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Techday NZ
3 days ago
- Business
- Techday NZ
APJ region accelerates AI adoption as Dell rolls out new innovations
Artificial intelligence is moving at an incredibly fast speed in the Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ) region, according to senior Dell Technologies executives who spoke at a media roundtable during the Dell Tech World conference in Las Vegas. As AI use cases proliferate and investment ramps up, the region is fast emerging as a global leader, both in adoption and ambition. "Asia Pacific is leading the way in generative AI spending, with 38% of AI investment in the region now focused on Gen AI, compared to just 33% in the rest of the world," said Peter Marrs, President of Asia Pacific, Japan and Greater China at Dell. "Even North America sits at 29%," he added, highlighting the region's rapid pace. Dell is positioning itself at the heart of this growth through its AI Factory and a growing ecosystem of technology partners, universities and governments. "There's not an industry that's untouched by AI, but financial services, healthcare, energy, retail and manufacturing really stand out. We're at the forefront of helping customers across these sectors," he added. Transforming business through AI factories The Dell AI Factory, a framework designed to help organisations scale AI, has quickly gained traction. "It's been a year since we announced it, and we've moved from having tens or hundreds of customers globally to thousands," said Chris Kelly, Senior Vice President of Data Center Solutions APJC at Dell. "Not only are more customers deploying it, but they're achieving real, tangible ROI." According to Danny Elmarji, Vice President of Presales APJC at Dell, the AI Factory has resonated because it provides a practical pathway for organisations to adopt AI at scale. "CIOs are trying to understand how to tackle AI inside their business. Unlike past technology shifts, this is fundamentally a business-driven initiative," he explained. Elmarji pointed to significant momentum in financial services, where generative AI is being used to recommend customer actions, automate fraud detection and transform digital banking experiences. In manufacturing, AI is powering digital twin capabilities and revolutionising fault detection, while in healthcare, early detection tools and enhanced electronic medical records are improving patient outcomes. AI is also driving change in retail, with computer vision enabling smarter inventory management, and in education, where Dell is working with universities to personalise learning and foster innovation. "We're building connections between the IT world, research and industry," Kelly noted. "It's about moving beyond pilot projects and making AI meaningful for everyday users." From modular data centres to sovereign AI The roundtable also showcased a unique customer partnership with South Korean AI education platform Elice. CEO Jae Won Kim described how Elice faced soaring costs when trying to provide deep learning environments for students and businesses. "We had to reduce GPU cloud fees by more than 90%," he said. The solution was a portable modular data centre powered by Dell servers, now used for everything from AI digital textbooks for five million students to sovereign AI workloads that comply with government requirements. "There's very limited data centre capacity in Korea for high-density AI workloads," Kim explained. "The modular data centre lets us host hundreds of GPUs, with liquid cooling for the latest chips. It's not just about education anymore – we're talking about a hybrid solution that could be deployed in Japan, Australia or anywhere data centre construction lags demand." Marrs praised the partnership, saying, "You really thought big, and you went and made it happen." Kim's advice for others: "AI is not going away. It's better to start early. If you're worried about investment, modular is the best way to start small and start fast." Innovation and ecosystem challenges Dell's announcements at the conference included a raft of new infrastructure solutions designed to cut energy costs, boost data centre efficiency and accelerate AI deployments of any size. The company's latest cooling technology can reduce energy costs by up to 60%, while new servers with AMD and NVIDIA chips promise up to 35 times greater AI inferencing performance than previous generations. Yet, challenges remain. "The biggest hurdles are people and ecosystem," Marrs acknowledged. "We need to educate the next generation of AI talent and work with governments to create the right regulatory and compliance frameworks." Kelly added, "Access to data centre space, power and cooling is going to be crucial. Requirements are moving so fast that what seemed high density a year ago now looks standard." To address these gaps, Dell is nurturing partnerships with universities, local ISVs and industry bodies, running hundreds of AI innovation days and investing in hands-on labs. "We're enabling partners to experiment in safe environments and bring AI to life," said Elmarji. Dell executives are optimistic but realistic about the scale of change. "We're delivering AI at scale in the largest and most complex use cases, but also helping small startups get started," Kelly said. "You don't have to spend a fortune – start small and grow. If you don't act now, you're falling behind." For Kim, the journey with Dell is just beginning. "It was a huge investment for us, basically a startup. We poured all our money into GPUs. But I think it will be a good journey," he said.
