Dell AI Data Platform

Dell's data foundation for the AI Factory with NVIDIA: PowerScale, ObjectScale and the data engines, connected to OpenShift and RAG.

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Overview
What the platform is: storage engines, data engines, and where it sits in the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA.
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PowerScale
Scale-out file storage with OneFS: NFS, SMB and S3 access, and multi-tenancy for a shared AI cluster.
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ObjectScale
S3 object storage on PowerEdge servers, as the lake behind a lakehouse and the document store for RAG.
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Lightning and Exascale Storage
The parallel file system for training and inference, the four-in-one Exascale design, and what ships when.
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Connecting OpenShift
Dell Container Storage Modules: the PowerScale CSI driver, snapshots, replication and observability.
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Data Orchestration Engine
Discover, ingest, label and transform data with the Dataloop-based engine, and keep embeddings fresh.
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Data Processing Engine
Spark jobs on the platform, and GPU acceleration with NVIDIA cuDF.
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Data Analytics Engine
Federated SQL across lakes, databases and object stores with the Starburst-based engine.
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Data Search Engine
Semantic and hybrid search over PowerScale and ObjectScale with the Elastic-based engine, built for RAG.
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RAG on Dell
Point the NVIDIA RAG Blueprint and OpenShift AI at Dell storage and the Data Search Engine.
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Performance and sizing
NVIDIA certification, RDMA and GPUDirect Storage paths, and sizing with the Dell Storage Performance Tool.
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Security and multi-tenancy
Tenants, mTLS over NFS, role-based access, and access labels that follow data into search results.
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Choosing between vendors
Dell against HPE, NetApp and VAST, and when a vendor data engine beats the open-source stack.
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What's coming
The unified semantic layer, enterprise knowledge graph and knowledge agents, due in the first half of 2027.
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