It Takes Two to Tanzu

January is the month for a fresh start. Especially after this past year, many of us resolved to reduce stress and simplify. If you’re like me and the millions of others who hope to make our lives easier in 2021, there is good news from Dell EMC PowerEdge and VMware. vSphere with Tanzu Basic is available through Dell Technologies, so you can easily and quickly get started with Kubernetes on PowerEdge servers. So, while VMware Tanzu may not be able to shovel your driveway, help your son with his virtual book report or tackle that pile of your laundry in your dining room, it CAN simplify your container management. And that’s a huge win right there.

Whether you’re brand new to containers or are looking for a way to simplify and secure the process, PowerEdge and VMware can help you quickly and more easily get started with Kubernetes and position you to future-proof your infrastructure.

Kubernetes = the Future of Modern Applications

Modern applications are increasingly built using containers. However, as these applications grow to span multiple containers, operating them gets more and more complex. This is where Kubernetes comes in. Kubernetes helps by managing clusters of virtual machines, grouping containers into pods, and scheduling containers to run based on available resources. It brings operations and software development together, simplifying the entire process.

Although containers have been around longer, Kubernetes is only about five years old (still a wee preschooler in tech years). But during that time the growth has been exponential — and there are no signs of slowing down. Consider:

◉ Gartner predicts that by 2025 more than 85% of global organizations will be running containerized applications in production – a significant increase from fewer than 35% in 2019.

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◉ By the same year more than 80% of independent software vendors (ISVs) will offer their application software in container format (up from less than 10% today).

Additionally, according to the VMware State of Kubernetes 2020 Report, Kubernetes use grew to 48% in 2020, up from 27% in 2018. Interestingly, the same report (which surveyed 247 individuals actively using Kubernetes) found that 60% of the time Kubernetes was deployed on-premises. Which means that organizations are taking advantage of existing infrastructure and established virtual environments to get started with Kubernetes.

For organizations still considering getting on the Kubernetes train, 2021 is the year many will jump on board.

Running Kubernetes Doesn’t Have to Be Complex

If you’re reading this, there’s a good chance your organization is already using, or at least considering using, containers — and you realize the need to support them. Wouldn’t it be great to embrace the newest technology and still manage the containerized applications using your existing tools? Fortunately, VMware Tanzu Basic enables you to do this securely, so you can quickly get started with Kubernetes.

VMware Tanzu Basic simplifies Kubernetes operation on-premises, uniting VMs and containers to offer a single application platform. It gives you everything you need to run Kubernetes using what you already know and love: vSphere.

vSphere 7 embeds Kubernetes in the vSphere control plane, which benefits both operators AND developers. Operators gain access to Kubernetes capabilities through a familiar set of tools and scripts, while developers can access cloud resources using Kubernetes APIs.

There’s no need to reinvent the wheel when you can use tools you’re already familiar with.  Not only is this approach less daunting for anyone on the fence about using Kubernetes, but it’s more efficient and makes it easier to quickly get started. Which is important, considering enterprises are predicted to build over 500 million logical apps using cloud native tools and methods over the next five years (equal to the total number of apps built over the last 40 years!).

PowerEdge & VMware Partnership

To maximize performance, it’s no secret that great software runs best on great hardware. Together, PowerEdge and VMware combine best‑in‑class hardware and software to help you expand your modernization efforts. For over 20 years, we’ve worked closely to integrate our technology, solutions and support. With a focus on performance, scalability and security we work together to bring the best solutions to our joint customers.

Dell was one of the first to implement vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM) when it was released as part of vSphere 7, bringing together firmware and software updates for simplified lifecycle management. When used with the OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter (OMIVV) plug-in, you can simplify management in a familiar environment. Together, OMIVV and vLCM help organizations complete hypervisor and firmware updates in under 4 minutes (versus 3.5 hours manually) for an 8‑node PowerEdge cluster.

Additionally, we have the support you need. Dell has over 1,800 VMware-certified Dell Support professionals ready to help, so most hardware and software issues are resolved with a single phone call.

Dell offers Tanzu Basic OEM both as a standalone license as well as bundled together with vSphere 7 Enterprise Plus. To learn more about the benefits of running  Tanzu on Dell EMC PowerEdge Servers, view this PowerEdge and vSphere with Tanzu infographic or visit our solutions page.

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Digital Transformation Starts at C Level

When a company is under enough pressure, it is capable of implementing incredible changes. That’s why crises always bring about opportunities: They drive forward innovations that are urgently needed and often even overdue. Little has made this as clear as the COVID-19 pandemic, which laid bare the extensive shortcomings in terms of digitalization in the economy last spring. Even just making it possible for employees to work from home was a massive undertaking for many companies. Multiple elements were lacking, such as mobile devices and efficient network infrastructures, as well as applications and services for communicating and collaborating with colleagues, business partners, and customers.

Solutions for remote working have existed for years, yet many a business leader avoided making the investment or were concerned about employee productivity. It took COVID-19 to show many that remote work is not an end in and of itself, but rather a part of resilience strategies that make it possible for companies to continue conducting business under exceptional circumstances. That’s why we have seen the resistance to working outside of the traditional office environment dwindle in recent months. According to the Digital Transformation Index from Dell Technologies, twice as many people are now working from home since the pandemic began.

According to this global survey, four out of five companies ramped up their digital transformation and above all, invested in remote working and cybersecurity. However, apart from client solutions, they were rather cautious and did not push forward with important infrastructure modernization projects due to a lack of resources. In view of the uncertain economic outlook, many companies are still putting the brakes on investments in IT projects that are not directly related to working efficiently from home, thus jeopardizing their digital future.

A recent study shows that they are aware of this problem: According to the Digital Transformation Index, 89 percent of companies are of the opinion that they need more agile and scalable infrastructures. These can only be achieved, however, if they continue to invest in a more balanced and future-oriented fashion. Hybrid cloud infrastructures need to replace outdated infrastructure silos so that companies can react flexibly to changing requirements and take advantage of the benefits of a multi-cloud approach. These kinds of infrastructures are also the basis for new services and business models that utilize future technologies, such as 5G and edge computing, and offer companies more freedom to implement their resources thanks to as-a-Service models.

