Keeping pace with the growing AI Momentum

Authored by Manish Gupta, Sr. Director & General Manager, Infrastructure Solutions Group, India, Dell EMC

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as the name of the game, everywhere. Businesses across industries and sectors are pulling out all the stops to tap into the immense potentials of AI for better outcomes. More specifically, to understand their customers better and develop better products. Innovations with AI and its applications—machine learning and deep learning—are slowly but steadily taking industries and organizations by storm. If numbers are anything to go by, the global market for AI is estimated to reach $153,389 million by 2025, growing at a rate of 49.3 percent since large-scale adoption efforts began in 2016. 

India’s AI muscles 

Indian organizations and the government have of late witnessed several use cases of AI implementations in different facets of life. Cab aggregators, targeted advertisements, digital assistants, biometric recognition, and online recommendation have already gained much prevalence, nowadays. Organizations increasingly started realizing growth prospect and efficiencies driven by automation. 

According to ‘Artificial Intelligence and Robotics—2017 Report, 72% of the business decision-makers in India think that AI is able to provide a high-end experience when it comes to one-to-one personalization as compared with 63% globally. More surprisingly, 49% of these participants are even willing to shell out or have already started shelling out extra either for smarter higher-touch customer service, driven by AI, which ensures to address your problems fast. 

Indeed, AI-focused innovations are painting a brighter picture in India. A case in point is India’s largest public sector lender, the State Bank of India (SBI). SBI is undertaking a “massive digital banking transformation exercise” and setting up a major innovation centre to explore the integration of emerging technologies such as blockchain, artificial intelligence and machine learning, with the services the bank currently offers. 

How Dell EMC is flexing the AI muscles 

At Dell Technologies, we have renewed our focus on the AI suite, comprising machine learning and deep learning, IoT, and robotics. And our intent is very simple: we want to actively get involved in this AI movement and assist organizations in their growing interest in AI-led innovations. 

Our rich industry experience positions us better to enable customers to devise AI strategies and projects within their organizations. Our portfolio is completely aligned with some common methodologies used when it comes to exploring as well as applying machine learning to any given problem. And when it comes to our investigation and understanding of the data set, we cover both small data subset and large datasets. 

Our AI and ML capabilities have further been strengthened by the 14th generation Dell EMC PowerEdge four-socket servers and Dell Precision Optimizer 5.0. While our expanded server portfolio is aimed at accelerating AI-driven workloads, analytics, deployment, and efficiency, Dell Precision Optimizer 5.0, equipped with machine learning algorithms, tunes both the speed as well as productivity of Dell Precision workstations, intelligently. 

The AI-led movement, initiated by Dell EMC, has again gained a major fillip following the introduction of Ready Solutions for AI with a concentration on machine learning and deep learning workloads. These Ready Solutions are offering our customers the most optimized as well as stable solution stack, leveraging both deep and machine learning. 

At Dell EMC, we intend to assist organizations in empowering their data scientists to organize their data more effectively, thereby bringing more precision to their data science activities. Therefore, we have optimized as well as integrated compute, storage and also networking stack for specific use cases, and here it’s AI. A good example here is the Dell EMC Data Science Engine. It helps data scientists leverage framework on the top of Spark and Hadoop that, too, without any CLI. 

Undoubtedly, in India, AI wave is gaining stronger. And it presents ample opportunities for organizations and businesses to ride high on it. Although AI boom in our country is still at its nascent stage, it holds the potential to bring a sweeping change. And given the pace at which technologies are changing, I am quite upbeat that we will soon witness this sea change. 

At Dell EMC, we keep striving to make the most of artificial intelligence and machine learning with the aim to accelerate real transformation across organizations. To know more about our foray in artificial intelligence, join us at our first-ever Dell Technologies Forum.