IT is complex, the more we simplify it, the better it is: Senior V-P, Dell Inc | Interview

In recent years, Dell Technologies has emerged as a tech powerhouse. The sheer scale of products and services on offer from the companies under its umbrella (Dell, EMC, Pivotal, RSA, Secureworks, Virtustream and VMware) is staggering. “Our strength lies in the range, breadth and depth of our product line,” says Liam Quinn, senior vice president and senior fellow, Dell Inc. “There is an ongoing initiative driven all the way from Michael Dell to the bottom, on enabling humankind with the right technologies in a cost-effective and simplified manner,” he tells Sudhir Chowdhary in a recent interview. Excerpts:

Data is growing at the edge and there is need for real-time, powerful compute at scale to support Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) workloads. Isn’t the datacentre increasingly becoming distributed?