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Dell Technologies World 2024 Highlights

The theme was AI, but people were at the heart of every conversation

Dell Technologies World 2024

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The theme of this year’s Dell Technologies World 2024 may have been AI, but people were at the heart of every conversation.


The age of AI

From inspiring keynotes to interactive breakout sessions and plenty of networking, the message was clear:  The age of AI will put "more power in the hands of more people" than ever before. 

We kicked off our conference with a speech from Dell CEO and Founder Michael Dell on 'Igniting Innovation'. With the help of a few more leading tech voices, Michael laid out his vision for the next generation of AI-driven companies.

“All that work and investment, the dramatic scale out of computing power, storage and connectivity, automation and intelligence, the instrumentation of the physical world. That combined innovation is the foundation for this moment. 

All of the progress that came before was really just a pregame show. We’re moving from computation towards cognition - into the age of AI.

We are unleashing technology that will accelerate scientific discovery and development with the power to transform our organisations, our lives and our world. It’s a generational opportunity for productivity, innovation and growth.”

Michael Dell , CEO and Founder, Dell Technologies

5 key takeaways from Dell Technologies World 2024

As always, Dell is clear that its partners will be pivotal in bringing this powerful vision of the future to life for our customers. Throughout the week, there were plenty of announcements highlighting the tools and solutions available to do just that. 

Here are our five key takeaways from Dell Technologies World 2024.

PowerStore Prime

After much anticipation, Dell announced an enormous update of its PowerStore solution, promising 66% improved performance, the most flexible QLC array on the market, world-class efficiency and an industry-leading 5:1 data reduction guarantee. 

As always, Dell says its data reduction guarantee is completely transparent, with no prior assessment required. 

There’s more good news if you’re already a PowerStore customer, too. After a fast and non-disruptive software upgrade, you can access many of PowerStore Prime’s features for free.

PowerScale F910

Dell also used the event to announce its latest purpose-built storage to address the demands of AI innovation.

PowerScale was already cited as the world’s most flexible, efficient and secure scale-out NAS and is packed with AI-optimised features. The latest iteration goes a step further, bringing this advanced tech to your data wherever it is across all stages of the AI pipeline. 

Its high-speed data ingestion and 127% improved streaming performance drastically reduce time to AI insights, making innovation much more accessible for many businesses.  

Dell PowerEdge XE9680

At the heart of this new dawn of AI innovation is PowerEdge XE9680. Another industry-leading piece of kit, it’s Dell’s first eight-way GPU server. 

Once again, the XE9680 has enormous potential to increase accessibility to GenAI technologies, lower TCO, and accelerate innovation. Built to drive the most complex AI, Machine Learning, Deep Learning and High Performance Computing workloads, it can put power in the hands of businesses that may have previously felt such advanced technologies were out of reach. 

AI PCs

Dell’s mission to ‘put more power in the hands of more people’ is perhaps most evident in its latest range of AI-enabled devices.

Dell Technologies World 2024 saw the unveiling of five new PCs powered by Snapdragon X Elite and Snapdragon X Plus with enhanced Copilot+ functionality.

As well as an AI image generator and Auto Super Resolution video editing, AI takes the reins here to securely store all activity between sessions so you can get back to work faster. 

Video calling just took another step into the future, too. Live Capture gives users the ability to translate audio into English from 44 languages in real time.

The Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA

 Tying the week’s announcements together is the AI Factory with NVIDIA. And, of course, this wouldn’t be Dell Technologies World 2024 without another industry first. The AI Factory is essentially an end-to-end solution integrating the best of Dell’s compute, storage, client device, software, and services capabilities with NVIDIA’s advanced AI infrastructure and enormous software portfolio. 

In real terms, this gives you everything you need to scale AI deployments, access AI tools tailored to your business objectives, and quickly and securely launch new use cases. 

In Summary

Our CTO, Tim Hall, summarised his week, saying:

“Dell Technologies World makes something very clear – data centre capability is more relevant now than ever before.

Organsations need to be super clear on what will run in Public Cloud, what will be GPU accelerated from the Data Centre and, most importantly, where their data is.

Dell's announcement of their clear vision on the "AI Factory" will accelerate AI use cases, and I am looking forward to taking customers on that journey.”

Tim Hall , CTO, boxxe

What can AI do for you?

AI is nothing new. But the scale and speed of its innovation means many businesses have barely scratched the surface of its potential. And with new tools, deployments and use cases announced seemingly by the day, it’s not always easy to know where to start. As your eyes and ears at Dell Technologies World 2024, we aim to cut through the noise and deliver the key takeaways you need to put the latest tech developments into action. 

Let’s work together to determine where you are in your AI transformation – and what we need to do to get you where you want to be.

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