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Stay Ahead of Threats, Innovate Without Fear, Grow Without Limits   ​  ​Stay Ahead of Threats, Innovate Without Fear, Grow Without Limits Artificial Intelligence Blog | Dell

Discover the PowerFlex Ultra Release bringing unmatched performance, resiliency & efficiency to enterprise storage.   ​  ​Discover the PowerFlex Ultra Release bringing unmatched performance, resiliency & efficiency to enterprise storage. PowerFlex Blog | Dell

Powerful new features designed to help accelerate progress, streamline operations, and secure their mission-critical environments.   ​  ​Powerful new features designed to help accelerate progress, streamline operations, and secure their mission-critical environments. PowerMax Blog | Dell

Build your cloud by design with the Multicloud Adoption Framework, backed by Dell experts.   ​  ​Build your cloud by design with the Multicloud Adoption Framework, backed by Dell experts. Cloud Transformation Blog | Dell

Lack of in-house employee expertise or skill is the No. 1 challenge organizations are facing today when implementing GenAI applications.   ​  ​Lack of in-house employee expertise or skill is the No. 1 challenge organizations are facing today when implementing GenAI applications. Artificial Intelligence Blog | Dell

Redefining Workplace Audio for the Hybrid Era   ​  ​Redefining Workplace Audio for the Hybrid Era Client Peripherals Blog | Dell

See how Dell ObjectScale’s scalable, secure, and AI-optimized architecture empowers financial services to drive business success.   ​  ​See how Dell ObjectScale’s scalable, secure, and AI-optimized architecture empowers financial services to drive business success. ObjectScale Blog | Dell

Fuel business growth without upfront strain! Flexible IT financing keeps you agile, innovative, and ready for the future.   ​  ​Fuel business growth without upfront strain! Flexible IT financing keeps you agile, innovative, and ready for the future. Thought Leadership Blog | Dell

