Dell Technologies World 2026: Enterprise AI Announcements This Week

tl;dr: Some of the most significant enterprise technology news this week is coming out of Las Vegas, where Dell Technologies World 2026 kicked off Monday. We’ll keep adding coverage here throughout the week.

Dell AI Factory reaches 5,000 customers as enterprises move AI on-premises

Dell added 1,000 new customers for its AI Factory with NVIDIA last quarter, bringing the total to 5,000. Eli Lilly, Honeywell and Samsung are among enterprises choosing Dell for AI infrastructure deployments — running workloads on hardware they own and control rather than in the cloud. Bloomberg

“Dell is unveiling new products to aid businesses in setting up AI agents in ways that cost less and work with in-house company networks.” — Bloomberg

New rack-scale infrastructure, on-premises agentic AI and enterprise storage for AI workloads

Dell announced PowerRack, a rack-scale platform for AI and HPC workloads that brings compute, networking, storage and cooling into a single system. Dell Deskside Agentic AI lets enterprises run AI agents locally without sending sensitive data to external cloud environments. New storage capabilities can index billions of unstructured files to speed up AI dataset creation, with GPU-accelerated analytics delivering up to 6x faster query performance. Dell also expanded support for on-premises deployment of AI models from Google, OpenAI, Palantir and SpaceX. Economic Times

“Enterprises now face pressure to rapidly convert AI investments into operational impact while maintaining security, governance, and cost efficiency.” — Michael Dell, Chairman and CEO, Dell Technologies

Dell launches agentic AI partner platform with automated deal registration and dynamic pricing

Dell is reworking its partner experience with a new AI-driven platform due in August — cutting deal registration time from hours or days to minutes, and giving partners real-time access to dynamic pricing. CRN

“This is really redefining an agentic partner experience across every stage of the engagement with our partners.” — Denise Millard, Chief Partner Officer, Dell Technologies

Dell bulks up hardware as AI infrastructure shifts to on-premises

Dell is expanding its AI hardware portfolio to help customers deploy and scale AI workloads securely across data centers, edge and hybrid environments — as enterprises increasingly move AI infrastructure in-house. The Next Platform

“AI is fueling a renaissance in enterprise hardware, a shift from bits back to atoms.” — Michael Dell, Chairman and CEO, Dell Technologies

PowerStore gets performance and capacity upgrades

Dell is advancing PowerStore as a scalable, software-driven foundation for modern data centers facing rapid data growth and rising security demands. Blocks & Files

“The modern data center is defined by intelligent software that makes IT simpler, and we’re delivering it end-to-end.” — Arthur Lewis, President, Infrastructure Solutions Group, Dell Technologies

Dell’s infrastructure blitz: private cloud, PowerStore Elite and PowerEdge in the spotlight

Dell is driving lower-cost, higher-performance AI-ready infrastructure with a modernized private cloud and automation platform — giving customers acquisition and operational savings across a broad ecosystem. CRN

“This is a game-changing conversation with customers… you get the acquisition cost savings and the operational savings with Dell Private Cloud now supportive across a very broad ecosystem.” — Caitlin Gordon, Vice President, Product Management Private Cloud and AI Solutions, Dell Technologies

Dell COO: agentic AI is forcing a data center rebuild

Forbes spoke with Jeff Clarke, Dell’s vice chairman and COO, on why agentic AI is driving a fundamental rethink of data center architecture — and why moving AI to the data, not the data to AI, is the right call. Forbes

“The right architectural call is to move AI to the data, not the data to AI. Agents need direct access to data files, which requires a context and orchestration layer, plus rigorous tracking of data lineage and updates. Get it wrong and your AI projects stall before they reach production.” — Jeff Clarke, Vice Chairman and COO, Dell Technologies

Five takeaways from Michael Dell’s keynote at Dell Technologies World 2026

SiliconAngle breaks down the big ideas from Michael Dell’s keynote, including his vision for the AI-native enterprise and what it means for CIOs making infrastructure decisions right now. SiliconAngle

“That combination of ambition and pragmatism is exactly what CIOs need from their infrastructure partners right now: big vision tempered by an honest view of the obstacles ahead.” — SiliconAngle

Dell Deskside Agentic AI workstations cut cloud token costs by up to 87%

Dell’s new Deskside Agentic AI workstations let organizations run always-on AI agents locally — reducing cloud token costs by up to 87% while keeping sensitive data on-premises. HotHardware

Dell PowerProtect One: open, integrated cyber resilience at scale

StorageReview covers how Dell Automation Platform and PowerProtect One are helping organizations modernize infrastructure while strengthening cyber resilience — without sacrificing flexibility. StorageReview

“The platform keeps the flexibility of an open ecosystem while simplifying the day-to-day experience of managing protection infrastructure.”

Dell Technologies bets on AI infrastructure

BankInfoSecurity offers an independent take on Dell Technologies World 2026, making the case that Dell has shifted from hardware vendor to a company with a complete, defensible architecture for enterprise AI deployment. BankInfoSecurity

“Dell has moved from being a hardware vendor making AI claims to an infrastructure company with a defensible, complete architecture for enterprise AI deployment.” — BankInfoSecurity

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