Garima Kochhar, Systems Senior Principal Engineer, Dell EMC, sits down with Jeff Frick in the Dell EMC AI Lab in Austin, Texas. #DellEMC #theCUBE https://siliconangle.com/2018/08/10/ai-must-go-mainstream-new-innovation-lab-boosts-efforts-dell-emc-womenintech-getready4ai/ AI must go mainstream. New Innovation Lab boosts efforts at Dell EMC The global market for artificial intelligence is estimated to reach $153,389 million by 2025, growing at a rate of 49.3 percent since large-scale adoption efforts began in 2016, and Dell EMC is preparing specialized data centers to support this growing interest for AI. AI presents a huge opportunity for businesses to more effectively leverage data toward business outcomes, but the complexities and cost of experimentation that come with this still developing technology create a barrier for enterprise adoption and optimization. In an effort to break down that barrier and encourage modernization, Dell EMC is working to enable greater transparency between tech and consumer through its updated AI Innovation Lab. “We take servers, storage, networking and software, put it together to design targeted solutions for a particular use case, and then bring in services and support along with that so we have a complete product,” said Garima Kochhar (pictured), systems senior principal engineer at Dell Technologies Inc. “That’s what we’re doing for the AI space.” With experience building high-performance computing solutions at Dell for almost 15 years, Kochhar is now leading her team, as well as its partners and customers, through an AI revolution. Kochhar sat down with Jeff Frick (@JeffFrick), host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, at the Dell Ready System for AI Launch Event in Austin, Texas. (* Disclosure below.) This week, theCUBE spotlights Garima Kochhar in our Women in Tech feature. A shifting AI landscape Until recently, the Dell EMC lab focused primarily on applications for HPC, but the company expanded its learnings to encompass AI and support an overall industry shift to the new technology. “The algorithms and the hardware of the technologies available have hit that perfect point. Along with industries’ interest and the amount of data, we have to make it more mainstream,” Kochhar said. As market interest and rapid tech innovation come to a head, Kochhar’s team is working to facilitate smooth transitions for customers. AI tech holds the potential for applicability across a broad range of industries, but its opacity can obstruct the path to transformation. Through its lab, Dell EMC is working to make AI tech more accessible and customizable for the commercial market. “It’s not that AI is something new, it’s that today’s technologies allow us to use it. Because we have a lot of experience doing really elaborate solutions, it was a natural effect to develop Dell EMC’s AI deep learning machine learning solutions in this lab,” Kochhar said. Take a tour through the Dell EMC AI lab with Garima Kochhar in the video below: