The Future Is Multicloud (and Edge Computing)

“The on-prem / off-prem debate is over,” declared Dell. “The future is multicloud with workloads and data flowing seamlessly across the entire environment. Today 90% of customers already have both on-prem and public cloud environments, and 75% are using three or more different clouds.

The CEO said Dell Technologies has been “hard at work innovating the technologies and building the ecosystem to enable true multicloud.”

He once again proclaimed Edge computing as “the next frontier where data becomes a competitive advantage. Immediately at the point of creation, an automated intelligent continuous cycle of data collection, protection, analysis and improvement.”

Dell also talked of the importance of distributed data, and distributed computing power.

“Ten percent of the data in the world today is processed outside of data centers. But by 2025, 75% of enterprise data will be processed outside of a traditional centralised datacenter or cloud. 5G mobile networks to handle the volume of data at the edge are a huge catalyst for that growth.”