Dell Grows Its AI Factory Portfolio with Integration of NVIDIA AI Solutions

Much like its OEM peers, Dell Technologies (Dell) has increasingly made partnering a cornerstone of its strategy, particularly as it relates to the company’s AI business. Dell leverages its AI partner ecosystem to drive the codevelopment of AI solutions like those included in the company’s Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA portfolio.

Dell also integrates critical AI infrastructure and PC components, like data center GPUs and AI PC silicon, from a variety of vendors, including NVIDIA, and leverages platform and cloud service providers to increase the reach of its AI solutions. These are just two of the many ways Dell drives AI go-to-market synergies between itself and its partners.

Looking ahead, Dell will continue to invest in the development of unstructured data storage offerings to take advantage of the ongoing proliferation of AI workloads. The company will also continue to work with NVIDIA to have certain storage solutions certified and grow its storage footprint around AI servers and systems.

The Latest Dell and NVIDIA AI Solutions

Dell shipped $3.1 billion worth of AI servers in 2Q24, representing an 82.4% sequential increase, while AI server backlog remained healthy at $3.8 billion. Additionally, it is worth noting that while AI server backlog remained flat sequentially, Dell says its five-quarter AI server pipeline has grown to several multiples of its backlog, foreshadowing strong demand through 2025 as systems based on NVIDIA Blackwell begin shipping in volume to customers.

After unveiling Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA at Dell Technologies World in May, Dell announced in August the availability of NVIDIA NIM Agent Blueprints on Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA. NVIDIA NIM Agent Blueprints represent the company’s latest addition to its NVIDIA AI Enterprise platform, with the pretrained reference AI workflows being designed to help customers build and employ custom, use-case-specific generative AI (GenAI) applications.

In July Dell released its Dell Validated Design for GenAI Digital Assistants. The new solution was codeveloped by Dell and NVIDIA and allows for faster deployment of digital assistants, reducing customers’ development time and speeding up their time to value.

In July Dell announced it had begun shipping PowerEdge XE9680 servers based on AMD Instinct MI300X GPUs. Originally, the PowerEdge XE9680 supported only NVIDIA GPUs, but in December Dell announced it would integrate AMD Instinct accelerators into the company’s flagship AI rack server offering.

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