Organisations choose Dell AI solutions
Scale enterprise AI with Dell AI Factory
The Dell AI Factory simplifies AI from initial strategy to scalable deployment. This comprehensive framework integrates energy-efficient infrastructure, secure data governance, and automated tools across on-premises, edge, and cloud environments. Whether choosing turnkey platforms with NVIDIA or open architectures with AMD, Dell delivers validated designs to scale AI workloads securely.
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Define measurable business outcomes and baseline performance criteria to guide your AI strategy. Dell helps you align business and IT stakeholders around a structured plan to ensure your AI investments address priority operational needs, scale securely, and deliver predictable value.
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Determine where AI can deliver value based on your operational requirements and business priorities. Dell helps you evaluate initiatives by business impact, technical feasibility, and time-to-value to prioritise the most viable opportunities.
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Reliable AI depends on accurate and actionable data. Dell helps you organise, govern, and prepare data across on-premises, edge, and cloud environments to build a secure and structured data foundation.
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Plan for the compute, storage, and networking capacity required to support AI at scale. Dell delivers validated architectures and AI-optimised infrastructure designed for demanding workloads, helping your teams build a high-performance, scalable, and efficient foundation from pilot through production.
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Build with flexibility by aligning the right platforms, software stacks, and deployment models to your AI needs. Dell works with a validated partner ecosystem to reduce architectural complexity, improve interoperability, and scale operations securely.
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Track outcomes against your business goals and baseline metrics. Dell helps you monitor performance, manage operational efficiency, and measure return on investment to validate long-term value and guide future AI investment.
Define measurable business outcomes and baseline performance criteria to guide your AI strategy. Dell helps you align business and IT stakeholders around a structured plan to ensure your AI investments address priority operational needs, scale securely, and deliver predictable value.
Determine where AI can deliver value based on your operational requirements and business priorities. Dell helps you evaluate initiatives by business impact, technical feasibility, and time-to-value to prioritise the most viable opportunities.
Reliable AI depends on accurate and actionable data. Dell helps you organise, govern, and prepare data across on-premises, edge, and cloud environments to build a secure and structured data foundation.
Plan for the compute, storage, and networking capacity required to support AI at scale. Dell delivers validated architectures and AI-optimised infrastructure designed for demanding workloads, helping your teams build a high-performance, scalable, and efficient foundation from pilot through production.
Build with flexibility by aligning the right platforms, software stacks, and deployment models to your AI needs. Dell works with a validated partner ecosystem to reduce architectural complexity, improve interoperability, and scale operations securely.
Track outcomes against your business goals and baseline metrics. Dell helps you monitor performance, manage operational efficiency, and measure return on investment to validate long-term value and guide future AI investment.
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Protect intellectual property and sensitive data with governance, security, and resilience built into your AI foundation. Dell helps you maintain control across hybrid environments with zero-trust security, automated access policies, and recovery throughout the AI lifecycle to reduce risk and support compliance.
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Accelerate your AI journey from concept to production with the expertise and operational support needed to scale effectively. Dell helps you align stakeholders, design an optimised platform, and bridge internal skills gaps with advisory, implementation, and managed services.
Accelerate deployment with an all-in-one, pre-tested solution. Dell and NVIDIA integrate hardware, networking, and software to simplify the setup for enterprise workloads.
Maximise flexibility and control with an open architecture. Pair high-performance hardware with open-source software to customise your setup and lower long-term costs.
Accelerate deployment with an all-in-one, pre-tested solution. Dell and NVIDIA integrate hardware, networking, and software to simplify the setup for enterprise workloads.
Maximise flexibility and control with an open architecture. Pair high-performance hardware with open-source software to customise your setup and lower long-term costs.
Agentic AI and other use cases
Accelerate multi-step tasks with autonomous agents
Deploy intelligent agents and platforms designed complex workflows from the desktop to the data center. On-premises agentic AI can break even in as little as two to three months and cut costs up to 87% over two years. Read summary
Deploy intelligent agents and platforms designed complex workflows from the desktop to the data center. On-premises agentic AI can break even in as little as two to three months
Signal65 validated analysis shows that The Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA can break even in as few as two months, compared to public cloud APIs.
Deploy AI workloads and compliant frameworks
Scale targeted applications across your organisation to streamline high-frequency operational tasks.
Scale targeted applications across your organisation to streamline high-frequency operational tasks.
AI applications by industry
Gain a competitive edge across industries with custom AI solutions built to accelerate innovation and deliver measurable results.
Core elements of AI readiness
Deliver high-performance infrastructure
Purpose-built infrastructure delivers complete control and cost efficiency for deploying AI workloads at scale.
Build an AI-ready data foundation
Discover, prepare, and govern data across cloud, edge, and on-premises environments. Deploying to secure, scalable storage ensures processing efficiency while reducing operational costs.
Discover, prepare, and govern data across cloud, edge, and on-premises environments. Deploying to secure, scalable storage ensures processing efficiency while reducing operational costs.
Accelerate AI with our partner ecosystem
Our curated partner solutions deliver accelerated compute, data platforms, machine learning operations (MLOps), and applications. Through the Dell AI Ecosystem Program, solutions are delivered as reusable blueprints for faster, low-risk deployment on-premises or at the edge.
Predictable economics with on-premises AI
Turn your AI investment into measurable value with solutions built for cost optimisation and scale. Compare server and workstation options to see how Dell on-premises AI lowers average annual costs and shortens break-even timelines compared to public cloud.
