Dell Technologies Inc. and NVIDIA Corp. are deepening their partnership to address growing enterprise demand for on-premises artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure. On Monday, they announced enhancements to the Dell AI Factory with the NVIDIA platform.
The expanded collaboration comes as enterprises increasingly seek to bring AI workloads in-house. Recent research indicates 85% of enterprises plan to move AI on-premises within the next 24 months, with 77% of organizations seeking a single holistic infrastructure vendor to support their AI initiatives.
The comprehensive approach reflects the industry’s shift toward integrated AI infrastructure solutions that combine hardware, software, and services to help enterprises navigate the complexities of AI deployment and scaling.
Among the most significant developments is the integration of Dell’s ObjectScale and PowerScale storage systems with NVIDIA’s NIXL library, part of NVIDIA Dynamo. The integration enables scalable key-value cache storage that achieves a one-second Time to First Token at a full context window of 131,000 tokens — 19 times faster than standard vLLM implementations. The advancement also reduces infrastructure costs while overcoming GPU memory capacity limitations, according to Dell.
The partnership also includes solutions featuring Dell PowerEdge XE7740 and XE7745 servers equipped with NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs and NVIDIA Hopper GPUs. These configurations are designed to handle everything from large-scale multimodal models to emerging agentic AI applications.
Dell is pushing the boundaries of AI infrastructure density with the upcoming PowerEdge XE8712 server, set to launch in December. The system will deliver what the company claims is the industry’s highest GPU density in a standard rack, supporting up to 144 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs per Dell IR7000 rack.
The Dell Automation Platform, now extended to the Dell AI Factory, aims to streamline AI deployment through validated, optimized solutions within a secure framework. Automated software-driven tools, including the AI code assistant with Tabnine and the agentic AI platform with Cohere North, are designed to accelerate the path from development to production.
Dell Professional Services is offering turnkey interactive AI use case pilots that use real customer data to validate business value before scaled investments.
The enhanced offerings address key enterprise concerns about AI adoption. According to Dell’s research, 95% of enterprises believe partnering with trusted technology providers like Dell reduces risks associated with adopting new technologies. Additionally, 90% agree that bringing AI to their data creates greater value through enhanced control, fresh insights, and secure access.
Beyond traditional data centers, Dell’s ecosystem now offers expanded silicon options for AI PCs, supporting both NVIDIA RTX Blackwell GPUs and NVIDIA RTX Ada GPUs across a broader range of Dell devices.
