 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 Miniman, I'm John Walls. 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 say, the energy is super high. Absolutely. And also joining us is June Sawada, who is the CFO of NTT and the CEO of NTT Security. Security. Sawada-san, nice to have you with us, sir. Yeah, nice to meet you. So I'm very excited in 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 and 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 these days. Especially right here in Las Vegas. 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 respective 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 very realized, we want to realize the situational awareness of the city of Las Vegas. That's the solution, including three features. One is the reactive analysis, analyzing. And that's our site. It's me, H, H. Either we are going to realize such as indicating some incident has occurred. And the second feature is proactive analyzing in the center, the center. It's me, providing a sort of trend of investigation or the predictions. Lastly, third feature is very interesting. It's me, deployment automatically all of the NTT resources in the simultaneously. So based on the several technologies. Right, so we love this smart cities theme. I've had the opportunity to interview people from different cities and see governments actually getting involved. Wonder if we can get into some of the key technology pieces that are involved here between NTT and Dell Family. We are developing with Dell Technologies that we call the Cognitive Foundation. It consists of the two technology, one in terms for a very focused to a multi-march orchestration. It's been a cover-up of march vendor, march domain, march layers. A lot of the march we can integrate it. The other one is a software defined ICT resources based on the virtualization technology coming from Dell Technologies. We have where else? Yeah, 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. 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 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-converged infrastructure, some of the VMware software foundation capabilities, together with all of the solutions that Sawad Asan has talked about. Yeah, I would think, I mean, 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'll apply elsewhere? Yeah, that's basically the, we will start with this proof of concept is from this coming September. And then after the two months, we will go into a market offering with two most companies. But basically our business plan is a business to business to anything. In that case, the Las Vegas city is a center B. Dell technologies and the NTT is a fast B. As an enabler to support the center B, center B providing a value to the anything, anything. So those type of a package of concept we want to deploy to the other United States cities not only United States in the world. Globally. Globally, including in Japan, of course. I'm very familiar Japan. 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. All right. Where does it go from here to talk about the vision for the future as to what we see in the future? So what is that? Yeah, exactly. So not only that, we're very focused on that in that time is public safety, but both companies is we can extend those solutions to other solutions of smart ones. For instance, education, for instance, the retail or entertainment including stadium solutions or the medical. And so in that area, we can extend our solution. You're driving a cooperative foundation. Yeah. And we're going to learn a lot from this 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. Yeah, exactly. What you learn here will be applicable, as you said, to cities not only here in the United States, in Japan and all over the world. All over the world. Great project. Thank you. Gentlemen, thank you for being with us. Yeah, thank you very much. Appreciate your, and I look forward to hearing back from the 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 on Las Vegas.