Web Release
24-05-2025
- Business
- Web Release
Dell Technologies Fuels Enterprise AI Innovation with Infrastructure, Solutions and Services
Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL), the world's No. 1 provider of AI infrastructure,1 announces Dell AI Factory advancements, including powerful and energy-efficient AI infrastructure, integrated partner ecosystem solutions and professional services to drive simpler and faster AI deployments. Why it matters AI is now essential for businesses, with 75% of organizations saying AI is key to their strategy2 and 65% successfully moving AI projects into production.3 However, challenges like data quality, security concerns and high costs can slow progress. The Dell AI Factory approach can be up to 62% more cost effective for inferencing LLMs on-premises than the public cloud4 and helps organizations securely and easily deploy enterprise AI workloads at any scale. Dell offers the industry's most comprehensive AI portfolio designed for deployments across client devices, data centers, edge locations and clouds.5 More than 3,000 global customers across industries are accelerating their AI initiatives with the Dell AI Factory.6 Dell infrastructure advancements help organizations deploy and manage AI at any scale Dell introduces end-to-end AI infrastructure to support everything from edge inferencing on an AI PC to managing massive enterprise AI workloads in the data center. Dell Pro Max AI PC delivers industry's first enterprise-grade discrete NPU in a mobile form factor7 The Dell Pro Max Plus laptop with Qualcomm® AI 100 PC Inference Card is the world's first mobile workstation with an enterprise-grade discrete NPU.8 It offers fast and secure on-device inferencing at the edge for large AI models typically run in the cloud, such as today's 109-billion-parameter model. The Qualcomm AI 100 PC Inference Card features 32 AI-cores and 64 GB memory, providing power to meet the needs of AI engineers and data scientists deploying large models for edge inferencing. Dell redefines AI cooling with innovations that reduce cooling energy costs by up to 60%9 The industry-first Dell PowerCool Enclosed Rear Door Heat Exchanger (eRDHx) is a Dell-engineered alternative to standard rear door heat exchangers. Designed to capture 100% of IT heat generated with its self-contained airflow system, the eRDHx can reduce cooling energy costs by up to 60%10 compared to currently available solutions. With Dell's factory integrated IR7000 racks equipped with future-ready eRDHx technology, organizations can: Significantly cut costs and eliminate reliance on expensive chillers given the eRDHx operates with water temperatures warmer than traditional solutions (between 32 and 36 degrees Celsius). Maximize data center capacity by deploying up to 16% more racks 11 of dense compute, without increasing power consumption. of dense compute, without increasing power consumption. Enable air cooling capacity up to 80 kW per rack for dense AI and HPC deployments. 12 Minimize risk with advanced leak detection, real-time thermal monitoring and unified management of all rack-level components with the Dell Integrated Rack Controller. Dell PowerEdge servers with AMD GPUs maximize performance and efficiency Dell PowerEdge XE9785 and XE9785L servers will support AMD Instinct™ MI350 series GPUs, which offer 288 GB of HBM3E memory per GPU and deliver up to 35 times greater13 inferencing performance.14 Available in liquid-cooled and air-cooled configurations, the servers will reduce facility cooling energy costs. Dell advancements power efficient and secure AI deployments and workflows Because AI is only as powerful as the data that fuels it, organizations need a platform designed for performance and scalability. The Dell AI Data Platform updates improve access to high quality structured, semi-structured and unstructured data across the AI lifecycle. Dell Project Lightning is the world's fastest parallel file system per new testing, delivering up to two times greater throughput than competing parallel file systems. 15 Project Lightning will accelerate training time for large-scale and complex AI workflows. is the world's fastest parallel file system per new testing, delivering up to two times greater throughput than competing parallel file systems. Project Lightning will accelerate training time for large-scale and complex AI workflows. Dell Data Lakehouse enhancements simplify AI workflows and accelerate use cases — such as recommendation engines, semantic search and customer intent detection — by creating and querying AI-ready datasets. 'We're excited to work with Dell to support our cutting-edge AI initiatives, and we expect Project Lightning to be a critical storage technology for our AI innovations,' said Dr. Paul Calleja, director, Cambridge Open Zettascale Lab and Research Computing Services, University of Cambridge. With additional portfolio advancements, organizations can: Lower power consumption, reduce latency and boost cost savings for high performance computing (HPC) and AI fabrics with Dell Linear Pluggable Optics . . Increase trust in the security of their AI infrastructure and solutions with Dell AI Security and Resilience Services, which provide full stack protection across AI infrastructure, data, applications and models. Dell expands AI partner ecosystem with customizable AI solutions and applications Dell is collaborating with AI ecosystem players to deliver tailored solutions that simply and quickly integrate into organizations' existing IT environments. Organizations can: Enable intelligent, autonomous workflows with a first-of-its-kind on-premises deployment of Cohere North , which integrates various data sources while ensuring control over operations. , which integrates various data sources while ensuring control over operations. Securely run scalable AI agents and enterprise search on-premises with Glean . Dell and Glean's collaboration will deliver the first on-premises deployment architecture for Glean's Work AI platform. 