World's broadest AI solutions portfolio from
desktop to data center to cloud helps customers quickly and
securely capture AI opportunities
LAS
VEGAS, May 20, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- DELL
TECHNOLOGIES WORLD --
News summary
- Dell AI Factory gives organizations the infrastructure,
solutions and services needed to quickly adopt and deploy AI at
scale
- New Dell AI PCs with Copilot+ help users focus on strategic,
creative tasks with new AI experiences from Microsoft, powered by
Snapdragon® X Elite and Snapdragon X Plus processors
- Dell storage, data protection and networking innovations
deliver performance and scalability advancements to support AI
deployments
- Dell AI Solutions with ecosystem partners simplify the
deployment of AI applications with pre-tested, integrated software
and hardware
- Dell expands AI Professional Services portfolio to deliver the
tools and framework needed to build AI platforms and use AI
copilots
- Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA infrastructure and services
advancements accelerate AI adoption and innovation
Full story
Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) announces
the Dell AI Factory to give customers access to the industry's
broadest AI portfolio, from device to data center to
cloud1 and an open ecosystem of technology partners to
create AI applications that meet their unique needs, through a
traditional purchase or as a Dell APEX subscription.
"AI is transforming business at an unprecedented pace. Data
centers must be designed from the ground up to handle AI's speed
and scale while new AI PCs are transforming productivity and
collaboration," said Jeff Clarke,
vice chairman and chief operating officer, Dell Technologies.
"What's needed are new IT infrastructure and devices purpose-built
to meet the specific demands of AI. The Dell AI Factory helps
customers accelerate AI adoption with the world's broadest AI
portfolio and leading AI ecosystem partners, offering right-sized
approaches and greater control over AI deployments on-premises, at
the edge and across cloud environments."
Delivering infrastructure to achieve any AI
outcome
Dell's end-to-end AI portfolio spanning client
devices, servers, storage, data protection and networking form the
foundation of the Dell AI Factory. Dell Technologies is expanding
that portfolio with new offers purpose-built to meet increasing AI
demands.
AI PCs rewrite the rules of creativity and
productivity
- Dell introduces the most Copilot+ PCs powered by
Snapdragon® X Elite and Snapdragon® X Plus processors,2
and featuring new Microsoft AI experiences. Targeted at
professionals and consumers, these laptops include built-in AI with
game-changing performance and exceptional battery life. This
transformative AI PC experience will help users easily manage their
tasks and workflows through local computing and processing across
the GPU, CPU and NPU.
Advancements to manage and protect the data that fuels AI
innovation
- Dell PowerScale F910 all-flash file storage addresses
the needs of demanding AI workloads, delivering faster time to AI
insights with up to 127% improvement3 in performance and
superior density.
- PowerScale: Project Lightning is a new, highly
performant parallel file system software architecture that will be
integrated into PowerScale to accelerate training times for
large-scale and complex AI workflows.
- Dell Solution for AI Data Protection helps
customers protect critical AI applications and data with Dell
data protection software, appliances and a reference design to
streamline deployment.
Expanded networking portfolio delivers the fabric that
accelerates AI performance
- Dell PowerSwitch Z9864F-ON, powered by the Broadcom
Tomahawk® 5 chipset, doubles network performance of AI
applications4 through a modern network architecture that
delivers high throughput, low latency and easy scalability,
catering to the most demanding networking environments.
- Dell PowerEdge XE9680 supports Broadcom 400G PCIe Gen
5.0 Ethernet adapters. The combination of PowerEdge hardware,
PowerSwitch Z9864F-ON and 400G PCIe Gen 5.0 Ethernet adapters allow
organizations to achieve greater performance, scalability and
efficiency by building robust ethernet fabrics.
- Enterprise SONiC Distribution innovations enhance AI
performance while SmartFabric Manager for SONiC software
simplifies deployment, orchestration and lifecycle management with
a single view of SONiC fabrics.
Accelerating AI time to value with leading partner
ecosystem
Deep collaborations between Dell and leading
ecosystem partners deliver tightly integrated solutions and make it
easier for customers to get started with AI.
- Dell Technologies is the first infrastructure provider
to collaborate with Hugging Face to offer optimized
on-premises deployment of generative AI models.5 Dell
Enterprise Hub on Hugging Face allows organizations to easily
and securely train and deploy open, customized large language
models (LLMs) on-premises on Dell infrastructure. This experience
accelerates time to value for customers building their own AI
applications for use cases like chatbots and customer support and
is accessible directly within Hugging Face's leading open platform
for AI builders.
- Dell Technologies continues its collaboration with
Meta to simplify deployment of Meta Llama 3 models
on-premises with Dell infrastructure, providing test results,
performance data and deployment recipes.
- Dell AI Solution for Microsoft Azure AI Services speeds
deployment of AI services, such as speech transcription and
translation capabilities, built on Dell APEX Cloud Platform for
Microsoft Azure.
