Dell Technologies aims modular data center at AI, machine learning ZDNet

Dell Technologies is positioning its servers, storage systems, hyperconverged infrastructure, and future architecture for workloads such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, and predictive analytics. At Dell Technologies World, the company rolled out a series of data center building blocks -- Dell EMC PowerMax storage systems, updated PowerEdge servers and VxRail appliances, and VXRack SDDC Systems -- and Kinetic, a composable infrastructure. Hewlett Packard Enterprise has a similar effort called Synergy. Ravi Pendekanti, senior vice president of product management and marketing for Dell EMC's server and infrastructure systems group, said the new workload environment "has to be about more than point products." Why it matters, and how we use it What is hyperconvergence?