Equinix and Dell Technologies Launch Private AI Solution for Scalable Enterprise AI Infrastructure

Equinix and Dell Technologies Launch Private AI Solution

Equinix, a digital infrastructure provider, has partnered with Dell Technologies and Nvidia to offer a private AI solution that enables businesses to train AI models on public and private clouds deployed on-premises. This solution is built on the Dell AI Factory with Nvidia, featuring Dell PowerEdge XE9680 with Nvidia GPUs, the Nvidia Spectrum-X Ethernet platform, Nvidia BlueField-3 DPUs, and the Dell PowerScale F710 storage. This means the solution combines accelerated computing with advanced storage and networking technologies. This solution will be available across Equinix's 260+ AI-ready data centers in over 70 metros worldwide, supporting demanding AI workloads with real-time insights and sustainability in focus. "At Equinix, we are committed to providing our customers with cutting-edge AI infrastructure that meets the highest standards of performance, security and sustainability," said Lisa Miller, Senior Vice President, Platform Alliances at Equinix. "Our collaboration with Dell Technologies and Nvidia enables enterprises to harness the power of generative AI while maintaining control over their data and supporting their corporate sustainability goals. This solution is designed to support the most demanding AI workloads and help ensure our customers can innovate and drive outcomes." "Working with Equinix allows us to deliver the Dell AI Factory with Nvidia and meet the evolving needs of enterprises and our partner community," said Chad Dunn, Vice President of Product Management, AI and Data Management at Dell Technologies. "Our combined expertise in high performance computing, advanced cooling and efficient infrastructure helps ensure that customers can deploy and scale AI workloads securely and more sustainably. This collaboration empowers organizations to leverage the full potential of generative AI while maintaining control over their data and addressing sustainability goals." Dell Technologies describes its AI Factory with Nvidia on its website as a "portfolio of products, solutions, and services tailored for AI workloads -- from desktop to data center to cloud" - paving the way for AI to work seamlessly for you.

Equinix Partners with Dell Technologies to Provide Scalable AI Infrastructure for Enterprises

The Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA combines Dell PowerEdge XE9680 servers with NVIDIA accelerated computing, the NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet platform, NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs, Dell PowerScale F710 storage and the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software platform. This solution will be available at any of Equinix's 260+ AI-ready data centers and is supported by industry-leading interconnection offerings such as Equinix Fabric ®, helping customers get real-time insights and accelerate AI innovation.

Equinix Collaborates with Dell Technologies to Help Enterprises Deploy Flexible and Scalable AI Infrastructure

New Effort Supports Partners to Deploy AI Strategies with Tailored and Integrated Solution Built for the Rapidly Evolving Market Equinix, Inc., the world's digital infrastructure company®, announced today a private AI solution that lets businesses train AI models in scalable, cost-efficient public and private clouds while ensuring enhanced control, security and low-latency deployment on-premises. Equinix International Business Exchange™ (IBX ®) data centers leverage the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA to offer a portfolio of products, solutions and services in a neutral, cloud-adjacent platform where customers can securely and cost-effectively connect to public clouds, colocation facilities, and their own private cloud and on-premises infrastructure. The Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA combines Dell PowerEdge XE9680 servers with NVIDIA accelerated computing, the NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet platform, NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs, Dell PowerScale F710 storage and the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software platform. This solution will be available at any of Equinix's 260+ AI-ready data centers and is supported by industry-leading interconnection offerings such as Equinix Fabric ®, helping customers get real-time insights and accelerate AI innovation. "At Equinix, we are committed to providing our customers with cutting-edge AI infrastructure that meets the highest standards of performance, security and sustainability," said Lisa Miller, Senior Vice President, Platform Alliances at Equinix. "Our collaboration with Dell Technologies and NVIDIA enables enterprises to harness the power of generative AI while maintaining control over their data and supporting their corporate sustainability goals. This solution is designed to support the most demanding AI workloads and help ensure our customers can innovate and drive outcomes." "Working with Equinix allows us to deliver the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA and meet the evolving needs of enterprises and our partner community," said Chad Dunn, Vice President of Product Management, AI and Data Management at Dell Technologies. "Our combined expertise in high performance computing, advanced cooling and efficient infrastructure helps ensure that customers can deploy and scale AI workloads securely and more sustainably. This collaboration empowers organizations to leverage the full potential of generative AI while maintaining control over their data and addressing sustainability goals." Implementing the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA has helped customers realize impactful results, such as in the healthcare industry where streamlining radiology reports has allowed for more focus on patient care, in manufacturing where predictive maintenance and quality control has enhanced operational efficiency, and in retail with personalized customer experiences and optimized inventory management. "Understanding and applying generative AI in the enterprise requires a deep technical knowledge base, and many organizations struggle to keep up with the rapid pace of the ever-evolving landscape," said Mike Leone, Practice Director, Data Management, Analytics & AI at Enterprise Strategy Group. "In a recent ESG study, 91% of organizations agree that working with partners has helped them see value from generative AI more quickly than expected. This collaboration between Equinix and Dell Technologies lets organizations efficiently deploy cutting edge AI technologies in some of the most advanced, high performance data centers in the world." Equinix's secure and sustainable network of IBX data centers provides a global portfolio of partners and service providers that offers seamless access to a broad range of interconnectivity options for enterprises to integrate and scale their IT infrastructure quickly and efficiently. The ecosystem allows companies to connect with multiple cloud providers, network services and technology partners in a secure, scalable, low-latency environment, enhancing performance, flexibility and collaboration across regions and industries. Dell's collaboration with Equinix adds value to the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA by leveraging Equinix's extensive network of data centers and digital infrastructure: High Performance AI-Ready Data Centers: Equinix's network of AI-ready data centers with 99.9999% uptime, advanced cooling and robust inter-connectivity.Global Reach and Local Compliance: 260+ data centers across 70+ metros, ensuring data is close to where it is generated and used, while maintaining predictable infrastructure costs.Platform Neutrality and Flexibility: Equinix's private and highly scalable interconnection enables secure data transfer across an ecosystem of 10,000 enterprises, including over 2,000 networks and 3,000 cloud and IT service providers.Sustainability: Equinix is committed to delivering digital infrastructure more sustainably, achieving 96% renewable energy coverage across its data centers globally (with 100% renewable energy coverage in the Americas and EMEA).Data Privacy and Security: secure, private infrastructure with full control and access to the lineage of AI models on privately hosted GPUs and interconnection. ### About Equinix Equinix is the world's digital infrastructure company®. Digital leaders harness Equinix's trusted platform to bring together and interconnect foundational infrastructure at software speed. Equinix enables organizations to access all the right places, partners and possibilities to scale with agility, speed the launch of digital services, deliver world-class experiences and multiply their value, while supporting their sustainability goals.

