Dell unveils new AI server range & managed services with NVIDIA
Dell Technologies has introduced new enterprise AI solutions developed with NVIDIA aimed at accelerating artificial intelligence adoption and deployment within organisations.
The company unveiled advancements to the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA, offering updated infrastructure, full-stack enterprise AI solutions, and managed services for organisations seeking to scale their AI operations.
Among the newly announced offerings are the air-cooled Dell PowerEdge XE9780 and XE9785 servers, which simplify integration into existing enterprise data centres. Complementing these are the liquid-cooled Dell PowerEdge XE9780L and XE9785L models, specifically designed to accelerate rack-scale deployment. The new server range supports up to 192 NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs with direct to chip liquid cooling and can be customised with up to 256 NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs per Dell IR7000 rack.
These servers, marking the next generation after Dell's PowerEdge XE9680, can deliver up to four times faster large language model training with the 8-way NVIDIA HGX B300. The Dell PowerEdge XE9712 featuring NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 is highlighted for its rack-scale efficiency in training, up to fifty times more AI reasoning inference output, and a five times improvement in throughput. Dell also introduced PowerCool technology to improve power efficiency within these platforms.
The expansion of the server portfolio includes the Dell PowerEdge XE7745, which will be available with NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs in July 2025. This platform, supported within the NVIDIA Enterprise AI Factory validated design, supports up to eight GPUs in a 4U chassis and targets physical and agentic AI use cases such as robotics, digital twins, and multi-modal AI applications.
Dell has also announced plans to support the NVIDIA Vera CPU and the NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform, with a new PowerEdge XE server planned for use within Dell Integrated Rack Scalable Systems.
To address connectivity and networking demands, Dell expanded its offering with the PowerSwitch SN5600 and SN2201 Ethernet, both part of the NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet networking platform, as well as the NVIDIA Quantum-X800 InfiniBand switches. These switches deliver up to 800 gigabits per second of throughput and are supported by Dell's ProSupport and Deployment Services.
The Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA solutions have been built to support the NVIDIA Enterprise AI Factory validated design, incorporating Dell and NVIDIA compute, networking, storage, and NVIDIA AI Enterprise software to deliver a fully integrated AI solution for enterprises.
Another focus is on enhancing data management for AI applications. With improvements to the Dell AI Data Platform, the company states that applications can benefit from always-on access to high-quality data. Dell ObjectScale now supports large-scale AI deployments, aiming to reduce cost and data centre footprint with a denser, software-defined system. Integrations with NVIDIA BlueField-3 and Spectrum-4 networking components aim to boost performance and scalability.
A new high-performance solution leveraging Dell PowerScale, Dell Project Lightning, and PowerEdge XE servers has been introduced, utilising KV cache and NVIDIA's NIXL Libraries, to support large-scale distributed inference workloads. Additionally, Dell ObjectScale will support S3 over RDMA, which the company claims can result in up to 230% higher throughput, up to 80% lower latency, and 98% reduced CPU load compared to traditional S3, enabling improved GPU utilisation.
Dell has announced an integrated offering that incorporates the NVIDIA AI Data Platform, targeted at accelerating curated insights from data and agentic AI applications and tools.
In terms of software, the NVIDIA AI Enterprise platform is available directly from Dell and includes NVIDIA NIM, NVIDIA NeMo microservices, NVIDIA Blueprints, NVIDIA NeMo Retriever for RAG, and NVIDIA Llama Nemotron reasoning models. Dell said this enables the development of agentic workflows and helps organisations shorten the time to achieve AI outcomes.
To simplify deployment and management, Dell will offer Red Hat OpenShift support on the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA. The company has also launched Dell Managed Services for the AI Factory, providing management across the entire NVIDIA AI solutions stack, including ongoing monitoring, reporting, version upgrades, and patching.
Michael Dell, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at Dell Technologies, said, "We're on a mission to bring AI to millions of customers around the world. Our job is to make AI more accessible. With the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA, enterprises can manage the entire AI lifecycle across use cases, from training to deployment, at any scale."
Jensen Huang, Founder and Chief Executive Officer at NVIDIA, said, "AI factories are the infrastructure of modern industry, generating intelligence to power work across healthcare, finance and manufacturing. With Dell Technologies, we're offering the broadest line of Blackwell AI systems to serve AI factories in clouds, enterprises and at the edge."
The new solutions and managed services will become available across 2025 in line with server platform rollouts and future NVIDIA integration support.
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