Dell Technologies Expands Dell Generative AI Solutions Portfolio

Dell Technologies is expanding its Dell Generative AI Solutions portfolio to help businesses transform their work processes throughout their generative AI (GenAI) journeys. According to Jeff Boudreau, Chief AI Officer at Dell Technologies, companies require a robust data foundation with the right infrastructure, software, and services to maximize their AI efforts and support workloads across public clouds, on-premises environments, and at the edge. Dell is building this foundation with its expanded validated designs, professional services, modern data lakehouse, and the world's broadest GenAI solutions portfolio.

Customizing GenAI Models for Proprietary Data

The Dell Validated Design for Generative AI with NVIDIA for Model Customization offers pre-trained models that extract intelligence from data without the need to build models from scratch. This solution provides best practices for customizing and fine-tuning GenAI models based on desired outcomes while ensuring data security and on-premises storage. Organizations now have multiple ways to tailor GenAI models to accomplish specific tasks with their proprietary data. The modular and flexible design supports various computational requirements and use cases, including training diffusion, transfer learning, and prompt tuning. Dell Validated Designs for Generative AI now support both model tuning and inferencing, allowing users to quickly deploy GenAI models with proven infrastructure, such as the Dell PowerEdge XE9680 and Dell PowerEdge XE8640, equipped with NVIDIA Tensor Core GPUs and NVIDIA AI Enterprise software. The infrastructure is also available as a subscription via Dell APEX.

Preparing Data, People, and Processes for GenAI

Dell is leveraging its expertise to help customers achieve better and faster business results with expanded GenAI professional services capabilities. Data Preparation Services ensure that customers have clean and accurate data sets in the right format, simplifying data integration and delivering quality data output. Dell Implementation Services establish an operational GenAI platform for inferencing and model customization, accelerating time to value. Paired with Dell Managed Services, Dell can operate the full NVIDIA-based GenAI solution, improving operational efficiency. Education Services provide customers with the necessary skills to close the GenAI capabilities gap.

Modernizing Data Infrastructure for AI and Analytics

Dell and Starburst are strengthening their relationship to help customers accelerate AI and analytics efforts. They are developing an open, modern data lakehouse solution that integrates Starburst's analytics software with Dell's PowerEdge compute platform and industry-leading storage. This solution allows customers to extract insights from data wherever it resides, providing easy and secure access to multicloud data for analytics and AI-driven workflows and deployments.

Availability

The Dell Validated Design for Generative AI: Model Customization will be available globally through traditional channels and Dell APEX starting in late October. Dell Professional Services for Generative AI will be available in select countries starting in late October. The Dell open, modern data lakehouse solution with Starburst is planned to be globally available in the first half of 2024.