The majority of companies are at least planning to address this issue in the next one to three years and want to invest in multi-cloud environments and container solutions, edge applications, 5G, AI, and robotics, and not to mention, of course, cybersecurity and data management so they can get a handle on and protect the inevitable data growth brought about by 5G and edge computing. In any case, they need to follow through with their good intentions and transfer this verve for digitalization, which has so far been acutely focused on remote working, into other areas.

This is where the company management comes in. It needs to provide transformation projects with explicit, unambiguous support and not put them on hold as was too often the case with working from home before COVID-19. Executives should also invest in building up the digital skills of their employees and promote cross-departmental discussions about experiences in digitalization projects, neither of which, unfortunately, take place in even half of companies today. It is even more often the case that a modern corporate culture, in which mistakes are seen as opportunities for improvement, is lacking. However, employees require such an environment to be able to contribute their ideas and test new solutions and technologies.

The fact that according to the Digital Transformation Index, discussions with C-level management to identify projects that are suited for digitalization are held in only less than a third of companies, makes me wonder. This goes to show that there is only limited interest in this topic, which should be receiving the utmost attention. Appointing a dedicated Chief Digital Officer or Chief Data Officer can help establish digital transformation as an important topic at the top level of management.

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Data Advantage: How to Innovate and Create New Value

Last month, Dell Technologies and AMD hosted the virtual event Data Advantage: How to innovate and create new value, in which top executives and technology experts shared best practices for turning data into a competitive edge for businesses.

As one of those panel speakers, I was pleased to discuss the key innovations businesses should consider to create new value. Joining the discussion was Bernard Marr, international best-selling business author, futurist, keynote speaker and strategic advisor to companies and governments. He gave his view on six key technologies to watch in 2021. Let’s look at what he said:

1. Big Data and the IoT

“Big Data, especially from the Internet of Things (IoT), is being generated in huge volumes from our smart devices, smart products and connected machines. Having access to this data and being able to use it will be key.”

2. Cloud storage and edge computing

“The second trend is having cloud and edge computing in place. We are seeing the emergence of the as-a-service economy – I can simply go to a company for services so I can store and process all of this data [in real time].”

3. Smart robots

“We are now seeing more intelligent robots in the manufacturing process and across the supply chain with self-driving cars, trucks, ships and drones. White-collar robots that use Robotic Process Automation – especially the latest versions that apply machine learning – will also be very important in really monitoring what people are doing and helping them to perform some of those tasks.”

4. AI and ML for data insights

“The fourth and most important technology trend is artificial intelligence and machine learning – the most powerful technology humans have ever had access to. This again enables us to automate more of our business processes, but also to automate some of the insights we’re generating from our data. Instead of having a pull factor where people have to find the data, analyse it themselves, identify patterns and make better decisions, in the future we’ll have more of a push factor – intelligent algorithms actually monitoring your data and saying ‘ok, it looks like this customer segment is less loyal than others, you might want to have a look at this.’”

5. Resilient next-gen connectivity

“The fifth trend is having more resilient networks – especially when we look at the rollout of 5G. This will be a massive enabler that gives us all of the connectivity we need in mobile devices, anywhere, so we don’t have to worry about having a Wi-Fi connection for fast internet speeds. I’m talking to companies like Nokia about the sixth generation of mobile networks already, so this this is extremely important.”

6. Extended reality

“This is closely linked to the connectivity trend… using augmented and virtual reality to provide more immersive experiences. With 5G and mobile headsets, you can take customers anywhere – they will be able to sit on a bus somewhere and have amazing VR and AR experiences.”

For more insights from the many other leaders who attended the event Data Advantage: How to innovate and create new value, such as author and management consultant Geoffrey Moore, Mark Kramer from our customer EDAG, as well as Matt Baker and myself from Dell Technologies, please access the session on-demand.

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Dell’s 2021 Server Trends & Observations

With the start of a new year, we can say goodbye to the tumultuous and challenging 2020 – a year that brought about monumental changes in our industry through acquisitions, technology introductions, and of course, a shift to remote work force. No one could have predicted all the changes that happened last year, but now we have an opportunity to look back on how the server trends and technologies detailed by us last year impacted our industry. And as we have done for the past several years, we want to continue our tradition in Dell’s Infrastructure CTO group of highlighting some of the most interesting technology and industry trends we expect to see impacting our server incubation and product efforts this year. These trends were compiled by polling our senior technologists in the server organization, who are looking at the most impactful influences to their workstreams.

When the technologists provided their inputs, the underlying theme that emerged was the desire to life cycle data – curate, transport, analyze and preserve data – in the most effective and secure means, while producing the most efficient business outcomes from the infrastructure. Since the generation of data has continued to increase, customers are looking for ways to leverage third-party services in an integrated offering to allow them to understand how to more quickly analyze and value the right data in the most cost-effective and secure manner. This paradigm has also forced owners of the IT equipment that performs these analyses to ensure they are using the most effective technology integrations. These integrations need to be managed with the minimal amount of operational expenses across a continuum of Edge, Core and Cloud architectures. Finally, 2020 created another challenge to carry forward, which is the ability to adopt new technologies with more remote staff and remote users stressing the infrastructure in means and methods not expected this early in most digital transformation plans.

So, with that introduction, let us provide you the Top Trends for 2021 that are influencing our server technology efforts and product offerings:

1. aaS becomes the Enterprise theme. As technology velocity continues to rise, enterprise customers deal with constrained budgets and legacy skillsets while still needing to focus on differentiated business outcomes with the most beneficial price/performance and least amount of bring up and maintenance overhead. The options for on-prem Infrastructure aaS offerings allow customers to be nimble and focus on their business value through diverse deployments while maintaining their data security and governance with trusted infrastructure.

2. Server Growth is Building Vertically. As customers look for the most efficient outcomes from their infrastructure, the industry will continue to see more verticalization and specialization of offerings. Integrated solutions will address packaging and environmental considerations; SW ecosystem enablement and domain-specific accelerators address unique performance and feature requirements that are optimized for specific business outcomes.

3. More Data, More Smarts. The challenges with data velocity, volume and volatility continue and require continuance of AI/ML adoption for analytics while increased focus on solving data life cycling challenges arises. The integration of data curation models, transport methods, preservation and security architectures with faster analysis will all be key to support and monetize the Internet of Behaviors.

