Dell Expands AI Offerings to Accelerate Secure Generative AI Initiatives

Dell Technologies has launched new options to aid customers with generative AI initiatives. With this, They can create and design Gen AI models on their premises. This will help enhance results and attain higher levels of intelligence.

New Dell Generative AI Solutions, expanding upon our May’s Project Helix announcement, span IT infrastructure, PCs, and professional services to simplify the adoption of full-stack GenAI with large language models (LLM), meeting organizations wherever they are in their GenAI journey. These solutions help organizations, of all sizes and across industries, securely transform and deliver better outcomes.

“Generative AI represents an inflection point that is driving fundamental change in the pace of innovation while improving the customer experience and enabling new ways to work,” Jeff Clarke, vice chairman and co-chief operating officer, of Dell Technologies, said on a recent investor call. “Customers, big and small, are using their own data and business context to train, fine-tune, and inference on Dell infrastructure solutions to incorporate advanced AI into their core business processes effectively and efficiently.”

“Our customers in the region are interested in developing a generative AI strategy to enhance their workforce and augment their digital engagement with customers,” said Chris Kelly, senior vice president, of Data Center Solutions, Asia Pacific and Japan, Dell Technologies. "Our new suite of solutions helps deliver and scale GenAI projects to enable business transformation, unlock productivity gains, and allow for trusted insights from company-proprietary data and IP.”

“Indian businesses are actively embracing the transformative capabilities of Generative AI. This shift towards intelligent technology has the potential to unlock unparalleled efficiency in operations, optimize data-driven insights and give way to creativity and innovation for Indian businesses. However, to keep pace with AI-driven digital transformation, businesses also need to upskill their workforce, prioritize security, and maintain a forward-looking vision for AI adoption.”, said Manish Gupta, Vice President, Infrastructure Solutions Group, Dell Technologies India. “With our new Gen-AI infrastructure, software, and services, we aim to empower businesses to have a competitive edge in their respective industries by providing them with a robust infrastructure.”

“Generative AI can help every enterprise transform its data into intelligent applications that enable them to solve complex business challenges,” said Manuvir Das, vice president, Enterprise computing, at NVIDIA. “Dell Technologies and NVIDIA are building on our long-standing relationship to enable organizations to harness this capability to better serve their customers, more fully support their employees, and fuel innovation across their operations.”

Dell Generative AI Solutions offers a wide range of reliable tools for delivering GenAI solutions across various platforms. These tools include Dell Precision workstations, Dell PowerEdge servers, Dell PowerScale scale-out storage, Dell ECS enterprise object storage, and various services. With this portfolio, users can seamlessly deploy GenAI solutions on desktops, core data centers, edge locations, and public clouds.

CyberAgent, a major Japanese digital advertising company, selected Dell servers as the key IT infrastructure for its generative AI development and digital advertising.

“We decided to select Dell PowerEdge XE9680 servers equipped with NVIDIA H100 GPUs, which are optimized for generative AI applications,” said Daisuke Takahashi, solution architect of CIU, CyberAgent. “In addition, we value the ease of use of the Dell iDRAC management tool for secure local and remote server management.”

Full-stack GenAI for enterprises

The Dell Validated Design for Generative AI with NVIDIA is an inferencing blueprint, jointly engineered with NVIDIA, optimized to speed the deployment of a modular, secure, and scalable platform for GenAI in the enterprise.

Until now, traditional inferencing approaches have been challenged to scale and support LLMs for real-time results and ensure data can be easily used by AI infrastructure. This solution helps customers generate higher quality, faster time-to-value predictions, and decisions with their data.

With a comprehensive verified inferencing approach, organizations can rapidly deploy GenAI projects and scale applications to transform processes in key areas, such as customer operations, content creation and management, software development, and sales.

Dell Validated Designs are configurations that have been pre-tested and proven to be effective in powering GenAI inferencing efforts. These configurations use Dell infrastructure, which includes the Dell PowerEdge XE9680 or PowerEdge R760xa, along with a choice of NVIDIA® Tensor Core GPUs, NVIDIA AI Enterprise software, the NVIDIA NeMo™ end-to-end framework, and Dell software. Customers can also take advantage of resilient and scalable unstructured data storage, provided by Dell PowerScale and Dell ECS storage. This infrastructure is available through Dell APEX, which offers customers a cloud consumption and management experience for on-premises deployment.

Services drive faster, more holistic GenAI outcomes

Dell Professional Services deliver a broad spectrum of new capabilities to help customers accelerate GenAI adoption to improve their operational efficiency and advance innovation.

These services begin with creating a new GenAI strategy that identifies high-value use cases and a roadmap to achieve them. Dell also offers full-stack implementation services, based on the Dell Validated Design for GenAI with NVIDIA, and adoption services that apply the platform to specific use cases, such as customer operations or content creation. Once integrated into the business, Dell’s scaling services help improve operations through managed services, training, or resident experts.

“Dell’s AI solutions offer enterprises the potential to right-size their GenAI efforts and help streamline operations as customers look to quickly deliver products and services across industry-specific use cases,” said Ashish Nadkarni, group vice president and general manager, of worldwide infrastructure and BuyerView research, IDC. “In the era of intelligent automation, Dell Technologies is meeting organizations wherever they are in their GenAI journey, helping them position themselves for success in an increasingly intelligent and technology-driven world.”

Precision workstations provide secure GenAI development locally on the device

As the global leader in workstations,1 Dell Precision workstations allow AI developers and data scientists to develop and fine-tune GenAI models locally before deploying at scale. Precision workstations provide the performance and reliability – with up to four NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation GPUs in a single workstation – to run AI software frameworks 80% faster than the previous generation.2

Dell Optimizer is a software, that has AI built into it. It can learn how people work and adapt to improve their performance across different applications, network connectivity, and audio. With the latest update, mobile workstation users can now use GenAI models to enhance their application's performance without draining their battery life.

“Our customers are looking to use generative AI in every aspect of their business, from monitoring agent behavior to detecting fraud,” said James Laird, chief operating officer, of Intelligent Voice. “Recent advances in AI combined with the power of Dell’s AI solutions allows us to quickly build, test and deploy high-quality models at the speed our customers require.”