By ; Khaled Hassan 

Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) announced expanding its Dell Generative AI Solutions portfolio, helping businesses transform how they work along every step of their generative AI (GenAI) journeys. 

“To maximize Generative AI outcomes, companies need the right infrastructure, data plan and software and services to support workloads across public clouds, on-premises environments and at the edge,” said Jeff Boudreau, chief AI officer, Dell Technologies. “With expanded validated designs, professional services, industry collaborations and the world’s broadest GenAI solutions portfolio,1 Dell helps organizations implement GenAI models with their data to drive faster, trusted business outcomes.”

Customize GenAI models to maximize proprietary data

The Dell Validated Design for Generative AI: Model Customization builds on Dell’s collaboration with NVIDIA to offer pre-trained models that extract intelligence from data without building models from scratch. 

This Dell Validated Design for Generative AI provides best practices for customizing and fine-tuning GenAI models based on desired outcomes while keeping 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, or the Dell PowerEdge R760xa, with a choice of NVIDIA® Tensor Core GPUs, NVIDIA AI Enterprise software, the NVIDIA NeMo™, the end-to-end NVIDIA 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 with flexible consumption models via Dell APEX . 

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 that organizations are adamant about being able to use their own data to customize key foundation models, but also that 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.”

Dell expands data access to GenAI in multicloud environments  

Dell and Starburst are integrating Starburst analytics software with Dell’s industry-leading enterprise storage platforms3 to help put valuable data in the hands of customers wherever it resides.

The companies are jointly engineering an open, modern scale-out lakehouse solution, to bridge data siloes and help companies extract insights to make better, more informed decisions about their business. Built with open-software principles, customers will gain easy and secure access to multicloud data to get the most value from GenAI-driven workflows and deployments across their IT landscape.