MAY 20–23, 2024

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Dell Technologies World 2023 featured sessions for all skill levels

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These sessions identify business opportunities and IT impact of technology solutions. Expect new product launches, intros to new tech features and next steps for finding product information.

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These mid-level, technical sessions address key areas of IT concern. Take a deeper dive into technical topics and discover emerging innovations with live product demos.

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These advanced, technical sessions focus on key topics for IT practitioners with foundational knowledge. Learn applicable product-specific techniques and tips, with demos of platforms, systems and products.

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Designed for skilled practitioners, these highly technical sessions discuss how to apply practical skills and best practices to actual IT scenarios. Discover step-by-step applications using demos and live environments.

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Advanced

Get ahead of cyber attackers with PowerScale and ECS cyber solutions

ID: 1511P-1
Modern Data Infrastructure

Learn how you can easily add Zero Trust principles to your file and object data with PowerScale and ECS—the world’s most secure scale-out network-attached storage (NAS) and object storage solutions*. This session will discuss strategies for adding cyber protection including data isolation with a smart air gap and cybervault, intelligent detection and rapid recovery techniques. Watch as we launch a simulated ransomware attack and demonstrate how the systems respond with automation and deploy effective counter measures.

*Based on Dell analysis comparing cybersecurity software capabilities offered for Dell PowerScale vs. competitive products, September 2022.2 Based on Dell analysis comparing cybersecurity software capabilities offered for Dell ECS vs competitive products, September 2022

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Manage and protect data from edge to cloud with PowerScale

ID: 1513P-1
Modern Data Infrastructure

Wherever your applications and data reside, PowerScale helps you manage and protect your critical file data. From on-prem appliances to Dell APEX multicloud solutions PowerScale has you covered from edge to core to cloud. Learn how PowerScale OneFS provides the flexibility you need to support the widest range of use cases—all with a single consistant platform. Join this session to become cloud smart with PowerScale.

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Intermediate

Customers share inspiring PowerScale and ECS data innovation stories

ID: 1514P-1
Modern Data Infrastructure

Join us for a panel discussion with PowerScale and ECS customers from a variety of industries. Hear how leaders are using PowerScale and ECS to better manage and leverage unstructured data to accelerate innovation in their organizations.

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Advanced

Innovations in AWS S3-compatible object storage: ECS and ObjectScale

ID: 1515P-1
Modern Data Infrastructure

Join us to see how Dell’s leading AWS S3-compatible object-storage solutions—ObjectScale and ECS—deliver the best of both worlds: High performance for modern workloads such as analytics and data lakes, and cost savings of up to 76 percent compared to storing data in the public cloud[*]. This session features the latest updates for Dell’s object portfolio, including all-flash appliances as well as software-defined, microservices-based option tailored for Kubernetes and modern app development.

*ESG Economic Validation sponsored by Dell Technologies, “Analyzing the Economic Benefits of Dell ECS: Economic Benefit Analysis of On-premises Object Storage versus Public Cloud,” Tony Palmer, July 2022. Cost savings based on ESG comparison of ECS to a leading public cloud in active storage scenarios. Actual results may vary.

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Spotlight

Work smarter with 10 pro tips for PowerScale OneFS management

ID: 1516P-1
Modern Data Infrastructure

Go from competent to confident with these simple yet powerful best practices for optimizing performance, security, management and energy efficiency of your PowerScale systems. Uncover the new and hidden OneFS software features that make it easy to handle demanding workloads through automation and remote monitoring. Learn how to effectively protect data from cyberattacks with advanced air gap and cybervault technologies and get a closer look at the latest OneFS 9.5 security features.

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Spotlight

What’s new with PowerScale OneFS: The future of unstructured file storage

ID: 1517P-1
Modern Data Infrastructure

Learn how the latest innovations in PowerScale—the world’s most flexible[1] and secure scale-out file solution[2]—can help you manage all of your workload needs, from traditional file consolidation to the most demanding AI, machine learning and analytics workloads. We’ll discuss performance, security, data management, monitoring, multicloud and as-a-service enhancements to OneFS that help keep data protected and connected, no matter its size, where it's stored or how large the dataset gets.

1 Based on Dell analysis, August 2021.

2 Based on Dell analysis comparing cybersecurity software capabilities offered for Dell PowerScale vs. competitive products, September 2022.