Simplifying the AI journey with expanded services
portfolio
Dell is advancing its extensive portfolio of AI
Professional Services to drive improved business outcomes from
AI initiatives.
- Implementation Services for Microsoft Copilot solutions
help organizations transform the way they work with expert guidance
on embracing Microsoft Copilots experiences across GitHub,
Security, Windows and Sales.
- Accelerator Services for Dell Enterprise Hub on Hugging
Face reduce time to value for rapid AI prototyping using the
Dell Portal on Hugging Face with strategic counsel on tool and
model selection and use case alignment.
Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA expands to turbocharge AI
adoption
Dell Technologies today expanded the Dell AI
Factory with NVIDIA with new server, edge, workstation, solutions
and services advancements. The Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA,
announced in March, speeds AI adoption by delivering integrated
Dell and NVIDIA capabilities or pre-validated, full stack
solutions.
Additional Comments
"AI workloads generate immense
traffic and demand exceptional performance capabilities across
clouds and data centers," said Charlie Kawwas Ph. D., president,
Broadcom's Semiconductor Solutions Group. "We are proud to partner
with Dell to unveil world leading networking innovations that
empower organizations to harness peak performance from Dell's
infrastructure solutions. Broadcom's commitment to enabling AI
infrastructure with open, scalable and energy efficient networking
solutions will drive this collaboration forward for our
customers."
"The Dell Enterprise Hub on Hugging Face is the result of a deep
collaboration between Hugging Face and Dell Technologies to
simplify open source AI for enterprises using on-premises
infrastructure," said Jeff Boudier,
head of Product and Growth, Hugging Face. "This new experience will
help enterprise organizations build their own AI combining the best
of open source AI with the performance, reliability and security of
Dell infrastructure."
"As organizations explore how to benefit from AI, it's clear
there isn't a one-size-fits-all approach," said Mike Leone, principal analyst, Enterprise
Strategy Group. "The Dell AI Factory brings together Dell's
differentiated infrastructure, services and partner ecosystem to
help customers quickly and easily adopt AI on their own
terms."
Availability
- XPS 13 and Inspiron 14 Plus are available now for
preorder.
- Latitude 7455, Inspiron 14 and Latitude 5455 will be available
in the coming months.
- Dell PowerScale F910 will be globally available on May 21, 2024.
- Dell Solution for AI Data Protection reference design will be
available in the first half of 2024.
- Dell PowerSwitch Z9864F-ON and Enterprise SONiC Distribution
enhancements will be globally available in August 2024.
- SmartFabric Manager for SONiC will be available in North America, EMEA and APJ in August 2024.
- Broadcom 400G PCIe Gen 5.0 Ethernet adapters will be available
in PowerEdge XE9680 servers starting in July
2024.
- Dell AI Solution for Microsoft Azure AI Services will be
globally available in Q2 2024.
- Dell Enterprise Hub on Hugging Face will be globally available
on May 21, 2024.
- Implementation Services for Microsoft Copilot solutions are
globally available now.
- Accelerator Services for Dell Enterprise Hub on Hugging Face
will be available in NA, EMEA and APJ in late May 2024.
Additional resources
- Press Release: Dell Technologies Expands Dell AI Factory
with NVIDIA to Turbocharge AI Adoption
- Press Kit: Check out the Dell Technologies World press
kit
- Blog: How Dell Makes the AI Factory Real
- Blog: Accelerating AI Innovation with Dell AI Factory
Portfolio Advancements
- Blog: Dell Introduces Comprehensive Portfolio of
Copilot+ AI PCs
- Blog: Dell PowerScale: AI Success Starts with AI-Ready
Storage
- Blog: Safeguarding AI Infrastructure with Dell Data
Protection
- Blog: Transforming Connectivity: Dell Technologies'
AI-Driven Fabric Innovation
- Blog: Empowering GenAI: The Crucial Role of
Networking
- Blog: Making AI Easy: Dell Enterprise Hub on Hugging
Face
- Blog: Accelerate Your AI Outcomes with Dell
Services
- Blog: Dell Technologies World: Unleashing Innovation for
Partners
- Connect with Dell on X and LinkedIn
About Dell Technologies
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1. Based on Dell analysis, March
2024. Dell Technologies offers hardware solutions engineered
to support AI workloads from Workstation PCs (mobile and fixed) to
Servers for High-performance Computing, Data Storage, Cloud Native
Software-Defined Infrastructure, Networking Switches, Data
Protection, HCI, and Services.
2. Based on third party analysis, May
2024.
3. Based on internal testing, comparing streaming write of
F910 on OneFS 9.8 to streaming write of F900 on OneFS 9.5. Actual
results may vary. April
2024.
4. Compared to previous generation.
5. Based on internal analysis and using Dell Enterprise Hub,
May 2024.
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