Dell Technologies Closes the Gap Between AI Ambition and AI Outcomes

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Dell Technologies Closes the Gap Between AI Ambition and AI Outcomes

2026-05-19 01:00 Last Updated At：01:11

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 18, 2026--

Dell Technologies World – Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) announces a broad set of advancements to the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA, delivering the foundation enterprises need to move from AI ambition to realized outcomes. With more than 5,000 1 customers already deploying the Dell AI Factory, these portfolio additions are designed to help organizations adopt AI with confidence, scale with purpose, and achieve results on infrastructure they control, with data they trust.

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Why it matters

Most enterprises don't have an AI ambition problem. They have an AI execution problem. Data availability and quality remain the top implementation challenges across organizations at every stage of AI maturity. 2 Without a trusted, AI-ready data foundation, even the best infrastructure falls short. Pilots stall before they reach production, and the promise of agentic AI remains out of reach. Dell and NVIDIA address this with a simplified, integrated approach that can accelerate time-to-value by up to 84% 3 and gives enterprises the confidence to scale.

Agentic AI at for every workload

As agentic AI workloads grow in complexity, cloud costs are becoming increasingly unpredictable. Organizations are seeking a more controlled approach to deploying autonomous AI where performance, data sovereignty and cost efficiency are paramount.

Dell Deskside Agentic AI, a new solution powered by Dell’s high-performance workstations and NVIDIA NemoClaw, allows enterprises to more securely build and run autonomous agents locally with data that never leaves the device. Supported by end-to-end Dell services, the solution is designed for specialized groups in software engineering, academic research and regulated industries, converting variable cloud token costs into a controlled infrastructure investment. With Dell Deskside Agentic AI, organizations can break even versus public cloud API costs in as little as three months. 4

NVIDIA OpenShell, the secure runtime for autonomous agents, is now supported across the entire Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA. This allows organizations to build, deploy and govern agents with privacy controls, from Dell Pro Precision towers and Dell Pro Max with GB10 and GB300 through to Dell PowerEdge XE servers. The Dell-NVIDIA AI-Q 2.0 Reference Architecture, powered by the Dell AI Data Platform with NVIDIA, extends this foundation with a production-ready multi-agent research workflow for regulated industries. Read more here.

Turning enterprise data into AI fuel

AI is only as good as the data it can find, trust and act on. Dell is announcing significant advancements to the Dell AI Data Platform that make enterprise data AI-ready at scale across the full lifecycle, from discovery and preparation to analytics and AI-driven experiences.

Next-generation infrastructure built for the demands of modern AI

Dell is expanding its AI infrastructure portfolio with new systems built for modern enterprise AI workloads. As the top rack-scale infrastructure provider, 8 shipping more than twice the number of rack-scale servers compared to the closest competitor, 9 Dell is adding PowerRack to the industry’s broadest AI infrastructure portfolio. 10

Dell PowerRack is a fully integrated system – compute, networking and storage engineered as one – with thermal design, power management and software optimization built to work together from the ground up. The result is accelerated AI and HPC workloads at enterprise scale, without the integration overhead of component assembly. Dell PowerRack for storage and networking are simplified, rack‑scale platforms delivering factory‑integrated dedicated Dell Exascale storage and Dell PowerSwitch networking with a system‑level approach to performance, power and cooling, managed consistently through the Dell Integrated Rack Controller.

Additional infrastructure updates include:

Scalable solutions with an expanding open ecosystem

The new Dell AI Ecosystem Program gives AI software providers a structured path to validate solutions on Dell AI Factory infrastructure, turning fragmented innovation into proven, deployable outcomes. For enterprises, this means lower-risk paths to production-scale AI, faster POC-to-production and the ability to run AI solutions where data lives.

Bringing AI leaders and frontier models to the enterprise helps organizations maintain control over their data, models and operations within their trusted environments.

In addition, ServiceNow customers will be able to leverage the Dell AI Factory to bring together infrastructure and enterprise workflow automation, enabling organizations to discover, govern, and operationalize AI focused on business outcomes

New validated AI solutions for common enterprise outcomes spanning agentic AI with Mistral, computer vision with Fogsphere and Ipsotek, an Eviden business, immersive AI with UneeQ Digital Humans, and code assistants with Poolside — are deployable directly from the Dell Automation Platform catalog. New security solutions and services using CrowdStrike, Fortanix and F5 provide full-stack, 24/7 protection and confidential AI across AI infrastructure, data, models and applications for more resilient AI foundations. JFrog and Dell deliver a central hub for securely managing AI models, MCPs, Agent Skills and software artifacts at scale.

