While one very visible venture capitalist may have recently hung up his spurs, the world’s largest privately-controlled technology company today brought out of stealth its venture practice, Dell Technologies Capital.

May is Small Business Month. Dell is celebrating Small Business month with a 4-part small business series discussing hot trends in small business. Stay tuned for next week’s piece.

We are announcing our most sophisticated lineup of Dell EMC PowerEdge servers, ever. They have a ton of new features a modern data center needs. As you plan your future and think about new ways to power your business, our new PowerEdge servers will be your bedrock.

We’re launching Dell Financial Services Cloud Flex for HCI, which fundamentally changes how customers can acquire HCI on-premises with a cloud-like consumption mode.

Dell Financial ServicesTM (DFS), the global in-house financial services provider for Dell EMC distributors, channel partners and customers, created a broad range of innovative payment solutions engineered to help organizations choose the technology they need and pay for it on their own terms, enabling them to better thrive in today’s digital economy. We call them flexible consumption models—an innovative way to pay.

Today at Dell EMC World, we debuted the new Dell EMC SC5020, the latest offering in our economical and intelligent SC Series midrange storage line.

The Dell EMC Unity midrange storage product line was built for the IT generalist and their need for simple, modern, flexible, affordable storage. We delivered a great solution in May 2016 when we first launched Dell EMC Unity and have continued to enhance the line-up. The product has had very strong double-digit growth and we expect our latest announcements to add a booster engine to our rocket.

Today, Dell EMC expanded its industry-leading All-Flash portfolio with the new VMAX 950F All Flash storage array as well as new release of HYPERMAX software. VMAX 950F is the latest Dell EMC premier enterprise storage offering, which has set the industry’s benchmark for enterprise storage arrays for decades.

Today, Dell EMC refreshed its entire industry leading All-Flash portfolio – including the introduction of the next generation XtremIO platform - XtremIO X2 and XIOS 6.0 software.

Today, we continue to lead the industry with the announcement of new high-performance switching platforms and a new release of our Linux-based network operating system, OS10.   These new, enhanced products for Open Networking will help customers enable flexibility, lower IT costs and speed return on investment.

It’s Day One of Dell EMC World--and we are excited to announce enhancements to our portfolio that further broaden our cloud data protection capabilities, adding two new uses cases for Disaster Recovery to the cloud and Protection Storage in the cloud.

With the digital economy playing an increasingly important role in our lives, it’s no surprise that there is lot of coverage in the media of the latest disruptive business models and viral apps. Hidden below the surface of these headline grabbers, however, is the real star of the show – data, more specifically unstructured data.

Today, we are delivering a major leap in data protection with the new Dell EMC Integrated Data Protection Appliance (IDPA), which will enable our customers to transform their protection environments. IDPA is a new pre-integrated, turnkey appliance that is simple to deploy and scale, and delivers holistic data protection with comprehensive feature-set and broad workload coverage.

New today: ScaleIO.Next! Software-defined storage (SDS) is a key driver of data center transformation. As a data center grade SDS, the enterprise features, availability, performance and flexibility of ScaleIO make it perfect for traditional array consolidation, private cloud / IaaS, and new emerging technologies like DevOps and container microservices. Customers love that they can use industry-standard hardware, Ethernet and ScaleIO to reduce costs, simplify storage lifecycle management, and begin operating with ruthless efficiency.

At Dell EMC Services, we take the rapid adoption and optimization of these digital technologies very seriously – in fact, this is the very essence of our mission. Allow me to share a few examples of our newest services offerings and capabilities…