Dell EMC looks at artificial intelligence, blockchain to drive server growth

BENGALURU: Dell EMC Technologies says it expects to retain its prime position in the India server market as it looks to introduce newer products that have capabilities in artificial intelligence, blockchain and analytics and are compliant with cloud requirements.

“The clients that we work with are looking to tap these technologies, which is why we are bringing in servers that allows them to optimise on traditional workloads as well as invest into new age workloads such as cloud, artificial intelligence, analytics and blockchain,” said Manish Gupta — senior director & general manager — Infrastructure Solutions Group, Dell EMC India.

Globally, Dell’s servers and networking business clocked a revenue of $5.1 billion in the second quarter of 2018, a 34% increase from the year-ago period.


Gupta said such demands are coming in from industry verticals such as information technology, ITenabled services, banking, financial services and insurance (BFSI) sector and government who are now using modern architectures.

“With the launch of our new servers PowerEdge MX, we are aiming to bring in modern architecture along with scalability,” he said.

In fact, the top five Indian IT services companies, besides the multi-nationals, are seeing faster growth in digital technology-based services with share of revenue ranging between 26% and 28%. Revenues from traditional programming-based services, which still forms the core, is dwindling.

Gupta said Dell already sees cloud, artificial intelligence and analytics wholly as a service from customers. Blockchain is another area that is drawing a lot of interest from the government and the BFSI sector.