PowerEdge

Let me start here with some statistics: From a recent IDC study, companies who leverage their data for business insights are seeing 75% higher customer satisfaction and 46% faster innovations deliver.

The data explosion is showing no sign of slowing down. With more data comes opportunities and innovation. But it also requires delivering data access and analytics flawlessly and consistently. Importantly, it requires an enterprise-wide vision of data for a connected experience

Data is the new oil, as they say

The amount of data was perceived for many years as burden, we had it, we had to keep it and show it when required

How can this new server help customers get more value from their data stored on it than a standard rack server?

The situation now is changing as data is giving you insights and you can build new strategies based on that, and/or provide it to algorithms for better and deeper insights – which then nicely leads into the tagline of unleashing innovations

@StephenDAtDell PowerEdge XE7100 supports upto 100X 3.5" HDD drives and upto 20 of them can be SSDs, and with dual node architecture it supports accelerated data archival as needed

@speakingsanj And to add, its the whole solution, with huge amount of storage but also a powerful compute thanks to both CPU but also GPU that make the difference

Basically, more value and opportunities for users. I’m interested in some use cases.

Innovations are a critical need especially in these days, where most of us are trying to focus on operation (keep the lights on). Your IT can be the driver of these innovations and this is the ultimate story of this launch and its tag line.

A well managed IT with right tools can be the enabler of changes with the right time to market.

As you can see from the video, we announced the new PowerEdge XE7100 server.

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That’s great, tell us more

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The new PowerEdge XE7100 is the industry’s highest-density 5U storage server with flexible configuration options engineered for intelligent video analytics, media-streaming and object storage.

It holds up to 100 high-capacity hard drives, or 67% more drives than a competitive system, to store more data securely.

Hi Daniel, Sanjeev, good to have you on. Looking forward to hear more about this new Server innovation directly from their fathers

Being so unique does that mean this server isn't part of the usual Dell portfolio from a management perspective?

A great summary of the differences between the previous PowerEdge model and the new PowerEdge XE7100 for you to look at here. https://www.crowdchat.net/s/164m1

@stephenDatDell : This product is part of our PowerEdge XE line of products and can be managed in the same way as other products in Dell portfolio

We also announced the Dell EMC OpenManage Systems Management portfolio. What can you tell us about this?

and just to add to what Daniel was saying, the PowerEdge XE7100 is equipped with one or two dual-socket nodes with up to four accelerators to avoid data silos to boost inferencing performance

As part of the announcement, we also learned that #DellTech partnered with data analytics leader @Splunk to develop the Dell EMC iDRAC Redfish for Splunk Enterprise.

OpenManage is our management platform for our PowerEdge Servers. This launch announced a range of new features and plug-ins..... I'll try cover some of the key updates.... during this chat

Yes, our iDRAC9 now supports Telemetry Streaming, so instead of polling a server for it's management information it can stream this to straight into collection and analysis tools like those from @Splunk to allow customers to bringing the massive volumes of granular data to life.

This report by the Tolly group shows how efficient this telemetry can be. https://reports.tolly.com/DocDetail.aspx?DocNumber...

Let’s take a look at the banking industry. Banking is no longer local. It is digitalized. Banks are required to retain up to 5 years of records, so customers can access to bank statements anywhere, anytime. With software-defined storage on PowerEdge XE7100

customers and branches around the globe can access to the encrypted data with a single point access from their bank app or bank website, without worrying about where the data is being storage or loss.

Another example is from autonomous driving industry. When you park and charge your autonomous cars, your car's computer data will be sent to the data center’s PowerEdge XE7100. There it will run inferencing and reprocess to improve the AI model accuracy

so it can improve the accuracy of road condition and the safety of the autonomous driving experience

Another example is a retail store heat map. Retail stores send security video system back to the data center, it runs inferencing and analyzes the heat map for better promotion spots in the high traffic area, to increase the promotion effectiveness.

A customer example is the Flatiron Institute. They provide a highly interactive research environment for researchers, data scientists and programmers to work together through computational methods, including data analysis, theory, modeling and simulation.

“Being able to retain long-term & complex data for researchers to access & collaborate in joint research is critical,” said Dr. Ian Fisk, Flatiron Institute. “PowerEdge XE7100 enables us to provide a highly collaborative IT environment "

I really like this use case

For Media Streaming, such as security video record storage, media streaming host and cloud backup, the XE7100 with the XE7440 – a full-width node that can support up to 4x T4 or 4x NICs provide you the flexible PCIe option to support high-performance accelerators and network.

Me too! Some real life examples of how massive amounts of data are made accessible in various vertical markets. Thanks for sharing

These are all great use cases. XE7100 supports flexible configurations that can be customized for a variety of use cases

Apart from those highlighted above, XE7100 can also work well for Telcos, Research Centers, Smart supply chains, for running data archives and cloud backup

And don't forget if you need to manage your Dell PowerEdge server Portfolio whilst away from your desk we have OpenManage Mobile - https://www.delltechnologies.com/en-gb/solutions/o...

In summary, the PowerEdge XE7100 has the industry's highest storage density in a 5U server, embracing data silos like no other to achieve business success. Learn more at an upcoming #DellTechForum in Nov/Dec and also #DellTechWorld next week!

First, a big welcome to our hosts. Please introduce yourselves.

Good Afternoon, My name is Daniel Werner and I am a Server Product Manger for EMEA, thanks for having me here

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Hi. Sanjeev Gupta here, I am a product manager at Dell, based in Austin, Texas. Excited to be here!

We are here today to discuss the recent product launch and you will have seen the video above: https://youtu.be/A4902Ny64lg

Hi everyone, I'm Steve Daborn, I'm also a Dell EMC Server Product Manager based in EMEA.