4. The Emergence of the Self-Driving Server. Customers will start seeing the use of telemetry, analytics, and policies to achieve higher levels of automation in their systems management infrastructure. Similar to the driver assist/autonomy levels of autonomous vehicles, AI Ops capabilities with systems management will usher in the era of moving automated tasks to automated decisions, with implementations showing up in addressing runaway system power and policy advising recommendation engines.

5. Goodbye, SW Defined. Hello, SW Defined with HW Offload. Application architectures are evolving to create control plane and data plane separation. Control planes stays as a software layer and the data planes move to programmable hardware in the form of service processor add-in-cards which allow bare-metal and containerized applications to run with disaggregated infrastructure software (network virtualization, storage virtualization, GPU virtualization, security services), creating Intent Based Computing for customer workloads.

6. 5G is Here! Seriously, it is this year. After several years of hype and promises, we will see the proliferation of 5G and with it will come shifts in paradigms around communication infrastructure, remote management models and connectivity that impact server form-factors and features. As businesses develop more edge infrastructure to handle the generation and influx of data, 5G will create the need for customers to reevaluate their edge connectivity and infrastructure management offerings to take advantage of 5G capabilities.

7. Rethinking Memory and Storage to be Data Centric. The industry is moving from Compute-Centric Architectures to Data Centric Architectures and that transition is driving new server connected memory and storage models for IT. Technologies around persistent, encrypted and tiered memory inside the server along with remotely accessed SCM and NVMe oF data through new industry fabric standards are creating innovative IT architectures for optimal data security, scaling and preservation.

8. Adopting new Server technology while Being Remote. The world has changed, and businesses have been forced to not just map a digital transformation but realize it to operate. Companies dealing with faster digital transitions of tools, processes and infrastructure need to operate with a remote work force. This transition is forcing companies to evaluate new server technologies and assess resource requirements which will emphasize the necessity to utilize server capabilities around debug, telemetry and analytics in a remote fashion to keep business continuity going forward.

9. It’s not a CPU Competition, it’s a Recipe Bake-off. The processor landscape is changing, and it is becoming an environment of acquisitions, specializations and vendor differentiated integrations. We see Intel, AMD and Nvidia all making acquisitions to provide each with CPUs, DPUs and Accelerators in their portfolio. The real winner will be able to leverage their portfolio of silicon products and software libraries to form recipes of integrated offerings for targeted workloads to help end customers optimize business outcomes.

10. Measure your IT Trust Index. Security around server access and data protection has never been more challenging, so customers need to be able to quantify their security confidence in order to gauge infrastructure trustworthiness and identify digital risks. Customers need to analyze product origins and features, new security technologies and segment specific digital threats in the backdrop of increasing regulatory landscape to formulate their measurement of IT trust from the Edge to Core to Cloud.

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How IT is Changing the Construction Industry

A discussion with architect Sebastian Lauff

Sebastian Lauff is an architect, building consultant, and the founder of archimag.de. He’s based in Germany and has recently written a book about Hugo Junkers and his work in the field of metal architecture. As a #DellInsideCircle member, Sebastian uses a Precision 5750 mobile workstation in his day-to-day work. We recently spoke with him about all things technology and architecture.

Dell: Thanks so much for joining us Mr Lauff. You’re an experienced architect – what role does IT play in your industry?

Sebastian: We were using pens and pencils when I began my studies in the 1990s, and we were all eager to move towards computers and CAD tools. Things are completely different now, and IT plays an extremely important role in architecture today. The developments in building information modeling (BIM) would never have been possible without IT. However, it is important that technology doesn’t restrict our capabilities. In the early days, IT and CAD led to simpler designs that were very orthogonal because people were pushing the technology to its limits. Nowadays, we are only limited by our own imagination, thanks to powerful technology and tools like touchscreens and styluses. 

What key technologies in the architecture industry have changed tremendously in the last years? 

Nothing has changed that drastically in recent years. The applications for single-family home building permits made using pencil and paper in the 1960s and the 1970s have now been replaced with those using computers and printers in 2020. And, of course, materials have improved. We are slowly moving towards BIM; we desperately need digital building applications and 3D printing. Hopefully, materials currently under development will improve a lot in the coming years.

Technologies like Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality (VR/AR) have been fascinating developments and I have been watching them closely. The ability to see real-time developments through a headset could be useful, but that’s not been widely adopted yet. In the future, we’ll likely see VR and AR used at construction sites, where the workers and architects will be able to see the plans superimposed onto the specific stage of construction. 

You’ve been using Dell Precision workstations for a while. Have mobile workstations changed the way you work? 

Ultimately, a mobile workstation has to perform at least as well as a desktop computer. You become quicker and more independent. Touchscreen and stylus features allow you to enter notes and sketches directly into the productive system. This cuts out at least one step of the process and reduces paper use! It’s also very important to have an outstanding screen. Personally, color accuracy is not as important to me as having a bright screen because I want to always be able to see every single detail.

I have found that the Precision 5750 operates smoothly, and it also looks great. As it is powerful and portable, I can be productive freely and independently anywhere. You don’t have to worry about the IT side of things and you get a tool that opens up new possibilities. 

What advice would you give to creators looking to invest in technology?

I think I speak for a lot of creative people when I say that working with pencil and paper brings out the highest amount of creativity. These techniques can now be reproduced using technology, to the extent that sketches can be made directly where the creative reworking takes place. Take advantage of the touchscreen capabilities on your devices – whether it’s your phone or a laptop. In my opinion, the combination of a mobile workstation with a large secondary screen is a real powerhouse. With that kind of solution, you’re flexible and equipped for every situation.

Finally, which three technological devices could you not live without?

My phone ranks at the top of the list since it is by far my most used technological device. After that, a nice and high-performance workstation. However, we all too quickly forget home appliances, heating, refrigerators etc. – and preferably smart devices with wireless connectivity. They are often not mentioned within this context because they have become a part of our everyday lives.

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Learn from Anywhere: Resilient Laptops Meet Resilient Students

As my kids kick off a new semester, I find myself reflecting on all they’ve been through as they switched between virtual school and “learn from anywhere” this past year. Students worldwide have had to change how they learn, how they interact with their teachers and how they communicate with friends. Their resilience and strength have been nothing short of amazing.

But we can’t pretend this is the case for every student. The pandemic has revealed the disparity in access to the basic requirements for remote learning. A recent New Common Sense and Boston Consulting Group analysis shows that up to 16 million kids and as many as 400,000 teachers in the U.S. alone lack adequate internet or computing devices at home. Most visible in rural, Black and Hispanic communities this lack of access to basic needs – devices, broadband, digital literacy and critical skills for the digital economy – mean these communities are at risk of falling further and further behind.

