UPDATED 12:57 EDT / OCTOBER 22 2015

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Dell sets its sights on ‘future-ready’ enterprise solutions | #DellWorld

As Dell World 2015 continued in its second day, the glitz of the first day’s announcements was being tempered by the grounded reality of recognized business challenges, though these challenges do bring their own sort of excitement to the people working to overcome them.

Ashley Gorakhpurwalla, VP & GM of servers for Dell, Inc., sat down with Dave Vellante and Stu Miniman, cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, to address a wide variety of issues concerning Dell in regards to how it has grown from its past positions, its current situation and plans for moving forward.

Different appliances for different customers

“The world knows that Dell is completely committed to the datacenter space, to the enterprise space,” Gorakhpurwalla stated, giving a nod to the highly publicized merger of Dell and EMC as providing more exposure to these sides of the company’s business.

He then moved on to addressing how Dell is meeting the needs of these spaces. “The CIOs we’ve talked to have a pretty difficult problem … can you get more efficient, can you squeeze, can you consolidate, but at the same time make sure I’m very reliable, very secure?” he said.

Future-ready

“If you went back … maybe 10 years ago, you talked to the server admin, and he got upset with you because you were making him talk to the networking admin … that’s gone,” Gorakhpurwalla said. With the rise of hyper-scale, the evolution of server providing, converged cloud services, scalable solutions business, and a spectrum of other innovations reshaping enterprise solutions, Dell is looking for any way it can stay ahead of the curve.

“It’s not enough now to have a catalog of really great servers,” Gorakhpurwalla said, “You’re living in a decade of technology where things are announced every day that can change the game.” But he also felt that Dell has an edge on most of its competition in providing business solutions, as “we’re backing it with something different than ODMs or OEMs might do … we’re able to service it, get it there, support it.”

Watch the full interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE and theCUBE’s coverage of Dell World 2015. And join in on the conversation by CrowdChatting with theCUBE hosts during Dell World 2015.

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