Dell is offering a streamlined solution for enterprises embarking on their AI ambitions. The company’s Dell AI Factory curates user solutions from its wide-ranging product and services portfolio. Meanwhile, its Dell AI Factory with Nvidia expands the Dell generative AI solutions portfolio by adding in Nvidia AI tech, for a comprehensive AI solution.
Did you know there is a Dell AI Factory? Introduced at Dell Tech World this past May, it was on full display at last week’s Siggraph 2024.
Mind you, the Dell AI Factory is not a physical plant with conveyors, machinery, and robotics. It’s not a virtual factory, either. Rather, it’s more like a concept built on the premise of providing companies with a one-stop shop with the various elements—from Dell’s portfolio of offerings—to make the process of adding AI models and frameworks to their operations as smooth and seamless as possible.
AI and generative AI have dramatically changed the business landscape—and that evolution continues at a breakneck pace. It’s not a far reach to say that GenAI is no longer a luxury but a necessity for enterprises, and with the technology moving so quickly, many organizations are being caught flat-footed and are now scrambling to get a handle on the complexities associated with implementing GenAI solutions.
The Dell AI Factory framework consists of a broad portfolio of AI technologies, infrastructure, open ecosystem, and services offering validated, integrated solutions to customers so they can deploy AI solutions quickly and rather effortlessly. Another advantage, says Dell, is that the AI factory gives companies more control over their proprietary data since it is located on-prem. Also, the solution scales efficiently and is often a more affordable option compared to public clouds, Dell adds.
In a chicken-and-egg scenario, Dell offers the Dell AI Factory with Nvidia, which, as the name suggests, includes Nvidia technology. (In case you were wondering, Dell AI Factory with Nvidia was announced first, during Nvidia GTC in March.)
“Organizations are moving quickly to capture the AI opportunity, which is why our collaboration with Nvidia is so important,” said Michael Dell, founder and CEO of Dell Technologies, in an earlier statement. “Our expansion of the Dell AI Factory with Nvidia continues our joint mission—we’re making it easy for organizations to implement AI so they can move boldly into this next technological revolution.”
The Dell AI Factory with Nvidia is an end-to-end AI enterprise solution comprising Dell’s AI portfolio of compute, storage, client device, software, and services, along with Nvidia’s AI infrastructure and software—specifically Nvidia’s AI Enterprise software platform buttressed by tensor-core GPUs, Spectrum-X Ethernet networking fabric, and Bluefield-3 DPUs—for a seamless, robust AI infrastructure. According to Dell, the bundled equipment is pre-qualified to run AI workloads at scale.
The resulting full-stack factory offering of bundled computing, networking, and software is capable of driving copilots, coding assistants, virtual customer service agents, and industrial twins. A few months ago, Dell expanded the AI factory with Nvidia to include new server, edge, workstation, solutions, and services advancements. The factory pieces are compatible and easily upgradable, and users can buy pre-validated, full-stack solutions to get them started on their AI journey, or they can choose options specifically suited for their work, Dell says.
Dell notes that as organizations seek to build their own AI initiatives and take advantage of all AI has to offer, many will want to get up to speed as fast as possible, and these turnkey solutions can help them do that.