At Dell Technologies, we are committed to addressing this. Every student, regardless of socioeconomic status, should have equitable access to these basic needs and opportunities to pursue an education. To deliver on this we will be partnering with local government, non-profit organizations, and the public and private sectors to deliver the resources they need most. We’ll have more news to share on this initiative soon.

We are thinking about this significant societal challenge as we design products for students. There are two big issues we see when it comes to device connectivity: 1) lack of reliable internet access and 2) limited Wi-Fi bandwidth that rears its ugly head when kids are trying to do video conferencing and learning apps at the same time. We’ve addressed these with two additions to our education laptop line up.

Chromebook 3100 with LTE

It starts with adding an LTE-enabled option to our Chromebook 3100. The Chromebook 3100 with LTE is our first Chromebook for Education with LTE and is designed for those learning from areas that don’t have reliable, or any, internet access. The device offers built-in mobile support from major carriers in the U.S., and for other countries, the option to choose your mobile carrier.

For Windows, we’re also introducing the new Latitude 3120, which offers better performance and speed with Intel’s new Pentium® Silver and Celeron® processors. Available as a laptop or 2-in-1, students can collaborate with the best Wi-Fi technology for video conferencing, audio and learning apps, seamlessly at the same time. Parents and kids, working and learning from home, no longer need to worry about limited bandwidth as ultra-fast Intel® Wi-Fi 6 (Gig+) provides more reliable and faster connections.

School yard (and back yard) tough

No matter the learning environment – we know kids are hard on their technology. All our education devices can survive 48-inch drops on plywood and have keyboards that withstand 12-ounce spills. The Latitude 3120 features a new, textured design to give students a better grip while on-the-go. And with the Dragontrail Pro glass screen option, the Latitude 3120 is more scratch resistant and can better withstand drops on its corner. Students can use the Dell Active Pen or a pencil to write, take notes or draw diagrams from any angle on the Latitude 3120 2-in-1.

Latitude 3120

School for the future

Learning from home takes flexibility and strength – for students, for teachers, for school staff and for parents. We expect our PCs and technology to be just as resilient too, so learning can happen no matter what your day looks like, at home or at school.

Product Pricing and Availability:

Latitude 3120, available January 19, 2021, starting at $429.

Chromebook 3100 with LTE, pricing and product available in spring 2021.

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From the Cutting Room Floor to Flying Drones

Luisa Winters, co-owner of Mid-Atlantic Drones, is an Adobe Master Trainer, a certified pilot, and has more than 30 years’ experience in video production and cinematography. In 2011 she became interested in “the tripod that flies.” Luisa now combines her passions and expertise to capture award-winning footage for clients across real estate, construction, agriculture and other industries.

As a #DellInsideCircle member, Luisa uses her Dell Precision 5750 mobile workstation daily. We sat down with her to hear more about the role of drones in the construction industry, the appeal of Adobe After Effects, and the evolution of video editing tools. 

Matt: As an Adobe Master Trainer, what video editing tools are you most excited about?  How has the use of Adobe After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro evolved over the years?

Luisa: Years ago, people were either trained as Motion Graphics artists or editors; rarely both. Nowadays it is so easy to move from one program to the other using Adobe Dynamic Link that it makes sense that there’s an overlap in skillsets.

Some of the most useful tools in both Premiere Pro and After Effects are Lumetri for color correction, plus Motion Graphics Templates. Content Aware fill in After Affects has enhanced my drone shots by allowing me to safely (and easily) remove unwanted objects from moving shots. Productions in Premiere Pro lets me create episodic YouTube videos easily by putting all my previous projects in the same productions so I can refer to them quickly.

Today, the incredible speed at which we can accomplish things has accelerated my ability to do more creatively.

How has the evolution of technology impacted your career and the work that you do?

One thing that has changed rapidly throughout my career is technology – fifteen years ago, it would take hours to process images, but now it can be done in minutes. Faster processing and more powerful workstations like the Precision 5750 let me deliver better projects. It is not that they make me a better artist; it is that they give me more time to try new things. As creators, it’s important to have time – that’s the beauty of technology to the service of art. 

Any advice for someone starting out in editing, cinematography, or drone operation?  

I think the best advice I can give anyone in this area is to just get out there and do it. Sometimes my students tell me they don’t have a job yet, so they cannot practice editing or flying a drone. But if you don’t improve your art, how do you expect to get hired? You have nothing to edit? Create it! If you have a phone or a GoPro, make and edit your own video. We all get into this line of work because we love it, so practicing should be fun and not a chore.

Let’s talk about your current role. How established is the use of drones in construction, and how has the pandemic changed the nature of your work?

The use of drones in construction is common, not just for technical data such as collecting measurements and volume information, but also for progress reports. Clients like to monitor job progress and they don’t always have to opportunity to visit the site as frequently as they like. It’s an effective way for clients to view near real-time updates. All we need to do is put the drone up in the air and go!

With your extensive experience in the media and entertainment industry, did you find it challenging moving into drone work?

There are lots of synergies between the two – the technology we use, and the rendering workflows are similar – we’ve just swapped out keying, compositing and masking for maps and data collection.

There is still a lot of After Effects work going on with drone work – for example, lots of 2020 marathons were converted to virtual runs. For a few clients, we were tasked to add sponsor banners throughout the run route using After Effects. This was challenging as it used the camera tracking feature in After Effects (3D camera tracker) and then I had to add the banners and even rotoscope where needed. It was time-consuming, but the clients where thrilled! 

What is the best or most memorable project you’ve ever worked on?

We recently captured the demolition of four radio towers, which was all over the news in Washington, D.C. We arrived on site at 7:00 am, the explosions happened at 9am, and by 2:00 pm we had everything complete and uploaded! It would not have been possible without the speed of the technology I am using right now.

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Google Cloud Anthos Bare Metal Support from Dell Technologies

Container-based architectures are being rapidly adopted by nearly every DevOps team and enterprise IT organization making the transition to cloud-native and automated environments. By making this move, these developers realize greater application agility and better business outcomes. At the same time, developers get to focus more on applications and microservices and less on the underlying infrastructure through the use of platforms like Google Cloud’s Anthos.