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Intermediate

Use automation tools to enable IaC practices and IT Ops, easing DevOps burdens

ID: 1518P-1
Multicloud and as-a-Service (aaS)

Infrastructure-as-code (IaC) automation tools enable DevOps teams to securely and efficiently build, deploy and configure transparent workflows. Dell Technologies provides pre-built solutions for popular tools such as Terraform and Red Hat Ansible to automate our infrastructure. In this session, we'll provide an overview of Dell’s IaC tooling strategy, and discuss a customer'sANZ Bank's implementation, using our services and Ansible integrations to automate storage workflows.

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Spotlight

Be your organization’s data hero

ID: 1519P-1
Modern Data Infrastructure

Data volumes are expanding exponentially and, as a result, data silos are increasing, too. While data can hold tremendous opportunity, managing that data presents significant challenges. Dell Technologies’ latest solution with Starburst helps our customers better manage their data by embracing open ecosystems and data silos. See how modernizing your data infrastructure with an emphasis on maintaining your multicloud environment can help you be the data hero—unlocking the potential of data to help make informed decisions, while ensuring sustainable governance by orchestrating the entire data ecosystem.

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Spotlight

Simplify Kubernetes storage, allowing admins to focus on innovation

ID: 1520P-1
Multicloud and as-a-Service (aaS)

Cloud-native storage can be complex, and even more so when using developer-minded tools and automation. But how do storage administrators manage and control persistent storage while supporting innovation? In this session, we will discuss the typical routines of a Kubernetes storage admin, exploring the complexities of persistent storage for container-based environments. Additionally, we’ll showcase container storage automation demos around observability, replication and resiliency that make administration easier.

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Advanced

PowerFlex demystified: Designed for consolidation, containers and clouds

ID: 1521P-1
Modern Data Infrastructure

PowerFlex is a datacenter-consolidation powerhouse. This session explores a mixed-topology deployment. First, we will demonstrate PowerFlex's block and file capabilities with virtualized, bare metal, and containerized application demos. Next, we will explain how PowerFlex's software-first design enables this flexibility and demonstrates the programmability of infrastructure using Red Hat Ansible, container storage modules (CSM), and the API in general. Lastly, we show how this architecture seamlessly deploys into the public cloud.

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Intermediate

Building cloud-centric operations by transforming your network with SONiC

ID: 1522P-1
Modern Data Infrastructure

Is your network infrastructure not keeping-up with the demands of your mission-critical application and workload needs? It’s time to take a closer look at how organizations are adopting the innovative best practices of hyperscalers to meet these challenges. In this session, we’ll discuss the benefits of deploying Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC), an open-source network operating system across your infrastructure with industry experts and early adopters of SONiC.

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Advanced

Deployment best practices for PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance

ID: 1523P-1
Security

Discover best practices and sizing considerations when deploying Dell PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance. Learn about networking, deployment, replication topologies and upgrades. Take a closer look at sizing guidelines and use-cases for virtual machines, Kubernetes, network-attached storage (NAS) and other existing and modern workloads.

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Intermediate

The evolution and innovation of Dell Data Protection software

ID: 1524P-1
Security

While you adapt your IT landscape to meet demands, you want to extend the value of existing investments. At the same time, modern technologies, such as distributed ecosystems and Kubernetes environments, can offer greater efficiencies and protections. Learn how the latest innovations in Dell Data Protection Suite—encompassing NetWorker, Avamar, Data Protection Advisor and PowerProtect Data Manager—work together to support your evolving data protection needs.

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Intermediate

Simplify modern data protection with PowerProtect Data Manager

ID: 1525P-1
Security

Data protection is becoming more complex with distributed ecosystems, often driving organizations to implement a patchwork of solutions. You need a modern, secure and simple data protection solution for your multicloud environment. Learn how Dell PowerProtect Data Manager is a game changer for organizations looking for a cyber resilient, multicloud data protection solution to support evolving needs.

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Intermediate

Three ways Dell Storage and HCI can help reduce your data center's electricity demands

ID: 1526P-1
Modern Data Infrastructure

Implementing a green data center can be part of every IT initiative. But sustainability efforts go beyond remaining a good corporate steward of the environment and must now tackle IT operational efficiency. Learn how Dell modern storage and hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) portfolios help lower operational costs through advances in energy efficiency, thermals and cooling, and infrastructure consolidation.

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Advanced

Break silos and consolidate analytic workloads with a data lakehouse

ID: 1527P-1
Modern Data Infrastructure

In the data-driven era, analytics have been widely used to discover business insights. Streamlining IT resources to offer the right set of tools for data scientists and maintenance overhead is essential to support all analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) initiatives. Join us to learn how you can deploy a data lakehouse, using Dell PowerScale, Elastic Cloud Storage (ECS), PowerEdge and partner technologies, to build a modern infrastructure with the simplicity, flexibility, and scale needed to accelerate time to value for business outcomes.

