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There’s more to hybrid information technology than cloud and on-premises data centers. The edge is exploding; and now, “near-cloud” is wending its way into the picture. This is giving infrastructure companies, like Dell Technologies Inc., new ideas about how to develop, sell and service hardware outside of the old on-prem model.
Dell might be synonymous with the on-premises infrastructure in many people’s minds. However, it’s setting its sights afield lately to cater to customers with widely varying needs.
“We’re trying to build outcomes for customers,” said Devon Reed (pictured, right), senior director of product management at Dell.
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We all live on the edge or at least close to it. Whether it’s the smart thermostat in your living room, the desktop computer in your home office, or the GPS in your car, most devices we rely on our in daily lives answer back to the cloud.
With so many devices on the edge, however, managing each separate device, as well as the general infrastructure, can become a challenge.
“What we see is not only the need of processing [artificial intelligence and machine learning] at the edge, but also the need of a new type of compute at the edge,” said Gil Shneorson (pictured, left), senior vice president of edge computing offers, strategy and execution at Dell Technologies Inc. “So in the past you would just send the data to the cloud. Now it’s a form of a new computer with [graphics processing unit] capability and other things to process the data.”