Dell Technologies is rolling out a wave of new AI Factory with Nvidia offerings, including a deskside agentic AI platform designed to slash costs and boost data security, as executives tout faster paths from experimentation to production.
Dell Technologies unveiled a blizzard of agentic AI Dell AI Factory with Nvidia offerings, including a breakthrough Dell Deskside Agentic AI product aimed at making agentic AI more cost-effective and secure.
“We are introducing some real exciting innovations here that help customers accelerate agentic AI from early experimentation at deskside all the way to production in the data center,” said Dell Senior Vice President of Client Solutions Group Marketing Jon Siegal in a press conference.
The Dell AI Factory with Nvidia innovation directly addresses customer concerns around the cost and data privacy of AI agent solutions, said Siegal.
The Dell Deskside Agentic AI platform, for example, provides an 87 percent reduced spend versus public cloud spend for running, building, testing and fine-tuning agentic AI solutions.
What’s more, Dell said the break-even versus using public cloud APIs is just three months.
While enterprise IT leaders are excited about the “potential game- changing benefits of agentic AI” there is “trepidation and concerns,” particularly around controlling costs, said Siegal. “Super users are burning through tokens at such a high rate that they have sticker shock from their cloud bills,” he said. “We’ve seen this at Dell firsthand where we actually had a single developer burn through 1 billion tokens in 24 hours. That was a $3,400 cloud bill.”
Customers are also concerned that “sensitive company data could be exposed or misused in some way due to security risks, data privacy concerns, etc. and just the lack of guardrails,” Siegal said.
Dell is “answering the call” of customers with seamless agentic AI workflows across the Dell AI Factory with Nvidia, said Siegal.
Dell touts the Dell AI Factory with Nvidia as the “first and only” end-to-end enterprise AI platform that scales from the desktop to the largest data center deployments.
The Dell AI Factory with Nvidia partnership, which is just over two years old, has resulted in more than 320 releases of Dell AI Factory with Nvidia offerings, said Siegal.
“More than 160 of those releases will have landed since Dell Technologies World last year,” he said. “That is roughly one meaningful update every two days, and the pace hasn’t slowed. It has actually accelerated.”
Dell Technologies Senior Vice President of Product Marketing Sam Grocott, for his part, said Dell is aiming to reduce the “complexity and decision-making” with regard to where agents and agentic workflows should be run, whether it is on-premises, at the edge or in the public cloud.
On-premises AI adoption is becoming a bigger factor, driven by data “sovereignty, security performance and increasing cost and how you take advantage and take control of the token economics,” said Grocott. “These four areas are absolutely connected and absolutely what we are solving for [with the Dell Technologies World announcements].
“The historic easy button of just running it all in the cloud is not going to last as we go forward in terms of cost, economics, security, sovereignty, etc.,” said Grocott. “What we have really done leveraging the 5,000 [Dell AI Factory with Nvidia] customers we’ve got around the world today is we have learned from them. We have documented them. We have got a set of best practices. We have got a set of Dell AI Factory services that we go to market with to help our customers really decide essentially in a hybrid AI world where some AI workloads run in the cloud, some run on-prem, some run in the data center, some run deskside. We are really helping customers lock in on making sure they run their agentic AI workloads in the right place with the right model at the right tier.”
Grocott said Dell is making sure that customers “don’t make a simple, but very expensive, a very insecure, a very risky decision by just doing AI” in one place. “That’s not the right way going forward,” he said. “Right place, right model, right tier is our best practice that we are educating our enterprise customers on now.”
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