As the saying goes, if a person has no long-term worries, he must have immediate worries! If you always look back at history, or immerse yourself in the things in front of you, without establishing a strategy for the future, you will inevitably lose your direction, or act in the wrong direction, and miss opportunities for development.
At the recently concluded 2023 Dell Technology Summit with the theme of "New·New Digital Reality Pattern of Creation", Dell Technology released a series of new products and solutions, from which we can get a glimpse of the future and find ways to open the "Uka Era" (VUCA)” key to the door.
Facing various challenges such as hybrid multi-cloud, artificial intelligence, edge computing, security, and future work, enterprise IT infrastructure must also adapt to needs and seek certainty from uncertainty. "Our original intention and corporate vision have never wavered, which is to insist on being an end-to-end, reliable overall solution provider." said Chen Jie, general manager of Dell Technology Group's Greater China Information Infrastructure Solutions Division, "At the same time, we always put customers first, proactively understand their needs, pain points and challenges, and are committed to helping customers better achieve their business goals through digital transformation."
Providing end-to-end, reliable overall solutions for enterprise customers is what Dell Technologies has been adhering to for many years. "Change" is another powerful gene of Dell Technologies, which is unremitting "innovation". "Innovation runs through the entire life cycle of product design. It is the basic guarantee for product advancement and service model upgrades." Chen Jie said, for example, "We have made many innovations in the functions, performance, and manageability of servers, storage and other products. , as well as improvements in reducing power consumption and reducing carbon footprint, all based on customer needs to protect customers' business innovation and development."
Chen Jie, general manager of Dell Technologies Greater China Information Infrastructure Solutions Division,
goes deep into the edge to create a win-win situation
Edge computing is a new track. Industry insiders predict that edge computing will usher in a decade of golden development. Dell Technologies has made a lot of early investments in edge computing, including setting up joint innovation laboratories, co-building a partner ecosystem, and launching innovative platforms like NativeEdge.
"Innovation at the edge is business innovation. The scenarios at the edge are ever-changing, and each industry or even different customers within the same industry have different needs." Global Vice President of Dell Technology Group, Greater China Pre-sales System Yang Jie, general manager of the Engineering Department, said, "From the perspective of Dell Technologies' strategy, we have always been down-to-earth, starting from the actual application of each customer, and working with partners in various fields to create a win-win situation."
Since edge computing scenarios are very fragmented, technology needs to be closely integrated with industry knowledge and application scenarios. Therefore, as the business continues to deepen, multiple product suppliers and users need to work together to create it. For example, Linde (China) Forklift Co., Ltd. built a smart factory based on Dai Er Technology's modern hybrid cloud and edge solutions, supporting real-time communication between hundreds of robots at the edge and AI-powered processes in the cloud. , ultimately increasing production capacity by 27%, increasing process quality detection speed by 30%, and overall efficiency increasing by 12%. For another example, KeGe IoT is one of Dell Technologies' ecological partners. The two parties cooperate in research and development based on Dell Technologies' edge servers, aiming to create out-of-the-box distributed edge computing solutions to effectively solve enterprise IT deployment and operation. It can save up to 90% of deployment and operation and maintenance costs.
"In order to solve all aspects of detailed problems, we cooperate with developers in different fields, such as manufacturing companies, machine vision and artificial intelligence companies, etc., aiming to break through different technical bottlenecks that affect the edge computing experience." Yang Jie said, "In actual work We also found that when many companies talk about edge computing, it is not just a technical category, but closely related to the company's business. For example, when talking to customers in the intelligent manufacturing industry about the implementation of edge computing, they are most concerned about It’s security, and the CSO or factory director responsible for enterprise security should get involved. Taken together, edge computing is a very complex and interesting field. It requires long-term investment, and it also requires ecological co-creation."
Yang Jie , Global Vice President of Dell Technologies Group and General Manager of Greater China Pre-sales System Engineering Department
Data Protection Network Resilience
When enterprises generally realize that data is an important strategic asset, the importance of data protection and security has been elevated to unprecedented heights. It can be said that data security is related to the future survival and development of enterprises.
There are many new ideas, technologies and tools emerging to enhance data security and protection. Judging from the current situation, zero trust has become a basic option for many enterprises. Li Yan, technical director of the Data Protection Solutions Division of Dell Technologies Greater China, explained: “The reason why we want to move towards zero trust is mainly because the security protection we did in the past was based on a prerequisite – the enterprise has ownership of its infrastructure. Complete control. Today, the boundaries of enterprises have extended to the cloud and edge. The previous so-called control rights have become ineffective. The traditional protection along the boundaries cannot have the desired effect. Therefore, we need a breakthrough. The ultimate solution is zero trust."
