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What AI‑Ready Storage Demands

Modern AI workloads don’t just store data — they consume datasets: curated, enriched collections of files, objects, and metadata used for training, RAG, and inference.

Dell Storage for AI provides a high-performance, scalable foundation to ingest, store, curate, and serve AI-ready datasets — so GPUs stay productive and pipelines moving at scale.

Intelligent Data Access

Optimized for parallel reads, small-file access, and mixed sequential or random workloads common in AI training and inference.

Data Curation & Context

Create and manage AI-ready datasets using built-in metadata, enrichment, chunking, and embeddings to power training, RAG, and agentic workflows.

AI‑Optimized Performance

Tuned for GPU-direct, RDMA, and high-concurrency pipelines with intelligent placement and caching to reduce time-to-first-token.

Scalable & Cost‑Efficient Capacity

Scale from terabytes to exabytes with all-flash and hybrid tiers, global namespaces, and massive object stores.

Secure & Resilient Data Lifecycle

Protect raw data, curated datasets, embeddings, and model artifacts across their full lifecycle.
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Dell Advantage for AI Workloads

Up to
8X
greater cluster throughput than traditional flash-only competitors

Up to
3X
write Throughput per RU compared to competition

Up to
72%
Less energy use

Dell AI‑Ready Storage

Feed and scale the world’s most demanding AI workloads. Integrated with the Dell AI Data Platform to accelerate RAG, training, and inference pipelines.

Discover how Dell Storage is driving AI innovation.

PowerScale

PowerScale is validated with NVIDIA DGX BasePOD™ and NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD™ architectures, including NVIDIA Cloud Partner Program–validated configurations and certified enterprise reference designs. Built to keep GPU clusters saturated from tens to thousands of GPUs.
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ObjectScale

Dell ObjectScale is an enterprise-grade, cloud-scale object storage platform. It provides S3 and multiprotocol support for object workloads and enables organizations to easily manage globally distributed storage infrastructure under a single global namespace with anywhere access to content.
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Lightning File System

Lightning FS is a storage accelerator for extreme AI buildouts. It eliminates bottlenecks by enabling direct access to NVMe storage, bypassing inefficient data caches. The result? Consistently high performance and ultra-low latency for the most demanding AI environments with tens of thousands of GPUs.
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Rethink Storage for AI Data Pipelines

Rethink Storage for AI Data Pipelines

See how Dell’s AI Data Platform delivers a unified foundation for ingesting, storing, and serving AI data—combining high‑performance file, object, and parallel storage with intelligent data engines to keep GPUs fed and models secure.

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PowerScale

Secure and efficient scale-out NAS purpose-built for AI. Ideal for multi-protocol file storage, scaling performance, and deployment flexibility.
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