AI is moving fast and as it shifts from experimentation to operational use, it’s exposing the limits of today’s enterprise infrastructure. In this episode, we’re joined by Ian Heath, Senior Director of UK Channel & Distribution at Dell Technologies, to unpack what Dell and its partner ecosystem are seeing across the UK market as new AI workloads hit real estates. The conversation covers what enterprise leaders are wrestling with right now: data readiness and data quality, latency and where AI should run, the practical realities of power, cooling and data centre capacity, and why successful AI adoption is rarely ajust buy the tech situation, it’s an ecosystem delivery play across consultancy, data management/migration and implementation. We also get into the infrastructure detail that starts to bite as AI scales — including storage bottlenecks, new performance demands, and why storage layers are evolving quickly (including Dell’s focus on Project Lightning). For organisations looking to turn this into action, R-COM Consulting supports enterprise customers with the design and implementation of Dell Technologies infrastructure — including mid-range storage — aligning platforms to real operational requirements as AI adoption accelerates. Guest: Ian Heath, Senior Director – UK Channel & Distribution, Dell Technologies
