Dell enhances AI Factory to streamline enterprise AI adoption

Dell Technologies has launched major enhancements to its AI Factory portfolio, introducing expanded automation, stronger data management tools, new PowerEdge innovations, and advanced networking capabilities to help enterprises deploy AI at scale with greater control and efficiency.

Dell Technologies has unveiled a wide range of upgrades to its Dell AI Factory, aiming to make enterprise AI deployment faster, more automated and significantly more scalable. With organisations rapidly shifting AI workloads on-premises, Dell says its expanded offerings meet rising demand for integrated, end-to-end infrastructure.

The company highlighted that 85% of enterprises plan to bring AI on-premises within two years, and a majority favour a single vendor for their AI infrastructure. Dell’s expanded portfolio is designed to streamline that journey through automation, validated architectures and resilient on-premises stacks.

Automation tools drive faster AI deployment

A key highlight is the extension of the Dell Automation Platform into the AI Factory, offering smarter, repeatable deployment frameworks. Dell has automated tools such as the AI code assistant (via Tabnine) and agentic AI platform (via Cohere North), enabling quicker production rollout and operational efficiency.

Dell Professional Services has also introduced turnkey interactive pilots that use real customer data to validate business impact before scaled investments, providing organisations with clear KPIs and measurable ROI.

Boosted data management and performance for AI workloads

Dell is strengthening its AI data layer with new capabilities across PowerScale and ObjectScale. PowerScale will soon be available as a software-only license for qualified PowerEdge servers, giving enterprises and cloud providers more flexibility in building high-performance AI clusters.

ObjectScale now includes AI-optimised search features—S3 Tables and S3 Vector—to support analytics, inferencing and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) workloads with faster data access.

Dell is also introducing PowerScale pNFS enhancements for improved throughput, parallelism and linear scalability across AI workflows.

Next-Gen PowerEdge, networking, and infrastructure advancements

Dell’s AI-ready server lineup expands with the PowerEdge XE9785 and XE9785L, equipped with dual AMD EPYC processors and eight AMD Instinct MI355X GPUs per node. A new PowerEdge R770AP using Intel Xeon 6 processors further boosts parallel processing and memory performance.

For AI fabrics, the new PowerSwitch Z9964F-ON series delivers massive 102.4 Tbps switching capacity, paired with SONiC-based automation tools for simplified deployment and lifecycle management.

Dell is also enhancing data centre resilience with updates to its Integrated Rack Scalable Solutions, including unified management via OpenManage Enterprise, a new Integrated Rack Controller for automated leak detection, and an upgraded PowerCool liquid-cooling distribution unit supporting rack densities up to 150 kW.

Industry leaders at Dell and Omdia said the enhancements aim to remove complexity and help enterprises transition from AI experimentation to full-scale deployment with confidence.