Dell unveils NVIDIA-partnered AI Data Platform advancements

SAN JOSE, Calif. - Dell Technologies has announced significant advancements to its Dell AI Data Platform, achieved through its partnership with NVIDIA. These innovations aim to empower enterprises by addressing key challenges in handling data for artificial intelligence (AI). This requires organizations to first assess data readiness for successful implementation. The updated platform focuses on unlocking enterprise data, enhancing storage performance, and advancing AI-driven applications and systems.

Breaking down barriers to enterprise AI

The announcement highlights a central challenge for enterprises adopting AI: siloed, unstructured, and poorly governed data that hinders progress. Dell and NVIDIA aim to address these bottlenecks, enabling businesses to harness their data more effectively. As stated in the release, "AI is rapidly shifting from assistive tools to autonomous, agentic systems, but its effectiveness is constrained by the data it can access, trust and act upon."

To resolve these challenges, the Dell AI Data Platform has been enhanced to activate enterprise data for AI, while ensuring security, governance, and performance at scale. These upgrades yield impressive performance gains, including "up to 12X faster vector indexing, 3X faster data processing, and 19X faster time-to-first-token than traditional computing approaches."

Automating the AI data lifecycle

Central to the advancements is Dell’s Data Orchestration Engine, which was developed following the company’s acquisition of Dataloop. This no-code, low-code engine automates the entire AI data lifecycle, transforming structured, unstructured, and multimodal datasets into AI-ready formats. By leveraging automated pipelines, active learning, and human-in-the-loop workflows, organizations can continuously refine data quality and improve model accuracy.

Additionally, the Dell AI Data Platform offers access to a robust library of pre-built workflows, NVIDIA’s NIM microservices, AI Blueprints, and over 200 models, applications, and templates. This infrastructure supports enterprises deploying AI agents tailored for smarter decision-making.

Accelerated performance through NVIDIA integration

Dell’s partnership with NVIDIA allows the platform to deliver high-performance data preparation, retrieval, and reasoning, thanks to NVIDIA’s advanced AI infrastructure. The platform integrates NVIDIA RTX PRO Blackwell Server Edition GPUs and accelerated CUDA-X libraries, including NVIDIA cuDF for structured data processing and NVIDIA cuVS for vector indexing. These technologies lead to "up to 3x faster SQL queries and 12x faster vector indexing", enabling businesses to develop more responsive AI applications.

The innovations also extend to NVIDIA’s newest AI technologies, including the NVIDIA AI-Q blueprint and NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super model, enhancing capabilities for AI agents and long-context processing. Furthermore, Dell will support NVIDIA’s STX modular reference design, which incorporates cutting-edge components like the NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 and NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet networking.

Tackling storage constraints in AI deployments

As enterprises scale their AI initiatives, storage performance becomes a critical factor. To address this, Dell has introduced storage innovations such as the Dell Lightning File System, which is described as "the world’s fastest parallel file system", capable of delivering up to 150 GB/second per rack. This represents performance up to "20X greater versus traditional flash-only scale-out file competitors" and ensures GPUs remain fully utilized in demanding AI workloads.

Dell also unveiled the Dell Exascale Storage platform, a flexible, high-performance solution that supports various storage architectures, such as Dell PowerScale and Dell ObjectScale, on a single platform. With planned network connectivity up to 800GbE and read performance of up to 6TB/second per rack, Exascale is designed to support multimodal AI workloads and high-performance computing (HPC) environments.

End-to-end AI capabilities drive enterprise ROI

The Dell AI Factory, launched two years ago in collaboration with NVIDIA, has already demonstrated its value, with more than 4,000 customers adopting the platform. Early adopters of the factory have reported "up to 2.6x ROI within the first year", showcasing the potential of end-to-end AI infrastructure solutions.

Looking ahead, Dell plans to roll out these new features throughout 2026. The Dell Data Orchestration Engine and Marketplace are already available, while other offerings, such as the Dell Lightning File System and NVIDIA GPU-accelerated processing, are set to launch later this year.

With these advancements, Dell and NVIDIA are positioning themselves at the forefront of enterprise AI, offering powerful tools to help organizations unlock their data and achieve scalable success in the AI era.

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