Dell Autonomous Compute User Manual

Stop Managing. Start Innovating.

Intelligence designed to drive your innovation engine

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Autonomous compute infrastructure accelerates digital transformation.. . . 3

When cars do the driving, people are freed to focus on more
important matters. It’s the same with your infrastructure.	3
Navigating a critical inflection point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	4
Autonomous compute infrastructure is a continuum. . . . . . . . .	. 5
The Dell Technologies point of view.	6
Autonomous compute infrastructure built to pilot your innovation engine	6
Innovate, adapt and grow with Dell Technologies.
Autonomous compute infrastructure capabilities .	7
Innovate: adapt to a changing environment.	7
Adapt: achieve rapid enablement.	8
Grow: scale and evolve.	9
Continue on your automation journey. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	. 9
Learn more.	9

Autonomous compute

Autonomous compute infrastructure accelerates digital transformation.

When cars do the driving,

people are freed to focus on more important matters. It’s the same with your infrastructure.

Barely more than a century ago, cars had to be started with a hand crank and operated with a series of levers. Maintaining a vehicle was so time-consuming that it was considered a hobby — one that took up whole weekends — until just a few decades ago.

Today, most cars start at the press of a button and offer adaptive cruise control and built-in navigation systems. Maintenance is required less often and can be completed fairly quickly by highly trained specialists.

In the not too distant future, autonomous vehicles will use powerful systems of onboard sensors and pervasive data analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) to transport

passengers and proactively identify and remediate issues — from routine maintenance to emergency measures — with minimal human direction.

This journey is roughly parallel to advances in IT. From punch cards to FORTRAN to AI so advanced it can write its own code, incremental increases in automation have progressed the state of the art for IT — and increasingly freed staff from manual, tedious tasks.

While still at the midway point on the automation continuum, server automation can already liberate resources from some of the day-to-day management and maintenance of server infrastructure, so IT can focus more time and energy on digital transformation that drives innovation and

business success.

Increases in automation have progressed the state of the art for IT.

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