>> Narrator: Live from Las Vegas it's theCUBE. Covering Dell Technologies World 2018. Brought to you by Dell EMC and its ecosystem partners. >> And we are indeed in Las Vegas for day two of Dell Technologies World 2018. Some 14,000 strong in attendance and a show with a lot of vibrancy, a lot of energy, and certainly it's reflected in what's happening on the show floor. Along with Stu Minaman, I'm John Walls, and we're now joined by a couple of guests. It's an honor to bring to the set Howard Elias, president of services, digital and IT at Dell EMC. Howard, how are you sir? >> Great, I'm doing fantastic. As you said, the energy's super high. >> John: Absolutely, and also joining us is Jun Sawada, who is the CFO of NTT and the CEO of NTT Security. Sawada-san, nice to have you with us, sir. >> Yeah, nice to meet you, so a very exciting such a time. Thank you very much. >> You bet, thank you for being here. So Howard, let's just kick off, I'm curious. You've thought about the show. Bigger, better than ever. So many people here, so much conversation and dialogue. And how do you feel and what are you hearing from people? >> Well you know, it's our first Dell Technologies World. We continue to believe we're better together, and we're getting great energy and feedback from our customers and partners. And I couldn't be more pleased to be with Sawada-san here today. A great partner, an NTT group of companies, where we're going to talk about some interesting solutions, which is what we've been talking about with all of our customers today. >> Especially right here in Las Vegas. It's certainly no coincidence, right, the show, and then some work that the two companies have done and are announcing. Tell us a little bit about that. What is the project that involves Las Vegas and your perspective involvement? >> Well I'll let Sawada-san, but this is all about an initial POC that we're doing for the city of Las Vegas. Utilizing the IOT technologies combined between NTT group and Dell Technologies. >> Yes, and also, we want to realize the situation awareness of a city of Las Vegas. That's our issue in including three features. One, with the reactive analysis, analyzing and also a site. It may H, H. We are going to realize, such as indicating that some instance has occurred. And the second feature is a proactive analyzing that adds a center, data centers. It's been providing also a trend or investigation, or the predictions. Lastly, third feature is very interesting. It's a deployment automatically all over the ICT lethal seeds, simultaneously. So based on the several technologies. >> So we love this smart cities theme. I've had the opportunity to interview people from different cities and see governments actually getting involved. I wonder if we can get into some of the key technology pieces that are involved here between NTT and the Dell family. >> We are developing ways, actually, at Dell technologies that we call the Cognitive Foundation. It consists of two technologies, one in times for, very focused to multi, much orchestration. It's been a cover up, so March beta, March domain, March layers, lots of the March we can integrate it. The other one is a software defined ICT lethal system, based on the batchilisation technology coming from Dell Technologies, we're in warehouse. >> Howard, sounds like this fits in with a lot of themes we've been hearing at the show. IOT, of course, I would expect to be heavily involved, but maybe explain some of the Dell standpoint, where some of this fits in. >> Well that's exactly right. So as you know, our IOT strategy is a very comprehensive end-to-end one around edge, to the distributed core, to the cloud. And then, working with NTT in terms of bringing that solution to market for a particular use case, like a smart city, in Las Vegas. And we're going to learn a lot together about how all of this comes and comes to fruition. But it really is about that edge to distributed core to cloud. And it's really based on the Dell technologies around our gateways, our hyper conversion infrastructure, some of the VM-ware software foundation capabilities, together with all of the solutions that Sawada-san has talked about. >> Yeah, I would think, it seems like this is a great test case, great test bed if you will. So, where does this go from here? What are your strategic intents in terms of what you plan to learn here and how it will apply elsewhere? >> That's basically, we were starting that this proof of a concept is a form of this coming September. After the two months, we will go into a market offering with two, both companies. But basically, our business plan is a business to business to anything. In that case, the Las Vegas city is a center bean. Dell Technologies and the NTT is a fast bean, as an enabler to support the center bean. Center bean providing a barrier to the anything, anywhere. So those type of package of concepts that we want to deploy to the other United States cities, not only United States, in the world. >> Globally? >> Globally. >> Howard: Yeah, globally, including in Japan, of course. >> Of course. (laughs) I am very familiar Japan. (laughs) >> And it's great because it's not just about the IOT strategy that we've talked about, but it really is about all of the transformation strategies we have. If you think about building a smart city, it's every aspect of digital, IT, workforce, and security transformation, all coming together into a complete, comprehensive solution. >> Alright, where does it go from here? Talk about the vision for the future, as to what we see in the future, Sawada-san. >> Yeah exactly, so not only are we very focused at the time, with public safety. But both company is we can extend those solution to other solution of smart ones. For instance, education, for instance, the retails, or entertainment, including stadium solutions, or other medical. There's no leftover area that we can extend our solution. You're driving a cognitive foundation. >> Yeah, and we're going to learn a lot from the POC. We also have been working on other projects around the world. And we're going to take all of those learnings and roll that into new products and services that we can deliver to our customers. >> Yeah. >> Well, it's a fantastic laboratory, no doubt about that, Las Vegas is, and I'm sure what you learned here will be applicable, as you said, to cities, not only in the United States, in Japan and all over the world. >> All over the world. >> Great project. Gentlemen, thank you for being with us. I appreciate your, and I look forward to hearing back. Check in a year from now. >> We'll do that. >> Let's see where we are. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Thank you very much. >> Thank you very much. >> Back with more from Dell Technologies World 2018. You're watching theCUBE, we're live, and we're in Las Vegas. (electronic music)