Dell ObjectScale AI-Optimized Search offers two complementary AI-optimized search capabilities for Dell ObjectScale storage

Great ideas are the spark for progress, but realizing them takes the right combination of vision, expertise, and collaboration. At Microsoft Ignite 2025, held in San Francisco from November 17–21, Dell Technologies announced its latest collaborations with Microsoft—demonstrating how, together, we are leading organizations toward what’s next.

Simplify Hybrid Cloud with Dell and Microsoft

Dell and Microsoft’s relationship is once again setting new standards for hybrid cloud innovation at Ignite 2025. Dell Private Cloud and PowerStore are expanding support for Azure Local, delivering flexibility, performance, and simplicity. This integration isn’t just a technical achievement—it’s a testament to their shared commitment to empowering customers to tackle the challenges of modern IT with confidence and ease.

Expanding Dell Private Cloud support for Azure Local — Dell’s fully integrated, automated solution simplifies hybrid and multicloud management. With automated lifecycle management, independent scaling, and future-ready infrastructure.

Azure Local integration with Dell PowerStore — Hybrid cloud deployments just got smarter, faster, and more efficient. With always-on data reduction, ultra-fast NVMe performance, and a highly adaptable architecture, PowerStore unlocks new levels of agility, performance, and cost-efficiency.

Key findings from the report include:

Only about one-third of IT service providers currently treat cybersecurity as a core business focus.

52% of ITSPs plan to add AI-related cybersecurity tools to their portfolios within the next year.

46% of ITSPs cite the availability of skilled cybersecurity professionals as the top enabler for expanding offerings today.

31% of respondents experienced a cyberattack in the past year, underlining the urgency of stronger internal defenses.

Breakthrough performance and efficiency for AI workloads

Enhanced Data Management: How organizations manage, secure and scale that data will separate the winners from the laggards. Updates to Dell PowerScale and Dell ObjectScale, the Dell AI Data Platform’s storage engines boost performance, scalability and data discovery capabilities.

Dell PowerScale will soon be available as an independent software license on qualified Dell PowerEdge servers like the Dell PowerEdge R7725xd. This news is the latest in Dell software-driven storage innovation following the announcement of a new software-defined Dell ObjectScale. These new Dell PowerScale and Dell ObjectScale configurations will help organizations like cloud service providers realize even greater AI performance while having the flexibility to adopt the latest server and networking technologies to meet infrastructure needs.

Dell PowerScale parallel NFS (pNFS) support with Flexible File Layout will enable two-way communication between metadata server and client, allowing for better parallel distribution of data across multiple nodes in a PowerScale cluster. Deliver significant throughput, performance gains and linear scalability with parallel I/O across multiple pathways. This update is designed to provide increased parallelism, delivering massive scalability and throughput tailored for demanding AI workflows.

Dell ObjectScale AI-Optimized Search offers two complementary AI-optimized search capabilities for Dell ObjectScale storage—S3 Tables and S3 Vector. These two specialized APIs provide high-speed access to complex data stored directly on ObjectScale to support analytics and key AI workloads like inferencing and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), empowering faster decision-making and easier storage, retrieval and search of expanding datasets.

Breakthrough performance and efficiency for AI workloads

Enhanced Data Management: How organizations manage, secure and scale that data will separate the winners from the laggards. Updates to Dell PowerScale and Dell ObjectScale, the Dell AI Data Platform’s storage engines boost performance, scalability and data discovery capabilities.

Dell PowerScale will soon be available as an independent software license on qualified Dell PowerEdge servers like the Dell PowerEdge R7725xd. This news is the latest in Dell software-driven storage innovation following the announcement of a new software-defined Dell ObjectScale. These new Dell PowerScale and Dell ObjectScale configurations will help organizations like cloud service providers realize even greater AI performance while having the flexibility to adopt the latest server and networking technologies to meet infrastructure needs.

Dell PowerScale parallel NFS (pNFS) support with Flexible File Layout will enable two-way communication between metadata server and client, allowing for better parallel distribution of data across multiple nodes in a PowerScale cluster. Deliver significant throughput, performance gains and linear scalability with parallel I/O across multiple pathways. This update is designed to provide increased parallelism, delivering massive scalability and throughput tailored for demanding AI workflows.

Dell ObjectScale AI-Optimized Search offers two complementary AI-optimized search capabilities for Dell ObjectScale storage—S3 Tables and S3 Vector. These two specialized APIs provide high-speed access to complex data stored directly on ObjectScale to support analytics and key AI workloads like inferencing and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), empowering faster decision-making and easier storage, retrieval and search of expanding datasets.

By - Aaradhay Sharma