Dell Technologies is expanding its Generative AI Solutions portfolio to help enterprise customers add GenAI to their workflow. The expansion includes support for advanced infrastructure and collaborative data solutions that optimize and help secure intelligence gathering and utilization. Dell takes a “validated design” approach to optimization and acceleration, testing different hardware configurations designed to fit the needs of various use cases. Dell has partnered with Nvidia for validated GenAI design for model customization, and with Starburst on data lakehouse solutions that tap multi-cloud data for AI end-use.

With its expanded validated designs, added professional services and modern data lakehouse solutions, Dell is building a broad GenAI solutions portfolio that will “maximize AI efforts and support workloads across public clouds, on-premises environments and at the edge,” according to Chief AI Officer Jeff Boudreau, who says the company is presenting “a robust data foundation with the right infrastructure” for software and services.

Dell’s validated designs for GenAI offers “optimized hardware solutions and pre-trained models that allow users to extract insights from data,” writes Forbes, noting that this “gives customers a path to customize GenAI models according to their unique objectives — an approach that streamlines the development of GenAI models while ensuring data security.”

In order to custom train AI large language models on their own data, organizations need a robust data management strategy, not only to ensure data quality, but also to maintain security and also see that the proprietary data integrates well with that of the pre-trained LLM. Dell’s solutions offer best practices for that process.

Dell validated designs for generative artificial intelligence support both model tuning and inferencing, “allowing users to more quickly deploy GenAI models with proven infrastructure” including the Dell PowerEdge XE9680 AI server or the Dell PowerEdge XE8640, with Nvidia Tensor Core GPUs and Nvidia AI Enterprise software (with frameworks, pre-trained models and development tools like Nividia NeMo) and Dell software.

“By combining compute power with storage options, such as Dell PowerScale and Dell ObjectScale, customers can rapidly feed models with multiple storage data types with the validated design,” Dell says in its press release, noting “the infrastructure is also available as a subscription via Dell APEX.”

Dell has been incrementally rolling out GenAI solutions since early this year, VentureBeat reports, noting that “in May, Dell announced Project Helix in partnership with Nvidia as an effort to bring the power of large language models to on-premises environments with Dell hardware.”

Related:
GenAI is the Talk of The Town, Dell Blog, 10/5/23
AI Anywhere on Data Everywhere, Dell Blog, 10/4/23
Increasing Your Data Value with Dell Generative AI Solutions, Dell Blog, 10/3/23
Dell Names Jeff Boudreau Chief AI Officer, Creates AI Business Unit, CRN, 9/26/23