Dell Technologies said on March 16 local time that it has significantly expanded its AI infrastructure portfolio at Nvidia's annual GTC conference.

The company said Dell updated more than 30 products and technologies, including data platforms, storage, servers, networking and workstations. It focused on helping companies move AI projects from the experimental stage to large-scale operations.

The announcement marked the second anniversary of the launch of the Dell AI Factory offered through cooperation between Dell and Nvidia. The AI Factory initiative is centered on providing full-stack infrastructure for enterprise AI training and inference. Dell has secured more than 4,000 AI Factory customers so far.

Dell said the biggest obstacle to implementing AI is not infrastructure but data. It said data availability and quality are the key bottlenecks.

With that in mind, Dell strengthened its AI data platform by combining new data engines and an orchestration layer with existing storage systems, including PowerScale and ObjectScale. In particular, the newly added Dell Data Orchestration Engine supports automatic discovery of structured, unstructured and multimodal data in a low-code way so it can be used immediately for AI. It also provides a conversational AI assistant that can query datasets in natural language.

Dell also officially launched the Dell Lightning File System. The company said it is a high-performance parallel file system specialized for AI model training and inference and is the world's fastest parallel file system.

Dell also announced Dell Exascale Storage, a software-defined architecture that runs file, object and parallel file storage on a single infrastructure. The platform targets ultra-large AI clusters exceeding 10 petabytes.

Dell also strengthened its server lineup, including the PowerEdge XC9812, a liquid-cooled server based on Nvidia's Vera Rubin NVL72 platform.

In networking, Dell unveiled the PowerSwitch SN6000 series integrating Nvidia Spectrum-6 Ethernet technology. The company said it offers bandwidth of 1.6 terabits per second and reduces power consumption with co-packaged optics technology that directly combines silicon photonics with a switch application-specific integrated circuit. On the software side, it launched packaged offerings of a knowledge assistant and an agentic AI platform built in cooperation with Cohere and DataRobot.