to edge to RAN to core, Intel is all-in on AI for 5G
Mobile World Congress was big for Intel. In the larger sweep of 5G network disaggregation and automation, Intel has already built out a big partner ecosystem on its...
BARCELONA—I know the show is over but I’m leaving the dateline on because, of course, I’m still here. Mobile World Congress was good; so good, in fact, it’ll take me a few months and a couple of off-schedule visits to my therapist to make...
From vertical stacks to open, horizontal networks
As it continues to grow its Telecom Systems Business, Dell Technologies announced ahead of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona solutions that address ongoing operator efforts to broadly modernize, cloudily and automate network infrastructure and management processes. Dell’s telecom...
The transition of telecom core functions from purpose-built hardware to commercially available servers has introduced a number of challenges, including compute density, power efficiency, and performance optimization in a cloud environment. Since this large-scale migration kicked off about ten years ago, we’ve seen a...
I have been in the Telecom industry since 2004 when I started in network engineering at Verizon, this year marks 20 years in the industry! I ‘grew up’ Telecom and have worked in wireline, wireless and places where they converge, I have seen lots...
The sustainability North Star— “zero traffic, zero watt”
The radio access network (RAN) is the biggest energy draw in a mobile network. Because of this, network infrastructure vendors and operators are primarily focused on reducing power consumption in the radio domain. Doing this successfully has...
Dell SVP of AI Strategy talks through LLM curation, optimization for telco AI use cases
Earlier this year at Dell Tech World, company CEO, Chairman and Founder Michael Dell identified generative AI as among the five big challenges enterprises are facing. The others were the...
The Dell PowerEdge XE9680 GPU-enabled AI server is the “fastest ramping” new solution in the company’s history, COO Jeff Clarke said
After laying out a robust artificial intelligence (AI) strategy covering infrastructure and services across its businesses during Dell Technologies World in April, company COO...
Latest Intel processor integrates Layer 1 processing into SoC; available on Dell edge servers
Building on a strong pre-existing relationship, Dell Technologies and Intel continue to partner in an effort to accelerate commercial deployment of virtualized and open radio access networks. The latest from the...