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, /PRNewswire/ -- Equinix (NASDAQ:EQIX), Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the world's digital infrastructure company, announced today a private AI solution that lets businesses train AI models in scalable, cost-efficient public and private clouds while ensuring enhanced control, security and low-latency deployment on-premises. Equinix International Business Exchange™ (IBX) data centers leverage the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) to offer a portfolio of products, solutions and services in a neutral, cloud-adjacent platform where customers can securely and cost-effectively connect to public clouds, colocation facilities, and their own private cloud and on-premises infrastructure. The Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA combines Dell PowerEdge XE9680 servers with NVIDIA accelerated computing, the NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet platform, NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs, Dell PowerScale F710 storage and the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software platform. This solution will be available at any of Equinix's 260+ AI-ready data centers and is supported by industry-leading interconnection offerings such as Equinix Fabric, helping customers get real-time insights and accelerate AI innovation. "At Equinix, we are committed to providing our customers with cutting-edge AI infrastructure that meets the highest standards of performance, security and sustainability," said , Senior Vice President, Platform Alliances at Equinix. "Our collaboration with Dell Technologies (NYSE:DELL) and NVIDIA enables enterprises to harness the power of generative AI while maintaining control over their data and supporting their corporate sustainability goals. This solution is designed to support the most demanding AI workloads and help ensure our customers can innovate and drive outcomes." "Working with Equinix allows us to deliver the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA and meet the evolving needs of enterprises and our partner community," said , Vice President of Product Management, AI and Data Management at Dell Technologies. "Our combined expertise in high performance computing, advanced cooling and efficient infrastructure helps ensure that customers can deploy and scale AI workloads securely and more sustainably. This collaboration empowers organizations to leverage the full potential of generative AI while maintaining control over their data and addressing sustainability goals." Implementing the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA has helped customers realize impactful results, such as in the healthcare industry where streamlining radiology reports has allowed for more focus on patient care, in manufacturing where predictive maintenance and quality control has enhanced operational efficiency, and in retail with personalized customer experiences and optimized inventory management. "Understanding and applying generative AI in the enterprise requires a deep technical knowledge base, and many organizations struggle to keep up with the rapid pace of the ever-evolving landscape," said , Practice Director, Data Management, Analytics & AI at Enterprise Strategy Group. "In a recent ESG study, 91% of organizations agree that working with partners has helped them see value from generative AI more quickly than expected. This collaboration between Equinix and Dell Technologies lets organizations efficiently deploy cutting edge AI technologies in some of the most advanced, high performance data centers in the world." Equinix's secure and sustainable network of IBX data centers provides a global portfolio of partners and service providers that offers seamless access to a broad range of interconnectivity options for enterprises to integrate and scale their IT infrastructure quickly and efficiently. The ecosystem allows companies to connect with multiple cloud providers, network services and technology partners in a secure, scalable, low-latency environment, enhancing performance, flexibility and collaboration across regions and industries. About Equinix Equinix (Nasdaq: EQIX) is the world's digital infrastructure company. Digital leaders harness Equinix's trusted platform to bring together and interconnect foundational infrastructure at software speed. Equinix enables organizations to access all the right places, partners and possibilities to scale with agility, speed the launch of digital services, deliver world-class experiences and multiply their value, while supporting their sustainability goals.

