Podcast #100: Dell Technologies World Highlights with Caitlin Gordon

While Brian was in Las Vegas attending Dell Technologies World at the beginning of May, he visited with Caitlin Gordon to have a conversation about products, direction, growth, and generally catch up. Caitlin is Dell Technologies Vice President of Product Management and had plenty of insight into the path of Dell’s product lineup. She spoke to as-a-Service offerings but also addressed questions regarding some hardware refreshes and all else of what’s new at Dell Technologies World 2022.

Caitlin and Brian have worked together for many years, so this conversation was very relaxed and informative. Caitlin touched on cyber threats, Ransomware, the impact on customers, and hardware updates for PowerFlex, PowerStore, and PowerMax. There was also a discussion around mobile cloud and Project Alpine.

Dell Technologies World 2022 News

This is a relatively short podcast and well worth the time. There should be something for everyone to gain some insight into Dell’s future. The timestamp is listed below.

00:00 Introduction

Brian introduces Caitlin
Caitlin gives some insight into what’s new
Cyber security
Customer challenges
Products are maturing

05:00 Mobile Cloud offerings

Project Alpine (a Caitlin favorite)
keeping things consistent
Hardware updates
- PowerFlex
- PowerMax
- PowerScale
- PowerStore
Back to the cloud model
- How are the service offerings sold
- How are they supported
- What is the consumption model

10:00 How will cloud impact Dell’s product model

What happens when data gets to the cloud
Physical hardware
Details on hardware updates and refreshes

15:00 High capacity drives

OneFS
NAB impact on files
Video is driving development
PowerStore refresh

20:00 Looking forward

Announcements
New culture at Dell
Edge impacts

25:00 Edge data continued

So much demand from retail for Edge computing
Challenges delivering suitable solutions that integrate

Wrap up

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I have been in the tech industry since IBM created Selectric. My background, though, is writing. So I decided to get out of the pre-sales biz and return to my roots, doing a bit of writing but still being involved in technology.