By Samar Yahya

AUSTIN, Texas — During Dell Technologies Summit that took place in Austin, Texas last week under the theme ‘Next Data Decade’, Dell announced two new services, namely Dell EMC PowerOne and On Demand.

Michael Dell chairman and CEO of Dell Technologies outlined the vision for the Next Data Decade and the generational opportunity to unlock the power of data to solve our greatest challenges.

He announced Dell Technologies’ Social Impact Plan for 2030 that is needed to make a permanent and positive impact on humankind and what Dell is doing for the advancement of human progress.

"Unlocking the power of data will advance humanity more than any other force over the next decade. We are committed to making that power broadly available to communities around the world so we can all move forward together," said Dell. "5G is approaching along with artificial intelligence, machine learning and deep learning, they are all making us speedily moving forward to a connected and intelligent world."

Currently, artificial intelligence and machine learning are capable to optimize a machine's settings to keep the user at maximum productivity at all times.

"The digital transformation is when all the physical aspects are becoming instrumented, connected and digitized, creating this stream of data in the digital world, everywhere and in everything; in our homes, buildings or cars or everywhere in the entire world."

Announcing its 2030 Progress Made Real plan, sustainability was a key theme and business initiative at the Dell Technologies Summit.

Brian Reaves, Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer, Dell Technologies said “By 2030, 50% of Dell global workforce and 40% of leaders will be women, the current state is 30.4% overall and 23.4 of leaders are women. Also, 25% of Dell US workforce and 15% of the leaders will be black/African American and Hispanic/Latino minorities, while currently it is 12.6% overall and 9.1% of leaders.”

Reaves added that each year through 2030, 90% of Dell employees will rate their job as meaningful and by 2030, 50% of Dell’s employees will participate in employee resource groups, while each year through 2030, 75% of the employees will believe their leader is inspiring 50% of the people empowered by our social and education initiatives will be girls, women or underrepresented groups, where as by 2030, 95% of Dell’s employees will participate in annual foundational learning on topics such as unconscious bias, harassment, microaggression and privilege.”

In addition by 2030, Dell will advance the health, education and economic opportunity of 1 billion people, digitally transform 1,000 nonprofit organizations and achieve 75% team member participation in charitable giving and volunteerism in communities.

During the summit Dell Technologies introduced On Demand, a set of consumption-based and as-a-service offerings on the industry’s broadest infrastructure portfolio that deliver IT with the agility of cloud and the control, performance and predictability of on-premises infrastructure. On Demand offers flexible payment options for an extensive range of technologies across the full infrastructure stack, including compute, storage, networking and virtualization.

Also Dell EMC PowerOne was announced, the autonomous infrastructure to make deploying, managing and consuming IT easier for organizations. PowerOne integrates PowerEdge compute, PowerMax storage, PowerSwitch networking and VMware virtualization into a single system combined with a built-in intelligence engine to automate thousands of manual steps over its lifecycle.

Jeff Boudreau, president, Dell Technologies Infrastructure Solutions Group said: “PowerOne autonomous infrastructure automates IT so customers can focus less on managing technology and more on benefiting from it. As we look to the future, PowerOne offers a tremendous leap forward. It helps customers focus on unleashing the power of data, allowing IT teams to innovate and achieve business goals faster."

At the event Dell announced several new “moonshot” goals to bolster its Progress Made Real vision for a positive impact on the planet by 2030.

Clay Johnston, Dell Medical School, University of Texas said that we should all recognize that the healthcare system everywhere is not perfect and that technology impact on healthcare, is not as on other industries to turn out better outcomes. He also argued that people want health and that the problem is that despite the fact that there is huge data on healthcare, the benefit is inadequate.

Concerned with sustainability and environment, Dell announced that by 2030 it will recycle an equivalent product for every product sold and will ensure that 50% of all products made are originated from recycled or renewable materials, nevertheless, with 100% recycled packaging.

To Dell Technologies’ ethics and privacy play critical role in establishing a strong foundation for positive social impact strategies. Dell is committed to continuing to lead in ethics and privacy, and they are essential and a guidepost for Progress Made Real work.