Equinix Makes Dell AI Factory With Nvidia Available Through Partners

'We're trying to make this as available as possible, but we think this is going to have a significant appeal for Dell partners,' Equinix's Lisa Miller, tells CRN. Equinix is making it easy to stand up rack-scale AI deployments, as well as providing the advanced storage, and networking required of the most demanding data tasks in the enterprise with its new partnership with Dell Technologies. The partnership features Dell's AI Factory with Nvidia, which includes the hardware as well as the consultation and data preparation needed to move an AI concept through to execution, all within Equinix data centers. "If you think about AI, we want to demystify that. It really is just another workload. Now it's a high-performance compute workload, but it is still another workload," Lisa Miller, senior vice president of platform alliances at Equinix, told CRN. Miller said while all enterprises are investing in AI technology, the difficulties in setting up the most modern AI infrastructures and feeding it data that is ready to be trained is where they stumble. She said AI deployments require deep technical knowledge, substantial computational resources, and robust IT infrastructure. "It is not super easy," she told CRN. "We're seeing enterprises increasingly turning to the partner ecosystem to navigate the intricacies of the AI landscape and to really bridge that skills gap." [RELATED: CoreWeave Partners With Dell Technologies To 'Empower Enterprises to Harness AI'] Chad Dunn, Dell Technologies vice president of product management for artificial intelligence and data management, said this partnership provides prescriptive and proven infrastructure to run AI workloads up through the software stack, all housed inside an Equinix facility that is built to keep the devices and data running at peak performance. "So this is inclusive of the Dell servers, Nvidia software stack, the Nvidia accelerators, Dell storage, Nvidia networking, all predefined," he told CRN. "So we know the performance characteristics of it. We know how the different workloads are going to perform. And for IT organizations, they've got that consistent layer of IT infrastructure to support whatever the AI workload." For hardware, Dell AI Factory with Nvidia combines Dell PowerEdge XE9680, Nvidia H100s, Nvidia Spectrum-X Ethernet platform, Nvidia BlueField-3 DPUs, Dell PowerScale F710 storage, and the Nvidia AI Enterprise software platform. "These high-end workloads are actually demanding high-end data centers, and that makes the perfect fit for us to work with Equinix on this," Dunn said. The offer will be rolled out at Equinix's more than 260 AI-ready data centers that are located across 70 geographies. Miller said customers should be able to power up their AI work in as little as 90 days from order. Inside that window, it could take Dell six to eight weeks to have the hardware available from order to delivery, Dunn said. Miller (pictured above) said partners are delivering enterprises with faster time to value on their AI projects and this offering can only enable that velocity, along with making it profitable for partners. "So the great aspect of this is the go-to market will enable customers to purchase this either through their preferred VAR, MSP, Dell partner that sits behind distribution, or it can be a Dell partner that is selling with our direct sales force as well as Dell could do this," she said. "So we're trying to make this as available as possible, but we think this is going to have a significant appeal for Dell partners." Customers can buy as many as sixteen XE9680s for up to eight racks worth of accelerated AI compute, Dunn said. This collaboration lets customers leverage the potential of generative AI while maintaining control over their data and addressing sustainability goals, Dunn said. He said while the current iteration runs Nvidia's H100s, Dell will keep pace with GPU advances. "So you'll see us transition to the H200s and then, the Blackwell series in the back half of next year for the for the really high end," he told CRN. "The chip technology is moving so quickly, we've got to make sure that systems technology is keeping up with it, and we have that offer in market as quickly as possible." Miller said this partnership gives customers platform neutrality and flexibility, interconnection capabilities to all of the public clouds, and more than 2,000 networks and 3,000 cloud and IT companies and service providers that customers can access. "Not only do you get the benefit of this AI factory, you also get all of the interconnection," Miller said. "You get all of the sustainability requirements that customers and enterprises are demanding now, and so all of that comes with what you get here, along with the data privacy and the security. So really, this is a very comprehensive solution for enterprises."