Dell Technologies introduces new offerings to help customers quickly and securely build generative AI (GenAI) models on-premises to accelerate improved outcomes and drive new levels of intelligence.
“Dell’s AI solutions offers 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. In the era of intelligent automation, Dell Technologies is meeting organisations wherever they are in their GenAI journey, helping them position themselves for success in an increasingly intelligent and technology-driven world,” said Ashish Nadkarni, group vice president and general manager, worldwide infrastructure and BuyerView research, IDC.
Dell held a pre-embargo briefing last week prior to the official announcement today.
Here’s a quick summary:
- Dell Generative AI Solutions include a new suite of Dell products and services, in collaboration with NVIDIA, to help businesses gain real-time insights and enable innovation through intelligence.
- Dell Validated Design for Generative AI with NVIDIA offers pre-tested and proven Dell infrastructure, software and services to power transformative business outcomes with GenAI.
- Dell Professional Services help customers with strategy, implementation and scaling to accelerate GenAI adoption.
- Dell Precision workstations, with expanded NVIDIA GPU configurations, help users accelerate GenAI workloads locally on the device.
More details below from the press release.
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 organisations wherever they are in their GenAI journey.
“Our customers in the region are interested in developing a generative AI strategy to enhance their workforce and augment their digital engagement with customers. Our new suite of solutions help deliver and scale GenAI projects to enable business transformation, unlock productivity gains, and allow for trusted insights from company-proprietary data and IP,” said Chris Kelly, senior vice president, Data Center Solutions, Asia Pacific and Japan, Dell Technologies.
These solutions help organisations, of all sizes and across industries, securely transform and deliver better outcomes.
With Dell Generative AI Solutions, the breadth of Dell’s portfolio, including Dell Precision workstations, Dell PowerEdge servers, Dell PowerScale scale-out storage, Dell ECS enterprise object storage and a broad set of services, provide the reliable tools to deliver GenAI solutions from desktops to core data centres, 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.
Full-stack GenAI for enterprises
The Dell Validated Design for Generative AI with NVIDIA is an inferencing blueprint, jointly engineered with NVIDIA, optimised 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.
“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. 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,” Jeff Clarke, vice chairman and co-chief operating officer, Dell Technologies, said on a recent investor call.
This solution helps customers generate higher quality, faster time-to-value predictions and decisions with their own data.
With a comprehensive verified inferencing approach, organisations 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 pre-tested, proven configurations to power GenAI inferencing efforts with Dell infrastructure, such as the Dell PowerEdge XE9680 or PowerEdge R760xa, with a choice of NVIDIA® Tensor Core GPUs, NVIDIA AI Enterprise software, the NVIDIA NeMo™ end-to-end framework and Dell software at its core.
Customers can combine this with resilient and scalable unstructured data storage, including Dell PowerScale and Dell ECS storage.
The infrastructure is available via Dell APEX, offering customers an on-premises deployment with a cloud consumption and management experience.
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.
“Generative AI can help every enterprise transform its data into intelligent applications that enable them to solve complex business challenges. Dell Technologies and NVIDIA are building on our long-standing relationship to enable organisations to harness this capability to better serve their customers, more fully support their employees and fuel innovation across their operations,” said Manuvir Das, vice president, Enterprise Computing, NVIDIA.
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.
Precision workstations provide secure GenAI development locally on the device
As the global leader in workstations, 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.
Built-in AI software, Dell Optimizer, learns and responds to the way people work, improving performance across applications, network connectivity and audio.
The latest feature allows mobile workstation users leveraging GenAI models to improve performance for the application in-use while minimising impact to battery runtime.
Availability
- Dell Validated Design for Generative AI with NVIDIA is available globally through traditional channels and Dell APEX today.
- Dell Professional Services for Generative AI are available in select countries now.
- Dell Precision workstations (7960 Tower, 7865 Tower, 5860 Tower) with NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation GPUs will be available globally in early August.
- Dell Optimizer adaptive workload will be available globally on select Precision mobile workstations on August 30.
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