However, selecting a modern infrastructure that supports a move toward containers remains paramount, whether on-premises, in multi-cloud environments, or hybrid scenarios. As container deployments mature and scale, bare metal architectures offer additional choice and flexibility, while maintaining support for orchestration tools such as Kubernetes. Also, the ability to run on bare metal allows organizations to achieve the full performance potential of containerized applications.

Bare Metal Deployment for Anthos

Today, we are announcing that Dell EMC PowerFlex, PowerMax and PowerStore now offer bare metal deployment options supporting Google Cloud’s Anthos. In addition to supporting virtualized deployments of Anthos via VMware vSphere, these offerings bring additional flexibility and choice to our customers. Customers can now increase their agility by including more apps and workloads under Anthos hybrid-cloud management, regardless of physical location.

“Anthos on bare metal provides customers with more options and control over their Anthos deployments, and our collaboration with Dell Technologies enables customers to extend the convenience of cloud-native solutions on their existing Dell hardware,” said Rayn Veerubhotla, Director, Partner Engineering at Google Cloud. “Additionally, Dell’s support for Kubernetes Container Storage Interface drivers enables customers to extend Anthos across multiple environments using Dell storage solutions.”

With these solutions, customers can choose to utilize bare metal or hypervisor-based deployments that can co-exist with non-container workloads for fast, easy application management across legacy and cloud-native environments.

In addition to bare metal optimizations, this new Anthos update provides support for the Kubernetes Container Storage Interface (CSI) drivers. That enables storage products to provide their respective unique capabilities to stateful workloads that need persistent storage. Our customers can run Kubernetes on-prem or in the cloud, expanding their use cases to help them compete for the future, while benefiting from the best features our products offer in container application deployments.

Validated Approaches for On-Premises Modernization

Dell EMC PowerFlex, PowerMax and PowerStore are Google Anthos-qualified options. They provide flexibility for stateful applications that require enterprise-quality results without compromise, using qualified CSI drivers with Anthos on bare metal. These are the latest enhancements extending our previously announced PowerFlex support for Anthos.

As a trusted Anthos Ready Partner, we have worked closely with Google Cloud to qualify solution ingredients that meet Anthos requirements. So, customers get rapid time to value without the risk of faulty architectural results. Customers can focus on creating agile container applications instead of worrying about crafting the systems that make them deployable. PowerFlex, PowerMax and PowerStore have been qualified for the following:

◉ Supporting Anthos for compatible deployment and scale

◉ Interacting successfully for optimal computing, networking, and storing capabilities

◉ Deploying and exposing a workload through a supported load balancer on Anthos

◉ Emphasize resiliency, scalability, performance, flexibility, etc.

◉ Inherent, security considerations include integrated encryption protection for workloads

Furthermore, PowerFlex, PowerMax and PowerStore make deploying Anthos easy. The PowerFlex rack, an engineered software-defined solution, comes fully configured with integrated networking for customers ready to run Anthos and start deploying containers. Once it’s installed, they are ready to deploy Kubernetes applications from the Google Cloud Console. For customers who want a more traditional three-tier architecture, PowerMax and PowerStore are the perfect storage options to use with Anthos.

The Market Advantages

With these engineered, qualified solutions, Dell Technologies and Google Cloud take the risk out of the implementation, while offering customers more choices in their operating environments and the capabilities to modernize their infrastructure. By using Anthos on bare metal with PowerFlex or PowerMax, customers will enjoy these advantages: 

Flexible configuration: Dell Technologies customers can configure their infrastructure with total control. With PowerFlex, PowerMax and PowerStore solutions, customers can mix any combination of bare metal, virtualized, container, and mixed-hypervisor platforms in a way that’s scalable and simple to manage. We provide all the freedom without the guesswork for customized hybrid on-prem solutions.

Simplified containerization: Varied SLAs make some apps and workloads more difficult to containerize in VMs. Now, with bare-metal container architectures, customers can have choice, flexibility, and performance. Customers may also want to deploy Anthos container applications along with existing Windows and Linux applications that aren’t ready to be containerized. Our solutions can support any of these applications without requiring physical partitioning. That way, customers get the most value from their PowerFlex, PowerMax and PowerStore systems.

Total security and control: Bare metal implementations also help customers keep their data secure. With a bare metal architecture, customers have full control over hardware components and can quickly manage how servers and storage are accessed and utilized. Even as a customer’s network becomes more decentralized, they can trust their data is secure.

Robust protection for data and workloads: Dell Technologies’ extensive portfolio of data protection solutions for Google Cloud is ideal for enterprise Anthos deployments. These solutions efficiently replicate to, from, and between hybrid cloud environments for maximum data mobility. They also leverage our industry-leading deduplication tools for low cost-to-protect and total cost of ownership.

Scalability for the future: Whether you want to start small or grow to thousands of nodes, PowerFlex, PowerMax and PowerStore have proven track records of providing linear scalability for millions of IOPS while retaining low latency. We provide large-scale performance even for availability-sensitive workloads.

Flexible Consumption Options Enable Your Digital Transformation

Learn about all of our available solutions including our Flex on Demand program for simplified pricing and deployment based on your specific business needs. We are here to pave the way for your digital transformation!

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Transform Your Work Experience With New Dell Monitors

As more companies embrace a hybrid work model, it is critical to invest in technology that can help employees better collaborate no matter where they are working or what role they are in. From content creators and engineers to data analysts and marketers, we are all looking for that perfect office setup to help us be most productive. That’s exactly what our new commercial range of Dell monitors is all about: elevating work experiences and boosting employee productivity.

Video conferencing made easy (and secure)

We’ve introduced the world’s first video conferencing monitors certified for Microsoft Teams – the Dell 24 Video Conferencing Monitor (C2422HE), Dell 27 Video Conferencing Monitor (C2722DE) and Dell 34 Curved Video Conferencing Monitor (C3422WE). You can now instantly join meetings with a one-touch dedicated Microsoft Teams button. The pop-up 5MP IR camera, dual 5W integrated speakers and noise-cancelling microphone allow you to collaborate with stunning video and audio clarity.  You will have a more secured and convenient login experience using facial recognition sign-in with Windows Hello and hands-free commands with Microsoft Cortana™. These video conferencing monitors also come with ComfortView Plus, our built in low blue light solution that reduces blue light emissions while delivering excellent color accuracy.

