Key takeaways:

• • AI at scale requires a new data foundation. Traditional analytics platforms can’t support the real‑time reasoning, multimodal data, or persistent context that agentic AI systems demand.
  • The Dell AI Data Platform with NVIDIA delivers an integrated, high‑performance architecture combining AI‑optimized storage, modular data engines, GPU acceleration, and enterprise‑grade security to power end‑to‑end AI workflows.
  • Validated designs, new Data Engines, and breakthrough storage innovations transform raw enterprise data into trusted AI outcomes—making it faster, easier, and safer to operationalize AI across the enterprise.

Every era of enterprise tech is shaped not just by the tools it uses, but by the assumptions beneath them—what data is, who it serves, and how value is created.

For 20 years, data platforms were built for an analytical world. Data flowed into warehouses and lakes. Dashboards were the destination. Intelligence lived inside centralized teams of experts.

That model worked—for that era.

But its foundations are now cracking.

The agentic age is here, and enterprise data platforms must be rebuilt.

AI is shifting from static models to agentic systems that continuously perceive, reason, and act across data, tools, and applications. These systems operate on every modality—documents, images, video, logs, signals—not just rows and columns.

As interactions grow deeper and more contextual, models offload memory and reasoning artifacts into external storage. Suddenly, the data platform becomes part of the AI’s cognitive loop—not just a back-end repository.

This transformation creates new infrastructure requirements.

Low-latency access, high-performance storage, and rich metadata are now essential to support real-time reasoning loops, persistent context, and evolving datasets.

At the same time, the shift to large-scale AI makes cost efficiency and architectural optimization more important than ever.

Refreshing and indexing billions of files for search, RAG, and agentic workflows demand massive GPU throughput, optimized storage architectures, and automated lifecycle management. DIY pipelines simply can’t keep up.

Platforms designed for dashboards and point-in-time analytics were never meant for this world. Enterprises now need a data platform built for agentic AI—dynamic, multimodal, context-aware, and continuously in motion.

Today, Dell Technologies is building the platform with NVIDIA.

Meet the Dell AI Data Platform with NVIDIA

The Dell AI Data Platform with NVIDIA represents a new generation of enterprise infrastructure purpose-built for the agentic AI era.

It unifies Dell’s high-performance storage systems and modular data engines with NVIDIA AI-accelerated computing platform, NVIDIA networking and NVIDIA AI Enterprise software to create a single, integrated platform for powering enterprise AI workloads.

From retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and multimodal search to agentic workflows and large-scale data processing, the platform provides the foundation enterprises need to transform raw data into trusted AI outcomes.

Enabled by Dell Professional Services, organizations can deploy this architecture with validated designs, operational best practices, and enterprise-grade lifecycle management.

The result is a turnkey AI data system capable of operating at enterprise scale from day one.

Key pillars of the platform

Open

Built on open formats, open lakehouse architectures, and open ecosystem integration.

The platform supports open table formats such as Iceberg and Delta Lake, and is built on enterprise distributions of widely-adopted, open-source technologies such as Trino, Elasticsearch, NVIDIA cuDF and NVIDIA cuVS—empowering teams with choice and preventing lock-in.

An open platform ensures enterprises can integrate proven technologies over time, built on top of contributions of thousands of engineers, adapt to evolving AI and analytics workloads, and retain full control of their data and architecture.

Flexible

Modular building blocks let organizations start small and scale compute, storage, vector search, and orchestration as needs evolve.
And it connects to data distributed across environments (core, cloud and edge) without forcing data migration, enabling organizations to bring AI closer to where their data lives.

Secure

Enterprise-grade data protection and governance are built into every layer of the platform.

Capabilities include Zero Trust architecture, encryption in transit and at rest, RBAC, IAM integrations, immutable snapshots, auditing, and resilient backup and recovery, ensuring sensitive data remains protected throughout the AI lifecycle.

