>>from around the globe. It's the Cube with digital coverage of AWS reinvent 2020 sponsored by Intel AWS and our community partners. Welcome everyone to the Cube virtual and our coverage of the Accenture Executive Summit, which is part of AWS reinvent 2020. I'm your host Rebecca Knight. Today we're talking about the green Cloud and joining me is Kishore Dirk. He is Accenture Senior Managing director Cloud First Global Services lead. Thank you so much for coming on the show Key Shore. >>Nice to meet you, Rebecca. >>Great to have you. Yeah. So I want to start by asking you what it is that we mean when we say green cloud. We know the sustainability is a business imperative. So many organizations around the world are committing to responsible innovation lowering carbon emissions. But what does this? What does it? What does it mean when they talk about cloud from a sustainability perspective? >>E think it's about responsible innovation. Green Cloud is a thoughtful cloud first approach that helps boost profits and benefit the clients for helping reduce carbon emissions. Think about it this way. And you have a large number of data centers and each of these data centers are increasing by 14% every year, and this double digit growth comes with the price of Becca. What you're seeing is these global data centers consume a lot of power on the consumption is nearly pull into the consumption of a country like Spain. So the magnitude off the problem that is out there and and how do we pursue a green approach if you look at this hour? Accenture Analysis In terms of the migrations to public crowd, we have seen that we can reduce that by 59 million tons of CO two per year and with just the 5.9% reduction in top lighting emissions. And he creates this toe 22 million cars off the road. And the magnitude of reduction can go a long way. Meeting climate change commitments, particularly poor data sensitive businesses. >>Wow, that's incredible. What you're the numbers that you're putting forward are absolutely mind blowing. So how does it work? Is it a simple cloud migration? So, you know, >>when companies begin their cloud journey and and then they confront off with them a lot of questions. The decision to make uh, in this particular element sustainable in their solution and benefits. They drive and they had to make vice choices. And then they will gain unprecedented level of innovation, leading to both greener planet as well as a a green of balance sheet. I would say eso effectively. It's all about ambition. Greater the ambition, greater the reduction in carbon emissions. So from a cloud migration perspective, we look at it as a simple solution with approaches and sustainability. Benefits are that very based on things. It's about selecting the right cloud provider, very carbon thoughtful provider and the first step towards a sustainable cloud journey. And here we're looking at clown operators. You know, obviously they have different corporate commitments towards sustainability and that determines how they plan, how they build their the data centers, how they our and consume connections that operate there and how they retire their data centers. Then, uh, the next element that you want to do is how do you build it? Ambition, You know, for some of the companies, on average on Prem drives about 65% energy reduction and the carbon emission reduction of about 84% which is kind of OK and good I would say, But then, if you could go up to 98% by configuring applications to the cloud, that is significant benefit for for the world. And obviously it's a greener cloud that we're talking about. And then the question is, How far can you go? And, you know, obviously the companies have to unlock greater financial, societal environmental benefits. And essential has this cloud based circular operations and sustainable products and services that that you bring into play. So it's a It's a very thoughtful, broader approach that we're bringing and in terms off just a simple concept off migration s. >>So we know that in the covert era, shifting to the cloud has really become a business imperative. How is Accenture working with its clients at a time when all of this movement has been accelerated? How do you partner and what is your approach in terms of helping them with their migrations? >>Yeah, I mean, let me talk a little bit about the pandemic and the crisis that is there today, and and if you really look at that in terms of how your partner with a lot of our clients in terms of the cloud first approach. I'll give you a couple of examples. We've worked with Rolls Royce, McClaren, DHL and others as part of the ventilator UK Charon Consortium again to, uh, coordinate production of medical ventilators urgently needed for the UK Health Service. Many of these firms have taken similar initiatives in terms off, you know, from perfume manufacturers hand sanitizers. And to answer it is, is and again leading passion levels, making BP and again at the U. N. General Assembly. We launched the end to end integration Guy that helps company essentially to have a sustainable development goes. And that's how we're parting at a very large scale. Andi, if you really look at how we work with our clients and what's Accenture's role there? Uh, you know, from in terms of our clients, you know there are multiple steps that we look at. One is about planning, building, deploying and managing an optimal green color solution. And Accenture has this concept off helping clients for the platform to kind of achieve that goal. And here we're having. We're having a platform called Minor, which has a model called Green Clad Advisor, and this is the capability that helps you provide optimal green cloud, you know, a business case and obviously blueprint for each of our clients. And right from the start in terms off, how do we complete lower migration recommendation toe on improve solution accuracy to obviously bringing in the end to end perspective? You know, with this green clad adviser capability, we're helping our clients capture what we call it the carbon footprint for existing data centers and provide, uh, I would say the current cloud C 02 emissions core that you know, obviously helps them with carbon credits that can further their green agenda. So essentially, this is about recommending a green index score reducing carbon footprint for migration, migrating for green a cloud. And it really look at how accentuate itself is practicing. What we preached. 