Cloud computing and Big Data have been replaced by Digital Transformation in terms of hype coming from vendors and Michael Dell, chairman and CEO of Dell Technologies, wants Dell EMC and it’s component companies to be there to help customers reach their transformational goals.
Dell cautioned that companies needed more than having a Cloud strategy alone. “The Cloud is not a place, rather it is a way of consuming technology,” he said.
Speaking at the keynote of Dell EMC World 2017, Dell said CEOs see digtial transformation aiding their growth strategy and that we were at the beginnign of an innovation explosion.
Digital transformation will fundamentally change how every business in every industry is built and operated, and how it interfaces with customers. The unprecedented amounts of users, applications and data volumes will simply break traditional infrastructure. To succeed in this new digital world, Dell said that companies will require an IT transformation.
The combined Dell EMC offered customers the best partner and suite of solutions to enable transformation given the breath of best-of-breed solutions from Dell EMC, Pivotal, RSA, Secureworks, Virtustream, and VMWare.
Joining Dell onstage was David Goulden, President of Dell EMC, who said successful IT transformation needed a modern data center, automated service delivery and transformaed IT delivery.
Goulden quoted a recent Dell EMC study, conducted by Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), titled "ESG 2017 IT Transformation Maturity Curve", that found that while there is a clear imperative for companies to transform their legacy IT, digital transformation is becoming the driving force to making IT transformation a top priority. However, many organisations still measure application cycle times in months, if not years; they also have siloed infrastructures; and continue to grapple with rigid legacy architectures – all barriers to undertaking successful digital transformation.
The report found that companies behind the IT transformation curve are those that are held back by legacy infrastructures. As organizations look to digitally transform, IT maturity may be a deciding factor for determining which companies win.
But Goulden said that there were great rewards for those who could succeed in their transformation. These companies showed the most progress in leveraging IT resources to speed product innovation and time to market; automating manual processes and tasks; and running IT as a profit center rather than a cost center. They also had more funds to use for innvotion compared to their peers who were behind in the digital transofrmation cycle.