Inside Dell Technologies World 2025: AI, Cloud, Storage, Data Protection and More
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Dell Technologies World (DTW) 2025 brought together around 15,000 clients and partners, creating an electrifying atmosphere as Michael Dell, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Dell, unveiled groundbreaking new products and significant enhancements to existing technologies.
With hundreds of breakout sessions and a Solutions Expo covering 30,000 square meters, there was something for everyone to learn from and enjoy. To conclude the week, WWT received two awards, being named Dell Technologies AI Partner of the Year for both Commercial and Federal!
As we gear up for another dynamic year of collaboration with Dell, let's delve into the key highlights that promise to shape the future of our partnership.
Dell AI and Dell AI Factory updates
From Jeff Fonke
Mid-May marked the full force of WWT at Dell Technologies World 2025. What a great week spending time with our customers, partners and friends at Dell.
Enterprise AI adoption
The week was packed with discussions centered around enterprise AI adoption and how Dell is bridging the minds of traditional technologists through product announcements, new chips, data integrations, software capabilities and partnerships, and tying that back to how Dell is adopting AI as an organization overall.
Data readiness and AI at the edge
A heavy focus was placed on AI at the edge to the data center, with data readiness being a crucial topic in almost every AI conversation. Dell's Chief Operating Officer and Vice Chairman, Jeff Clark, emphasized "making AI real" during his keynote, highlighting rapid advancements in generative AI (GenAI) and significant investments in the AI sector. He even made analogies to the Apollo space mission funding, comparing that to how we significantly surpassed that with GenAI.
Dell AI Factory
Dell continues to focus on Dell AI Factory, a comprehensive solution designed to integrate GPUs, scalable storage, high-throughput AI fabric and optimized tooling to support businesses in adopting AI. Dell is targeting three key segments: traditional AI (like computer vision and predictive engines), large-scale GenAI for global service providers, and mainstream enterprise AI for organizations of all sizes.
Overcoming AI scaling challenges
Despite 65 percent of organizations having AI proofs of concept, many face challenges in scaling due to high costs and inadequate data management, particularly with unstructured data architectures. Dell introduced its internal AI initiative, which consolidates numerous documentation sites into a unified chat-based interface using the Dell Data Lakehouse, enhancing efficiency for accessing technical documentation.
Collaboration with NVIDIA: Advancing AI capabilities
Dell AI Factory continues to advance with NVIDIA's strategy, integrating NVIDIA AI Enterprise software and NVIDIA Spectrum™-X networking to offer a comprehensive solution with the latest NVIDIA GPUs and software. This strategy is supported by reference architectures validated by Dell with the latest GPUs. New announcements for the factory include NVIDIA RTX PRO™ 6000 Blackwell Server Edition in Dell PowerEdge XE7740/45 for all-purpose AI computation.
Dell also announced the successor to the NVIDIA HGX™ platform, XE9680, with the new NVIDIA HGX™ B300-focused XE9780/85 for air-cooled options, and the XE9780L/85L for liquid-capable data centers.
Enhancing AI data platform
Finally, Dell continues to advance its customizable reference designs with Dell Validated Designs and reference designs for GenAI. Many sessions delved into enhancements around Dell's AI Data Platform, including integrations with Dell's Data Lakehouse platform and storage platforms to simplify data management for GenAI workflows.
What's next?
As we continue to partner with Dell, we are proud to showcase all the announcements in our AI Proving Ground, an advanced lab where enterprises can test AI solutions and interact with Dell AI Factory to see how this solution can advance their outcomes and increase their ROI, giving them competitive advantage to move quickly and strategically.
Private cloud
From Chris Weis
Dell is responding to evolving customer demands in the private cloud market as technological shifts require greater flexibility. Organizations are seeking the advantages of hyper-converged infrastructure alongside the scalability and flexibility of three-tier converged stacks. Dell addresses these needs with its new Dell Private Cloud offering, which enables customers to reliably and repeatedly deploy, re-deploy and manage multiple cloud software outcomes on the same Dell disaggregated infrastructure.
Dell Private Cloud allows organizations to redeploy Dell infrastructure with VMware, Red Hat, Nutanix, and other software stacks as needed without purchasing additional hardware or undergoing costly automation and testing processes. This is made possible by the combination of validated designs, the Dell Automation Platform (DAP), and innovative support, licensing and customization packages.
DAP is a key component in this solution, offering a robust and flexible framework that supports the rapid deployment and management of various cloud environments. DAP leverages advanced automation technologies to streamline workflows, reduce manual intervention and ensure consistency across deployments. It integrates seamlessly with existing IT infrastructure and provides comprehensive monitoring, reporting and analytics capabilities to optimize performance and resource utilization.
Dell Private Cloud serves as the spiritual successor to the Dell APEX Cloud Platform, shifting the focus of the APEX brand towards Dell's pay-for-use consumption model rather than technology solutions.
Storage
From Brian Bartell, John Lochausen and Hyung Kim
Dell PowerStore was a focal point at the conference, being the first Dell array to be automated in the DAP/disaggregated infrastructure. Other Dell arrays will follow closely behind. Dell PowerStore Advanced Ransomware Detection, which will arrive in the second half of 2025, was mentioned in a keynote and will help organizations validate data integrity and minimize downtime from ransomware attacks using advanced AI analytics.
Dell PowerFlex5.0 code moves from a mesh mirror to a distributed erasure coding layout (2+2 or 8+2 to start), driving resilience to 10x9s and allowing the loss of two nodes with no impact. This new layout offers up to three times the effective capacity over previous pool layouts, with the release expected mid-summer 2025. Additionally, breakout sessions provided insight into the recently released Nutanix Cloud Platform integration and the experiences of organizations like WWT, who were part of the beta cycle.
Dell also introduced a new PowerScale Cybersecurity Suite to enhance data protection against ransomware. It includes advanced features for quick recovery, data security and compliance. Upcoming software updates will improve data management and cloud integration, making it easier to back up or move data to the cloud.
Dell ObjectScale will offer more efficient, denser and scalable object storage for large data centers, with support for S3 over RDMA. This is aimed directly at large/multi-petabyte AI deployments, providing network connectivity up to 800Gbps.
Dell Project Lightning is asserted to be the fastest parallel file system available, providing up to twice the throughput of competing systems. Designed for the largest AI deployments involving tens of thousands of GPUs, it will provide groundbreaking performance for current and future bandwidth-hungry workloads. Pre-release partners include WWT and institutions like Cambridge University, who are actively engaged in the multi-phase customer validation program, which encompasses rigorous performance benchmarking, feature testing, and education to inform product requirements and feedback.
Data protection
From Michael Ambruso
Dell announced the release of its PowerProtect Data Domain (PPDD) All-Flash the next stage in the evolution of the PPDD platform, which customers have highly requested. The PPDD All-Flash will enable highly performant backup and recovery of customers' mission-critical workloads.
It will also significantly improve the performance of post-backup scanning of backup sets in cyber vaults, where the IOPs required to perform full content scans of backup data sets for malware and other indicators of compromise (IOC) have traditionally been a concern.
This development is a very positive step for the PPDM platform, showing Dell's commitment to innovation in this space. The improved performance for both mission-critical workloads and in cyber vaults will help customers face the challenges related to cyber recovery and the AI-powered future of data resiliency and cybersecurity.
Conclusion
We only touched on a sampling of everything announced at DTW 2025. Follow our Dell Technologies page to keep up with the latest articles, expert insights and more.
We are looking forward to another exciting year for WWT and Dell!