Wanted! A generation of robots says Dell - ITREALMS

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Dell Technologies has obviously declared wanted, a generation of robots, saying that Gen Zers are tech-savvy, but lack needed soft skills and crave more human interaction; even so, senior professionals fear displacement by digital natives, reports ITREALMS.

Generation Z, ITREALMS gathered, is entering the workforce with a tech-first mentality that will propel businesses further into the digital era while potentially deepening the divide among five generations in the workplace.

According to global research commissioned by Dell Technologies, post-millennials – those born after 1996 and known as Gen Z – have a deep, universal understanding of technology and its potential to transform how we work and live.

Corporate fellow and vice president of Technology Strategy, Dell Technologies, Danny Cobb, said that these digital natives have advanced technology and data science skills, but what is surprising is the level of digital maturity they are bringing to the workplace.

“Yet we haven’t raised a generation of robots. Gen Z sees technology not only as a tool for enabling human progress, but also as a means for leveling the information empowerment playing field. Their combination of vision and optimism is remarkable,” Cobb said.

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Dell launches enterprise-level data protection for SME

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Dell EMC is expanding its modern protection storage portfolio with Dell EMC Data Domain DD3300, a new platform specifically designed to deliver enterprise-level data protection to small, mid-size organizations and remote/branch office environments of larger enterprises, reports ITRealms.

Organizations today face many challenges and conflicting priorities including data growth, supporting an ever-growing number of applications, an increasingly stringent regulatory and compliance environment, and continuously shrinking budgets. For organizations of all sizes, small to large, it is paramount for business success, more than ever before, that their data is protected and that they can easily leverage cloud for flexibility agility and economics.

DD3300 offers Dell EMC’s comprehensive data protection capabilities, including inline encryption and DD Boost for faster backups and lower network usage.  DD3300 also provides coverage for a wide application ecosystem, from enterprise to homegrown applications. A 2U appliance that enables you to start small and expand capacity as your needs increase, and with an average data reduction rate in the range of 10-55x, the DD3300 will provide an impressive ROI along with dramatic cost savings, bringing greater scalability and significant reduction in WAN bandwidth use for backups and recovery.

To enable smaller IT environments to simply extend to the cloud for long-term retention, DD3300 supports Data Domain Cloud Tier.  With DD3300, organizations can natively-tier deduplicated data to the cloud for long-term retention without the need for a separate cloud gateway or a virtual appliance. This new compact Data Domain delivers cost-effective long-term retention on a wide cloud ecosystem including Dell EMC Elastic Cloud Storage (ECS) and major public clouds.

To maximize the return on investment and get the most out of Dell EMC’s advanced deduplication, Data Domain DD3300 can be paired with our modern Data Protection software. With DD3300 and Dell EMC Data Protection software, customers can amplify the logical capacity and cloud capabilities, benefit from an intuitive user-friendly interface for simpler management, and take advantage of advanced VMware automation and integration capabilities.

Whether securing data of a small to mid-sized business or a department of a Fortune 100 company, Dell EMC Data Domain DD3300 provides dependable protection.

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Dell, Intel launch cloud ecosystem hub for EMEA

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Dell EMC and Intel have launched a new web-based Cloud Ecosystem Hub, to provide Cloud Service Providers (SPs) in the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) as well as end users with an online one stop site to unify and simplify access to Dell EMC’s cloud proposition and resources, reports ITRealms.

Country Manager, Dell EMC Nigeria, Travers Nicholas said that the hub will connect customers with SPs to help establish stronger marketing efforts, enabling digital transformation and significantly growing long term Cloud business.

This new unified platform demonstrates Dell EMC’s commitment to providing choice and unique solutions to every customer and removing obstacles to cloud adoption through hosting an online cloud portal for Dell EMC Technology, making it easier for customers to select the right SP to address their needs. For SPs, the hub will be a platform to launch key initiatives and drive new business through the marketplace. With sales revenues in the hardware market decreasing and much of the Cloud market set to transition over to hybrid Cloud, it is expected that Cloud SPs will acquire a considerably larger market share over the next five years[i] and Dell EMC and Intel will act as key business enablers to all parties.

“Historically, vendors have failed to support Service Providers in their campaigns and the Dell EMC Cloud Ecosystem represents a game-changing development for both Service Providers and customers alike,” said Eric Velfre, senior vice president, Compute and Networking Sales Dell EMC EMEA. “By simplifying access to the Dell EMC Cloud value proposition and offering content and support for co-marketing projects, we can generate awareness and enable new capabilities to achieve greater profitability for our partners. Through the Dell EMC Cloud Community we can also drive demand from the customer towards Service Providers and capture feedback to help develop future Dell EMC Cloud technologies” he said.

