{"id":78227,"date":"2025-10-21T15:51:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T14:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/?p=78227"},"modified":"2025-11-19T14:46:52","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T14:46:52","slug":"dell-unveils-ai-data-platform-upgrades-to-accelerate-enterprise-ai-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/2025\/10\/21\/dell-unveils-ai-data-platform-upgrades-to-accelerate-enterprise-ai-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"Dell unveils AI Data Platform upgrades to accelerate enterprise AI performance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Dell Technologies, a leading provider of AI infrastructure, has announced significant advancements to its Dell AI Data Platform, aiming to help enterprises turn distributed, siloed data into faster, more reliable AI outcomes.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Turning Data Silos into AI Insight<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As organisations adopt AI at unprecedented speed, managing scattered and siloed data remains a major challenge. Dell\u2019s AI Data Platform, part of the company\u2019s broader AI Factory strategy, offers an open, modular foundation to transform distributed data into actionable insights. By decoupling data storage from processing, the platform eliminates performance bottlenecks and provides the flexibility required for complex AI workloads such as model training, fine-tuning, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and inferencing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Integrated with the NVIDIA AI Data Platform reference design, the Dell AI Data Platform is built on four core components:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Storage engines for smart data placement and seamless movement<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Data engines that convert data into actionable insights<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Built-in cyber resiliency<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Data management services<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Together, these elements create a scalable, secure foundation designed to help organisations realise AI\u2019s full potential.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Boosting AI Storage Performance<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The platform\u2019s storage backbone is powered by <strong>Dell PowerScale<\/strong> and <strong>Dell ObjectScale<\/strong>, delivering the performance, security and multi-protocol access essential for enterprise AI workloads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dell PowerScale provides NAS simplicity and parallel performance optimised for AI pipelines including RAG and inferencing. With new integrations, such as NVIDIA GB200 and GB300 NVL72, and continuous software updates, PowerScale enhances reliability and simplifies large-scale management.<br>The PowerScale F710, now certified as an NVIDIA Cloud Partner (NCP) for high-performance storage, supports more than 16,000 GPUs while reducing rack space by up to 5x, cutting network switches by 88%, and lowering power consumption by up to 72% compared to competitors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dell ObjectScale delivers fast, scalable S3-native object storage for massive AI workloads. Now available as a software-defined option on Dell PowerEdge servers, ObjectScale offers up to eight times faster performance than previous all-flash generations. Upcoming innovations include S3 over RDMA, promising up to 230% higher throughput, 80% lower latency and 98% lower CPU usage than traditional S3. Performance updates for smaller object sizes bring up to 19% higher throughput and 18% lower latency for 10KB objects. Enhanced AWS S3 integration and bucket-level compression further streamline how developers store and move large datasets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Smarter Data Engines for Real-Time AI<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beyond storage, Dell is expanding the data engines that organise, query and activate enterprise data &#8211; developed in collaboration with industry leaders such as NVIDIA, Elastic and Starburst.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new <strong>Data Search Engine<\/strong>, built with Elastic, enables natural-language data queries for tasks like semantic search, RAG and generative AI. Integrated with Dell\u2019s MetadataIQ discovery tool, it can scan billions of files across PowerScale and ObjectScale systems. Developers can use it with frameworks like LangChain to build smarter RAG applications, saving compute time by ingesting only updated files.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dell\u2019s <strong>Data Analytics Engine<\/strong>, developed with Starburst, allows seamless querying across spreadsheets, databases, cloud warehouses and lakehouses. A new Agentic Layer uses large language models (LLMs) to automate documentation, surface insights and embed AI into SQL workflows &#8211; turning raw data into business-ready outputs in seconds. The system also supports RAG and search across Iceberg, PostgreSQL + PGVector and Dell\u2019s own Data Search Engine. The new MCP Server for the Data Analytics Engine enables multi-agent and AI application development with enterprise-grade monitoring and governance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dell\u2019s <strong>AI Data Platform Integration<\/strong> with NVIDIA cuVS introduces GPU-accelerated hybrid (keyword + vector) search to the Data Search Engine, providing turnkey deployment and superior vector search performance for on-premise AI environments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Industry leaders<\/strong> <strong>weigh-in<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;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,\u201d said Arthur Lewis, president, Infrastructure Solutions Group, Dell Technologies. &#8220;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.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAI finally gives enterprises a way to transform fragmented data into a strategic, scalable asset,\u201d said Justin Boitano, vice president of enterprise AI products, NVIDIA. \u201cAccelerated by NVIDIA AI, the Dell AI Data Platform delivers a new generation of intelligent storage that is designed to understand the meaning behind the data it holds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Data holds the key to incredible breakthroughs and our collaboration with Dell Technologies makes it easier than ever to unlock that potential. By fully integrating \u200bthe \u200bElasticsearch \u200bcontext\u200b engineering platform \u200b\u200binto the Dell AI Data Platform, we are providing a powerful engine for search and discovery, said Ajay Nair, GM of Platform Engineering, Elastic. \u201cThis collaboration empowers organisations to accelerate everything from semantic search to complex generative AI pipelines, turning large amounts of unstructured data into critical insight.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAccess to all of your data is the foundation for enterprise AI success,\u201d said Justin Borgman, CEO, Starburst. \u201cOur expanded collaboration with Dell Technologies unites Starburst\u2019s data federation with Dell\u2019s AI Data Platform, giving organisations the ability to unlock insights from anywhere and accelerate their path to real-world AI outcomes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The collaboration between Maya HTT, Dell Technologies and NVIDIA is transforming industries by turning massive amounts of unstructured data into actionable insights. From accelerating satellite production to enabling real-time telemetry and AI-driven efficiency for marine vessels, our solutions are not only connecting unconnected worlds but also driving sustainability and safety,\u201d said Remi Duquette, vice president, Industrial AI, Maya HTT. \u201cWith Dell PowerScale and NVIDIA AI infrastructure, we\u2019re delivering faster, smarter and more impactful AI outcomes for our clients.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dell Technologies, a leading provider of AI infrastructure, has announced significant advancements to its Dell AI Data Platform, aiming to help enterprises turn distributed, siloed data into faster, more reliable AI outcomes. Turning Data Silos into AI Insight As organisations adopt AI at unprecedented speed, managing scattered and siloed data remains a major challenge. 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