Dell has announced a host of updates to its AI Factory with Nvidia offering, including support for agentic AI workloads, data platform advancements, and the launch of Dell PowerRack – a turnkey rack-scale solution for compute, storage, and networking.

Announced at the company’s annual Dell Technologies World conference currently taking place in Las Vegas, Dell said the advancements will help to close the gap between “AI ambition and outcomes.”

First launched in 2024, the Dell AI Factory with Nvidia offering is described by the company as “the first and only end-to-end enterprise AI platform out there that scales from the desktop to data center deployments,” with Dell stating that more than 5,000 customers have already deployed its AI Factory solution.

To enhance the platform further, Dell has launched PowerRack. Available in compute, networking, and storage configurations, Dell PowerRack is a fully integrated compute, storage, and networking system that has thermal design, power management, and software optimization “built to work together from the ground up.”

PowerRack for networking features more than 800Tbps of switching capacity, with eight new Dell PowerSwitch SN6600-L-D Ethernet switches per rack, which the company said will enable the high-volume, low-latency east-west traffic required by GPU-dense environments.

Based on Dell Exascale Storage, the new PowerRack storage configuration incorporates PowerFlex, a 4-1 storage offering that supports block, file, and object storage for AI and HPC workloads. With this platform, Dell has also added 245TB drives to its ObjectScale offering, tripling the per-rack density for S3 storage.

In a press briefing ahead of the conference, Varun Chhabra, SVP, infrastructure and telecom marketing at Dell, said that a production-ready PowerRack can be set up, connected, and running live workloads in a customer's data center within six and a half hours or less after delivery.

“This is an extreme time to value for the most extreme, dense, performance-sensitive applications, AI and HPC applications in the industry,” he said.

Other infrastructure updates announced during the conference include the launch of a compact, mountable rack workstation dubbed Dell Pro Precision 7 R1 and the Dell PowerCool cooling distribution unit (CDU) C7000.

According to Dell, its Pro Precision 7 R1 “brings high-performance computing to space-constrained work environments,” supporting Nvidia’s RTX Pro Blackwell Max-Q Workstation GPU and up to 64TB of storage in a 1U form factor. Meanwhile, the company said the C7000 is the first rack-mounted CDU that can meet the cooling needs of Nvidia’s Vera Rubin NVL72 platform in a 4U, 19” form factor.

“That delivers more than 220 kilowatts of cooling capacity, and supports warmer facility temperature, water temperatures up to 40°C (104°F), which reduces energy costs substantially for customers,” Chhabra said.

Dell has also released new versions of its Integrated Rack Controller and OpenManage Enterprise solutions to “expand remote device connectivity and orchestration” across the entire rack.

Dell PowerRack for compute is available now, while PowerRack for networking will be available in September 2026, and for storage in 2H 2026. Additionally, the Dell Pro Precision 7 R1 will be available in July 2026, with the CDU coming in Q3 2026.

Agents everywhere, all at once

While agentic AI is the hot topic at the moment, Jon Siegal, SVP of the client solutions group and online marketing at Dell, noted that despite the excitement, enterprises continue to have concerns, largely around costs and safety, particularly when it comes to the potential misuse of company data.

“The bottom line is that they're looking for a safer way, a more cost-effective way to bring agentic AI to their company, and today we're answering the call, with our seamless agentic AI workflows across the Dell AI Factory with Nvidia,“ he said.

To support agentic AI workloads, Dell will now be offering support for Nvidia’s OpenShell runtime platform, which allows organizations to build, deploy, and govern agents in a secure sandboxed environment.

Customers will also be able to run Nvidia’s NemoClaw platform on Dell desk-side workstations, while Dell’s AI Data Platform will offer support for the Dell-Nvidia AI-Q 2.0 Reference Architecture, for more complex multi-agent workflows.

Dell has also made some significant advancements to its Dell AI Data Platform, including enhancements to its orchestration and search capabilities, updates to its SQL analytics platform so it can support Nvidia Blackwell GPUs and the forthcoming Vera CPU, and integrating Dell’s storage and search engines with Nvidia Omniverse.

Finally, Dell’s new AI Ecosystem program will provide AI software companies with a “structured path to validate solutions on Dell AI Factory infrastructure.” Initial ecosystem partners include Google, Hugging Face, OpenAI, Palantir, Reflection, ServiceNow, and SpaceXAI.

“With the advent of agentic AI, every organization now faces the same challenge to turn intelligence into impact at speed or become obsolete,” said Michael Dell, chairman and CEO, Dell Technologies. “At Dell Technologies, we’re helping customers turn their data into AI fuel on infrastructure they control with security, governance, and cost efficiency.”

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang added: "Agentic AI has arrived - enterprise AI adoption is going parabolic. Dell and Nvidia are building the full-stack AI factory for this moment, with accelerated computing, networking, storage, software, and services that scale from the desktop to the data center — turning AI’s potential into unprecedented productivity for enterprises everywhere.”