Dell Powers AI Evolution With New Data Centre Technology
As AI becomes central to business operations and digital transformation, technology providers must evolve their data centre strategies.
Dell Technologies is stepping into this space with a suite of AI-ready infrastructure enhancements that span servers, storage, data protection and intelligent analytics.
Arthur Lewis, President of the Infrastructure Solutions Group at Dell Technologies, outlines the company’s commitment to enabling modernised enterprise 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."
Building infrastructure for AI and hybrid workloads
AI and machine learning have introduced new complexities to data centres.
These workloads need high throughput, low latency and parallel processing at scale.
The result is a shift towards disaggregated, modular systems that flexibly scale compute, storage and networking resources.
Dell’s latest updates are geared towards meeting these demands while maintaining energy efficiency and operational simplicity.
The introduction of new Dell PowerEdge servers marks a move towards AI-optimised performance.
The R470, R570, R670 and R770 servers use Intel’s Xeon 6 Processors to enhance energy efficiency and scalability. These platforms support a wide range of workloads, from traditional enterprise tasks to AI training and inference.
The PowerEdge R770 in particular is designed for data centre consolidation, enabling up to 80% space savings per 42U rack.
It also delivers up to 67% more performance and supports 50% more cores per processor than previous configurations.
These servers are aligned with the DC-MHS (Data Centre Modular Hardware System) architecture developed through the Open Compute Project (OCP), signalling a wider industry push for standardisation and long-term adaptability.
Smarter storage, analytics and AI-driven efficiency
Dell’s infrastructure portfolio also includes software-defined enhancements to help IT leaders reduce manual tasks and streamline AI integration.
PowerStore, Dell’s storage platform, now integrates AI-powered analytics through AIOps (formerly CloudIQ).
This system offers carbon footprint forecasting, DoD smart card authentication support and performance headroom analytics, assisting enterprises in meeting sustainability targets while keeping systems secure and high-performing.
In object storage, Dell’s ObjectScale has undergone an architectural refresh aimed at handling data-heavy 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 with Wasabi, allows businesses to manage AI data lakes more effectively using global namespaces and integrated governance tools.
PowerScale storage also receives a boost with 122TB solid-state drives (SSDs) that deliver 6PB of data access in a compact 2U configuration.
This setup improves GPU utilisation, a key factor in AI processing. With hybrid and archive nodes like the H710 and A3100, customers can retain training datasets longer without driving up costs, addressing total cost of ownership (TCO) concerns in AI deployments.
PowerProtect has also been enhanced for data security and resilience.
The PowerProtect DD6410 features up to 65 times deduplication and up to 91% faster restores. It also operates with 36% less power and a five times smaller footprint using its all-flash ready node.
These efficiency gains make it well-suited to organisations seeking to balance innovation with green targets.
A long-term strategy for enterprise AI growth
Dell’s infrastructure updates align closely with global trends in AI deployment, hybrid cloud expansion and sustainable IT.
The company’s focus on modularity, software intelligence and power-efficient performance helps address challenges like rising cyber threats, operational complexity and regulatory pressures.
Through partnerships and compliance-focused innovation, such as DoD-grade smart card authentication and open collaboration with the OCP and Wasabi, Dell Technologies signals a commitment to enterprise-grade security and interoperability.
These upgrades also position Dell to meet the needs of companies scaling AI initiatives across finance, healthcare, manufacturing and beyond.
As Simon Robinson, Principal Analyst at 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."
With AI workloads consuming more power and cooling than ever before, Dell’s innovations in sustainability — from reduced power use to carbon impact analytics — address both operational and environmental priorities.
These developments will likely support Dell’s growth in AI infrastructure markets and provide its customers with the agility needed to handle the evolving demands of intelligent systems.
Dell’s ambition is clear: to help customers move faster, manage smarter and modernise their data centres without increasing complexity.
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