16 . Dell and Glean's collaboration will deliver the first on-premises deployment architecture for Glean's Work AI platform. Innovate where the data is with Google Gemini and Google Distributed Cloud on-premises available on Dell PowerEdge XE9680 and XE9780 servers. and Google Distributed Cloud on-premises available on Dell PowerEdge XE9680 and XE9780 servers. Prototype and build agent-based enterprise AI applications with Dell AI Solutions with Llama, using Meta's latest Llama Stack distribution and Llama 4 models. latest Llama Stack distribution and Llama 4 models. Build and deploy secure, customizable AI applications and knowledge management workflows with solutions jointly engineered by Dell and Mistral AI. The Dell AI Factory also expands to include: Advancements to the Dell AI Platform with AMD add 200G of storage networking and an upgraded AMD ROCm open software stack for organizations to simplify workflows, support LLMs and efficiently manage complex workloads. Dell and AMD are collaborating to provide Day 0 support and performance optimized containers for AI models such as Llama 4. add 200G of storage networking and an upgraded AMD ROCm open software stack for organizations to simplify workflows, support LLMs and efficiently manage complex workloads. Dell and AMD are collaborating to provide Day 0 support and performance optimized containers for AI models such as Llama 4. The new Dell AI Platform with Intel helps enterprises deploy a full stack of high performance, scalable AI infrastructure with Intel® Gaudi® 3 AI accelerators. Dell also announced advancements to the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA and updates to Dell NativeEdge to support AI deployments and inferencing at the edge. Perspectives 'It has been a non-stop year of innovating for enterprises, and we're not slowing down. We have introduced more than 200 updates to the Dell AI Factory since last year,' said Jeff Clarke, chief operating officer, Dell Technologies. 'Our latest AI advancements — from groundbreaking AI PCs to cutting-edge data center solutions — are designed to help organizations of every size to seamlessly adopt AI, drive faster insights, improve efficiency and accelerate their results.' 'We leverage the Dell AI Factory for our oceanic research at Oregon State University to revolutionize and address some of the planet's most critical challenges,' said Christopher M. Sullivan, director of Research and Academic Computing for the College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University. 'Through advanced AI solutions, we're accelerating insights that empower global decision-makers to tackle climate change, safeguard marine ecosystems and drive meaningful progress for humanity.'
Yahoo
22-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
"This is a once in a lifetime opportunity" - Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says it's time to get on board with AI now, or be left behind
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. "AI is here", Jensen Huang tells Dell Technologies World 2025 Speaking to Michael Dell, Huang once again extols virtue of AI tech Nvidia and Dell combine to launch "AI Factory 2.0" Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has once again looked to highlight the huge potential AI can offer companies of all sizes in the coming months and years. Speaking at the recent Dell Technologies World 2025 event, Huang noted 'AI is here - this is unquestionably the single biggest platform shift.' In conversation with Dell Technologies CEO Michael Dell, Huang added how, 'from a technology perspective…we're now in perception to generative to now reasoning AI models, and that's at the raw technology level.' Huang highlighted how Nvidia and Dell are teaming for enterprise AI, which he called, 'one of the largest opportunities ahead of us'. 'These are companies that are essentially building a digital workforce of AI agents, which can be working in cybersecurity, software engineering, marketing and sales operations, and forecasting, and supply chain management - all these different AI agents are being created now, that can augment our human workforce with a digital workforce.' One of the biggest announcements at Dell Technologies World 2025 concerned the expansion of Dell's AI Factory platform, which has received some significant updates thanks to Nvidia. Initially launched at DTW 2024, the next iteration of the Dell AI Factory, unsurprisingly called Dell AI Factory with Nvidia 2.0, encompasses client devices, servers, storage, data protection and networking The new iteration includes six new servers, including the air-cooled PowerEdge XE9780 and XE9785, and the liquid-cooled XE9780L and XE9785L, all of which support up to 192 Nvidia Blackwell Ultra GPUs with direct to chip cooling. These new releases can also be customized with up to 256 Nvidia Blackwell Ultra GPUs per Dell IR7000 rack, which Dell claims can deliver up to four-times faster large language model training than its predecessor. The two companies also announced Dell Managed Services for the Dell AI Factory with Nvidia, which looks to simplify AI operations with the management of the full Nvidia AI stack, and 100-times faster token generation per second for distributed AI inferencing, with more than 80% reduction in latency, to help support the growth of agentic AI. Noting that he and Huang had known each other 'for some 30 plus years', Dell asked the Nvidia CEO if he wanted to give any advice to the Dell Technologies World audience. "This is a once in a lifetime opportunity - in the last 60 years, this is the biggest reinvention that you and I have seen,' Huang noted. 