Today at Dell Technologies World, we’re sharing more on our vision for organizations in an increasingly AI-enabled future.
It’s our strong belief that AI will be the defining technology of the years to come—and we want to help organizations set themselves on the path to success. The AI revolution is here, and it’s transforming business at an unprecedented pace. Success in the evolving global economy will depend on how quickly and effectively organizations can harness the potential of AI. To stay relevant, accelerating toward an AI future is no longer a choice; it’s imperative.
But the AI transformation is unlike any we’ve seen before. Its adoption is faster, its scope is broader and it offers unparalleled potential. This means organizations must build a strong AI foundation today—or risk obsolescence.
What Is an AI Factory
In the age of AI, traditional IT infrastructures and operating models are not enough to handle the rigorous demands of AI. A new approach is required that’s tailored to meet AI’s needs. This is the AI factory.
Just like physical factories fueled the industrial revolution, AI factories will drive the AI revolution. But instead of producing physical goods, they create actionable intelligence, fresh content and new insights. Every business will come to need an AI factory, and those most adept at establishing their AI factories to produce fast, repeatable results will have a critical advantage as we move further into the AI era.
What Is Dell’s Vision for the AI Factory
We want to help organizations build their own AI factories to create transformative outcomes, consistently, and at scale, so they can gain an edge. And we’re doing this through the Dell AI Factory.
The Dell AI Factory is our approach to help accelerate AI innovation in organizations of all sizes. It comprises a portfolio of products, solutions and services tailored for AI workloads and designed for fast, repeatable outcomes. It’s versatile and capable of operation across various environments—be it cloud, data centers, workstations, AI PCs or edge locations.
Let’s break it down further and look at the Dell AI Factory under the hood.
How the Dell AI Factory Works
As organizations seek to build their own AI factories and take advantage of all AI has to offer, many will want to get to speed as fast as possible. The Dell AI Factory is how we’re helping them do exactly that.
Use Cases: Powering Business Outcomes
The power of a factory lies in what it produces, and the AI factory produces business outcomes powered by an organization’s most impactful AI use cases. Dell Technologies assists customers in identifying and prioritizing the AI use cases that drive the greatest business impact and simplifies the deployment and scaling of those AI use cases and applications with our validated solutions.
Data: Fueling the AI Factory
Data is the raw material that powers the AI factory. But the success of any AI initiative depends on the quality of data used. An organization’s data often resides in multiple locations, frequently on-premises and at the edge. The Dell AI Factory brings AI as close as possible to where data resides to minimize latency, lower costs and maintain data security by keeping sensitive information within a controlled environment. It also provides a way to prepare this data for use by the AI factory, ensuring that customers are working with quality and accurate data, with easy access and built-in data governance.
Infrastructure: The AI Factory Foundation
Infrastructure—comprising client devices, servers, storage, data protection and networking—forms the foundation of every AI factory, but this foundation must be flexible because the future of AI is rapidly evolving. That’s why the Dell AI Factory can support diverse AI requirements with the world’s broadest AI solutions portfolio from desktop to data center to cloud,¹ allowing organizations to right-size their AI investments and gain the flexibility to run AI anywhere. We provide advanced technology across all infrastructure areas, along with the benefits of an end-to-end portfolio for easier deployment, operation, and maintenance of AI factory infrastructure.
Open Ecosystem: Ensuring Seamless Integration
Just as a traditional factory relies on a diverse supply chain, the AI factory depends on a varied and dynamic ecosystem of AI vendors and solutions. That’s why a core component of the Dell AI Factory includes helping organizations chart their course through this dynamic environment by identifying suitable ecosystem partners and working with them to provide solutions that simplify AI deployment and operation for our customers. With a history of fostering open ecosystems, Dell brings a commitment to inclusivity and access to innovation, offering customers a broader range of technology solutions and more flexibility.
Services: Help When You Need It
An effective AI factory needs a skilled team to succeed, but AI-ready skills are in short supply and the ecosystem is diverse. That’s why professional services is a critical layer of the Dell AI Factory, helping customers align their business and technology needs. From strategy formulation to implementation, and management to scaling, Dell provides expert assistance at any stage of an AI journey based on extensive global experience and comprehensive knowledge in deploying AI at scale.
The Dell AI Factory: Helping You Build Your AI Future
The Dell AI Factory is more than just a set of services or products; it’s our vision to help organizations harness the full potential of AI. With our broad AI portfolio and leading infrastructure, an open ecosystem and services offerings, we are helping organizations around the world build their own AI factories to transform and innovate.
To learn more about the Dell AI Factory, join us at Dell Technologies World where we’ll be sharing our more on our vision for the AI-enable future. Or explore our we’re helping organizations bring AI to their data.
1 Based on Dell analysis, March 2024. Dell Technologies offers hardware solutions engineered to support AI workloads from Workstations PCs (mobile and fixed) to Servers for High-performance Computing, Data Storage, Cloud Native Software-Defined Infrastructure, Networking Switches, Data Protection, HCI and Services (CLM-009277)
