Dell Technologies announces advancements in its Dell NativeEdge edge operations software platform to simplify how organizations can deploy, scale and use AI at the edge.
According to Gartner®, “by 2025, more than 50% of data managed by businesses will be created and processed outside of the data center or cloud.”1 As organizations increasingly move their data to the edge and AI accelerates new edge workloads, the demand for agile, connected and secure systems to deploy and manage AI models across multiple edge sites increase.
Today’s Dell NativeEdge advancements, part of our Dell AI Factory capabilities, address these needs and provide organizations with AI software integrations and high availability (HA) capabilities to provide more resiliency and reliability in deploying and managing AI at the edge.
Boost the efficiency of Edge and AI workloads with NativeEdge
Dell NativeEdge is the industry’s only edge operations software platform delivering secure, large-scale device integration, remote management, and multi-cloud application orchestration.2. NativeEdge software now allows multinode high availability (HA) clustering for NativeEdge endpoints, such as Dell PowerEdge servers, OptiPlex and Precision workstations, and Dell gateways.
Endpoints can be clustered or grouped by NativeEdge software to act as a single system, so organizations can:
- Provide high availability capabilities to maintain critical business processes and cutting-edge AI workloads, despite network disruptions or device failures. Virtual machine (VM) migration and automatic failover of applications, compute, and storage provide organizations with increased reliability and continuous operations.
- Easily adapt to changing workload demands in diverse environments, from retail stores to utility companies.
- Integrate NativeEdge Endpoints with external storage solutions, such as Dell PowerStore and Dell PowerVault, to support training and deployment of AI models with the versatility of single-, two-, or three-tier solutions at the edge.
NativeEdge AI software integrations simplify Edge AI deployments
Organizations implementing AI inference at the edge may find it tedious and time-consuming to deploy AI applications and solutions across hundreds or even thousands of edge locations. Dell offers a comprehensive catalog of more than 55 pre-built Dell NativeEdge plans that automate the deployment of an organization’s choice of AI applications and frameworks for faster time to value. NativeEdge Blueprints provide customers with a single button to assemble and deploy new use cases and AI inference capabilities at the edge, while reducing manual configuration time and errors.
Dell expands its catalog to include:
- Open source tools, such as Apache Spark™, Apache Airflow®MLflow and Grafanato support continuous MLOps workflows tailored to edge use cases, for rapid and efficient deployment of AI-enhanced solutions.
- Aveva Unified Operations Centerto facilitate the modernization of urban infrastructure in integrated operations, building systems, master planning, smart urban mobility and critical connectivity.
- EPIC iOwhich uses real-time analytics for retail operations to improve the in-store shopping experience.
- Dell Data Collectorto collect and transfer data from sensors and IoT devices to various locations in near real time. Organizations can use Dell Data Lakehouse to query data for real-time insights and AI workloads.
- THE Intel® Geti™ software solution, to accelerate the development of computer vision AI models at the edge.
- Updates to the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software platform, which includes NVIDIA NIM Microservicesenable developers to more efficiently and securely deploy AI inference capabilities at the edge, while reducing manual configuration time and minimizing errors.
Dell Services for NativeEdge plans Helping organizations design and develop custom NativeEdge plans for Dell validated and customer-owned applications, providing seamless deployment using Dell NativeEdge software.
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1Gartner, Hyperscalers Stretching to the Digital Edge, Tom Bittman, July 24, 2023. GARTNER is a registered trademark and service mark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the United States and internationally and is used herein with permission. All rights reserved.
2 Dell Technologies internal analysis, May 2024.
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