About this episode

The episode discusses insights from Dell Technologies World 2026, focusing on AI's real impact in enterprise IT and infrastructure.

Helen Gidney, Softcat's Head of Architecture, heads to Las Vegas (in spirit, at least) with Tim Loake from Dell Technologies and Softcat's own Tim Jeans to pick apart the biggest announcements from Dell Technologies World 2026. If you work in enterprise IT, this one is especially worth your time. The conversation covers where AI has actually landed after years of hype, why data sovereignty is reshaping infrastructure decisions, and what the current supply chain situation means for your budget right now. AI off the slide deck and into production. The two Tims and Helen look at which AI applications are generating real business value today, from RAG-based knowledge assistants to coding copilots, and why owning your data is the foundation of any competitive AI strategy. Hybrid cloud and the case for on-premise. Data sovereignty and security concerns are pushing many organisations away from purely public cloud deployments. The episode breaks down what Dell Private Cloud and the newly announced Exoscale storage platform actually offer, including the ability to scale compute and storage independently without locking yourself into a single software vendor. The supply chain problem…

People in this episode

Host: Helen Gidney

Guests: Tim Loake, Tim Jeans

Topics covered

• AI applications
• enterprise IT
• data sovereignty
• infrastructure decisions
• supply chain
• cloud computing
• automation

Keywords

• AI
• enterprise IT
• data sovereignty
• supply chain
• cloud computing
• Dell Technologies
• infrastructure
• automation
• Exoscale
• Dell APEX

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Dell Technologies, Softcat

Products: Dell Private Cloud, Exoscale storage platform, Dell APEX

Places: Las Vegas

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