AI is increasingly at the center of digital strategies

Dell Technologies, a leading provider of AI infrastructure, announced major enhancements to its Dell AI Factory, which is engineered to simplify AI adoption and help enterprises scale with performance, automation and control.

Why This Matters

In a world where AI is increasingly at the center of digital strategies, organizations must deploy AI more quickly, securely, and in repeatable ways. According to Dell, 85% of enterprises plan to move AI workloads on-premises within the next 24 months, and 77% are looking for a single infrastructure vendor to support their entire AI journey. Dell’s expanded portfolio aims to meet these demands by offering one of the industry’s broadest end-to-end AI infrastructures.

Simplifying and Automating the AI Journey

Dell’s Automation Platform, integrated with the AI Factory, drives smarter automated deployments through the delivery of validated, optimized solutions in a secure framework. This not only cuts down on guesswork but also provides consistent outcomes that speed up enterprise AI projects.

Dell’s storage and AI solutions offerings help enterprises automate deployments, optimize performance and deliver real-time AI applications with greater efficiency and reliability.

Dell ObjectScale and PowerScale, the Dell AI Data Platform’s storage engines for unstructured data, are now integrated with the NVIDIA NIXL library, part of NVIDIA Dynamo. This integration enables scalable KV Cache storage, reuse and sharing, achieving a 1-second Time to First Token (TTFT) at a full context window of 131K tokens – 19X faster than standard vLLM – while reducing infrastructure costs and overcoming GPU memory capacity bottlenecks.4

The Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA now includes solutions with Dell PowerEdge XE7740/XE7745 servers featuring NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs and NVIDIA Hopper GPUs. These proven and validated offers feature next-level AI acceleration and computing power to execute advanced use cases—from large-scale multimodal models to emerging agentic AI applications and from enterprise-grade inferencing to training workloads.

PowerEdge Innovations: Dell PowerEdge servers provide the foundation for enterprise AI, delivering faster training, distributed inference and reduced time to insights—all while offering flexible cooling options to align with diverse enterprise strategies:

Dell PowerEdge XE9785 and XE9785L are purpose-built for next-generation AI and HPC workloads. The air-cooled XE9785 (10U) and direct liquid-cooled XE9785L (3OU) feature dual-socket AMD EPYC™ processors and eight AMD Instinct™ MI355X GPUs per node. Combined with AMD Pensando™ Pollara 400 AI NICs and the Dell PowerSwitch AI fabric, these platforms deliver scalable compute, improved TCO and reduced operational costs.

New Dell PowerEdge R770AP offers enhanced parallel processing, reduced memory latency and abundant PCIe lanes enabling accelerated trading algorithms, scalable memory configurations and improved network performance. This air-cooled platform is equipped with Intel Xeon 6 P-core 6900-series processors, featuring high-core-count CPUs, large cache sizes and support for CXL memory expansion.

Expanded AI ecosystem offers enterprises choice

As enterprises right-size their AI investments, picking the right tools to help get the job done is a top priority. Red Hat OpenShift for the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA is now validated on more Dell PowerEdge systems, helping enterprise operationalize AI at scale to transform business operations.

In addition to the Dell PowerEdge R760xa, the Dell PowerEdge XE9680 featuring NVIDIA H100 and H200 Tensor Core GPUs, is now supported, offering more choice for enterprises looking to accelerate their AI adoption at scale. This combination of Red Hat OpenShift tools, controls and governance with Dell’s secure, trusted infrastructure lets organizations scale AI with confidence.

 By - Aaradhay Sharma