During Dell Technologies World 2026, Dell unveiled more than 60 portfolio advancements to simplify AI adoption and modernize the data center.
Dell AI innovations to scale new capabilities in data and agent adoption
To help address the gap between AI ambition and AI outcomes, Dell has introduced new agentic AI capabilities, AI-ready data, next-generation infrastructure, and an expanding open ecosystem.
Dell will introduce Dell Deskside Agentic AI, which will allow enterprises to build and run agentic AI workflows locally, securely, and at a predictable cost.
It will combine Dell high-performance workstations, NVIDIA NemoClaw software stack, and Dell Services. The end-to-end Dell AI Factory now supports NVIDIA OpenShell, enabling organizations to build, test, and improve agents in a secure, sandboxed environment.
“This is an incredible new solution for really helping give customers a highly, very practical way to get started with agentic AI,” said Jon Siegal, SVP, Client Solutions Group Marketing. “Think of this as a secure sandbox for running, building, testing, and fine-tuning agents locally right on their workstations.”
He adds: “This is a new approach to running AI without the need to rely on cloud infrastructure, and where data itself never leaves the environment. We’re creating a simple path to bring production ready, agentic AI to work groups itself.”
Dell AI Data Platform includes storage innovation, NVIDIA integration, and SQL analytics
Dell is also making major advancements to its Dell AI Data Platform, including GPU-accelerated SQL analytics, deeper NVIDIA integration, and ObjectScale storage innovations that boost density and performance for AI workloads.
Additional AI innovations from Dell include:
- Turnkey rack-scale deployment: Dell PowerRack is a fully integrated, rack-scale platform combining compute, Dell PowerSwitch networking, and Dell Exascale Storage, accelerating AI and HPC workloads at enterprise scale.
- 4-in-1 extreme-scale storage: PowerFlex is being added to Dell Exascale Storage to complete a 4-in-1 architecture for Dell PowerRack, supporting block (PowerFlex), file (PowerScale, Lightning File System), and object (ObjectScale) workloads.
- Compact rack workstation: Dell Pro Precision 7 R1 brings high-performance computing to space-constrained environments in a 1U form factor with NVIDIA RTX PRO Blackwell GPUs and up to 64TB of storage.
- Unified rack management: Dell will be launching new releases of the Dell Integrated Rack Controller and Dell OpenManage Enterprise to deliver a unified control plane for integrated compute, with expanded remote device connectivity and orchestration across the entire rack.
- Next-generation cooling: The Dell PowerCool CDU C7000 is the first rack-mount cooling distribution unit to meet the cooling needs for NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72, in a compact 4U form factor with support for up to 40°C facility water.
- Dell AI Ecosystem Program: This new program will provide AI software and platform providers with a structured path to validate solutions in the Dell AI Factory using NVIDIA infrastructure.
- Open ecosystem: New validated on-prem solutions with Google, Hugging Face, Palantir, Reflection, ServiceNow, and SpaceXAI give enterprises more ways to deploy advanced AI on infrastructure they control.
- Validated AI solutions: Dell is introducing new validated AI solutions with Mistral, Fogsphere, Ipsotek, UneeQ Digital Humans, and Poolside, all deployable directly from the Dell Automation Platform catalog, spanning agentic AI, computer vision, digital humans, code assistants, and AI model and artifact management.
- AI security and resilience: New solutions from CrowdStrike, Fortanix, and F5 deliver full-stack, 24/7 protection and confidential AI for AI infrastructure, data, models, and applications.
“Using the Dell AI Data Platform, teams can build and operationalize RAG, agents, and AI applications faster, using validated Dell and NVIDIA blueprints, which then reduces the risk and the time to value for AI efforts,” said Varun Chhabra, SVP, Infrastructure (ISG) and Telecom Marketing.
“Because the platform is built on an open, secure, and flexible architecture, customers can modernize analytics today and get ready for agent-powered AI systems both today and in the future.”