Dell Technologies World 2025: Powering Progress with AI, Cloud, and Edge Solutions

May 19, 2025 / Carolina Milanesi

At Dell Technologies World 2025, Dell unveiled a suite of innovations designed to make AI accessible, scalable, and secure for organizations everywhere. The event’s key themes were brought to life through significant product launches and strategic partnerships, underscoring Dell’s ambition to be the backbone of the AI-driven enterprise era.

AI Everywhere: From Edge to Cloud

A defining theme of this year’s event was Dell’s commitment to democratizing AI, ensuring advanced capabilities are available wherever data is generated and decisions are made. This vision was realized with the introduction of the new Pro Max lineup of AI PCs and notebooks, powered by Qualcomm CPUs and NVIDIA GB300s. These devices are engineered to bring generative AI directly to knowledge workers and edge environments, moving AI beyond traditional data centers and into the hands of end users.

Dell’s Pro Max AI PC stands out as the first laptop equipped with an enterprise-grade discrete neural processing unit (NPU), while the Pro Max Plus introduces the Qualcomm AI 100 PC Inference Card, making it the first mobile workstation with an enterprise-grade discrete NPU. This NPU delivers around 870 AI TOPS, far surpassing the tens of TOPS available in earlier AI PCs, enabling advanced on-device AI workloads and inference at the edge.

Complementing these hardware innovations, Dell significantly expanded its AI Factory ecosystem. The updated platform now integrates new servers, storage solutions, and network infrastructure designed specifically for AI workloads across experimentation and production. At the core are the new PowerEdge XE9780 and XE9785 servers, which support up to 192 NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs with direct-to-chip liquid cooling and can scale to 256 GPUs per rack. These servers offer up to four times faster training for large language models compared to previous generations, while the PowerEdge XE9712 with NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 achieves 50 times more AI inference output and five times better throughput, thanks to Dell’s PowerCool technology for improved energy efficiencyNext-Generation AI Infrastructure

Dell’s push for performance and scalability was evident in its unveiling of the next-generation PowerEdge XE9780 and XE9785 servers. Available in both air- and liquid-cooled versions, these servers can support up to 192 NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs per rack, and up to 256 with the Dell IR7000 expansion, delivering up to four times faster large language model (LLM) training compared to previous generations. This leap in infrastructure capability sets a new industry benchmark, empowering organizations to tackle the most demanding AI workloads with unprecedented efficiency and scale.

Deepening Strategic Partnerships

Dell’s strategy for accelerating enterprise AI adoption hinges on deep, integrated partnerships, and this year’s event highlighted a significant expansion of its collaboration with NVIDIA. By integrating NVIDIA’s latest AI Enterprise software suite, including NIM, NeMo microservices, and Blueprints, directly into Dell’s infrastructure, organizations can now develop and deploy agentic AI workflows and generative AI applications with greater ease and speed.

This matters because these integrations allow enterprises to manage the entire AI lifecycle, from model development and customization to large-scale training and inference, on a unified platform. The Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA combines compute, storage, and networking with advanced orchestration via the NVIDIA Run:ai platform, enabling dynamic allocation of GPU resources, centralized management, and policy-driven orchestration across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments. This holistic approach helps organizations overcome common barriers such as underutilized resources, complex GPU management, and fragmented AI operations, ultimately reducing the time and complexity involved in deploying AI at scale.

Dell’s partnership with Red Hat further strengthens its position by making Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI) the preferred platform for AI deployments on Dell PowerEdge servers. This collaboration ensures that customers benefit from a robust, validated, and continuously tested technology stack, including NVIDIA accelerated computing, which delivers a more consistent and trusted AI experience. RHEL AI’s integration with Dell hardware simplifies the process of building and deploying critical AI workloads, while also supporting scalability and agility for organizations experimenting with generative AI innovations.

Enterprise-Ready AI: Simplifying Adoption

Recognizing the operational challenges many organizations face as they scale AI, Dell introduced comprehensive managed services for its AI Factory. These new offerings provide end-to-end support for the full NVIDIA AI stack, including infrastructure, platforms, and software, with 24×7 monitoring, reporting, and maintenance. By addressing skills gaps and resource constraints, these managed services make it easier for enterprises to move from AI experimentation to production, reducing complexity and accelerating time to value.

Competitive Advantage and Market Impact

With these innovations, Dell is sharpening its competitive edge in the enterprise AI landscape. The company’s on-premises solutions now deliver up to 62% cost savings for LLM inferencing compared to public cloud alternatives, while also offering enhanced security, control, and compliance for organizations concerned about data sovereignty. This positions Dell as one of the most complete provider of enterprise AI infrastructure, challenging both cloud hyperscalers and traditional hardware vendors and setting a new standard for value, performance, and flexibility.

Accelerating the AI Adoption Curve

Dell’s momentum in the AI space is already evident, with more than 3,000 organizations running Dell AI Factories worldwide. This strong customer adoption underscores Dell’s success in lowering barriers to entry and enabling organizations of all sizes to access, deploy, and scale AI solutions confidently as AI moves from pilot projects to full-scale production across industries.

 

Dell Technologies World 2025 showcased a sweeping vision for enterprise AI, realized through cutting-edge infrastructure, deep partnerships, and a relentless focus on simplifying the path to adoption. By making AI accessible everywhere and providing the tools and services needed for success, Dell is not only transforming its own business but also accelerating the adoption and impact of AI across the global economy. Dell must differentiate its AI offerings through deep integration, operational efficiency, and service, while contending with a crowded field of enterprise vendors, cloud hyperscalers, and agile startups, all vying for leadership in the rapidly evolving AI infrastructure landscape

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