Dell Looks at the Future, and Frankly, It Can Be Scary

This week I’m in lovely (and frickin’ cold) Chicago at Dell’s annual analyst event, and Michael Dell is on stage talking about things like “bionic vision.” Recalling the old TV show, “The $6 Million Man,” this technology is coming out of England for folks that have catastrophic vision loss. This is kind of a primer on what is going on with regard to applied data analytics. From Dell’s viewpoint--and he is hardly an outlier here--we are facing an ever-growing tsunami of data and the related problems and opportunities are massive. He argues that Dell, at its current massive scale, is the only company that can stretch from the edge, embrace the cloud and encompass the core (which bridges on-premises and the multi-cloud world) to prepare firms for that future. Weaving in the different elements of Dell Technologies (Boomi, Virtustream, EMC, Pivotal, VMware), he has a strong argument that Dell is the closest to a true end-to-end holistic supplier of complete data center solutions for this future.