New on-premises solutions help drive
generative AI efforts with more intelligent data collection,
multicloud access and professional services
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ROCK, Texas, Oct. 4, 2023
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News summary
- Dell Validated Design for Generative AI with NVIDIA for
Model Customization helps customers more quickly and securely
extract intelligence from their data
- Dell Professional Services streamline GenAI strategy
development, data preparation, platform development and increase
operational efficiencies
- Dell Technologies and Starburst offer an open, modern
data lakehouse solution to tap multicloud data for AI
efforts
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Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) expands its Dell Generative AI
Solutions portfolio, helping businesses transform how they work
along every step of their generative AI (GenAI) journeys.
"To maximize AI efforts and support workloads across public
clouds, on-premises environments and at the edge, companies need a
robust data foundation with the right infrastructure, software and
services," said Jeff Boudreau, chief
AI officer, Dell Technologies. "That's what we are building with
our expanded validated designs, professional services, modern data
lakehouse and the world's broadest GenAI solutions portfolio."
Customizing GenAI models to maximize proprietary data
The Dell Validated Design for Generative AI with NVIDIA for
Model Customization offers pre-trained models that extract
intelligence from data without building models from
scratch.
This solution provides best practices for customizing and
fine-tuning GenAI models based on desired outcomes while helping
keep information secure and on-premises. With a scalable blueprint
for customization, organizations now have multiple ways to tailor
GenAI models to accomplish specific tasks with their proprietary
data. Its modular and flexible design supports a wide range of
computational requirements and use cases, spanning training
diffusion, transfer learning and prompt tuning.
Dell Validated Designs for Generative AI now support both model
tuning and inferencing, allowing users to more quickly deploy GenAI
models with proven infrastructure including the Dell PowerEdge
XE9680, the industry's best performing AI server,1 or
the Dell PowerEdge XE8640, with a choice of NVIDIA® Tensor Core
GPUs and NVIDIA AI Enterprise software, which offers
frameworks, pre-trained models and development tools, such as
the NVIDIA NeMo™ framework, 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.
The infrastructure is also available as a subscription via Dell
APEX.
"We're implementing Dell PowerEdge XE9680 servers with NVIDIA
H100 Tensor Core GPUs into the high performance computing cluster
at Princeton for large language
modeling to help drive new levels of discovery," said Sanjeev Arora, the Charles C. Fitzmorris
Professor in Computer Science, Princeton. "This system gives researchers in
natural sciences, engineering, social sciences and humanities the
opportunity to apply powerful AI models to their work in areas such
as visualization, modeling and quantum computing."
Preparing data, people and processes for GenAI
Dell is applying its process and expertise to help customers
generate better, faster business results with expanded GenAI
professional services capabilities:
- Data Preparation Services provide customers with a
clean, accurate data set in the right format enabling AI projects
to move smoothly while simplifying data integration and delivering
quality data output.
- Dell Implementation Services establish an
operational GenAI platform for inferencing and model customization,
accelerating time to value. Paired with Dell Managed
Services, Dell can operate the full NVIDIA-based GenAI
solution, improving operational efficiency and allowing customers
to focus on building their proprietary GenAI use cases.
- Education Services help customers gain the critical
skills to close the GenAI capabilities gap.
"Our recent study on Generative AI use in the enterprise made it
clear organizations are adamant about being able to use their own
data to customize key foundation models, but also they need
assistance in helping prep their data for that work," said
Bob O'Donnell, president and chief
analyst, TECHnalysis Research. "Dell's latest Generative AI
solutions and partnerships offer a broad set of capabilities that
help companies capitalize on this potential, bridging knowledge
gaps and ensuring data drives discernible, impactful business
results."
Modernizing data infrastructure for AI and analytics
Dell and Starburst are strengthening their relationship to help
customers accelerate AI and analytics efforts. This will culminate
with an open, modern data lakehouse solution.
The solution will integrate Starburst's analytics software with
Dell's PowerEdge compute platform, combined with Dell
industry-leading storage,2 helping customers
extract insights from data wherever it resides. Built with open
software principles, customers will gain easy and more secure
access to multicloud data to get the most value for analytics and
AI-driven workflows and deployments.
"Our customers have made it clear they need a robust data
platform for accessing distributed data across multicloud
environments to drive and operationalize AI efforts," said
Justin Borgman, CEO, Starburst. "By
integrating our deep analytics capabilities with Dell's leading
infrastructure and global enterprise services, we can offer
customers an open, multicloud data lakehouse solution that
quickly and easily makes data available to AI workflows
anywhere."
Availability
- Dell Validated Design for Generative AI: Model Customization is
available globally through traditional channels and Dell APEX
starting late October.
- Dell Professional Services for Generative AI are available in
select countries starting late October.
- The Dell open, modern data lakehouse solution with
Starburst has planned global availability in the first half of
2024.
Additional Resources
- Learn more about AI at Dell Technologies
- Blog: Increasing Your Data Value with Dell Generative AI
Solutions
- Blog: AI Anywhere on Data Everywhere
- Connect with Dell on X and LinkedIn
About Dell Technologies
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DELL) helps organizations and individuals build their digital
future and transform how they work, live and play. The company
provides customers with the industry's broadest and most innovative
technology and services portfolio for the data era.
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1 Based on Dell analysis of publicly available
performance results and specifications of comparable OEM Servers as
of 17 May 2023.
2 IDC WW Quarterly Enterprise Storage Systems Tracker,
2023-Q2, September 2023. Dell ranked
1st for vendor revenue in 2023-Q2.
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