95% of the applications are in the cloud, and this migration has helped us. Uh, toe lied to about $42.5 million in benefit and in the third year, and and another three million analyzed costs that are saved through rightsizing service consumption. So it's a very broad umbrella and a footprint in terms of having engage societally with the U. N our clients. And what is it that we exactly bring to our clients in solving a specific problem? >>Accenture isn't is walking the walk as you say? >>Yes, So that that is that we we practice what we preach, and that is something that we take it to heart. We want toe have a responsible business and we want to practice it. And we want to advise our clients around that >>you are your own use case, and so they they know they can take your advice. So talk a little bit about the global, the cooperation that's needed. We know that conquering this pandemic is going to take a coordinated global effort and talk a little bit about the great reset initiative. First of all, what is that? Why don't we? Why don't we start there? And then we could delve into it a little bit more. >>Okay, so before we get to how we're cooperating, the great recent initiative is about improving the state of the world, and it's about a group of global stakeholders cooperating to simultaneously manage the direct consequences of their Cohen 19 prices andan spirit of this cooperation that you're seeing during Court 19 which will obviously either toe post pandemic project will the worth pressing issues. As I say, we're increasing companies to realize combined potential of technology and sustainable impact, to use enterprise solutions to address with urgency and scale and obviously multiple challenges that are facing our world. One of the ways that you're increasing, uh, companies to reach their Venus cloud with extensions cloud strategy is to build a solid foundation that is resilient. I would prefer to faster to the current as well as future times. Now, when you think of Cloud as the foundation that drives the digital transformation, it's about scale, speed, streamlining your operations and obviously reducing costs. And and as these businesses sees the construct of cloud first, they must remain obviously responsible and trusted. Now think about this right as part of our analysis that profitability can co exist with responsible and sustainable practices. Let's say that on the data centers migrated from on from the cloud based, we estimate, you know, that would reduce carbon emissions globally by 60 million tons for years. Andi, think about it this way, right? Easier Metric will be taking out 22 million cars off the road Thea Other examples that you've seen right in terms off the NHS work that they're doing in UK to build, uh, you know, a Microsoft teams were in based integration and the platform he rolled out for 1.2 million in it. Just users Onda. About 16,000 users there were able to secure instant messages, you know, obviously complete audio video calls and host working meetings across England. So this this work that we did with NHS is is something that we're collaborating with a lot of fools and powering businesses, not marriage. >>Well, you're vividly describing the business case for sustainability. What do you see as the future of cloud when thinking about it through this lens of sustainability and also going back to what you were talking about in terms of how you are helping your fostering cooperation within these organizations? >>That's a very good question, because so if you look at today, right, businesses are obviously environmentally aware, and they are expanding efforts to decrease power consumption, carbon emissions, and they want to run a sustainable operational efficiency across all elements of the business. And this is an increasing trend. And there is that option off energy efficient infrastructure in the global market. And this trend is the cloud. First thinking and with the right cloud migration that we've been discussing is what unlocking new opportunity, like clean energy transitions enabled, enabled by cloud based geographic analysis, material based reductions and better data insights. And this is something that, well, we'll drive with obviously faster analytics platform that is out there now. The sustainability is actually the future of business, which is companies that have historically different the financial security or agility benefits to cloud. Now sustainability becomes an imperative for them and our own experience. Accenture's experience with cloud migrations We have seen 30 to 40% total cost of ownership savings on its driving. Ah, greater workloads, flexibility, better service, somebody utilization and obviously more energy efficient public clouds that cost obviously well, that that drive a lot of these enterprise own data centers. So in our view, what we're seeing is that this this, uh, sustainable cloud position helps helps companies to a drive a