Digital transformation has been the buzzword throughout information technology as businesses seek the efficiency of tech’s latest modernization tool. As companies of all sizes hop on the digital bandwagon, IT partners like Dell EMC are working to support their increasing needs, and develop solutions with evolving technology, like artificial intelligence, to the challenges they’ll face in the future.

“I’m seeing that shift of the conversation going from products to transforming your data center,” said Suresh Sathyamurthy (pictured), vice president of cloud and infrastructure solutions marketing at Dell EMC.

Sathyamurthy spoke with John Walls (@JohnWalls21), host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, and guest host Keith Townsend (@CTOAdvisor), at the Dell Technologies World event in Las Vegas. They discussed the data center needs Dell EMC helps support, and where transformation will go next. (* Disclosure below.)

Automating 6 billion decisions a day

Sathyamurthy credits the new discovery of data’s power and its ability to affect business revenue and improve overall customer experience to the acceleration of IT transformation across industries. In a third-party study conducted by Enterprise Strategy Group, Dell EMC discovered executives have high hopes for the results of their modernization.

“They believe that they’re going to be three times faster in terms of completion of their IT projects, twice as likely to meet and exceed their revenue goals, and have 33 percent more budget to invest in innovation,” Sathyamurthy said.

The biggest trends Sathyamurthy observes in emerging tech are hybrid cloud and the expanded use of data through AI and machine learning. As an increase of data floods in from “internet-of-things” devices and machine learning, businesses must shift the way information is ingested and analyzed by making architectural changes.

“It’s no longer about scale-up architectures; it’s about scale-out … and software-defined architectures. Then there are technologies like Hadoop and Splunk and SAP, for which we provide solutions … to help you analyze the data,” he said.

As these efforts scale, automation with the power of AI provides a labor-saving, cost-effective solution. “I would bet that any cloud-native application that is either customer facing … or critical to the decision making of an business … is going to have AI built in by default,” Sathyamurthy said.

As Dell EMC works to stay ahead of customer needs, the company is focusing on the benefits of AI with products such as its specialized PowerMax server. “It makes 6 billion decisions a day … and it’s helping the storage administrator’s job … because the decisions need not be made by humans anymore. … It’s amazing how much these softwares are going to evolve with technologies like AI,” Sathyamurthy concluded.

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the Dell Technologies World 2018 event. (* 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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