'This is incredibly exciting technology - you want to engage it. The impact to your company is incredible. And you want to be an early adopter.' 'This is the beginning of a decade of transformation. But you don't want to be second - this is the time, and you want to be first.' Dell CEO tells us how AI can make us 'more effective as a species' Nvidia CEO - AI could be the largest technological leap we've ever seen "The real danger is staying still' - Dell CEO Michael Dell claims AI is "the new electricity" Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Business Wire
20-05-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
H2O.ai Debuts New Agentic AI Features
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- the leading open-source Generative AI and Predictive AI platform, announced new features for its flagship enterprise platform, h2oGPTe, at Dell Technologies World 2025. The updates strengthen integration with the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA, helping enterprises deploy Sovereign AI—secure, production-ready, and customer-controlled—across use cases like fraud, customer service, and risk operations. Built for real-world enterprise environments, h2oGPTe gives teams full control over how AI is deployed and used—whether in private cloud, on-premises, or hybrid setups. These updates, including support for RAG (retrieval-augmented generation), are particularly relevant for banks, telecoms and governments seeking compliant, controllable, and cost-efficient AI systems. New Features Secure Integration with Amazon Bedrock: H2O Managed Cloud now integrates with Amazon Bedrock, letting users securely connect the H2O Agentic AI platform to foundation models hosted in their own VPC, like Bedrock, over private connections. This gives enterprises full data and model control while supporting large-scale LLM rollouts. H2O Agents Available for Hybrid Customers: On-prem and cloud users now have access to the latest h2oGPTe with support for Agentic deep research and automation, integration with predictive AI such as H2O Driverless AI, role-based access control, and improved guardrails and PII detection. Enhanced User Experience via Unified Interface: A new integrated workspace connects users across products 'Our collaboration with Dell Technologies and NVIDIA continues to unlock real value for our enterprise customers by combining the best in AI infrastructure and innovation,' said Sri Ambati, CEO and Founder of 'With h2oGPTe, we're delivering Sovereign AI for enterprises—secure, production-ready GenAI that puts businesses in full control of their data, models, and outcomes. It's faster, more precise, and built to deliver real-world impact.' The h2oGPTe platform integrates seamlessly into the Dell AI Factory ecosystem, advancing vision of Sovereign AI for businesses, where customers distill and fine-tune models and run GenAI securely on infrastructure they control. By combining Dell's scalable infrastructure with state-of-the-art AI capabilities, enterprises can confidently scale mission-critical applications, like AI copilots and knowledge assistants, on infrastructure they own and trust. Try It at Dell Technologies World Attendees can explore the latest product updates at booth #203 or test enterprise applications in the Dell Village Hands-On Lab. will demo agents for tasks like customer insights, document review, travel booking, and internal support. CEO Sri Ambati will also lead a session titled Sovereign AI: Building the Future of Smart Workflows with the World's #1 Agentic AI on May 20th at 3 p.m. The session will explore secure, on-premises GenAI agents built for high-impact use cases in banking, telecom, and beyond. In March 2025, secured the #1 position on the General AI Assistants (GAIA) leaderboard, hailed as the gold standard for AI intelligence, with h2oGPTe outperforming models from Google, Microsoft, and Hugging Face by wide margins. This milestone underscores leadership in agentic AI and its ability to solve complex, real-world tasks with state-of-the-art reasoning, retrieval, and multimodal capabilities. To learn more or schedule a live demo at Dell Technologies World, visit About Founded in 2012, is on a mission to democratize AI. As the world's leading agentic AI company, converges Generative and Predictive AI to help enterprises and public sector agencies develop purpose-built GenAI applications on their private data. Its open-source technology is trusted by over 20,000 organizations worldwide- including more than half of the Fortune 500- powers AI transformation for companies like AT&T, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Singtel, Chipotle, Workday, Progressive Insurance, and NIH. partners include Dell Technologies, Deloitte, Ernst & Young (EY), NVIDIA, Snowflake, AWS, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and VAST. AI for Good program supports nonprofit groups, foundations, and communities in advancing education, healthcare, and environmental conservation. With a vibrant community of 2 million data scientists worldwide, aims to co-create valuable AI applications for all users. has raised $256 million from investors, including Commonwealth Bank, NVIDIA, Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, Capital One, Nexus Ventures and New York Life.
