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Dell Technologies, recognized as the world’s No. 1 provider of AI infrastructure, has announced major advancements to its Dell AI Data Platform. These enhancements are designed to help enterprises transform distributed, siloed data into faster, more reliable AI outcomes. The platform, a critical component of the Dell AI Factory, offers an open, modular foundation that decouples data storage from processing, eliminating bottlenecks for demanding AI workloads such as training, fine-tuning, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and inferencing.
Dell Technologies released advancements to the Dell AI Data Platform to accelerate AI outcomes from distributed enterprise data.
The platform, integrated with the NVIDIA AI Data Platform reference design, is powered by four core building blocks: storage engines, data engines, cyber resiliency, and data management.
Dell PowerScale gains integration with NVIDIA GB200 and GB300 NVL72 for improved performance and rack space efficiency.
Dell ObjectScale introduces a new software-defined option, offering up to 8 times faster all-flash object storage than previous generations.
New Data Search Engine (with Elastic) and Data Analytics Engine (with Starburst) power real-time AI by simplifying data interaction and querying.
Deepened collaboration with NVIDIA cuVS delivers a fully integrated, turnkey solution for GPU-accelerated hybrid search in enterprise environments.
The Dell AI Data Platform’s storage engines, Dell PowerScale and Dell ObjectScale, have received significant updates to boost performance, security, and multi-protocol access essential for AI data.
Dell PowerScale: PowerScale delivers NAS simplicity and parallel performance for AI workflows. New integration with NVIDIA GB200 and GB300 NVL72 ensures reliable performance, simplified management, and seamless compatibility for RAG pipelines. The PowerScale F710 achieved NVIDIA Cloud Partner (NCP) certification, delivering high-performance storage with up to 5X less rack space and lower power consumption compared to competitors.
Dell ObjectScale: Recognized as the industry’s highest-performing object platform, ObjectScale provides extremely performant, scalable S3-native object storage for massive AI workloads. It is now available through a new software-defined option on Dell PowerEdge servers that is up to 8 times faster than previous all-flash object storage. Upcoming features, including S3 over RDMA (entering tech preview in December 2025), will offer up to 230% higher throughput and 80% lower latency.
Dell is expanding its data engines—the specialized tools within the platform that organize, query, and activate AI data—through deeper collaboration with AI leaders like NVIDIA, Elastic, and Starburst.
Data Search Engine (with Elastic): This new engine allows customers to interact with data by asking questions, speeding decision-making for RAG and semantic search. It integrates with MetadataIQ to search billions of files on PowerScale and ObjectScale using granular metadata.
Data Analytics Engine (with Starburst): This engine enables seamless data querying across various sources, including spreadsheets, cloud warehouses, and lakehouses. A new Data Analytics Engine Agentic Layer uses LLMs to automate documentation, glean insights, and embed AI into SQL workflows, transforming raw data into business-ready products in seconds. It also unifies access to vector stores for RAG tasks and search.
NVIDIA cuVS Integration: Integration with NVIDIA cuVS brings GPU-accelerated hybrid (keyword + vector) search to the Data Search Engine. This delivers faster, more efficient insights with full on-prem control, providing a fully integrated, turnkey solution for deploying and scaling GPU-powered search.
Arthur Lewis, president, Infrastructure Solutions Group, Dell Technologies, stated:
"AI is transforming industries and its success depends on unlocking the full potential of enterprise data. The Dell AI Data Platform is purpose-built to simplify data complexity, unify pipelines and deliver AI-ready data at scale. From real-time diagnostics in healthcare to predictive maintenance in manufacturing, Dell Technologies and trusted collaborators like NVIDIA, Elastic and Starburst are empowering industries to move from AI pilots to production faster and with reduced risk."
Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) helps organizations and individuals build their digital future and transform how they work, live and play. The company provides customers with the industry’s broadest and most innovative technology and services portfolio for the AI era.
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