If enterprise data is the oil, Dell wants disaggregated infrastructure to be the pipeline
Disaggregated infrastructure is displacing the all-in-one data center stack — and the economics of AI are making that reality impossible to ignore.
The vast majority of enterprise data still resides on-premises, making it a natural anchor for the next wave of AI deployments. As organizations race to operationalize agentic AI, the operational complexity and rigid cost structures of legacy hyperconverged infrastructure are increasingly hard to justify, according to Travis Vigil (pictured, left), senior vice president of product management at Dell Technologies Inc. The alternative Dell is pushing is disaggregated infrastructure — separating compute from storage so enterprises can scale each on its own, escaping the one-size-fits-all constraints of legacy HCI.
“The vast majority of data still resides on-premises, and being able to bring the compute and the data management and the orchestration and the automation to where the data lives is not only cheaper — it’s more efficient,” Vigil said. “Customers, more than ever, need to turn the data that they have [into results]. That’s the oil — everything else is just piping to get value from the oil, and the ability to leverage that in place is critical to our customers.”
