Dell Technologies introduces new solutions to support innovation

October 06, 2023 | 08:00

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Information released at the Dell Technologies Forum on October 5 showed that only 17 per cent of businesses in Asia-Pacific and Japan (APJ) are achieving innovation efficiency.

The Dell Technologies Innovation Index reveals 60 per cent fear their organisation could be irrelevant in three to five years, based on the health of their innovation pipeline and culture. 59 per cent of respondents believe people leave their company because they haven’t been able to innovate as much as they hoped they would, and 58 per cent believe their technology is not cutting-edge.

Dell Technologies introduces new solutions to support innovation

Dell Technologies representative dicsuss technology application and innovation in businesses at the forum

Dell Technologies polled 6,600 employees across 45 countries to illustrate why innovation is business critical and how organisations should harness their people, processes, and technologies to innovate effectively.

The APJ study polled 1,700 employees in Australia and New Zealand, India, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea and Thailand.

“To keep up with the rapidly changing global landscape, companies in APJ should look at prioritising innovation alongside managing the day-to-day running of their business. Organisations often think it’s always to do with a big idea. They’re waiting for the next disruptive moment. However, small, practical ideas can create a ripple effect that leads to greater productivity, profitability, and purpose,” said president of Asia Pacific and Japan of Dell Technologies Peter Marrs.

“Business leaders can do this by aligning innovation projects with their company goals and nurturing a culture of curiosity."

Regarding technology-based innovation, through working with businesses, Dell realised that when moving applications to cloud computing platforms, many businesses face challenges related to incurring costs for storage and data, or encounter administrative difficulties when having to operate or encounter administrative difficulties when having to operate many servers on different platforms servers on different platforms.

Dell Technologies offers solutions for businesses to use cloud computing services at the most optimal cost.

Dell Technologies announced the availability of the Dell APEX Cloud Platform for Microsoft, a new fully integrated turnkey system developed in collaboration with Microsoft that extends the Microsoft Azure hybrid cloud experience to data center and edge environments.

It is the first offer in the Dell APEX Cloud Platform family and the first available Premier Solution for Microsoft Azure Stack HCI. This new Azure Stack HCI solution category only includes platforms that provide the fastest time to value for Azure hybrid cloud through the deepest levels of integration with Microsoft.

Karolis Macionis, regional director of APEX, Dell Technologies, Asia Pacific and Japan said, “This new platform will enable organisations in the region to simplify their Azure management, accelerate application delivery, and offer flexibility to run their workloads across the cloud, edge, and data center.”

Dell APEX Cloud Platform is designed to address several key IT priorities as well as simplify management, accelerate application delivery, fastest time to value.

According to Macionis, in businesses, some innovative information technology projects are successful, and others are not. Businesses can improve the innovation process by preparing resources in terms of people, processes, and technology, and deploying all three elements synchronously.

He said customers will see an 88 per cent reduction in deployment steps when compared to existing integrated systems.

Dell APEX Cloud Platforms are next-generation infrastructure that deliver consistent operations and more control over workload placement by extending the choice of cloud ecosystem on-premises.

These platforms offer customers greater flexibility and investment protection over time by combining the best of Dell innovation in automated infrastructure management and orchestration, software-defined storage, and next-generation compute.

Dell has heard overwhelming excitement about this solution from customers and partners alike. Kyndryl, a strategic partner of Dell and Microsoft, is expanding its solutions with managed services for this platform.

“We are excited for the availability of the new Dell APEX Cloud Platform that will provide a consistent Azure operation across on-premises and Azure public cloud,” said Kevin Powell, vice president of Private Cloud Services of Kyndryl.

Through customer conversations, Dell is seeing existing customers familiar with the operational outcomes delivered by its automated software are excited to adopt the APEX Cloud Platform for Microsoft Azure to extend their Azure deployments on-premises.