At Dell Technologies World in Las Vegas the company announced a number of significant expansions for the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA. The announcements cover the AI Data Platform, new rack infrastructure, cooling, and a formal ecosystem program with partners such as Google, OpenAI, Palantir, and SpaceXAI.
Dell Technologies has already rolled out the AI Factory to more than 5,000 customers worldwide. With today’s new announcements, the company aims to help organizations further scale up AI. The focus is on AI infrastructure that they manage themselves, and with data that never leaves the data center. In addition to the data center, they are also introducing the Dell Deskside Agentic AI, the local workstation solution for agentic AI.
Dell AI Data Platform
Dell announces several enhancements to the Dell AI Data Platform. The orchestration layer now supports indexing billions of unstructured files and linking them to governed data pipelines. Through partnerships with Starburst and NVIDIA, the platform offers GPU-accelerated SQL analytics, up to 6x faster on NVIDIA Blackwell hardware, with future support for NVIDIA Vera.
The new ObjectScale X7700 appliance delivers 45 percent more storage capacity than the previous generation, with flexible compute-to-storage scaling. Support for 245 TB all-flash drives is coming, which will more than triple flash density. Through integration with NVIDIA Omniverse, enterprise data stores can be directly linked to digital twins and physical AI workflows. The Dell ObjectScale on PowerEdge R7725xd servers has also received NVIDIA Foundation-level certification, meaning it is suitable for high-speed data access in environments with many GPUs.
Dell PowerRack up and running within 6.5 hours
Dell PowerRack is a new turnkey rack that combines and validates compute, networking, and storage. The system can be fully customized, and the rack can be operational within 6.5 hours of delivery.
This isn’t a new concept, as Dell has been delivering complete rack solutions for much longer, but Dell is expanding PowerRack on three fronts. The networking variant delivers 800 Tbps of switching capacity via eight new PowerSwitch SN6600 switches per rack. This is primarily for so-called east-west traffic supporting AI inference workloads.
The storage variant integrates Exascale Storage, which, with the addition of PowerFlex, now supports four storage personalities on a single hardware platform: block via PowerFlex, file via PowerScale and the Lightning File System, and object via ObjectScale. All Dell storage innovations in a single platform.
Dell also has several new components for PowerRack, including the Dell Pro Precision 7 R1, a 1U rack-mount workstation with NVIDIA RTX PRO Blackwell GPUs and up to 64 TB of storage for space-constrained environments. For customers looking to make a significant investment in AI, there is now also the Dell PowerCool CDU C7000, a 4U-based cooling unit with over 220 kilowatts of cooling capacity that supports NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 systems and can cool liquid down up to 40 degrees Celsius. Finally, the Dell Integrated Rack Controller is getting a new release with expanded remote device connectivity and orchestration across the entire rack.
Dell AI Ecosystem Program
Dell is introducing the Dell AI Ecosystem Program, a formal partner program that allows software vendors to validate their solutions on Dell AI Factory infrastructure and make them available via automated deployment blueprints.
The partners in this program are quite diverse. For example, Google offers its Gemini 3 Flash models via Google Distributed Cloud on-premises on Dell PowerEdge XE9780 servers, with confidential computing and support for context windows of over one million tokens. OpenAI integrates Codex with the Dell AI Data Platform, enabling OpenAI models to access enterprise data on-premises. Palantir brings Foundry and AIP on-premises via Dell ObjectScale and PowerFlex. SpaceXAI delivers Grok as a fully on-premises enterprise assistant. Hugging Face expands the Dell Enterprise Hub with models such as DeepSeek-V4, GLM 5.1, and Kimi K2.6.
In addition, ServiceNow, Mistral, Poolside, and UneeQ Digital Humans will be available as validated solutions via the Dell Automation Platform. CrowdStrike, Fortanix, and F5 provide security solutions for the AI stack. Finally, JFrog and Dell are collaborating on a central hub to manage and deploy AI models and software.
Availability
Most announcements will be rolled out in phases. The PowerRack for networking will be available in September 2026, and the storage variant in the second half of 2026. The Dell Pro Precision 7 R1 will be available starting in July 2026, and the PowerCool CDU C7000 in the third quarter of 2026. Finally, Exascale Storage with PowerFlex will not be available until the first half of 2027.
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