The country manager also said that the One-Stop site for enterprise customers, the Cloud Ecosystem Hub promises to help them understand how to transform their businesses, with a dedicated repository of up-to-date resources and assets explaining the value proposition and benefits offered by Dell EMC’s Cloud technologies. Customers will be able to select SPs through bespoke searches to find the most relevant solutions for their businesses, with options to contact providers directly through the platform. The Cloud Ecosystem Hub will also allow customers to discover and register for broader industry events organised by SPs and Dell EMC.

The Cloud Ecosystem Hub, he said, includes an array of new tools for SPs, including LeadPool demand generation, allowing partners to identify ‘hot’ vendor agnostic leads, along with additional resources to help promote offerings directly to customers.

As said by him, the platform also provides the latest insights and information around Dell EMC’s and Intel’s Cloud technology offerings to help SPs build a stronger portfolio. In addition Dell EMC will allow SPs to run co-marketing campaigns with tools to assist in the creation of marketing assets, campaign building and client and influencer networking, featured within the marketplace.

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Dell acquires EMC, becomes world’s largest tech company with $74bn

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The recent acquisition of EMC Corporation by Dell Technologies has positioned the company as the largest technology company in the world that is privately-controlled equity worth $74 billion, reports ITRealms.

This, ITRealms also reports creates a unique family of businesses that provides the essential infrastructure for organizations to build their digital future, transform Information Technology (IT) and protect their most important asset, information.

This combination, which created a $74 billion market leadership with an expansive technology portfolio which tends to solve complex problems for customers in the industry’s fast-growing areas of hybrid cloud, software-defined data center, converged infrastructure, platform-as-a-service, data analytics, mobility and cybersecurity.

ITRealms equally reports that Dell Technologies lays claims to serving 98 per cent of the Fortune 500 and comprises several market leading businesses. The two largest, and most well-known, are the Dell client solutions business and the Dell EMC infrastructure solutions business – both of which are supported by Dell EMC Services.

In addition, Dell Technologies contains Boomi, Pivotal, RSA, SecureWorks, Virtustream and VMware.

This unique structure, ITRealms reports, combines the focus and innovation of a startup with the global scale and service of a large enterprise, thus, Dell Technologies scale will enable it to deliver more innovation and investment in research and development, sales and marketing, services and support and deliver more efficient and cost-effective solutions for customers.

For the Chairman and CEO of Dell Technologies, Michael Dell, they foresee a new dawn of the next industrial revolution.

“Our world is becoming more intelligent and more connected by the minute, and ultimately will become intertwined with a vast Internet of Things, paving the way for our customers to do incredible things. This is why we created Dell Technologies. We have the products, services, talent and global scale to be a catalyst for change and guide customers, large and small, on their digital journey,” he said.

ITRealms recalls that Dell Technologies promises to blend Dell’s go-to-market strength with small business and mid-market customers and EMC’s strength with large enterprises and stands as a market leader in many of the most important and high-growth areas of the $2 trillion information technology market, including positions as a “Leader” in 20 Gartner Magic Quadrants and a portfolio of more than 20,000 patents and applications.

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Samsung, Intel, 4 others team up as Open Interconnect Consortium

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The Samsung Electronics, Intel  have teamed up with Atmel, Broadcom, Dell and Wind River to form a group with to improve interoperability and to define the connectivity requirements for the billions of devices that will make up the Internet of Things (IoT), reports ITRealms.

Also gathered by ITRealms, would be known as Open Interconnect Consortium (OIC) with the aims to redefine connection standards that will ensure interoperability of devices including Personal Computers (PCs), smartphones, wearables and industrial appliances.

A press statement endorsed by Samsung Electronics showed that "The OIC is focused on defining a common communications framework based on industry-standard technologies to wirelessly connect and intelligently manage the flow of information among personal computing and emerging IoT devices, regardless of form factor, operating system or service provider."

Further, ITRealms gathered that some of the outcome could include the specifications capable of making it simple to remotely control and receive notifications from smart home appliances or enterprise devices using securely provisioned smartphones, tablets or PCs. Possible consumer solutions include the ability to remotely control household systems to save money and conserve energy

ITRealms recalls that member companies will contribute software and engineering resources to the development of a protocol specification, open source implementation, and a certification programme, all with a view of accelerating the development of the Internet of Things (IoT).

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Michael Dell in Nigeria, reiterates commitment

Michael Dell with Austin Okere of CWG during his visit to Nigeria.

THE founder and Chief Executive Officer of Dell Incorporate, Mr. Michael Dell reiterated the commitment of his firm to the Nigerian market.

Mr. Dell who was in Nigeria last month aside impressing the recent visit was in fulfillment of a promise made to the chief executive officer of the Computer Warehouse Group (CWG), Mr. Austin Okere, to visit Nigeria, two years after, also used the opportunity to meet with local business partners.

DigitalSENSE News gathered that the visit which took place on Friday, June 15, 2012, may not be unconnected with Mr. Dell’s promise made in September 2010 when Computer Warehouse Group visited the Dell Executive Briefing Center (EBC) in Texas with some customers from Nigeria, including Ecobank International.

