[Digital Daily Reporter Kwon Ha-young] Dell Technologies has fully initiated its strategy for a “Disaggregated Infrastructure” aimed at modernizing data centers.
On the second day of the “Dell Technologies World 2025 (DTW 2025)” held at the Venetian Convention Center in Las Vegas on the 20th (local time), Dell Technologies’ Arthur Lewis, President of the Infrastructure Solution Group (ISG), emphasized in his keynote speech, “We are no longer just building AI tools; we are redefining the architecture of future intelligent enterprises.”
He explained, “The entire stack innovation is designed to transform data into intelligence and complexity into clarity. We will deploy AI where the customer data is, enabling compromise-free modernization and large-scale innovation.”
As the need to manage and protect workloads across various environments such as on-premise data centers, cloud, and edge is increasing, companies face the challenge of preparing for all these changes through more modern data centers.
In response, Dell’s disaggregated infrastructure emphasizes the flexible separation and combination of computing, storage, and network resources. This approach reduces hardware dependency while enabling integration with various cloud operating systems, allowing customers to expand computing and storage independently as needed. Arthur Lewis highlighted, “This infrastructure flexibility is essential for accommodating complex workloads like AI factories.”
During the announcement, various new products and technology updates were revealed to materialize this strategy. In the storage area, the all-flash based “Dell PowerProtect Data Domain All-Flash Appliance” was introduced. Scheduled for release in August this year, this product achieves 80% power savings and a 40% reduction in rack space compared to traditional HDDs. Lewis stated, “It offers 544 terabytes (TB) of effective storage per node and supports up to 36 petabytes (PB) of storage capacity, offering 4 times faster restore speeds and 2 times faster replication performance.”
The “PowerScale,” encompassing file and object storage, also enhanced its object storage support and cyber resilience features through software updates. Customers can utilize “Dell ObjectScale” or services like Amazon S3 and Wasabi to enhance backup efficiency while managing critical data protection and recovery strategies with the “PowerScale Cybersecurity Suite.”
Additionally, the “PowerStore Precision Ransomware Detection” feature identifies ransomware attacks through AI-based anomaly detection, ensuring data integrity and minimizing downtime.
Beyond hardware-centered products, Dell focuses on simplifying the management of private and edge infrastructures through software-based automation platforms.
“Dell Private Cloud” offers a new approach by combining Dell’s disaggregated infrastructure with cloud operating systems from partners like Broadcom, Nutanix, and Red Hat to simplify the building and operation of private clouds. Customers can protect their investment assets by reusing the same hardware infrastructure and reduce operational complexity through full lifecycle management features. Particularly, a verified blueprint catalog allows for various architecture choices, and automation features enable configuring the entire cloud stack without manual intervention.
According to Dell, customers can provision private cloud clusters in approximately 90% fewer steps compared to the past, and cluster construction time is shortened to within 2 hours and 30 minutes. Arthur Lewis further elaborated, “Dell Private Cloud is designed for a disaggregated infrastructure environment, offering centralized management and support while allowing customers to flexibly install the desired operating systems. It provides the option between PowerEdge and PowerStore, granting customers greater control and agility by enabling independent scaling of compute and storage.”
Through this strategy, Dell clearly articulated its vision to transition from a mere infrastructure supplier to a provider of an optimized data operations platform for the AI era. Lewis affirmed, “New AI algorithms, such as inference models, multimodal models, and large language models (LLM), require new data architecture approaches to refine, prepare, collect, query, and ultimately protect diverse data sets across enterprises. Dell provides a platform that efficiently manages complex workflows to support customers in deploying, processing, and protecting data.”