lot of the goals, in addition to their financial and other goals. >>So what should organizations who are who are watching this interview and saying, Hey, I need to know more. What do you recommend to them and what? Where should they go to get more information on Green Cloud. >>You know, if you're if you're a business leader and you're thinking about which cloud provider is good, how should applications be modernized to meet our day to day needs Which cloud driven innovation should be priorities? Uh, you know, that's why Accenture, uh, from the Cloud First organization and essentially to provide the whole stack of cloud services to help our clients become a cloud first business. You know, it's all about exhibition. The digital transformation innovating faster, creating differentiated and sustainable value for our clients. And we're powering it up with 70,000 cloud professionals, $3 billion investment and bringing together unmasked depth and breadth of cloud services for our clients in terms of plant solutions and obviously the ecosystem partnership that we have that we're seeing today, Andi assets that help our clients realize that goes on and again toe do reach out to us way can help them to two men, obviously an optimal, sustainable cloud for solution that meets the business needs and being unprecedented levels of innovation. Our experience will be an advantage. And now more than ever, Rebecca. >>So just closing us out here, Do you have any advice for these companies who are navigating a great deal of uncertainty? We What? What do you think? The next 12 to 24 months. What do you think that should be on the minds of CEOs as they go >>forward. So as CEOs are thinking about rapidly leveraging cloud migrating to cloud off, one of the elements that we want them to be thoughtful about is can they do that with unprecedented level of innovation, but also build a greener planet and a greener balance sheet? If we can achieve this balance and and kind off have, ah, have, ah, world, which is greener. I think the world will win and we all along with extension of clients, will win. That's what I will say, Rebecca. >>That is an optimistic outlook, and I will take it. Thank you so much. Key shore for coming on the show. >>Thank you so much. >>That was Accenture's Key Shore. Dirk Rebecca. Night. 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>> Announcer: Live from Las Vegas, it's theCUBE. Covering Dell Technologies World 2018. Brought to you by Dell EMC and its ecosystem partners. >> Welcome back, it's a beautiful day here in Las Vegas and this is theCUBE's live coverage of Dell Technologies World 2018. I'm Stu Miniman and happy to welcome, fresh off the keynote stage and for the first time on our program Jeff Clark, who is the Vice-Chairman of Products and Operations at Dell Technologies. Jeff, great to see you Thanks for joining us. >> Thanks, Stu. Thanks for having me. >> All right, so first of all Jeff, you know, you'll be a CUBE alum when we finish this, so for our audience that's not familiar-- >> Jeff: Do I get a badge? >> I've got a sticker for you actually. >> A sticker will work. >> Absolutely. Tell us a little bit about your background, you've been at Dell for a number of years. You now own really kind of the client and ISG businesses. >> Jeff: Sure. >> Which is a huge chunk of Michael's business. Give us your background. >> I'm an electrical engineer, by training. I went to the University of Texas at San Antonio. Got my double E degree. Out of school went to work for Motorola. And I joined what was PC's Limited when that was the first private name of Dell in 1987. I've been here for 31 years. And I've done a variety of things all on the engineering and product side. I've had the fortunate opportunity, I started in the factory as a process/test/quality/reliability engineer, we were Jacks of many trades at that time. Went to product development in 1989 and have been in that side ever since. I've worked in every kind of product that we had at the core design roles. I got to start a business, one of the funnest things I've ever done. I started the Precision business in 1997 from ground zero, me and a few of our top engineers and building that into the business that it is today. Expanded responsibilities, had a stint of running our enterprise business back in 2002 through 2005. Actually got to work with EMC back then. Dave Donatelli and many others back in the day. And now I lead a combined products and operations organization that has our CSG PC peripheral portfolio and ISG portfolio, our infrastructure products, as well as the fundamental supply chain that runs the company. >> Yeah, so Jeff, you've done it all and you've seen Michael through well, an amazing journey. >> We've worked together for a long time and it's been a heck of a ride. And to be honest, I think the ride's not over and the ride in front of us I think is more exciting than the past 30 years. >> Yeah, as we always say, it's a good thing, nothing's changing. There's nothing new to get those that love technology excited about, right? >> If there's any constant in our industry, and certainly in our company, it is change. And thinking about what's unfolded in my three plus decades at this is amazing to where we are today. But again, the future, as Bob DeCrescenzo said today, wicked cool. >> Wicked cool, absolutely. When you get up to Boston a little bit more, you can get a Boston accent. Yeah, exactly. Jeff, if we look at the Dell Technologies family, client side of the business is about half, the ISG is another 37%, so you know, you own major, major chunk of what's going on inside. Maybe give us a little bit of how you look at this portfolio. Are there interactions