Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA Delivers Proven Path to Enterprise AI ROI
Dell AI Data Platform, end-to-end infrastructure and services advancements remove barriers to enterprise AI deployment
SAN JOSE, Calif., March 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) marks the two-year anniversary of the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA by announcing advancements across its AI data platform, end-to-end AI infrastructure, and AI solutions and services portfolio that help enterprises move AI from pilot to production at scale. With over 4,000 customers deploying the Dell AI Factory, and early adopters seeing up to 2.6x ROI within the first year, 1 Dell proves that an end-to-end approach delivers measurable business results.
Why This Matters
The enterprise AI landscape is undergoing a fundamental shift. As AI code assistants and agentic workflows drastically lower the cost and time to build custom applications, CIOs are increasingly choosing to develop AI capabilities in-house, on-premises—driving the need for owned infrastructure.
Yet unclear ROI remains the top obstacle preventing AI deployments at scale. Two years of the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA has revealed three critical requirements for achieving measurable returns: data platforms that make enterprise information AI-ready, infrastructure that seamlessly scales the latest innovations efficiently from pilot to production, and solutions and services that compress time to value by simplifying deployments and accelerating ROI. Dell is the premier provider delivering all three with NVIDIA technology at the core, creating a proven path from AI investment to business outcome.
Three Capabilities That Define Enterprise AI Leadership
As the top AI infrastructure provider 2, Dell's AI infrastructure portfolio—the industry's broadest 3—delivers integrated capabilities across data, infrastructure, solutions and services.
Data platforms that turn institutional knowledge into AI fuel
AI is rapidly shifting from assistive tools to autonomous, agentic systems, but its effectiveness is constrained by the data it can access, trust and act upon. The Dell AI Data Platform with NVIDIA addresses this challenge with a unified platform for AI that combines Dell's high-performance storage, modular data engines, and NVIDIA accelerated computing, networking, software and CUDA-X libraries. As the data foundation of the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA, it handles workloads from retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and multimodal search to agentic workflows and large-scale data processing. Advancements announced today make it faster and easier for companies to turn data into real AI results.
Infrastructure that enables AI workflows from desktop to data center
Dell's next-generation infrastructure supports AI workflows at every stage, from rapid prototyping to production deployment at scale.
For desktop AI development and autonomous agents:
For production AI at scale:
For enterprise workloads in the data center:
For high-performance networking and emerging technologies:
NVIDIA NVQLink and NVIDIA CUDA-Q support – Dell is the first OEM to integrate NVIDIA NVQLink with CUDA-Q across PowerEdge servers featuring NVIDIA AI infrastructure, allowing enterprises and research institutions to explore emerging quantum-classical computing use cases. These capabilities accelerate discoveries in advanced drug development and materials science simulations by combining the processing power of Quantum Processing Units with NVIDIA accelerated computing for quantum systems control and error correction on a trusted foundation of Dell PowerEdge servers.
Solutions and services that accelerate deployment and prove ROI
Updated Dell AI Solutions combine new modular architecture with Dell Automation Platform blueprints and NVIDIA AI Enterprise software to deliver enterprise outcomes while simplifying operations and reducing deployment complexity. New services bridge skill gaps and scale deployments from experimentation to production.
Accelerating enterprise AI workloads:
Simplifying AI infrastructure deployment:
Perspectives:
Michael Dell, chairman and chief executive officer, Dell Technologies:
"Two years ago, enterprises were asking how to access AI technology. Today, they're asking how to make their data AI-ready, how to operationalize AI at scale and how to prove ROI. The Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA answers all three questions. We're brought in from the start as a trusted advisor, helping customers navigate their entire AI journey—from turning raw data into AI fuel, through deployment and to measurable business outcomes."
Jensen Huang, founder and chief executive officer, NVIDIA:
"AI infrastructure is being built everywhere — every company will be powered by it, every country will build it— and it demands integrated data platforms, scalable infrastructure and deployment expertise. Dell Technologies delivers all three, with NVIDIA at the core. The Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA is a proven infrastructure blueprint for every phase of AI powering the next industrial era."
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About Dell Technologies
Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) helps organizations and individuals build their digital future and transform how they work, live and play. The company provides customers with the industry's broadest and most innovative technology and services portfolio for the AI era.
1 Based on Enterprise Strategy Group paper commissioned by Dell, "Analyzing the Economic Benefits of the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA," comparing the ROI of on-premises Dell and NVIDIA solution, August 2025. Estimated costs were modeled utilizing Llama 3 70B LLM for inferencing and model fine-tuning workloads by organizations over a 4-year period. Server models used were XE9680s with 8 x H100 GPUs. Actual results may vary.
2 IDC Worldwide Quarterly Trackers for Servers, External Storage Systems, PBBA, and AI Infrastructure Q32025: showing Dell #1 in AI infrastructure, servers, external storage systems, and purpose built backup appliances worldwide
3 Based on Prowess Consulting's paper commissioned by Dell, "Which Vendor Offers the Broadest AI Portfolio for Scalable Innovation?" October 2025
SOURCE Dell Technologies