Dell Technologies has unveiled a solution that simplifies the deployment of edge infrastructure and applications and enables reliable, on-premises, generative AI.

Dell unveiled 'Dell NativeEdge', an operational software platform for edge innovation, at the second day of DTW (Dell Technologies World) 2023 on the 24th.

We also announced 'Project Helix' for building on-premises generative AI in collaboration with NVIDIA.

Dell NativeEdge simplifies and optimizes broad edge deployments across edge, core data centers, and multi-cloud environments.

Dell NativeEdge, the result of Dell's Project Frontier, which was pre-announced last year, is the industry's only edge operations software platform that supports remote management of large-scale environments and orchestration of multi-cloud applications.

A purpose-built platform for enterprise edge use cases, featuring zero-touch deployment and an open systems design, and built around Dell's Optiplex desktops, PowerEdge servers, It can be integrated with various hardware such as Edge Gateway.

It also features zero-trust implementation capabilities to protect applications and infrastructure from security risks across edge assets.

Dell conducted a study of the potential economic value of its NativeEdge platform with over 100 large manufacturing customers, assuming each company deploys 25 facilities.

Assuming that 75% of a manufacturing company's edge assets are managed through NativeEdge over a three-year investment period, it can realize an ROI of up to 130% and reduce the time required to onboard devices to each edge infrastructure asset under management by up to 20 minutes, significantly reducing enterprise risk and reducing costs.

Zero-touch provisioning is also expected to reduce edge asset deployment time and edge operating costs, reduce on-site support dispatches, lower transportation costs, and save travel time, potentially reducing carbon dioxide emissions by up to 14 tons.

Dell Technologies and NVIDIA are also partnering to enable the on-premises deployment and deployment of generative AI models.

Project Helix, a collaboration between the two companies, is a full-stack solution pre-configured with infrastructure and software from Dell and NVIDIA. This solution allows businesses to easily and conveniently build accurate and responsible generative AI based on their proprietary data.

Project Helix simplifies enterprise-grade AI with an optimized combination of hardware and software from Dell. Enterprise data can be repurposed into smarter, more valuable outcomes while maintaining data privacy. It supports the entire generative AI lifecycle, from infrastructure provisioning, modeling, training, fine-tuning, application development, and deployment, to inference deployment and result streamlining.

Dell PowerEdge servers, such as the PowerEdge XE9680 and PowerEdge R760xa, are optimized to deliver performance for generative AI training and AI inference.

The combination of Dell servers, NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs, and NVIDIA networking forms the infrastructure backbone ideal for these workloads.

This infrastructure can be linked with elastic and scalable unstructured data storage such as Dell PowerScale and Dell ECS Enterprise Object Storage.

Across all Dell validated designs, customers can leverage the enterprise capabilities of Dell server and storage software, as well as gain infrastructure insights through Dell CloudIQ, AIOps software.

Project Helix also includes NVIDIA AI Enterprise software, which provides over 100 frameworks, pre-trained models, and development tools, including NVIDIA NeMo™, a large-scale language framework, and NeMo Guardrails software to help build modern, secure, generative AI chatbots.