between the client side and the enterprise side? You know, we've seen most of the other big tech players that had both, either shed or split or, you know, kept the HPs and the IBMs of the world, no longer have both of those together. >> Yeah, those are interesting thoughts. You know, for us, our customers are asking us to provide a more set of comprehensive solutions. They want more end to end. And I don't see how you provide an end to end solution if you don't have one of the ends. And as trite as that may sound, I think it's the core fabric of what we're doing and certainly the role I have now leading this organization of being able to cultivate and build, I think, the world's leading and innovative PC products and peripherals around them. Same thing on the infrastructure side, where we have the privilege of being a leader in a number of categories. And then beginning to bring them together in new and unique ways. I referenced in my keynote this morning about how new entrants to the workforce are pressuring conventional definitions of how we do work and we deploy technology. So we have leadership, products, and now you capture or able to tie that together with VMware Workspace ONE or an AirWatch or RSA class of products and you begin to modernize the experience. How could you not do that if you're not integrating the pieces? Or a VDI experience where you take a thin client, or VxRail infrastructure, and some VMware Horizon software and build out a solution set. That's what our customers are asking us to do. And I think we're in a very unique position. In fact, I know we are, 'cause no one else has all of what I just described. >> Jeff, there was a main theme you talked about in your keynote, that IT can drive and change business and it resonated from what I'm hearing with customers. But if you dial back a few years ago, it was IT wasn't getting it done, IT wasn't listening to the business, we had Stealth IT. Why are things different now? What's the role of IT going forward? And how does Dell fit into that big picture? >> You know, Michael touched on it in his opening yesterday about IT and business have become much much more closely integrated to compete in this modern world. And I suspect some of this goes back to we've always thought of IT as a cost center, OPEX. Yet, over the past decade, we've seen some fundamental disruption of business that has been fundamentally IT-led. New technology-led. New business models that have been fueled by new technology. I think that modernization, whether it's modernization of applications, taking advantage of information at your disposal and turning that into useful insights to make better business decisions, is a catalyst for a reframing, if you will, of what IT does. And the role of IT in a business, and a role that IT can help companies be more competitive, or at a minimum, help them not get disrupted by someone who's doing it, as well. So I think that's what's changing and I think you're seeing companies embrace that. And as soon as you do, you begin to I think challenge what have you invested in, where are you going, how am I taking advantage of some of the new trends that I outlined maybe this morning. And it gets I think a pretty interesting time in front of us. >> Yeah, you know, you actually went through immersive and collaborative computing, IOT, multi-clouded options, offer to find anything and AI and ML. So a lot of new things. One area I'd like to touch on, we heard some great side from Allison Dew earlier this week. It's great when we have the new tools and the new technology but sometimes we wonder how does adoption go and how does that impact productivity and people's engagement? And I'm curious how we help the enterprise and help the client side, not just do something new but be more productive and move their business forward. >> Look, if start with the client side, I think it's pretty easy to think about productivity. Particularly if you believe this boundary between work and the workplace is fundamentally changed and think about where people do work. You're actually getting a much more productive workforce by allowing people to work when the want to work, where they want to work. And that traditional boundary of eight to five, whatever it might be, physically in the office. You now have access to all 168 hours in a week and people want to work when they want to work. And we find that the work more, particularly if you put technology in their hand that makes them more productive and they have access to what they need to do their job. You cast that forward into the enterprise and I think, look, at some level IT is hard and we have a huge role in making it much easier. How to simplify. How to make it more automated so IT practitioners can actually migrate to how do I configure this LAN? How do I set up this server? And interesting things and still important things, but can migrate to how do I take this data and turn it into information that helps my business unit, my company win. That's where I think, again, I think this migrates, too and we play a huge role in helping that. >> Yeah, there's a theme that, another thing came up in the keynote, data really at the center of everything and not just talking about storage, but you had McClaren up on stage talking about that. How do you see the role of data changing? How do we capture for companies? How valued data is? >> A tie back to Michael's opening, he talked about data being, if you will, the rocket fuel for this rocket change and digitization of our world, the digital transformation that's underway. And between Michael, Pat, and myself, we all talked about that happening at the edge in a decentralized manner. I tried to