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• Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI becomes a preferred platform for AI deployments on Dell PowerEdge servers
• Dell PowerEdge servers to be the first servers validated for Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI to help customers more seamlessly develop, test and run large language models (LLMs) to power enterprise applications

COMPANY NEWS: Dell Technologies and Nutanix, global leaders in infrastructure solutions and software for multicloud environments, have announced two new innovative solutions - Dell XC Plus and Dell PowerFlex with Nutanix Cloud Platform. These new offerings, sold and delivered by Dell, will redefine flexibility and control in Nutanix environments, with each solution addressing key IT challenges head-on to help future-ready enterprises pave a path forward.

Virga is a fast, powerful and energy-efficient accelerated computing cluster that will help grow Australia’s science, industry and economy.

Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, has worked with Dell Technologies to build a high-performance computer (HPC) system which will speed up scientific discoveries and help grow Australia’s industry and economy.

Macquarie Flex brings true hybrid capabilities to Australian businesses revolutionising the handling of critical workloads

COMPANY NEWS: In an Australian first, Macquarie Cloud Services, part of Macquarie Technology Group (ASX: MAQ), has leveraged strategic relationships with Microsoft and Dell Technologies, to launch Macquarie Flex.

GUEST OPINION: We’re in the midst of the AI revolution and local businesses are working to capitalise on a technology that will define a generation. According to the Dell Technologies Innovation Catalyst Research, 81% of Australian and New Zealand business leaders surveyed believe AI will significantly transform their industry, while an additional 80% say they are well positioned competitively and have a solid AI strategy.

COMPANY NEWS: Macquarie Cloud Services, part of Macquarie Technology Group, today announced it has been awarded Dell Technologies’ Global Alliances Engagement Partner of the Year in Asia Pacific and Japan for 2024 at the annual Dell Technologies World Conference in Las Vegas.

COMPANY NEWS: Dell Technologies unveils Dell PowerStore advancements for better performance, efficiency, resiliency, and multicloud data mobility. Dell also expands Dell APEX portfolio with new AIOps advancements and enhanced multicloud and Kubernetes storage management.

We may have been a bit sceptical when it kicked off, but it looks like Dell will genuinely be on to a winner with its Ai offerings in the next year. Here are the top things we’ve learned after Day 2 of its Ai-focused Dell Technlogies World “Ai Edition” conference in Las Vegas.

COMPANY NEWS: Dell Technologies expands the Dell AI Factory with Nvidia to include new server, edge, workstation, solutions, and services advancements that speed AI adoption and innovation.

COMPANY NEWS: Dell Technologies expands the industry’s top-selling server portfolio with performance and efficiency upgrades for wherever Dell PowerEdge is deployed. These servers represent the latest generation of server innovation for Dell’s largest and smallest customers.

COMPANY NEWS: In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence (AI), seizing opportunities amidst complexity is paramount. Collaboratively engineered with Red Hat, the Dell APEX Cloud Platform for Red Hat OpenShift offers a streamlined and automated turnkey solution that transforms how organisations run Red Hat OpenShift on-premises. Today, we're thrilled to announce enhancements that further accelerate, transform, and optimise how customers harness the power of APEX Cloud Platform for Red Hat OpenShift to address AI use cases.

GUEST RESEARCH: Generative AI (genAI) and AI will significantly transform industries in the future, according to 81% of Australian and New Zealand respondents to the Dell Technologies Innovation Catalyst Research. This rises to 89% for organisations reporting high (+25%) 2023 revenue growth and remains at 81% for those reporting low growth (1-5%), flat revenue or decline.

COMPANY NEWS: Dell Technologies is expanding its data protection portfolio of appliances, software, and as-a-Service offerings to help customers strengthen cyber resiliency in the face of increasing cyberattacks.

GUEST OPINION: The pandemic and the various world events that have occurred over the past four years have put the global economy in check, generating friction in supply chains around the world and affecting the costs of production, distribution, and consumption, and causing inflation on a global scale.

This context has had a major impact on the priorities and decisions of IT leaders in Asia-Pacific countries.

Modernising IT infrastructures is a key part of the C-level strategy when it comes to adapting the value proposition of companies to changing markets. In the face of uncertainty, the flexibility offered by IT consumption as-a-service has become the CIO's alternative to traditional procurement models. Shall we discuss CAPEX versus OPEX again?