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Advanced

Microsoft and Dell: Evolve your data strategy with SQL Server and Azure Arc

ID: 1528P-1
Modern Data Infrastructure

Microsoft SQL Server 2022 and Microsoft Azure Arc-enabled data services are integral to today’s hybrid Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform. This session will explore deployment options, including virtual machines (VMs), containers, and on-premises SQL Managed Instances—as well as many of the new features of SQL Server 2022. This demo-filled session will cover new backup and restore capabilities, new PolyBase abilities to query S3 storage and how Microsoft Azure Stack HCI simplifies deployment and operations for running SQL Server 2022.

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Intermediate

Reimagine IT with Dell APEX as a Service for cloud databases

ID: 1529P-1
Modern Data Infrastructure

Modern databases include features to support advanced transactional and analytical use cases. They support transaction processing using artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML), logical data warehouses with operational and unstructured data, analytics with streaming data and data lake, and application development with database containers. Dell APEX solutions for compute, hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI), storage and data protection are designed with modern database features in mind, especially for data-driven businesses. Discover how Dell APEX as a Service solutions can power mixed-database workloads across edge, core and cloud locations.

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Intermediate

Launch your journey to the multicloud with solutions from Dell and VMware

ID: 1530P-1
Modern Data Infrastructure

Dell and VMware make the journey to multicloud better than ever by jointly driving innovation and building a trusted foundation to power modern infrastructure. We’ll explore how our latest innovations—from next-gen servers to VxRail, and beyond—accelerate automation and security to deliver a consistency across private, edge and public clouds. No matter where your business is in its multicloud journey, Dell and VMware deliver multicloud solutions and consumption models to help you innovate confidently.

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Advanced

Simplify and automate your mission-critical storage operations with PowerMax

ID: 1531P-1
Modern Data Infrastructure

For digital businesses, speed of operations translates into business success. Learn how PowerMax can help you optimize resource utilization through multi-array smart provisioning, automate replication tasks at scale to speed recovery, and automate compliance monitoring and alerting to protect against cyber threats. Get the latest insights into DevOps best practices for PowerMax with REST, Red Hat Ansible, VMware vRealize Orchestrator Plug-in for vRealize Automation (VRO/VRA), and Kubernetes.

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Intermediate

Improve user experience and productivity with Unity XT

ID: 1532P-1
Modern Data Infrastructure

Many businesses run workloads that don’t require NVMe low latency but do need to store large quantities of data at the lowest cost. For these situations, hybrid flash arrays (HFA) that implement both flash and standard hard drives are often preferred. Being continuously modern, Unity OE brings feature parity to Unity XT HFA systems with that of its all-flash arrays (AFAs), but at a lower cost per GB. You’ll also learn about the new remote connectivity model that improves serviceability and access to CloudIQ.

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Intermediate

Dynamic AppsON: VxRail and PowerStore

ID: 1534P-1
Modern Data Infrastructure

Ever wish you could combine the simplicity of VxRail HCI lifecycle management with the independent scalability and familiar services of a purpose-built storage appliance? Join Dell partner ATEA for a real-world use case view and demo of Dynamic AppsON, Dell’s new “better together” solution for VxRail and PowerStore. Achieve unparalleled agility and data mobility while making file, block and vVols workloads more cost-effective and easy-to-manage with this new, but essential innovation for VMware environments.

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Protect your PowerMax data from cyber threats

ID: 1536P-1
Modern Data Infrastructure

Data is an organization’s most critical asset. It has to be protected, secure and always available. Learn how the latest PowerMax release—designed for Zero Trust architectures—prevents, detects and recovers from aggressive cyberattacks to help ensure cyber resiliency. Get best practices for identity access management, ransomware anomaly detection, and cybervault isolation to shrink your attack surface and protect your data.

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Spotlight

Mobilize and protect your data with PowerStore

ID: 1537P-1
Modern Data Infrastructure

Your business demands modern workload flexibility along with iron-clad cybersecurity. The newest PowerStore release makes it easier to achieve both—with secure replication across local or metro environments, software-based cloud backup, and ultra-hardened access control. Get practical tips to help prevent ransomware attacks, achieve compliance goals and deliver “always on” storage services to help ensure your file, block or vVols workloads remain safe, agile and ready to meet demands.

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