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how much more efficiently can it be
done is the question. Also, to what
extent can they be done remotely. As
per the trend a variety of such such
possibilities are emerging in the AR
and VR domain. It completely depends
on whether the industry is trying to use
it; or what is the size of the workforce.
All of these are actually making a
difference in how businesses would
transform themselves,” he states.
Rudramuni informs that the backend
of it is the IT infrastructure, which is
running AR, VR type of applications
and in a way that can be highly reliable,
and meets certain expectations of the
performance. So that’s where it touches
the infrastructure part. Another trend
again is more to do with IoT, which is
extremely data-oriented.
“We keep on hearing that data is the
fuel. So if data is the fuel, computation
becomes the engine. If that fuel is
becoming larger, as huge amount of
data is getting generated, we need to
ensure that the engine is also getting
ready to either store the data or scrub
the data, manage the data or analyse it.
And all of that happens finally in
computation. So we ensure that our
servers are getting ready for it,” he
points out.
“That’s where it touches the
infrastructure again. Considering cloud
and its elastic nature, the multi-cloud
environment kicks in and it is very
practical from an end user perspective.
To depend on multi-cloud for
businesses is very useful as they do not
have to depend on one type of cloud
because a number of times, it may not
meet all of their requirements,”he says.
Speaking about AI trends,
Rudramuni explains, “AI, obviously, has
more to do with whether it is compute
intensive or IO intensive or memory
intensive. All that depends on what
kind of AI algorithms will run on it.
Thus, these are the emerging
workloads, or the middle wares, which
run TensorFlow is some of them. Now, it
has to be compute intensive to run such
a highly mathematic- oriented
algorithm. If the regular CPU is going to
be used for that purpose for large data
models or data sets, it may not be
sufficient. And this is where we go and

study a lot more in depth and work on

designing our servers considering how

the memory subsystem, compute

subsystem or the IO subsystem has to

be changed.”

India index

According to Rudramuni, in India

there exist a need to assist the small to

medium enterprises. There are several

thousands of them in the country now

who may benefit from digital

transformation.

“Now, the Confederation of Indian

Industry (CII) and Dell, along with a

couple of more partners have launched a

Center for Digital Transformation, a

nonprofit initiative under the umbrella of

CII. The intention is to bring together

the so-called technology seekers,

technology users, technology provider,”

he mentions.

“Together we are trying to ensure a

knowledge transfer, because the small

to medium organisations need to be

educated on what is the meaning of a

digital transformation. It has to be a

multi-year journey since cash flow is

always a constraint. There is a need to

practice phased investment method

which will reflect well for their return on

investment,” he states.

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BY DOING THIS WE ENCOURAGE TEAM MEMBERS TO QUESTION WHY

ARE WE DOING A PARTICULAR THING IN A CERTAIN WAY? OR CAN IT BE

DONE BETTER? AND ARE THERE OTHER OPTIONS WHICH CAN BE

EXPLORED? THESE OPTIONS ARE NOTHING BUT IDEAS. EACH ONE OF

THEM CAN RESULT IN SOMETHING VERY, VERY LARGE AND CAN BRING

A CHANGE TO THE ENTIRE ECOSYSTEM. DELL’S R&D UNIT HAS BEEN

HERE FOR 18 YEARS NOW AND THUS THE CULTURE OF INNOVATION HAS

BEEN VERY WELL ESTABLISHED

RUDRAMUNI B,

VICE PRESIDENT & INDIA R&D HEAD, DELL TECHNOLOGIES