Capital Expenditures, or “CAPEX,” is the financial concept associated with investments in physical assets such as servers and infrastructure for data centres. On the other hand, OPEX identifies the category of "Operating Expenses", which, like electricity, are charged according to consumption - an attribute that defines cloud computing services.

These paradigms in IT procurement have confronted the visions of CFOs and CIOs at the boardroom table for a long time. Faced with the imponderables of the future, the CIOs' initiative was to overburden annual IT investment budgets, while finance pushed to limit them.

Companies today have seen the benefits of shifting part of their digital infrastructure spending to consumption as-a-service. The reason? The need to make their organisations more flexible and agile to react to various IT challenges, especially the ability to scale storage capacity to meet future or temporary requirements and ensure that the business continues to grow without incurring higher capital expenditures.

Another factor that provides greater value to the "as-a-service" model is the productivity of the IT team. An IDC study has shown that by moving to the as-a-service model, IT staff capitalises 20% of their time to refocus on operational requirements that are of higher priority and bring greater value to the business.

Revolutionising as-a-service IT infrastructure with Dell APEX subscriptions
Aligning IT costs directly with infrastructure utilisation allows CIOs to solve several headaches:

1. Mitigate operational risks stemming from fluctuations in workloads. Cyclical businesses demand the ability to scale up when there are periods of intense demand on systems and to scale down when workloads drop. High-growth businesses, where new applications and enhanced technologies enter the portfolio, require agility to scale and adapt to the changing business environment. Dell Technologies APEX Subscriptions enables organisations to scale up or down based on their business needs. For example, an organisation with flexible storage support from APEX Subscriptions .

2. Free up IT staff to focus on high-value projects. By deploying IT-as-a-Service, infrastructure lifecycle work such as upgrades, patches, repairs, troubleshooting and support services can optionally be incorporated into the Dell Technologies load with APEX Subscriptions. This allows IT staff to spend up to 20% of their time on operational requirements that are of higher priority and bring greater value to the business.

3. Meet KPIs and business outcomes. Traditional CAPEX procurement cannot adapt and scale to meet new demands without risks of minimising or overcompensation when acquiring technology. With APEX Subscriptions, Dell Technologies can further adjust and right-size and configure memory, storage capacity, processing units, I/O, connectivity and other critical areas to deliver highly optimised business outcomes. Additionally, it offers the flexibility to locate equipment in customer-defined facilities.

4. Innovate in financing models. Dell APEX Subscriptions offers consumption as-a-service in its infrastructure, servers, storage, converged/hyper-converged infrastructure and data protection solutions to simplify and bring agility to the IT anywhere organisation. Organisations that have adopted this model have achieved a 25% lower IT acquisition cost and an average cost of storage operations 23% lower per year. In addition, APEX Subscriptions enables efficient, simple and predictable management of utilisation costs.

APEX Subscriptions, Dell Technologies infrastructure cloud experience model and as-a-service solutions, addresses the critical components for organisations to scale their technology capacity, capitalise on the strategic value of their technical staff, ensure business outcomes with flexibility to locate equipment in customer-defined facilities, from the earliest stages of IT financing.

GUEST OPINION by Aruna Kolluru, Chief Technologist, AI, Dell Technologies, Australia and New Zealand:  Quantum computing sounds like something out of science fiction, and the foundations it’s built on are hard to get your head around. Yet quantum computing is real and it’s here today. It will change the way we think about computers and will transform what they’re capable of, with massive implications for business, science, technology and even our everyday lives through new developments in medical treatments, materials science and more.

EchoStar subsidiary Dish Wireless has bagged a US$50 million grant from the US Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), which will be used to fund and establish the Open RAN Centre for Integration & Deployment (Orcid).

GUEST OPINION: The invention of the PC and the Internet created digital revolutions that changed our world. The arrival of mainstream artificial intelligence (AI) is another inflection point that has ushered us into uncharted territories, including how best to move forward on this next generation-defining journey.

COMPANY NEWS: Dell Technologies is helping customers achieve faster AI and generative AI (genAI) performance with new enterprise data storage advancements and validation with the Nvidia DGX SuperPod AI infrastructure.

COMPANY NEWS: Dell Technologies held the Visions 2024 media briefing in Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ) on 1 December 2023.

GUEST OPINION: Australia’s AI month runs for four weeks from 15 November. This year, it provides an important opportunity for businesses to consider how they can responsibly integrate AI into their organisations to capitalise on its potential for efficiency and growth.