VxRail Tech Field Day – A technical relay race for the athletically challenged
Wed, 24 Apr 2024 13:57:00 -0000
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Earlier this summer we announced key advancements to VxRail Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) hardware and software, including major updates to help customers simplify their infrastructure, scale when and where they need to, and address more workloads while adopting next generation technologies. We recently discussed the technical know-how behind those new and exciting innovations at a special Dell Technologies Tech Field Day event.
Tech Field Day offers an opportunity for companies like Dell to share, learn, and interact with a small group of independent technical influencers in a series of focused technical sessions. Channel your elementary school-aged self, and imagine a day dedicated to a tug-of-workloads, hybrid cloud water balloon toss, and a flexible storage balancing act. If that sounds like your idea of a good time, you’ll find these sessions beneficial. They were originally livestreamed, uncensored conversations that highlighted how VxRail drives value for our customers across four key areas:
- Optimizing operations and automating as much as possible to allow customers to focus resources on strategic IT initiatives rather than on maintaining the infrastructure
- Embracing hybrid cloud to rapidly deploy on-demand services and scale without limits
- Optimizing workloads and modern apps to drive business innovation
- And finally, by unlocking business value at the edge
These themes were carried throughout the full-day event and we covered a lot of ground on the unique capabilities and differentiators for our products – like how we’ve added even more flexibility to our HCI portfolio with VxRail dynamic nodes, the ways we’re helping customers accelerate adoption of Kubernetes with Tanzu on VxRail, and how we’re partnering with NVIDIA to deliver superior performance for AI workloads. We also heard New Belgium Brewing discuss how they cut their data center costs by about 80% with VxRail, demonstrating significant savings while boosting IT agility and efficiency.
Each session highlighted not only the passion our technologists, customers, and partners have for VxRail, but also excitement from our audience of technical influencers who had many “aha moments” throughout. The influencers were thrilled to have an opportunity to dive into our latest advancements and ask all their burning questions to our technologists directly.
Ready, set, go! Watch Tech Field Day on-demand
I invite you to check out the individual sessions on our Dell Technologies Youtube Channel where we went ahead and curated a dedicated playlist. It features:
- Modern Infrastructure for the data era - Dell EMC Storage and HCI Portfolio Overview
- Intro to The VxRail Advantage
- The VxRail Advantage - VxRail LCM and vLCM better together
- The VxRail Advantage - Configuration & Deployment
- The VxRail Advantage - Management Overview
- Brewing World-class Beer with VxRail
- VxRail dynamic nodes - flexibility for the future
- What does "seamless technology integration" mean for VxRail?
- NVIDIA-Certified Dell EMC VxRail for GPU-Intensive Workloads
- VMware Cloud Foundation with Tanzu on VxRail – simple path to modern apps and the hybrid cloud
- Get the most out of your Kubernetes with Tanzu on Dell EMC VxRail
Additional Resources
Our growing list of VxRail technical videos.
Author: Kathleen Cintorino, Twitter (@k_lasorsa), LinkedIn