Dell Technologies Inc. has entered the artificial intelligence era with the spirit of collaboration, and Future Tech Enterprise Inc. is happy to be on that bandwagon. Future Tech’s partnership with Dell is still going strong, building off of Dell’s AI Factory and AI studio to offer more advanced IT solutions.

Future Tech’s Bob Venero talks with theCUBE about the company’s collaboration with Dell.

“We’re working with Dell on taking an AI factory and making it an AI proving ground,” said Bob Venero (pictured), president and chief executive officer of Future Tech Enterprise Inc. “We’re going to say, ‘What are the use cases you’re trying to do?’ We’re going to test it, we’re going to vet it, and then based on the success of what we do … you’re going to consume it.”

Venero spoke with theCUBE’s Savannah Peterson and Jackie McGuire at Dell Technologies World, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed Future Tech and Dell’s collaboration. (* Disclosure below.)

Future Tech drives on-prem AI with smarter PCs

The age of AI may give rise to a legion of intelligent personal computers, according to Venero. With Dell, Future Tech aims to make running AI models on a PC ecosystem as easy as possible for customers.

“Taking that PC and enabling it to do more, to being intelligent, to having a [graphics processing unit], a [neural processing unit] and a [central processing unit], and having the ability to do more of those things at the edge and empower the people to be even better and stronger,” Venero said. “We’re seeing a lot of thought  and adoption around how do we empower at the edge?”

Doing AI on the edge and on-premises has become a growing trend, with a large number of executives moving their data off the cloud. Venero sees on-prem AI solutions as the more secure option, protecting essential data from the dangers of hacking and outages.

“If it’s $2, put it in the cloud,” he said. “If it’s a million dollars a minute, keep it on-prem. Build your guardrails around it. Secure your data and your information because if that goes down, and it will, in the cloud, there will be an outage, then what are you going to do?”

Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of Dell Technologies World:

(* Disclosure: Future Tech Enterprise sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither Future Tech nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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