Dell Adds to AI Data Platform With Elastic & NVIDIA

Tech giant Dell Technologies recently announced new updates to the Dell AI Data Platform, designed to help customers support the full lifecycle of AI workloads, from ingestion and transformation to agentic inference and AI-powered knowledge retrieval.

Series of announcements includes new partnerships and integrations

The updates include a new collaboration with Elastic, an open-source search AI leader, and the Dell PowerEdge R7725 server featuring NVIDIA RTX PRO Blackwell Server Edition GPUs, being the first 2U server to integrate with the NVIDIA AI Data Platform reference design.

With these updates, the unstructured data ingestion, transformation, retrieval, and compute performance are enhanced to streamline AI development and deployment, turning massive datasets into reliable, high-quality, and real-time intelligence for generative AI.

“The key to unlocking AI’s full potential lies in breaking down silos and simplifying access to enterprise data,” said Arthur Lewis, president, Infrastructure Solutions Group, Dell Technologies. “Collaborating with industry leaders like NVIDIA and Elastic to advance the Dell AI Platform will help organizations accelerate innovation and scale AI with confidence.”

The power of Dell with NVIDIA and Elastic

Specialized storage and data engines are central to the Dell AI Data Platform’s architecture, seamlessly connecting AI agents to high-quality enterprise data.

The combination of the Dell AI Data Platform and the NVIDIA AI Data Platform reference design provides a validated, GPU-accelerated solution that integrates storage engines and data engines with NVIDIA accelerated computing, networking, and AI software to power GenAI systems.

The new unstructured data engine is expanding the capabilities of the Dell AI Data Platform, designed to provide real-time, secure access to large-scale unstructured datasets for inference, analytics, and intelligent search. 

The engine is made possible through the collaboration with Elastic and offers customers advanced vector search, semantic retrieval, and hybrid keyword search capabilities. It will also leverage built-in GPU acceleration to deliver breakthrough performance.

Other tools on the platform will work in conjunction with the unstructured data engine, including a federated SQL engine for querying scattered structured data, a processing engine for handling large-scale data transformation, and storage for fast, AI-ready access.

“Fast, accurate, and context-aware access to unstructured data is key to scaling enterprise AI,” said Ken Exner, chief product officer at Elastic. “With Elasticsearch vector database at the heart of the Dell AI Data Platform’s unstructured data engine, Elastic will bring vector search and hybrid retrieval to a turnkey architecture, enabling natural language search, real-time inference, and intelligent asset discovery across massive datasets. Dell’s deep presence in the enterprise makes them a natural partner as we work to help customers deploy AI that’s performant, precise, and production-ready.”

Dell & NVIDIA enabling enterprise AI discovery

Dell PowerEdge R7725 and R770 servers featuring NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs provide the framework for accelerated enterprise workloads, and the servers are ideal for running NVIDIA AI reasoning models.

The NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 offers enterprises up to six times the token throughput for LLM inference, double the capacity of engineering simulation performance, and can support four times the number of concurrent users compared to the previous generation with support for MIG.

Further, the Dell PowerEdge R7725 server is the first 2U server platform to integrate the NVIDIA AI Data Platform reference design. This server, featuring the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs, when paired with the Dell AI Data Platform and its new unstructured data engine, organizations will be able to utilize a turnkey solution without the need to architect and test their own hardware and software platforms.

“Enterprises worldwide need infrastructure that handles the growing scale and complexity of AI workloads,” said Justin Boitano, vice president of enterprise AI at NVIDIA. “With NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 GPUs in new 2U Dell PowerEdge servers, organizations now have a power efficient, accelerated computing platform to power AI applications and storage on NVIDIA Blackwell.”

The unstructured data engine in Dell AI Data Platform, along with the Dell PowerEdge R7725 and R770 servers equipped with NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 GPUs, will be available later this year.

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