At the annual Dell Technologies World conference in Las Vegas last week, Dell joined many companies this year with new technologies to address emerging needs in edge management, secure generative AI development, zero trust security, and multi-cloud workload management. released the product. It should come as no surprise that these are the hottest areas for sales of enterprise IT products and services in 2023.
New items introduced by Dell include the NativeEdge platform. His partnership with Nvidia to build Project Helix, a secure, on-premises-based generative AI management package. Project Fort Zero is a new initiative to provide an end-to-end Zero Trust security solution. It also includes updates to the multi-cloud app service management platform Apex.
Dell Native Edge
Dell had only a loosely tweaked Edge strategy for several years until it previewed a new development called Project Frontier last October. Project Frontier planned to deliver a standalone edge operations software and hardware platform sometime in 2023.
“Someday in 2023” is here now. Project Frontier is now discontinued, and its replacement, NativeEdge, is the industry’s “only” edge operations software that offers secure device onboarding, remote management and multi-cloud application orchestration at scale, according to Dell. It’s a platform. However, IBM, AWS, Google, HP, Microsoft, Hitachi, Oracle and several other companies may dispute the “only” claim. Gartner’s latest Edge Computing Market Report is:
“It is the only edge operations platform in the industry that offers three things in parallel: large-scale secure device onboarding, and large-scale device onboarding. Management: “Ensuring end-to-end lifecycle deployment of edge outcomes with multi-cloud application orchestration from data center to edge devices,” said Gil Schnairson, senior vice president of edge solutions at Dell. told reporters.
Edge operations that utilize automated processes are typically found in a variety of locations, from manufacturing sites and retail outlets to remote wind turbines and long-distance hospital operating rooms.
Edge computing use cases are on the rise as more organizations want to manage and protect their data at the source, but often have limited IT support to do so.
For example, a large manufacturer may need to automate packing and shipping across numerous factory sites in different geographies. This means connecting multiple technologies, such as IoT, streaming data, and machine vision, requiring dedicated devices to run multiple software applications in multiple locations. Testing and deploying the infrastructure to run your application can take months. With NativeEdge, manufacturers can use existing investments to consolidate their technology stacks, reducing deployment time for edge assets and applications from months to weeks, Schneorson said. The platform uses automation to streamline edge operations, enabling manufacturers to securely deploy new applications to all sites from a central location.
According to Schneorson, NativeEdge is designed to run any enterprise edge use case with automated deployment and integrates with various Dell data center hardware nodes. According to Schneorson, NativeEdge has built-in Zero Trust internal use confidentiality capabilities.
The NativeEdge software platform will be available in 50 countries starting in August, according to the company.
Project Helix partnership with Nvidia
Regardless of where you are looking to use generative AI, everyone wants “easier” when it comes to incorporating generative AI into enterprise systems. Pre-built AI data models are a big step in that direction.
Dell and Nvidia have revealed that Project Helix will deliver a suite of full-stack solutions with technical expertise and pre-built tools based on their own infrastructure and software. It contains a complete blueprint to make it easier for companies to adopt responsibly and accurately generative AI using their own data, Dell said.
“Project Helix will provide enterprises with purpose-built AI models to more quickly and securely derive value from today’s vast amounts of underutilized data,” said Vice Chairman and Co-Chairman of Dell Technologies. Executive Director Jeff Clarke said in a media advisory. “With highly scalable and efficient infrastructure, companies can create a new wave of generative AI solutions that can reinvent industries.”
Project Helix, an on-premises generative AI blueprint, supports the entire lifecycle of generative AI, from infrastructure provisioning, modeling, training, fine-tuning, application development and deployment, to inference deployment and rationalization of results. Dell said. According to the company, validated designs use Dell PowerEdge servers, such as the PowerEdge XE9680 and PowerEdge R760xa, and are optimized to deliver generative AI training and AI inference performance. These, combined with the Nvidia H100 Tensor core GPU and network, form the backbone of the infrastructure for these workloads.
Dell wouldn’t say if the Helix models will run best on other brands of servers. Dell Validated Designs under the Project Helix initiative will be available through traditional channels and Apex flexible consumption options beginning in July.
Dell Apex Multi-Cloud Management
Introduced in May 2021, Dell Apex software is designed to work across all cloud platforms, public cloud storage software, client devices and computing environments. The newest addition to the company’s multicloud portfolio spans from data centers to public clouds and client devices.
Dell, Microsoft, VMware, and Red Hat platforms for specific cloud-based use cases:
Dell Apex Cloud Platform for Microsoft Azure features full-stack software integration and automated lifecycle management with native Microsoft management tools. The platform is designed for application modernization and is based on Azure Arc-enabled infrastructure with consistent operations and governance across on-premises data centers, edge locations, and the Azure public cloud with Azure Arc. It is said that the time to value realization can be shortened.
Apex Cloud Platform for Red Hat OpenShift aims to simplify the development and management of container-based applications, wherever they are developed and deployed, through full-stack software integration and automation with Kubernetes. increase. With broad GPU support across any hybrid cloud footprint, users can run containers and virtual machines side-by-side natively within Kubernetes for a variety of workloads, including AI/ML and analytics, Dell said. I’m here.
Apex Cloud Platform for VMware gives users the flexibility to deploy vSphere on systems that are fully integrated with Dell Software-Defined Storage. It joins Dell Apex Private Cloud and Dell Apex Hybrid Cloud within the broader Dell Apex portfolio to provide more choice for VMware users.
Zero Trust Security News
This is in the planning and testing stage for next year until further notice. Project Fort Zero is designed to make Zero Trust more accessible to midsize and smaller businesses and is designed to provide a hardened end-to-end Zero Trust security solution that helps global organizations protect against cyberattacks. I’m here.
Fort Zero is part of an ecosystem of more than 30 technology companies that will deliver validated and highly mature Zero Trust solutions within the next 12 months, Dell said. “Zero Trust is designed for distributed environments, but integrating Zero Trust into hundreds of point products from dozens of vendors is complex and out of reach for most organizations.” Herb Kelsey, industry CTO for government projects at Dell, told reporters. “We are helping global organizations solve today’s security challenges by facilitating integration and accelerating Zero Trust adoption.”
Fully configured Fort Zero solutions address a variety of use cases, including on-premises data centers. Remote or regional locations such as retail stores where secure real-time analysis of customer data can provide a competitive advantage. Sites where temporary installation is required for continuous operation in places where connections are intermittent, such as aircraft and vehicles.