Business Wire
20-05-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
Glean Delivers AI Agents and Enterprise Search to On-Premises Environments, in Collaboration with Dell Technologies
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Glean:GO -- Work AI leader Glean today announced a strategic collaboration with Dell Technologies to deliver the first on-premises deployment architecture for Glean's Work AI platform. Running on trusted Dell AI Factory infrastructure, the collaboration will enable enterprises to securely deploy Glean's enterprise search and AI agents within their own data centers, combining the security of on-premises deployment with the agility and scale typically reserved for SaaS. AI has become a competitive imperative, with enterprises racing to use intelligent assistants and agents to unlock efficiency. However, as demand for AI accelerates, enterprises - especially those in highly regulated sectors like healthcare and financial services - are seeking trusted, compliant solutions that take advantage of their investment in secure, on-prem infrastructure. Glean and Dell are addressing that need by combining the power of Glean's Work AI platform with the Dell AI Factory approach. Dell, a leading provider of AI infrastructure 1, offers one of the industry's most comprehensive AI portfolios designed for deployments across client devices, data centers, edge locations, and clouds 2. Combining Dell's expertise in AI infrastructure, data protection, and cyber resilience with Glean's proven expertise in enterprise search and horizontal agents, gives organizations a secure, scalable foundation for AI. Today's announcement will bring that capability on-premises, expanding Glean's commitment to openness and security. With a strong track record of delivering enterprise-grade protection through its single-tenant cloud offering, Glean now gives customers even greater flexibility in how they deploy, without compromising trust, privacy, or performance. Full control and compliance for enterprise AI deployments: Enterprises will be able to run Glean's Work AI platform, previously available only in multiple cloud providers, on Dell infrastructure, enabling SaaS-like speed, agility, and scalability within private, on-premises environments. Accelerate impact with turnkey AI systems: The Glean and Dell solution will enable rapid deployment of enterprise search and AI agents, helping teams streamline workflows, automate tasks, and realize value faster. A trusted path to AI at scale for regulated industries: Glean on-premise will give customers full visibility and control over their data for AI while meeting strict regulatory and privacy standards. Enterprises can confidently deploy Glean horizontally across their organization, knowing that their data is safe and secure. 'We've seen firsthand how Glean's AI platform accelerates access to critical company knowledge, helping our teams move faster, personalize outreach, and close deals more efficiently. We're proud to be the first partner bringing that capability on-premises, so our joint customers can achieve the same impact with the added control, security, and flexibility of their own on-premises environment.' – Jeff Clarke, Vice Chairman and Chief Operating Officer, Dell Technologies. 'With Glean's platform now delivering over 100 million agent actions each year, we know what it takes to make AI work at scale. By collaborating with Dell Technologies, we're working to bring that power on-premises to give enterprises the control, security, and performance they need to unlock real value from AI.' – Arvind Jain, Founder & CEO, Glean. More News: Today at Glean:GO, Glean also announced the GA and expansion of its Glean Agents platform, delivering dozens of agents and open interoperability across the enterprise, in addition to collaborations with Palo Alto Networks, Snowflake, and Workday. About Glean Glean is the Work AI platform that helps everyone work smarter with AI. Glean Assistant gives every employee a powerful enterprise AI assistant that connects to and understands company data and internet data, and Glean Agents empowers everyone to create, use, and manage AI agents using natural language. Powered by Glean's search and agentic reasoning engine, Glean's agents automate work across the organization at scale, while ensuring permissions enforcement, full referenceability, governance, and security. With over 100 connectors, LLM choice, APIs for customization, and no need for costly professional services, Glean delivers scalable, turnkey implementation of a complex AI ecosystem on one centralized platform. Analyst Recognition 1 IDC Semiannual Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Tracker, 2024H1 (Feb 2025). 2 Based on Dell analysis, July 2024. Dell offers solutions with NVIDIA hardware and software engineered to support AI workloads from PCs with AI-powered features and workstations to Servers for High-performance Computing, Data Storage, Cloud Native Software-Defined Infrastructure, Networking Switches, Data Protection, HCI and Services.
