Dell will celebrate its 40th anniversary in 2024. It’s a monumental accomplishment, one that I have witnessed up close over the years as a former Dell employee and a technology analyst. In 1991, I joined the company in a consumer inside sales role fresh out of the University of Texas at Austin, the same school that founder, chairman and chief executive Michael Dell was attending when he started his company in a dorm room.
The telecommunications industry is ripe for disruption, and Dell is well-positioned to capitalize on that. The company’s DNA, rooted in leveraging industry standards, plays perfectly into the recent momentum behind open radio access network solutions leveraging software-defined tools and server platforms. During my conversation with Hoffman, Open RAN emerged as a key topic of conversation.
Its AI lifecycle effort has the potential to speed AI adoption. This effort leverages the Dell Knowledge Portal and AI Technology Foundation, with the latter encompassing devices, infrastructure and orchestration across on-premises, cloud and edge domains. Dell’s AI software and model ecosystem is also helping to democratize access to open-source AI models through recent strategic partnerships with Meta and Hugging Face.