Dell Steps Up Agentic AI Charge, Unleashes Blizzard Of Dell AI Factory With NVIDIA Offerings
by Steven Burke, CRN Executive Editor
Dell Technologies Monday kicked off its Dell Technologies World show with a blizzard of new Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA improvements, including a Dell Deskside Agentic AI product, aimed at making agentic AI more affordable than public cloud.
Dell said its new Dell Deskside Agentic AI system, which runs the NVIDIA NemoClaw secure operations layer to run agents securely on local infrastructure, provides 87 percent savings versus public cloud spend for running, building, testing and fine-tuning agentic AI solutions with a three-month break-even versus public cloud.
While enterprise IT leaders are excited about the "potential game- changing benefits of agentic AI," there is "trepidation and concerns," particularly around controlling costs, said Dell Senior Vice President of Client Solutions Group Marketing Jon Siegal.
"Super users are burning through tokens at such a high rate that they have sticker shock from their cloud bills," he said. "We've seen this at Dell firsthand where we actually had a single developer burn through 1 billion tokens in 24 hours. That was a $3,400 cloud bill."
Dell is "answering the call" of customers with seamless agentic AI workflows across the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA, said Siegal.
Bob Olwig, executive vice president of global partner alliances for World Wide Technology, the $20 billion global solution provider behemoth, said Dell is making it easier for customers to "deploy, consume and operate" AI on-premises with its Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA solutions. "It's really AI in a box," he said.
Among the other major Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA announcements aimed at kicking the agentic AI revolution into high gear are:
- The Dell AI Data Platform with support for NVIDIA Omniverse, allowing customers to run "digital twins and physical AI on enterprise-grade data"
- A new "seamless" Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA Agentic AI Workflow Development platform, including "fully integrated" support for NVIDIA's AI-Q 2.0 Blueprint for multiagent workflows
- Dell PowerRack, a turnkey rack-scale solution that unites compute, networking and storage engineered as scalable units validated as a single system
- Dell PowerRack For Networking, a turnkey rack prebuilt and validated with all networking, power and cooling ready to go, aimed at speeding up AI fabric rollouts