Make way for immersive beauty

The Dell UltraSharp 40 Curved WUHD Monitor (U4021QW) is the world’s first 40-inch ultrawide curved WUHD (5120 x 2160) resolution monitor.  It is the ideal monitor for content creators and data analysts to further boost productivity while delivering striking visuals. This monitor offers wide color coverage and excellent color performance while helping to optimize eye comfort with ComfortView Plus. You can charge your PC with up to 90W power charging thanks to Thunderbolt™ 3, enable fast data transfers with super speed USB 10Gbps and ethernet connection with RJ45. The Dell UltraSharp 38 Curved USB-C Hub Monitor (U3821DW) delivers an outstanding audio and video experience with vivid WQHD+ screen and integrated 9W speakers. Both monitors can automatically detect and connect to a second PC and front ports allow easy connections and charging of peripherals.

When style matters

Known for theirbrilliant color and virtually borderless InfinityEdge design, the Dell UltraSharp 24 and 27 USB-C Hub Monitors (U2422HE/U2722DE) offer a seamless edge-to edge view.  These stylish hub monitors are ideal for dual monitor set-ups and offer users a wide range of connectivity options, including RJ45 for ethernet, USB-C with up to 90W power delivery for charging of laptop, and super speed 10Gbps3 ports for quick transfers. The monitors are also available in non USB-C hub versions – Dell UltraSharp 24 and 27 Monitors (U2422H/U2722D). All four monitors come with always-on built-in ComfortView Plus.Upgrade your collaboration spaces

For those working from the office or in communal workspaces, team collaboration has never been easier with the Dell 65 / 55 4K Interactive Touch Monitors (C6522QT/C5522QT). The 20-point InGlass™ Touch enables multiple users to simultaneously write or draw in real-time with virtually zero lag. Users can rest their hands onscreen without generating unwanted marks with the new palm rejection feature. Dell’s exclusive screen drop feature is designed to improve reachability of the screen for users working at different heights. The Dell collaboration monitors also integrate with Dell Meeting Space Solutions, creating a complete conference room ecosystem with hardware, software and collaboration devices combined.

Don’t believe us, check out our latest awards!

We are proud that these monitors and client peripherals are honorees of the CES 2021 Innovation awards – the Dell UltraSharp 40 Curved WUHD Monitor (U4021QW), Dell UltraSharp 32 HDR PremierColor Monitor (UP3221Q), Alienware 25 Gaming Monitor (AW2521H) and Dell Mobile Adapter Speakerphone (MH3021P).

Don’t forget the peripherals

Finally, no setup is complete without the new Dell Premier Rechargeable Wireless Mouse (MS7421W), a rechargeable mouse with a battery life that lasts up to six months on a full charge. Alternatively, if you prefer a combo, the new Dell Premier Multi-Device Wireless Keyboard and Mouse (KM7321W) offers one of the industry’s leading battery life at up to 36 months.  The new Dell USB-C Mobile Adapter (DA310) features a comprehensive range of ports in a compact design to connect your devices, with the added ability to charge your PC.

As the world’s number-one monitor company for seven consecutive years, we are also committed to sustainability. We offer the most number of EPEAT Gold registered monitors globally.  Learn more about our new monitors’ ENERGY STAR®, TCO and EPEAT Gold certifications and full monitor specifications in our press kit here.

Check out Dell’s additional news and announcements in our press release here.

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The Year of IT

Looking back at 2020, I am truly inspired by the heroic actions of IT organizations! Many of us who rely on IT daily to manage our applications, help us recover our passwords, and save us from our own mistakes often forget how much we depend on our IT teams to keep us productive and successful. I remember how quickly our own Dell Technologies IT organization responded last year, enabling us to work from home and delivering critical resources no matter where we were physically located.  And this was not unique to Dell – organizations and companies around the globe have relied on their IT teams to keep them productive, safe, and successful. This year in so many ways has been a year for IT. I am very grateful for being part of a company that has helped IT support so many people around the globe.

We want to recognize each and every one of our unique customers for giving Dell Technologies the opportunity to partner with your organization as you rapidly pivoted to respond to the needs of workers going remote, to service your customers remotely, to handle restrictions on travel, and to provide secure online tools. It was definitely a year of unexpected challenges, and you are the real heroes of our business.

Here are just a few customers I’d like to highlight:

Philip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science

Frost Science relies on state-of-the-art IT infrastructure to power its aquarium, planetarium, and online exhibitions and shows – as well as support employees while many work from home.  Frost museum IT admins can remotely manage and efficiently monitor the aquarium, upload videos and manage Frost Science@Home livestreaming thanks to the creative use of the Dell EMC iDRAC.

Ascend Money

With 6 locations across Asia, Ascend Money has succeeded through innovation—changing the way people access financial services. The company knows its pace of innovation depends on the IT underpinning the business.

“We decided to standardize on Dell EMC PowerEdge because of the build quality and the local support available,” says John Cattrall, Head of Technology Operations at Ascend Money. “All our IT engineers are familiar with the PowerEdge platform. Regular firmware updates help maintain the security of the servers and OpenManage software simplifies management through a single pane of glass.”

Somerset NHS and Musgrove Park Hospital

The Somerset NHS Foundation Trust, together with Musgrove Park Hospital, provides inpatient, outpatient, emergency care, and children’s and maternity services to around 340,000 people local to Somerset, England.

By moving their applications to the Dell EMC PowerEdge MX modular server, the Musgrove Park Hospital was able to improve clinician efficiency by 50%. The biggest impact was for clinicians, who can access the information they need from across the entire healthcare organization in one place with one login and without unnecessary manual paperwork, inputting information in half the time.

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Modernizing Data Management with Boomi Data Catalog and Preparation

New Dell Technologies solution with Boomi Data Catalog and Preparation server appliance accelerates business outcomes by enabling diverse users to gain insights from data.

Here are a couple of numbers that should cause concern for IT leaders: By 2025, we will be creating 463 exabytes of data every day. Data scientists already spend 45 percent of their time on data preparation tasks, such as loading and cleaning data. In light of findings like those, we clearly need more efficient ways to manage the data deluge that is hitting all organizations.

So, what’s wrong with today’s approaches? For starters, even as enterprises are producing, capturing and storing more data than ever before, many potential users can’t find critical information and don’t have the tools they need to turn data into actionable insights and drive business outcomes. That’s because over 60% of enterprise data can be unknown, dormant or underused.

