Hybrid IT isn’t just a juggling act: It’s a full-on acrobat show with private clouds, public clouds, AI workloads and traditional data centers all in the mix. The Dell Automation Platform pulls those threads together under one framework, aiming to eliminate silos and tame the complexity.

AI environments require dense compute, sophisticated networking and constant adaptation. Private clouds, while disrupted, remain steadier, but both face the same challenge: Not enough hands on deck. That’s where automation becomes non-negotiable, from initial deployment to ongoing updates, and that’s where the Dell Automation Platform shows up strong, according to Caitlin Gordon (pictured, right), vice president of product management at Dell Technologies Inc.

Dell’s Gil Shneorson and Caitlin Gordon talk with theCUBE about the power and effectiveness of the Dell Automation Platform.

“I can’t share the name, but it is one of my favorite customers, because it is a great example of a large company that has many data centers,” Gordon said. “They’re trying to exit their data centers, getting into [co-location] facilities, but they also have thousands of stores. We’ll just say we spent many hours with them this week because everything we’re doing with the Dell Automation Platform, with private cloud, with NativeEdge, in AI solutions, and they see the value of having this way to orchestrate in a very predictable way.”

Gordon and Gil Shneorson (left), senior vice president of edge computing offers, strategy and execution at Dell, spoke with theCUBE’s Savannah Peterson and Dave Vellante at Dell Technologies World, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed how the Dell Automation Platform is raising the stakes by unifying operations through a single automation framework. (* Disclosure below.)

Streamlining operations with Dell Automation Platform

Today’s hybrid IT landscape is anything but simple. Between legacy systems, sprawling data centers, disaggregated architectures, cloud-native platforms and AI workloads, managing it all by hand is slow, error-prone and unsustainable. The Dell Automation Platform cuts through that complexity by unifying these environments under a single, powerful automation framework, according to Shneorson.

“We’ve learned over the years that simplification is the most important thing,” he said. “We believe that the world is shifting towards disaggregated architectures because of the economics, because of the ability to transition between different stacks, because of the AI workloads that are different and demand different. Simplification is all about automation and the ability to define, and then simply orchestrate and run things.” 

Disaggregated and composable architectures deliver flexibility and scalability by pooling compute and storage resources across workloads. This creates a true on-prem cloud experience, combining openness and agility without the complexity of the traditional three-tier model, Gordon noted. 

“The composable, to me, on top of disaggregated kind of gives you that intelligence of the automation of how you actually use that, not only to deploy it, but even manage it in a much more automated fashion,” she said. “You have the flexibility to have best-in-class compute [and] best-in-class storage, with efficiency on both, and that you can scale them independently, which obviously is important because you can get five-to-one deduplication on the storage, you can scale compute when you need it [and] storage when you need it.”

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

(* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for Dell Technologies World. Neither Dell Technologies Inc., the primary sponsor of theCUBE’s event coverage, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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