Dell Powers AI Data Centres with New Infrastructure

In a bid to support both traditional and emerging workloads while reducing complexity and environmental impact, Dell Technologies has released several advancements across its infrastructure portfolio.

The innovations, which span data protection, servers and storage, aim to tackle changing IT challenges like sustainability goals, hybrid workload demands and rising cyber threats. 

Arthur Lewis, President of the Infrastructure Solutions Group at Dell Technologies, says this infrastructure will help support agile and scalable data centres

“Modern applications require a new breed of infrastructure that will help customers keep pace with ever-changing data centre demands,” he says.

“From storage to servers to networking to data protection, only Dell Technologies provides an end-to-end disaggregated infrastructure portfolio that helps customers reduce complexity, increase IT agility and accelerate data centre modernisation.”

How is AI reshaping the data centre industry?

AI is having a transformative impact across the data centre industry.

As AI workloads need massive parallel processing, low latency and high memory bandwidth, this has resulted in a shift to disaggregated, modular infrastructure to flexibly scale storage, compute and networking. 

Data centres must enhance their performance and scalability to handle the vast amount of data AI requires.

This has catalysed the need for faster interconnects to minimise bottlenecks and high-performance storage systems. 

AI workloads in data centres consume significantly more cooling and power resources. As a result of this, data centres must use renewable energy sources and track and reduce their carbon footprint.

Dell’s latest innovations reflect the company’s drive to craft a sustainable, dynamic and intelligent ecosystem that will support wider innovation and automation.

AI will ensure data centres unlock digital transformation, innovation and enhanced decision-making. 

Core innovations across the portfolio  

Dell Technologies has introduced many innovations that will help organisations unlock greater data centre modernisation, such as:

Dell PowerEdge servers

These R470, R570, R670 and R770 servers with Intel Xeon 6 Processors help to offer energy efficiency, advanced performance and scalability to meet the new demands of traditional and emerging workloads.

Enterprises can maintain high-performance workloads, save energy costs and unlock record-breaking Intel performance per watt through the Dell PowerEdge R570.

The Dell PowerEdge R770 consolidates legacy platforms to free up to 80% of space per 42U rack. This server can also offer 67% increased performance and support up to 50% more cores per processor.

DC-MHS architecture can also future-proof and simplify operations as part of the Open Compute Project (OCP). 

PowerStore

Dell AIOps (formerly CloudIQ) offers AI-powered analytics to reduce manual effort and cost.

This platform can also provide performance headroom analytics and remediation and carbon footprint forecasting.

Organisations can access faster backup stores and enhanced zero-trust security through DoD smart card authentication support. 

ObjectScale

ObjectScale’s architecture has been modernised to offer massive performance, scalability and efficiency for AI workloads.

ObjectScale X560 can accelerate key workloads like media ingest, backups and AI model training with 83% read throughput, while ObjectScale XF960 can deliver up to two times greater throughput per node than the closest competitor and up to eight times greater density than previous-generation all-flash systems. 

A new hybrid cloud solution, developed alongside Wasabi, will allow organisations to effectively secure and operate AI data lakes with global namespace, copy-to-cloud and data governance capabilities. 

PowerScale

122TB SSDs offer leading performance density and improve GPU utilisation with up to 6PBs of high-speed data access in one 2U node configuration.

New archive and hybrid nodes, such as H710, H7100, A310 and A3100, help to secure cost-efficient long-term storage and empower customers to retain AI training longer with an TCO-enhanced portfolio mix.

PowerProtect

Dell PowerProtect DD6410 offers up to 65 times deduplication and 91% faster scalability and restores for modern and traditional workloads.

Its All-Flash Ready Node’s 22o TB capacity system uses up to 36% less power, provides more than 61% faster restore speeds and included a five times smaller footprint. 

Customers can utilise the PowerProtect Data Manager to enhance anomaly detection and VM backup management.

What impact will this have on Dell Technologies?

Dell Technologies’ latest innovations will help secure its position in the AI infrastructure market and echo its aim of becoming a leading infrastructure provider for enterprises who wish to adopt ML and AI at scale.

The breadth of Dell’s updates will support customer acquisition and retention across new and existing markets by widening the appeal across several businesses and industries.

Dell’s innovations will tackle rising sustainability expectations by integrating features such as smaller data centre footprints, reduced energy use and smarter power management. 

The integration with Open Compute Project, Xeon 6 and Wasabi will showcase Dell’s leadership as a future-facing and collaborative partner. 

These additions will catalyse Dell’s expansion in cloud, AI and hybrid enterprise infrastructure and boost long-term profitability through sustainability and software-led differentiation.

Simon Robinson, Principal Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group, now part of Omdia, says: “Organisations are refocusing their IT strategies to take a disaggregated approach to infrastructure that improves resource management and simplifies management complexity,

“Dell Technologies is delivering updates across its infrastructure portfolio designed to help customers easily overcome these challenges so that they’re ready to manage any workload.” 

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