He also noted that the appointment of a Nigerian, Mr. Nnamdi Orakwue as the Executive Director, Strategy and Operations by Dell was a good boost in actualizing the trip to the most populous nation on the continent of Africa.

To the Dell community in Nigeria, he pointed out that the visit was to demonstrate the commitment of his company to the market than the fulfillment of his promise.

He equally gave an insightful presentation about the current strategic focus of Dell, and the acquisitions that have been made to support the strategy, including acquiring Equalogic, Compellent, Wyse and Perot Systems.

The aforementioned companies are the technology platforms upon which Dell intends to launch into the Enterprise and Cloud spaces.

Mr. Dell later had a closed-door session with selected partners at local Dell office at Mulliner Towers, Ikoyi-Lagos, including Austin Okere, Founder and CEO of the Computer Warehouse Group, the acclaimed largest Systems Integration company in West Africa; his counterpart at Dataflex, Mr. Andy Nwani; the chief executive officer, Equipment Hall, Mr. Gbolahan Olayomi, and Mr. Emeka Maduibuike, Managing Director of Systemtech Group.

Mr. Dell was quoted  as saying that a major plank of the Dell Partners’ strategy has been the ‘Try & Buy’ concept which has worked very well.

This was preceded by a welcome address by the Country Manager, West Africa, Dell, Mr. Chuks Ulu-Udensi.

Speaking, Mr. Okere of Computer Warehouse Group (CWG) explained his company has taken advantage of the opportunities of these platforms to provide virtualization solutions to major customers in Finance and Oil & Gas sectors such as First Bank of Nigeria, UBA, TotalElf, and Ecobank International for their global operations coving Accra, Lagos London, Paris, Lome and over 30 other countries.

As a result, he emphasised CWG is now considered one of the most dominant players in the space.

Remmy Nweke
 

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How tech-giants promote child-labour

Over the past decade, consumer electronics have become a cornerstone to most people across the world and if they are like most Nigerians, they probably own a cell phone, computer and at least one television, but the question no one seems to be asking is ‘Where do all these gadgets come from?’

It would amaze you to know that these electronics products are manufactured in some of these cities, namely Reynoza in Mexico; Jaszerbereny and Polgar in Hungary; Chennai in India; Hanoi in Vietnam; and Pathum Thani in Thailand, but some of the leading electronics makers may have contributed adversely to impoverishing the world children, through child labour.

Some of the beneficiaries of this situation include Samsung, Apple, General Electronics, Nokia, Motorola, Dell, Panasonic and dozens more, who are direct or indirectly contributing to child labour at the countries where they have assembling plants, based on poor wage apart from poor working conditions.

It was also discovered that 36 per cent of all children under 14 were employed in manufacturing during the period under review, while the average work day for each child is 10 hours.

According to a recent research by Jen Rhee, a Master student, an estimated 90 per cent of American adults live in a household with at least one cell phone, 59 per cent of American adults own a desktop computer, 52 per cent own a laptop computer; while 96 per cent of American households have at least one television and more than half of homes have at least three.

Additionally, the report says that China is responsible for one third (1/3) of the global electronics manufacturing, wondering, however, where the other 2/3 come from?

In view of the research, DigitalSENSE News discovered that five manufacturing plants produce bulk of the world’s television sets, computers, cell phones GPS systems, tablets, and cameras that populate homes, invariably for various brands and aforementioned brands precisely.

These electronics products, the research added were produced. Reynoza in Mexico; Jaszerbereny and Polgar, Hungary; Chennai, India; Hanoi, Vietnam; Pathum Thani, Thailand, maintaining that 36 per cent of all children under 14 were employed in manufacturing as at the time of the research, while the average work day for each child is 10 hours.

Remarkably, estimated at the report stated that after explosions at an Apple supplier plant in China in 2010, many of the company’s factories came under scrutiny.

“Of 127 Chinese Apple supplier plants audited in 2010, 80 had not properly stored or handled hazardous chemicals; 41 did not dispose of hazardous waste as required by law; 37 did not monitor and control air emissions and 11 had waste water problems,” part of the report conducted under MastersDegree.net read.

They pointed out that when other gadget suppliers were examined, it became clear that Apple did not fall far from the tree and companies like Samsung, General Electronics, Motorola, Nokia, Dell, Panasonic, and some more from these manufacturing capitals have extremely poor wages.

On daily average, the report says wages range between $8.9, about N1,403.08 to $190, about N29,953.50, citing for instance that the United States tops the factory cities with $190 followed by Jaszerbereny and Polgar in Hungary  with $13.3; Hanoi - $3.3, Reynosa - $4.52, Pathum Thani $7.19 and Chennai - $8.9.

“These companies don’t just pay poorly, they’ve also been found to employ children (child labour); face threats of suicide; face employee protests and be negligent in handling waste; as poor working conditions allow you to get your gadgets a little cheaper, but is it worth it?”

 Remmy Nweke

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