Dell Technologies Inc. announced today the release of Dell EMC PowerOne, an autonomous infrastructure designed to make the deployment and management of information technology an easier process in the enterprise.

With built-in intelligence, PowerOne can automate thousands of tasks and provide readily available resources with a few clicks. The all-in-one system will provide automation for Dell EMC’s PowerEdge servers, PowerMax storage, PowerSwitch networking, and data protection through PowerProtect.

“It’s a system where you can get all of Dell Technologies in one package,” said Trey Layton (pictured), senior vice president of engineering at Dell EMC PowerOne. “Instead of relying on humans to integrate those technologies together to deliver an outcome for a customer, we’re embedding intelligence and software to make it easy for an operator to drive a configuration and deliver an outcome. Customers just need to get to production operations, and when you can acquire a product that houses the intelligence to get to that outcome faster, there’s a greater return on your invested capital.”

Layton spoke with Stu Miniman (@stu), host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, at theCUBE’s studio in Boston, Massachusetts. They discussed key features of the new solution designed to simplify IT management, how PowerOne fits with the company’s cloud strategy, and which customers could benefit most from the latest autonomous offering. (* Disclosure below.)

Optimized for performance

PowerOne includes features such as Launch Assist to automate installation of hardware and VMware Inc. clusters, and Lifecycle Assist, which simplifies daily operations by continually checking firmware settings. It’s part of what Dell EMC views as an important and necessary step toward reducing the management of an increasingly complex IT infrastructure.

“A customer today struggles to have expertise dedicated to building an underlying network fabric, how to deploy a software virtualization layer on top of that network fabric, how to deploy storage arrays in a manner where the network is not only optimized for performance but also for survivability,” Layton said. “What we are doing is bringing those capabilities in software so an operator can say: ‘I want to deploy this many cores with this much memory and associated with this much capacity of external storage.’”

Support for hybrid cloud

Concurrent with the release of PowerOne, Dell Technologies also introduced On Demand, a set of as-a-service offerings designed to offer consumption-based models to assist customers with hybrid-cloud solutions. PowerOne will be available through Dell Technologies On Demand as part of the company’s interest in providing multiple options for cloud-based services.

“PowerOne is an infrastructure element that is very much a part of the Dell Technologies Cloud strategy,” Layton said. “Think about it in layers. We are building an infrastructure layer at Dell EMC that enables the Dell Technologies Cloud layer to be possible through the VMware ecosystem of technologies making that multicloud, that private cloud functionality realized.”

Which potential customers would be best positioned to take advantage of Dell Technologies’ latest autonomous solution?

“If you’re looking to deploy a data center with tens, twenties, or hundreds of servers and you want external storage in the offer, then PowerOne is a great starting point,” Layton explained. “At launch, we are going to support 270 servers in the architecture. Very quickly we will expand into supporting what’s described as a multi-pod architecture, where we will get beyond 700 servers and then move into thousands.”

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s CUBE Conversations. (* Disclosure: Dell EMC sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither Dell EMC nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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