Built for the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA

The Dell AI Data Platform with NVIDIA forms the data foundation of the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA —Dell’s end-to-end architecture for building and operating enterprise AI systems.

Together, these platforms provide a unified design for:

• • Modernizing enterprise data
  • Operationalizing AI pipelines
  • Deploying AI models within data pipelines
  • Scaling agentic applications
  • Integrating AI securely into existing IT environments

One ecosystem. One architecture. One path from data to AI outcomes.

What’s new at GTC

Data Engines

• • Dell Data Orchestration Engine, a new, integrated data‑to‑AI control layer inside the Dell AI Data Platform with NVIDIA. Powered by Dell’s acquisition of Dataloop, it addresses one of the biggest blockers in enterprise AI: continuously preparing, governing, and delivering the right data to AI systems at scale. With deep integration into NVIDIA AI Enterprise, the engine turns fragmented, multimodal enterprise data into AI‑ready, governed datasets built on production‑grade data
  • Data Orchestration Engine Marketplace for NVIDIA NIMs and Blueprints
    A curated library of prebuilt, NVIDIA-optimized pipelines, models, and components that accelerate deployment of AI data workflows and production applications.

And three additional new Data Engines enhancements:

• • Agentic SQL with Data Analytics Engine
    Natural-language reasoning layered into SQL analytics, enabling faster and more intuitive insights across enterprise data.
  • GPU Accelerated Data Processing Engine
    3x faster data transformation with Apache Spark, accelerated by NVIDIA cuDF for faster ETL, feature engineering, and large-scale data preparation.
  • GPU Accelerated Data Search Engine
    12x faster vendor indexing, accelerated by NVIDIA cuVS, enabling advanced RAG, semantic search, and AI-driven discovery across enterprise data.

Together, these engines elevate the platform from powerful infrastructure to a fully integrated data-to-AI execution layer.

Storage Engines

Two significant additions strengthen the platform’s data throughput and inference capacity:

• • NVIDIA CMX with Dell Storage
    A next generation, high-performance “context memory” tier for large-scale inference clusters.
  • PowerScale pNFS Performance Enhancements
    New results demonstrating up to 25% higher sequential read throughput vs. standard NFSv3¹—keeping GPU pipelines consistently fed.

Validated Dell + NVIDIA Blueprints

To accelerate real-world outcomes, Dell and NVIDIA are releasing new validated AI Blueprints—pretested architectures combining Dell’s data expertise with NVIDIA’s advanced AI capabilities. These Blueprints dramatically reduce time-to-value, enabling teams to deploy high-impact AI workloads with lower risk and greater repeatability. They include:

1. 1. Video Search & Summarization: Automated anomaly detection, live and historical video analysis, and rapid inspection of workflows.

1. 2. USD Search with NVIDIA Omniverse: Automatic USD labeling, natural-language and image-based search, and instant discovery across massive 3D asset repositories.

1. 3. Predictive Maintenance: Failure forecasting, optimized maintenance schedules, and improved equipment reliability.

1. 4. Biomedical Research Assistance (with NVIDIA AI-Q): Accelerated literature synthesis, real-world data analysis, and faster clinical development decisions.

A new foundation for the future of Enterprise AI

The organizations that win in the next decade will not simply deploy models.

They will build systems that continuously transform data into intelligence.

The Dell AI Data Platform with NVIDIA provides the foundation for that future by bringing together:

• • High-performance, AI-optimized storage
  • Modular data engines for processing, analytics and search
  • The Dell Data Orchestration Engine + Marketplace for building AI data workflows
  • NVIDIA GPU acceleration and AI Enterprise frameworks
  • Integrated lifecycle management and orchestration
  • Validated Dell + NVIDIA blueprints
  • Enterprise-grade security and governance

Together, these capabilities unlock the full potential of enterprise data – enabling organizations to operationalize AI securely, efficiently and at scale.

The agentic age of AI has arrived. Is your data ready?

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