Dell Technologies strengthens Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning capabilities

Dell Technologies has announced the new 14th-generation Dell EMC PowerEdge four-socket servers and Dell Precision Optimizer 5.0 to further strengthen AI and ML capabilities. It has forged alliance with Intel in AI and ML for Dell EMC-Ready Solutions to enable customers harness the power of data. New AI and ML solutions and partnerships drive smarter, better business outcomes by turning data into intelligent insights in real time.

According to the recently released update of the Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) 2018 IT Transformation Maturity Curve Index, commissioned by Dell EMC, transformed companies are 18X more likely to make better and faster data-driven decisions than their competition. Additionally, transformed companies are 22X as likely to be ahead of the competition with new products and services to market.

“As India’s digital drive gets stronger with Digital India and Make-in-India mission creating a favourable environment, businesses across sectors are looking forward to move to AI- focused innovation. In fact, just talking about financial sector, as per PWC report, over 36 per cent of the financial institutions have already invested in AI-focused technologies, and around 70 per cent plan to embrace it in the near future. We, at Dell EMC, are committed to help businesses apply AI & ML technology, turning their data into intelligent insights to drive a faster time-to-market and achieve better business outcomes,” says Ravinder Pal Singh, Director, Digital Cities & Mega Projects, Government Segment, Dell EMC Commercial.

ML workloads require high performance and considerable capacity to rapidly manage and analyze structured and unstructured data, and then deliver consistent, fast results that enable competitive advantage. As a result, Dell EMC has unveiled two new four-socket servers – the PowerEdge R940xa and PowerEdge R840, part of the 14th-generation Dell EMC PowerEdge server portfolio.

With exceptional performance density of Intel Xeon Scalable processors (up to 112 processing cores) and massive memory (up to 6TB of memory and NVDIMM options), these new servers deliver powerful performance and allow customers to –

· Rapidly transform data insights into business outcomes with the Dell EMC PowerEdge R940xa, which is designed to accelerate databases for business-critical applications without cloud fees and security risks. It improves application performance by combining up to four CPUs with four graphics processing units (GPUs) in a powerful 1:1 ratio, and it enables low-latency with direct-attached non-volatile memory express (NVMe) drives.

· Drive faster insights to better engage with customers and accelerate innovation with the Dell EMC PowerEdge R840 server, which is designed for in-database analytics. The R840 server minimizes latency with more direct-attached NVMe drives than other market available options2 and speeds data transfers with a fully integrated ultra-path interconnect (UPI).

Unlike competitors’ four-socket offerings, these servers also support field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), which excel on data-intensive computations. Both servers feature OpenManage Enterprise to monitor and manage the IT infrastructure, as well as agent-free Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC) for automated, efficient management to improve productivity.

Dell EMC is also announcing its next-generation PowerMax storage solution, built with a machine learning engine which makes autonomous storage a reality. Leveraging predictive analytics and pattern recognition, a single PowerMax system analyzes and forecasts 40 million data sets in real time per array, driving six billion decisions per day to automatically maximize efficiency and performance of mixed data storage workloads. PowerMax’s intelligent self-management capabilities allow organizations to refocus IT resources and personnel on more strategic business outcomes.