Here’s another challenge. For many organizations, the move to big data technologies has created barriers to information for business and data analysts. Worse, data opacity and analytics complexity put the burden on IT to provide data extracts because most business users lack the required source system access and coding skills to independently explore the data.

To enable a broader community of data consumers, a fresh approach is needed— one that enables efficient and secure access to data, no matter where it resides, for everyone with a business need. This brings us to the launch of Boomi Data Catalog and Preparation (DCP) software on Dell EMC PowerEdge servers.

This new offering from Dell Technologies can be a game-changer for organizations working to become more data driven. It enables people in your organization to derive business value from practically any combination of enterprise data sources — without learning to program.

Boomi Data Catalog and Preparation is a platform that provides value for both IT and the business analyst community. The Data Catalog features can provide a central repository of all the data sources and detailed meta-data that bring that unknown or underused data to the attention of business analysts. IT can enable data preparation capabilities for business users by simply adding a Boomi DCP node to a new or existing big data cluster. IT staff responsible for data governance can configure the right data access for the right users, using DCP role-based security integrated with existing source systems controls.

Business analysts using DCP can create powerful data transformations and summaries, with basic relational data knowledge and some and common SQL commands. These jobs are then run using highly scalable Hadoop services to produce new data artifacts for analysis that replace traditional “data extract” requests. The artifacts are suitable for use with many popular reporting and visualization tools, both inside and outside of the Hadoop ecosystem.

Even better, Boomi DCP on Dell EMC PowerEdge servers is easy for IT to install and manage, easy for use in data governance management and easy for business analysts to use. This combination enables organizations that are investing in big data technologies to safely expand the end-user base, provide more value and improve the ROI of data-driven initiatives.

Ready for a deeper dive?

For a close-up look at the capabilities of Boomi Data Catalog and Preparation software on Dell EMC PowerEdge servers, read or download this white paper.

This document describes an end-to-end use case that demonstrates a typical Boomi DCP workflow. The use case example addresses the different types of problems that can be solved using the Boomi DCP toolset and shows how the data discovery, data cataloging and data transformation capabilities of Boomi DCP can be combined into an integrated business solution.

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Pedal to the Metal with VMware Tanzu

How Dell EMC is Accelerating the Adoption of Tanzu with PowerProtect Data Manager

DevOps these days is focused on four key imperatives: to build, run, manage and protect. And with our partner VMware’s announcement of Tanzu updates this week ahead of VMworld we are excited to be in lockstep with the progress we have made in this highly innovative space by bringing together end-to-end management and data protection for all Kubernetes workloads under a singular control plane.

The run, build and manage journey for developers needs to also include protection of these ubiquitous workloads to guarantee reliability, efficiency and availability at a low cost. We say it repeatedly: the benefits that Dell EMC provides VMware infrastructures include the Enterprise-grade deduplication, compression and speed for all types of workloads.

Modern applications platforms can now be managed as cloud native organizations to bring their DevOps teams faster software release cycles. Not only that, they can do more with test/development cycles without interrupting their developers’ ongoing progress.

Essentially, VMware has introduced Kubernetes as its control plane — bringing the “Kubernetes experience” into the data center. This now bridges a community between the developers, the IT operators and the vAdmins. They can all begin to communicate on a level playing field as well as introduce protection policies via PowerProtect Data Manager across multiple technology stacks hosting these integrated workloads.

These once disparate teams can now not only manage all their disperse applications comprised of containers and/or virtual machines (VMs); but in many cases can claim they are deploying the first and only Enterprise protection solution for VMs, applications and Kubernetes at once via central resources. In addition to accelerating the adoption of Tanzu, Dell EMC provides customers with the ease of worry-free migration for existing workloads to Kubernetes environments protected by their policies and self-service capabilities for DevOps teams. Faster testing, faster customer product to market is happening now.

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Video Analytics – An Introductory Overview

Overview

Increasing hours of video footage, combined with the limits of human biology, make video analytics software essential to processing large amounts of video streams. Information is most valuable when it is most needed, and is also as valuable as the incidents that can be actively captured and acted upon in real-time. Video management systems assist security and surveillance personnel by monitoring video streams 24/7 and alerting them to activity which requires attention.

Advances in storage capabilities, video and image resolution drove video analytics adoption over the last decade. The global video analytics market was valued at $2.77 billion in 2017 and is estimated to increase to a staggering $8.55 billion by 2023. GPUs make it easier to process videos on low-cost accelerators, making the case for advanced video analytics. Signal stabilizing technologies also improve the effectiveness of video analytics which relies on quality video streams.

Video analytics has use cases across many industries. Some examples include:

◉ Retail – Counting customers in a store, tracking movement, optimizing store design and merchandise restocking

◉ Transportation – Left luggage identification in airports

◉ Healthcare – Thermal imaging for elevated temperature monitoring

◉ Manufacturing/Industrial/Construction – Quality control, and health and safety compliance

◉ Food Processing – Quality control

◉ Entertainment and Sports – People counting to manage crowd traffic

◉ City Operations – License plate recognition and vehicle counting for urban planning

◉ Law Enforcement – Searching video content to help investigations

Multiple video streams are often paired to enable use cases, and combined with IoT sensor data for comprehensive insight and situational awareness. Video management systems can also integrate with third party security apps to help organizations take a holistic approach to their video analytics strategy.

How Video Analytics Works

Incoming streams of video are dense combinations of pictorial and audio data packaged as a collection of consecutive frames. For analytics, an individual frame would not provide any more insightful information than a typical photo. The sequential continuity of consecutive frames provides the dynamic needed to extract insight from video data.

Video data is processed in two stages: first motion detection and Aanalysis, followed by pattern recognition. During motion detection and analysis, changes in pixel content are monitored to identify movement, then pattern recognition classifies objects in motion, their trajectory, and considers other moving objects.

Analytics-enabled cameras use a mathematical function to detect objects in motion by calculating the difference between frames. If the difference is anything but zero, movement is said to have occurred. This is a simple task computationally, while analyzing movement requires more complex computational gymnastics, mathematical functions included. This is where AI comes in. Movement is viewed as a trajectory drawn from an initial frame and tracked to an object’s position in subsequent frames.