Based on Signal65 and Futurum Group study, "The Economics of Agentic AI" in September 2026. Compares public cloud pricing against two-year deployments of Dell Pro Precision workstations or PowerEdge servers running enterprise AI workloads. Includes estimated cloud discounts, hosting, energy, management, and Dell support costs. Individual results may vary.
Total cost savings versus public cloud
Potential time to break even
On-premises annual cost
Public cloud annual cost
Two-year Dell on-premises cost breakdown
Hardware, software and services
85%
Personnel
2%
Hosting and energy
13%
Total cost savings versus public cloud
Potential time to break even
On-premises annual cost
Public cloud annual cost
Two-year Dell on-premises cost breakdown
Hardware and software
83%
Hosting and energy
17%
Guidance and insights
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Questions
How do Dell Artificial Intelligence Solutions improve business outcomes?
Dell Artificial Intelligence (AI) Solutions are designed to deliver measurable business outcomes, faster. With integrated, validated designs and optimized end-to-end infrastructure, we accelerate time-to-value while reducing risks and simplifying AI adoption at scale. By securely harnessing your data across multicloud environments and delivering consistent operations from data center to cloud, Dell helps you deploy faster, boost productivity, and strengthen governance for your AI initiatives.
What are Dell Artificial Intelligence Solutions?
Dell Artificial Intelligence Solutions are an integrated end-to-end portfolio of infrastructure, ecosystem partners, and services designed to help organizations simplify the adoption and use of AI within their organizations. Our approach to AI, known as the Dell AI Factory, integrates every aspect of AI, from desktops to the data center and the cloud, to help you operationalize AI from pilot to production. It provides the foundational building blocks—including high-performance servers, storage, networking, and specialized services—to power demanding AI workloads, helping you turn your data into intelligent outcomes faster, accelerating time-to-value, reducing risk, and improving productivity. With Dell, you can confidently turn your AI vision into measurable business outcomes and drive progress for your organization.
What is Artificial Intelligence in the context of Dell's solutions?
In the context of our solutions, Artificial Intelligence is the practical application of technologies like generative AI to transform your data into measurable outcomes. We provide the integrated infrastructure, ecosystem, and services needed to operationalize AI securely, from pilot to full-scale production. Our Dell AI Factory approach accelerates your time-to-value, reduces risk, and improves productivity. We do this by providing the high-performance servers, storage, networking, specialized services, and client devices needed to turn AI potential into real-world progress.
How do I choose the right Dell hardware for my AI needs?
Choosing the right hardware Dell hardware for your AI initiatives starts with aligning technology to your specific goals. The ideal configuration depends on your priority use case, data, and where you are in the AI lifecycle, from experimentation to full-scale production. Key factors include the type of model (training, vs. inferencing) and deployment location, whether on-premises, at the edge, or in a multicloud environment. For AI training, consider high-performance PowerEdge servers to handle the intensive demands of training large models. For Data storage, implement scalable, high-throughput storage like PowerScale and ObjectScale. For AI development and data science, use Dell Precision workstations or AI PCs, which provide the performance needed for local model development, and complex data analysis. For AI inference, deploy workloads on a range of hardware from PowerEdge servers in the data center to specialized edge devices and AI PCs. To simplify this process, we offer the Dell AI Factory, our approach for accelerating your time-to-value, reducing risk, and improving productivity.
Does Dell offer tools to help size AI infrastructure?
Yes. Dell provides a comprehensive set of resources to help you size your AI infrastructure with confidence. We offer detailed reference architectures, validated designs, solution sizing guides, and expert-led workshops to model your specific use case and workload requirements. We take a consultative approach with Dell Services to helping organizations by starting with the outcomes they are trying to achieve, overlapping those outcomes with priority use cases, and working with them to right-size their infrastructure and deployment based on their unique needs. This approach considers critical factors such as model complexity, data available, GPU needs, storage performance, and deployment location, whether on-premises, at the edge, or in the cloud. This helps you right-size your investment in AI, reduce risk, and accelerate your time-to-value. Engaging with Dell experts is the best next step. We can help you validate and refine a tailored configuration, ensuring your infrastructure is built for your needs today and in the future as you grow.
What components make up Dell's AI infrastructure?
Dell's AI infrastructure is within our Dell AI Factory approach inclusive of infrastructure, ecosystem and expert servicesdesigned to work together to accelerate your AI initiatives. The core components of the Dell AI infrastructure include compute, a full range of Dell PowerEdge servers, equipped with the latest AI accelerators and GPUs from NVIDIA, Intel and AMD, storage, high-performance scalable storage solutions, networking, high-speed, low-latency networking fabrics, and client devices, a portfolio of AI PCs and workstations that bring AI processing to the user.
What is the ROI of refreshing to AI-enabled PCs?
Refreshing to Dell's latest AI-enabled PCs delivers a significant return on investment by empowering your workforce and optimizing IT operations. For individuals, these PCs feature built-in NPUs that accelerate productivity with local copilots, intelligent automation, and faster content creation, significantly reducing time-to-task. On-device AI also enhances security and improves collaboration. At the fleet level, you gain total cost of ownership benefits through extended battery life, optimized performance, and fewer help desk tickets thanks to proactive diagnostics. Running AI models locally for tasks like inference and analytics can reduce cloud costs and latency. Ultimately, the move to AI PCs creates measurable outcomes in time savings, user satisfaction, and faster business decision-making, helping your organization move forward with confidence.