Dell Announces AI Data Platform Advancements

Dell Technologies announces updates to the Dell AI Data Platform to help support the full lifecycle of AI workloads, including agentic inferencing to AI-powered knowledge retrieval.

The latest updates to the Dell AI Data Platform enhance unstructured data ingestion, retrieval and compute performance to streamline AI development and deployment, turning massive datasets into real-time intelligence for generative AI, Dell Technologies reports.

The Dell AI Data Platform helps users move from AI experimentation to production by automating data preparation, the company notes.

At the core of the Dell AI Data Platform’s architecture are specialized storage and data engines that help connect AI agents to enterprise data. Together, the Dell AI Data Platform and the NVIDIA AI Data Platform reference design provide a validated, GPU-accelerated solution that integrates storage engines and data engines with NVIDIA accelerated computing, networking and AI software.

Expanding the capabilities of the Dell AI Data Platform is the new unstructured data engine, designed to provide real-time access to large-scale unstructured datasets for inferencing, analytics, and intelligent search. This engine, done via a new collaboration with open-source Search AI leader Elastic, will offer advanced vector search, semantic retrieval and hybrid keyword search capabilities, all designed to help power AI applications. Also, the unstructured data engine will leverage built-in GPU acceleration.

The unstructured data engine works alongside the platform’s other tools, like a federated SQL engine for querying scattered structured data, a processing engine for handling large-scale data transformation, and storage.

Powering Enterprise AI Discovery

The Dell PowerEdge R7725 server platform will integrate the NVIDIA AI Data Platform reference design. When the Dell PowerEdge R7725 server featuring NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs is paired with the Dell AI Data Platform and its new unstructured data engine, enterprises will have a turnkey solution.

"The key to unlocking AI’s full potential lies in breaking down silos and simplifying access to enterprise data," says Arthur Lewis, president, Infrastructure Solutions Group, Dell Technologies. "Collaborating with industry leaders like NVIDIA and Elastic to advance the Dell AI Data Platform will help organizations accelerate innovation and scale AI with confidence."

“Enterprises worldwide need infrastructure that handles the growing scale and complexity of AI workloads,” says Justin Boitano, vice president of enterprise AI at NVIDIA. “With NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 GPUs in new 2U Dell PowerEdge servers, organizations now have a power efficient, accelerated computing platform to power AI applications and storage on NVIDIA Blackwell.”

“Fast, accurate, and context-aware access to unstructured data is key to scaling enterprise AI,” says Ken Exner, chief product officer at Elastic. “With Elasticsearch vector database at the heart of the Dell AI Data Platform's unstructured data engine, Elastic will bring vector search and hybrid retrieval to a turnkey architecture, enabling natural language search, real-time inferencing, and intelligent asset discovery across massive datasets.”

Availability

• Unstructured data engine in Dell AI Data Platform will be available later this year.
• Dell PowerEdge R7725 and R770 servers with NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 GPUs will be globally available later this year.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.