build upon that and say you hadn't seen nothing yet, there's a whole lot more coming. Well, if believe that, you have to start preparing today, and anticipating that. And again, I think we play a role in helping companies do that. I think it requires a modern approach. It requires an approach to understand how that information is coming in to be able to do something with it. That's where we're focusing, as I mentioned. In fact, I think I specifically said it's sort of the heart of our vision for IT transformation. The data's the gold. In fact, Pat may have said that yesterday. Now, the challenge will be how do you take all of that data sort through it, figure out which pieces are most valuable and then get them to where they're supposed to go to make decisions. That's yet to be seen how we do that but I'm encouraged, given our track record in this industry. We'll find ways to do that. Engines like AI and machine or capabilities like artificial intelligence and machine learning are certainly a vast step forward of making sense of all that stuff. >> Yeah. Jeff, I wonder if you could bring us inside some of your customers. You know, where do you find some of the strategic discussions happening? I think back to early PC or server days, you know, who bought boxes versus now, it seems like more of a C level discussion for some of these large trends that you're seeing. What are some of the big changes that you're seeing in the customers and what are some of the biggest challenges that they're having today? >> I think you mentioned it. One of the things that I've seen in the customer interactions I've had in this new role and getting to see more and more each and every month. The conversations I have, or participate in, are seldom, if ever, about the speeds and feeds of this, the performance of that. It's about here's my business problem, how do you help me? How do you help me get this done? How do you provide me a set of solutions to get to where I want to go? By the way, if you have advice, recommendation to help us, they want to hear that. So they want to access our technical knowledge base across our organization. But again, I think this theme that I tried to say a couple of times this morning around outcomes, so it's an outcome-driven discussion. It's solutions. It's end to end. And how can you help me? Probably, I guess, I could generalize them to fit those four attributes. >> Great. Last thing, you talked about the modern data center. What's that mean for your customers? >> To me, it's all about putting at the disposal of our customers a set of technologies and infrastructure solutions and services that allows 'em to take advantage of that data. Allow them to have the data services they need and the underlying horsepower to do it in a fairly intelligent way. Hopefully automating a few of those tasks and giving them the agility and flexibility they need. >> Yeah. Jeff, wonder if you could speak to really, the engineering culture inside of Dell. Think back to before Dell made a lot of exhibitions, it's like, oh well Dell was a supply chain company, people would say. And then a number of acquisitions came through, you know, you lived with a lot of the engineers, you've got more engineers through the EMC merger. Sometimes people that don't understand, they're like oh, it's just all going to commodity stuff, software defined anything means that infrastructure doesn't matter. You know, where does the Dell engineering culture differentiate and position you in the market? >> You know, it might not surprise you, given my background, that certainly we are a supply chain company. We were doing hardcore engineering for a long time. I look at some of the advancements we made back in the day in leading the industry. I think we have a long distinguished track record of doing that. And now with the combination of the two companies, I look at this organization and the engineering capability we have, I like my hand, we like our hand. The trick is, is to getting our teams to innovate where we can differentiate, where we can help customers solve problems. And part of what I've been doing across this community of engineers, is doing that. Pivoting resources to the most important things. Pivoting resources to where we can differentiate. Pivoting resources where our innovation can actually distinguish, or shine against the competitive set. We've seen this in every category, PC, server, storage. And many of these cases, we start from the privileged position of being the leader. So think about when we get everything aligned to be able to innovate and differentiate, I like my hand. >> All right. Jeff, I want to give you the final word, coming away from Dell Technologies World this year. There's a lot of product announcements, people are going to learn a lot in the sessions, but what do you want people to come away with? Understanding the Dell portfolio and Dell as a company, as a partner? >> Well, if I could leave any parting statement, and make it very specific to the ISG portfolio, I talked about power, our power brand now being the brand of our future state ISG products, walk away with a commitment to build a power branded portfolio that is going to be innovative, differentiated in the marketplace, and something that helps our customers with. That's our commitment and that's what we'll deliver going forward. >> All right. Jeff Clark, thank you for sharing with us all the information, your update. Your first time on theCUBE, but I'm sure we'll have you on many times in the future. >> My pleasure, thanks for having me. >> All right. We'll be back with lots more coverage here from Dell Technologies World 2018. I'm Stu Miniman and you're watching theCUBE.