Dell Technologies unveils new IoT strategy

Dell Technologies unveiled its Internet of Things (IoT) vision and strategy, a new IoT division as well as new IoT specific products, labs, partner program and consumption models.

“IoT is fundamentally changing how we live, how organizations operate and how the world works,” said Michael Dell, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Dell Technologies.

Over the next three years, Dell Technologies is investing $1B in new IoT products, solutions, labs, partner program and ecosystem, which includes: Dell EMC ‘Project Nautilus’:Software that enables the ingestion and querying of data streams from IoT gateways in real time.

‘Project Fire’: a hyper converged platform part of the VMware Pulse family of IoT solutions that includes simplified management, local compute, storage and IoT applications such as real-time analytics. ‘Project Fire’ enables businesses to roll-out IoT use cases faster and have consistent infrastructure software from edge to core to cloud;

RSA ‘Project IRIS’:Currently under development in RSA Labs, Iris extends the Security Analytics capability to provide threat visibility and monitoring right out to the edge;

Customers can also now visit one of the newly designed Dell Technologies IoT Labs.

Implementation of ‘Worldwide Herd’, consulting services for performinganalytics on geographically dispersed data – increasingly important to enable deep learning ondatasets that cannot be moved for reasons of size, privacy and regulatory concern.

In addition, with the core focus on technology and services, Dell Technologies’ strategy is to grow the IoT footprint via a strong partner program and ecosystem.