Dell Technologies Reimagines the Modern Data Center for the AI Era

Dell Technologies introduces a new generation of storage, compute, cyber resilience and automation innovations built to power the modern data center for the AI era..

AI is scaling faster than most data centers were built to handle and the applications running the business can’t wait. Enterprises don’t have the luxury of choosing between what’s next and what’s now. Dell’s latest storage, compute, cyber resilience and automation innovations are built to deliver both.

“Enterprises now face pressure to rapidly convert AI investments into operational impact while maintaining security, governance, and cost efficiency.”
– Michael Dell, founder, chairman, and CEO of Dell Technologies.

Eliminate storage tradeoffs

Dell PowerStore Elite is an intelligent, open storage platform that combines AI-driven software, next generation hardware and non-disruptive modernization. The platform triples performance¹ and density² compared to prior generations, packs up to 5.8 petabytes of effective capacity into a single 3U appliance³ and is backed by an industry-best 6:1 data reduction guarantee.⁴ Built on industry-standard E3 flash, PowerStore Elite reduces cost per workload while keeping every component, including drives, controllers and networking, modular and field-upgradable, so organizations can evolve their infrastructure without downtime or data migration.

Redefine compute and cooling

The 18th generation of PowerEdge servers deliver up to 70% better performance⁵ and 13-to-1 consolidation⁶ through advanced air-and liquid-cooling designs. Organizations gain dramatically more compute in the same footprint with unified management and security built in.

• AI, HPC and demanding workloads: The liquid-cooled Dell PowerEdge M9825 with 6^th Gen AMD EPYC™ 6^th Gen processors deliver modular, ultra-dense compute in factory-integrated IR7000 racks. Designed for the next wave of AI and high-performance workloads, it scales reliably beyond the limits of air-cooled racks, reducing deployment risk and providing predictable, high-impact performance.
• PCIe-based AI at scale:New air-cooled Dell PowerEdge XE5845 and next-generation XE7845 servers bring higher performance and greater flexibility to PCIe-based AI deployments, supporting next-generation GPUs.
• High-performance air-cooled compute: The Dell PowerEdge R9825 (dual-socket, 3U) and R9815 (single-socket, 2U) feature 6^th Gen AMD EPYC™ processors, bringing high core density – up to 256 cores per system and increased I/O bandwidth to demanding workloads without requiring liquid cooling or data center retrofits.
• Enterprise consolidation: The Dell PowerEdge R9810 is a high-end, single-socket 2U server powered by Intel’s next-gen server processor, codenamed Diamond Rapids, delivering double the memory bandwidth⁷, increased cache capacity and up to 50% increase in core count with PCIe expansion.⁸
• Space-efficient compute: The 1U Dell PowerEdge R8815 and R6815 include 6^th Gen AMD EPYC™processors and consolidate traditional dual-socket footprints onto efficient single-socket platforms, reducing power, cooling and licensing costs.
• Versatile and storage-dense platforms with AMD EPYC™: The Dell PowerEdge R7815 offers flexible PCIe Gen6 and drive configurations. The R7815xd extends the single-socket design into storage-dense environments, and the dual-socket R7825 expands scalability for dense virtualization and analytics.

Unify cyber resilience
From AI-powered attacks to ransomware, today’s cyber threats are growing more sophisticated and disruptive. Organizations need threat detection, unified protection management and rapid recovery working together as a single operational model.

• Dell PowerProtect One is the world’s most comprehensive cyber-resilience platform⁹, purpose-built to secure, detect and rapidly recover business-critical data across any environment. It brings together Dell PowerProtect Data Manager for protection management and orchestration and Dell PowerProtect Data Domain for secure, efficient protection storage under a single control plane. PowerProtect One reduces operational sprawl and delivers a unified experience through third-party support and centralized visibility that cuts management overhead by 50%¹⁰ while delivering the world’s best data reduction¹¹ and recovery at scale.
• Dell Cyber Detect extends AI-powered ransomware detection directly into Dell PowerStore and Dell PowerMax enterprise storage. Trained on thousands of ransomware variants and inspecting data at the byte level with 99.99% accuracy,¹² it pinpoints the last known clean copy so organizations can recover fast.

“AI doesn’t wait, and neither can the infrastructure under it. The modern data center is defined by intelligent software that makes IT simpler, and we’re delivering it end-to-end. PowerStore Elite, next-generation PowerEdge servers, PowerProtect One and the agentic automation across Dell Private Cloud give customers a complete, software-driven foundation to run their most demanding workloads today and keep evolving for what comes next,” said Arthur Lewis, president, Infrastructure Solutions Group, Dell Technologies.

Simplify and automate the full stack
Dell introduces software innovations that deliver cloud simplicity and agentic intelligence for infrastructure management. The Dell Automation Platform serves as the common foundation, powering private cloud deployments and expanding AI-driven automation capabilities.

“IT teams are being asked to support AI, defend against increasingly sophisticated threats, and modernize infrastructure – often without adding headcount. Dell’s approach stands out because it addresses the operational reality across the full stack. PowerStore Elite helps eliminate the traditional storage refresh cycle, PowerEdge enables meaningful infrastructure consolidation and PowerProtect One simplifies cyber resilience. Together, these technologies reduce operational complexity, which remains one of the largest hidden costs in enterprise IT,” said  Matt Kimball, VP & Principal Analyst, Moor Insights & Strategy.

Private Cloud Everywhere

Dell Private Cloud, delivered through Dell Automation Platform, lets organizations deploy and run their preferred cloud stack from vendors like Broadcom, Microsoft, Nutanix and Red Hat on open, disaggregated Dell infrastructure with automated lifecycle management. It scales compute and storage independently, avoids lock-in and delivers up to 65% cost savings versus HCI.¹³ New ecosystem advancements include the ability to deploy VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1, Microsoft Azure Local and Dell PowerStore integration with Nutanix AHV.

• Dell Distributed Private Cloud (formerly Dell NativeEdge) extends enterprise-class resilience to edge and distributed environments with two-node high-availability clusters, automatic failover, enhanced VM live migration, built-in zero-trust security and zero-touch endpoint support, reducing costs and simplifying operations at distributed sites.

AI-Driven Automation

• Dell Automation Platform introduces agentic intelligence through a personalized generative user experience that adapts to how teams design, operate and manage infrastructure. By integrating Dell AIOps, Dell Automation Platform turns telemetry into action using intelligent agents to continuously optimize systems while keeping customers in control.
• Dell Automation Studio is a premium set of Dell Automation Platform capabilities that allow customers to create AI-driven compute, storage and networking automation workflows using familiar tools and processes that reduce time-to-service and operational complexity. Open and flexible by design, Automation Studio lets organizations create tailored solutions that deliver consistent, full-stack automation at scale.

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