Perspectives:

Michael Dell, chairman and chief executive, Dell Technologies:

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

Jensen Huang, founder and CEO, NVIDIA:

"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.”

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About Dell Technologies

Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) helps organizations and individuals build their digital future and transform how they work, live and play. The company provides customers with the industry’s broadest and most innovative technology and services portfolio for the AI era.

Oil prices keep swinging up and down, and so do stocks worldwide

NEW YORK (AP) — Oil prices swung Monday after a scare overnight where prices popped and then moderated, and the yo-yo moves kept stock markets worldwide unsettled.

The S&P 500 was down 0.5% after flipping between modest gains and losses. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 35 points, or 0.1%, as of 12:47 p.m. Eastern time. The Nasdaq composite was down 1%, though it remains near its all-time high set last week like the S&P 500.

The center of the action recently has been the world’s bond markets, where climbing yields have cranked up the pressure on economies and stock markets worldwide. Higher yields make it more expensive for households and businesses to borrow, which U.S. homebuyers are all too familiar with because of higher mortgage rates.

Higher interest rates could also make it more difficult for companies to borrow to build huge data centers for artificial-intelligence technology, which has been driving much of the U.S. economy’s growth.

Yields have been climbing for several reasons, and at the top of them have been oil prices. The war with Iran has trapped many oil tankers in the Persian Gulf instead of delivering crude to customers worldwide, which in turn has driven up crude’s price.

The price for a barrel of Brent crude oil, the international standard, got as high as $112 overnight after President Donald Trump told Iran on his social-media platform Sunday that “the Clock is Ticking, and they better get moving, FAST, or there won’t be anything left of them.”

Prices eased from there on hopes the two sides can reach a deal that would get oil flowing worldwide again. The price for a barrel of Brent crude was at $110.93, up 1.5% from Friday. That's well above its roughly $70 price from before the war.

That drop in oil prices helped boost stock markets that hadn’t finished trading yet, and France’s CAC 40 index went from a loss of 1.2% to a gain of 0.4%. By that point, Japan’s Nikkei 225 had already finished 1% lower, with Hong Kong's Hang Seng down 1.1%.

On Wall Street, Dominion Energy pushed upward on the U.S. stock market after NextEra Energy agreed to buy it in an all-stock deal to create the world’s largest regulated electric utility by market value. Dominion rallied 8.9%, and NextEra fell 6.4%.

Boston Scientific climbed 4% after saying it would spend $2 billion on its previously announced stock buyback program of $5 billion by the end of June. Such purchases send cash directly to investors and boost the company’s per-share earnings.

Delta Air Lines rose 0.4%, aided by lower oil prices and news that Berkshire Hathaway bought more than $2.6 billion of the airline’s stock. Berkshire Hathaway built a reputation as a value investor able to buy stocks at low prices under its former leader, Warren Buffett.

Pulling downward on Wall Street was Regeneron Pharmaceuticals. It dropped 9.9% after reporting discouraging data from a trial of a treatment for melanoma.

This upcoming week will offer little in terms of data on the U.S. economy, but a heavily anticipated report on Nvidia’s latest quarterly results will arrive Wednesday. The chip company has routinely blown past analysts’ expectations each quarter, while forecasting even bigger growth than Wall Street had thought. It will likely need to keep up such momentum to keep AI stocks driving the market to more records.

Target, Home Depot and Walmart will also report their latest quarterly results this week.

In the bond market, the yield on the 10-year Treasury was at 4.59%, unchanged from late Friday. It climbed as high as 4.63% overnight when oil prices were at their heights.

The yield on the 10-year Japanese government bond rallied toward its highest level since the late 1990s.

Yields worldwide have been climbing on fears about higher inflation caused by higher oil prices, which in turn could push central banks not only to abandon the thought of cutting interest rates but also consider hiking rates. Higher rates would slow inflation but at the cost of hurting the economy and dragging on prices for stocks and other investments.

Several solid reports on the U.S. economy recently, along with worries about the U.S. government’s huge and growing debt problem, are also pushing upward on yields.

AP Business Writers Chan Ho-him and Matt Ott contributed to this report.