As an example, consider tracking one automobile’s movement in traffic for five seconds without confusing its trajectory with other automobiles in the extracted video stream. An image segmentation algorithm segments the vehicle in the initial frame and connects the identified image from frame to frame, thus drawing out the trajectory. Basic Computer Vision solutions with reasonable computational power support this easily with CPU cores and a lavish amount of RAM. In the case of 30 automobiles, 30 segmented images in 30 different spots need to be tracked without confusion when images overlap. For video analytics solutions to be valuable here, they need to process many objects per frame as well as their movement across frames, when the average rate is 60FPS. Imagine looking at 60 photos in one second and fully understanding what was in each photo. More advanced computational capacity is needed to optimize for scale in scenarios like this.

Tools and Development

Deep learning techniques used in intelligent video analytics vary. One common approach is converting video frames to image files and applying Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) to detect objects in each frame. Hybrid models of CNNs and Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN) are recommend for motion analysis. It’s outside the scope of this blog to cover all candidate tools and frameworks available to implement video analytics applications; however, here are some resources where a variety of options are reviewed for tooling and development:

◉ Open Source Tools – 33 Open Source products on GitHub available for Video Analytics. The major difference amongst these is the use case they enable.

◉ VidSaga, a global video marketers community suggests 2020’s top 10 commercial Video Analytics tools for Business Intelligence.

The core power of such tools and other popular frameworks are the APIs they offer to enrich correspondence in algorithm implementation. Google Object Detection is popular for rapid creation of object detection models. It provides APIs leveraged over 330,000 classes in the  COCO Data Set for object classification. It also allows use of libraries like OpenCV for segmentation and enforces appropriate object-labeling as prerequisites for object tracking. This blog walks through a step by step approach to developing a video analytics application in Python, using the TensorFlow framework and OpenCV library, also applied via Google Object Detection APIs. For a complete implementation example here’s how a soccer game is analyzed. Players (objects) are detected by segmenting them in video frames using OpenCV to assign attributes like jersey color, then labeled and tracked using Google Object Detection APIs.

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The Power of Data: How to Start a Career with Dell EMC Advanced Analytics Specialist

Data Science, Big Data, and Data Analytics let enterprises operate the complicated world of data and technology to target their customers and offer bespoke services and products leveraging endless possibilities. Data opens endless opportunities for businesses in significant ways, and processing this data usually begins with data aggregation accumulated from multiple sources.

Dell EMC Advanced Analytics Specialist uses predictive modeling, statistical methods, machine learning, and process automation systems beyond the capacities of traditional business intelligence (BI) tools to interpret data or business information. It leverages data science that involves mature means of analysis to project future trends and anticipate potential events.

Why Is Dell EMC Advanced Analytics Specialist So Important Today?

While traditional BI tools used to be sufficient for most companies, executives are now turning to Advanced Analytics Specialist for a greater return on investment (ROI) on their BI investments. With vast quantities of data being generated every day, businesses are looking for new ways to take advantage of all that data. Advanced Analytics Specialist helps companies to do that. It allows companies to optimize their operations and innovate to obtain a competitive advantage.

With better customer analysis, predictive analytics, statistical modeling, and Advanced Analytics Specialist, it helps companies improve decision-making and keep pace with very competitive, quick-changing markets. Where traditional analytics and BI tools fail to hold up, Advanced Analytics Specialist positions companies toward future success.

Benefits of Dell EMC Advanced Analytics Specialist

Contributing to real business value, the understanding is top advantages organizations can obtain from a successful Advanced Analytics Specialist program:

1. Predict the Future:

Organizations that use Advanced Analytics Specialist can act quickly and with a greater degree of certainty about future outcomes. It allows organizations to make data-driven decisions and gain deeper insights into market trends, customer preferences, and critical business activities. Implementing Advanced Analytics Specialist will enable businesses to assess market conditions faster and react to differences before their competitors, gaining a significant advantage.

2. Reduce Risks:

With more accurate predictions from Advanced Analytics Specialist, businesses can avoid making costly, risky decisions based upon inaccurate predictions. Advanced Analytics Specialist provides businesses with a comprehensive understanding of the company, past, present, and future, to better recognize and manage risk.

3. Anticipate and Solve Problems:

Dell EMC Advanced Analytics Specialist can help companies solve challenges that traditional BI cannot. Based on the likelihood, it can prescribe actions to result in better business outcomes.

What Are Some Use Cases for Dell EMC Advanced Analytics Specialist?

If your business is now using traditional BI tools, it could probably benefit from Advanced Analytics Specialist as well. Advanced Analytics Specialist can be used for:

1. Supply Chain Optimization:

Global enterprises require a supply chain that can react quickly to market conditions changes, including market demand, customer preferences, and cost fluctuations. Advanced Analytics Specialist can help, especially in manufacturing, to decrease distribution costs, avoid delays or machine failures, and streamline processes.

2. Marketing Analytics:

Knowing customers has never been more difficult, and selling and marketing to those customers in the right way at the best time can be a considerable challenge. With Advanced Analytics Specialist, companies can create personalized sales and marketing campaigns to decrease spending on inefficient strategies, identify up-sell and cross-sell opportunities, and better customer experiences.

3. Risk Analysis:

Every business looks for steps to mitigate future risk. Still, only those that employ Advanced Analytics Specialist can manage large data sets, or even data streams in real-time, to identify patterns of risk. Advanced Analytics Specialist techniques can detect fraud in payments and orders or even monitor current customers' reputations.

4. Human Resources Analytics:

Employee satisfaction has a significant impact on business performance, yet most companies fail to take advantage of human resource data. Dell EMC Advanced Analytics Specialist can be used in HR to reduce employee turnover, costs associated with recruiting and hiring and investing in effective rewards programs to keep or grow employee satisfaction.

5. Business Operations:

Traditional BI tools are not agile sufficient to enable operational excellence that responds to varying market conditions and optimizes decisions based on predictions about future trends. Dell EMC Advanced Analytics Specialist allows organizations to improve performance and productivity, increase revenue, and resolve operational issues faster.

Sum-up

While basic BI and analytics can give a snapshot of the business, Dell EMC Advanced Analytics Specialist delivers the ability to forecast future trends or outcomes for a deeper understanding of the company. Advanced Analytics Specialist offers a broader set of capabilities to deal with challenges that traditional rearview BI cannot, enabling more robust strategic decision making for the future.

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