The infrastructure solution provided by Dell Technologies is zero-trust ready. From bottom to top, it provides such as hardened operating system, lossless architecture, Retention Lock, multi-factor authentication, dual-user authentication, etc. at different levels to ensure all access Automatically meet zero trust requirements. "All Dell Technologies products always follow the zero-trust security principle from design, research and development to manufacturing, deployment, and exit from the life cycle," Li Yan said.
The implementation of laws and regulations such as the "Cybersecurity Law" and "Data Security Law" emphasizes system-level security and data-level security. The two form two rings and cross each other. Therefore, enterprises must protect systems and data at the same time. Protecting systems must be based on the zero-trust principle, and protecting data must be based on the "trinity" principle. The so-called three-body system is BR+DR+CR. Zero trust, coupled with the "trinity" of data protection, constitutes a trustworthy enterprise data security system.
Li Yan also emphasized that enterprises must gradually move from traditional network security to "cyber resilience." Today, all enterprises basically focus on network security and lack awareness of network resilience. Statistics show that enterprises invest 10% to 20% of security investment in prevention, 70% investment in detection, and very little investment in network resilience. Gartner recommends that enterprises should allocate funds reasonably between network security and network resilience. Cyber resilience is actually the ability to withstand changes in network security and the ability to quickly resolve and recover. Network security + resilience can build a high wall of network resilience.
Li Yan, technical director of Dell Technologies Greater China Data Protection Solutions Division,
green development faces the future.
At the 2023 Dell Technology Summit, sustainable development and ESG are hot topics. Nowadays, green, low-carbon and sustainable development have become the "worry" of all enterprises. In its ESG report for fiscal year 2023, Dell Technologies shared the company's achievements and progress in four aspects: promoting sustainable development, cultivating inclusivity, changing lives, and maintaining trust. In terms of sustainable development, Dell Technologies continues to improve energy efficiency and increase the proportion of sustainable materials by implementing green data center solutions.
As we all know, data centers are large energy consumers, with electricity costs accounting for 60% to 70% of the total costs. Predictions show that by 2030, my country's data center power consumption will exceed 380 billion kilowatt-hours, and if renewable energy is not actively used, carbon emissions will exceed 200 million tons. "Under the impact of the green wave, data centers are the first to bear the brunt." said Xi Yuchen, senior director of the Information Infrastructure Solutions Division of Dell Technologies Group Greater China. "We have also observed that Internet companies, financial companies, and large In recent years, central state-owned enterprises and other state-owned enterprises have stepped up their efforts to promote the green transformation of data centers. Dell Technologies itself has also been paying attention to ESG and made a lot of active and effective investments. It has set 2030 ESG goals, such as ensuring that 100% of product packaging is environmentally friendly. Recycled, reusable and renewable materials, and 50% of the production materials are also renewable and recyclable.”
In fact, not only the data center level, but also the development of the entire computing power is closely related to green. Another wave of AI boom brought by ChatGPT has very high energy consumption requirements for CPU and GPU. The power consumption of a server can easily exceed kilowatts, which was difficult to imagine in the past. If companies do not consider ESG issues and still use traditional air-cooling technology, it will be difficult to support the requirements for extreme computing power. Therefore, Dell Technologies has proposed a package of solutions from air cooling to liquid cooling.
According to Xi Yuchen, in terms of air cooling, Dell Technologies has multi-vector patented technology, and its products can achieve very good heat dissipation performance. If customers require the ultimate GPU-based computing power and meet PUE standards, Dell Technologies can also provide diversified liquid cooling solutions from cold plates to immersion. It is particularly worth mentioning that Dell Technologies 16G servers can be pre-configured with a cold plate-based liquid cooling solution out of the factory to facilitate rapid deployment by customers. The immersion liquid cooling solution also has successful customers in China. For example, a domestic university adopted Dell Technologies’ immersion liquid cooling solution with a PUE as low as 1.1. "Dell Technologies can provide comprehensive solutions around the construction of green data centers." Xi Yuchen said, "In 2023, green data centers will be one of the hot spots in the Chinese market. I believe Dell Technologies will definitely make great gains in this field."
Xi Yuchen, senior director of Dell Technologies Greater China Information Infrastructure Solutions Division
The uncertainty of global economic development, the rise of a new wave of artificial intelligence applications represented by large models, the continuous deepening of the integration of data and reality, and the new pattern of Chinese enterprises "going global" to meet these new changes and new challenges , Dell Technologies strategizes and wins thousands of miles.