A new breed of industry-leading company is taking shape — Frontier Firms. These organizations blend human ambition with AI-powered technology to reshape how innovation is scaled, work is orchestrated and value is created. They’re accelerating AI transformation to enrich employee experiences, reinvent customer engagement, reshape business processes and unlock creativity and innovation. To empower customers in becoming Frontier, we’re excited to announce the launch of the reimagined Microsoft Marketplace, your trusted source for cloud solutions, AI apps and agents. This further realizes Marketplace as an extension of the Microsoft Cloud, where we collaborate with our partner ecosystem to bring their innovations to our customers globally. By offering a comprehensive catalog across cloud solutions and industries, Microsoft Marketplace accelerates the path to becoming a Frontier Firm. With today’s announcement, we are excited to share: The new Microsoft Marketplace, a single destination to find, try, buy and deploy cloud solutions, AI apps and agents. Azure Marketplace and Microsoft AppSource are now unified to simplify cloud and AI management. Available today in the US and coming soon to customers worldwide. Tens of thousands of cloud and industry solutions in the Marketplace catalog across a breadth of categories ranging from data and analytics to productivity and collaboration, in addition to industry-specific offerings. Over 3,000 AI apps and agents are newly available directly on Marketplace and in Microsoft products — from Azure AI Foundry to Microsoft 365 Copilot — with rapid provisioning within your Microsoft environment through industry standards like Model Context Protocol (MCP). Marketplace integrations with Microsoft’s channel ecosystem, empowering you to buy where and how you want — whether from your cloud service provider (CSP) or relying on a trusted partner to procure cloud and AI solutions on your behalf. YouTube Video Click here to load media AI apps and agents for every use case Microsoft Marketplace gives you access to thousands of AI apps and agents from our rich partner ecosystem designed to automate tasks, accelerate decision-making and unlock value across your business. With a new AI Apps and Agents category, you can easily and confidently find AI solutions that integrate with your organization’s existing Microsoft products. “With Microsoft Marketplace, we reduced configuration time of AI apps from nearly 20 minutes to just 1 minute per instance. That efficiency boost has translated into increased productivity and lower operating costs. Marketplace is a strategic channel for Siemens, where we’ve seen an 8X increase in customer adoption. It’s a powerful platform for scaling both sides of our business.” — Jeff Zobrist, VP Global Partner Ecosystem and Go To Market | Siemens Digital Industries Software Special thanks to these partners who are launching new AI offerings in Microsoft Marketplace today: Comprehensive catalog across cloud solutions and industries Microsoft Marketplace offers solutions across dozens of categories ranging from data and analytics to productivity and collaboration, in addition to industry-specific offerings. Microsoft Marketplace is a seamless extension of the Microsoft Cloud, uniting solutions integrated with Azure, Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, Power Platform, Microsoft Security and more. “The Microsoft Marketplace, in particular, helps us balance innovation with confidence by giving us access to trusted solutions that integrate seamlessly with our Azure environment — ultimately enabling us to move faster while staying true to our Five Principles.” — Matthew Hillegas, Commercial Director – Infrastructure & Information Security | Mars Inc. For organizations with a Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitment, 100% of your purchase for any of the thousands of Azure benefit eligible solutions available on Marketplace continue to count toward your commitment. This helps you spend smarter to maximize your cloud and AI investments. Integrated experience from discovery to deployment Contextually relevant cloud solutions, AI apps and agents built by our partners are also available directly within Microsoft products — providing users, developers and IT practitioners with approved solutions in the flow of work. For example, Agent Store includes Copilot agents within the Microsoft 365 Copilot experience. The same applies for apps in Microsoft Teams, models and tools in Azure AI Foundry and future experiences including MCP servers. By integrating offerings from Marketplace directly into the Microsoft Cloud, IT is equipped with management and control tools that enable both innovation and governance. When you acquire a Copilot agent or an app running on Azure from Microsoft Marketplace, it’s provisioned and distributed to team members aligned to your security and governance standards. YouTube Video Click here to load media Powering partner growth For our partners, Microsoft Marketplace sits at the center of how we work together. We’re continuously expanding its capabilities to help our partners drive growth — whether that means scaling through digital sales, deepening channel partnerships or landing transformative deals. We’ve invested in multiparty private offers, CSP integration and CSP private offers to connect software development companies and channel partners on Marketplace, creating more complete solutions to address customers’ needs. Today, we’re excited to share that valued partners including Arrow, Crayon, Ingram Micro, Pax8 and TD SYNNEX are integrating Microsoft Marketplace into their marketplaces, further extending customer reach. Additionally, a new Marketplace capability called resale enabled offers is now in private preview. This empowers software companies to authorize their channel partners to sell on their behalf through private offers — unlocking new routes to market. “We’re incredibly excited about the path forward with Microsoft. This integration with the Marketplace catalog is just the beginning — we see endless potential to co-innovate and help customers navigate their AI-first transformation with confidence.” — Melissa Mulholland, Co-CEO | SoftwareOne and Crayon Nicole Dezen, Chief Partner Officer and Corporate Vice President, Global Channel Partner Sales at Microsoft, shares more details about the partner opportunity with Microsoft Marketplace in her blog. Becoming Frontier with Microsoft Marketplace Whether you’re seeking to accelerate innovation, empower your teams with AI or unlock new value through trusted partners, Microsoft Marketplace brings together the solutions, expertise and ecosystem to meet your business needs. Explore the new Microsoft Marketplace. Thousands of solutions. Millions of customers. One Marketplace. Alysa Taylor is the Chief Marketing Officer for Commercial Cloud and AI at

Overcome challenges, meet deadlines, and build a future-ready workplace.   ​  ​Overcome challenges, meet deadlines, and build a future-ready workplace. Service and Support Blog | Dell

Boost IT efficiency with automated PC support! Discover how Dell ProSupport Plus saves time & empowers teams to focus on impact.   ​  ​Boost IT efficiency with automated PC support! Discover how Dell ProSupport Plus saves time & empowers teams to focus on impact. Services Technology and Tools Blog | Dell

Discover how AI-powered PCs from Dell and MIT research are boosting performance, productivity and collaboration in today’s hybrid workplaces.   ​  ​Discover how AI-powered PCs from Dell and MIT research are boosting performance, productivity and collaboration in today’s hybrid workplaces. Artificial Intelligence Blog | Dell

Insights from Dell’s John Roese and MIT’s Pattie Maes on the transformative Potential of human-AI collaboration.   ​  ​Insights from Dell’s John Roese and MIT’s Pattie Maes on the transformative Potential of human-AI collaboration. Agentic AI Blog | Dell

Top 5 ways to drive enterprise success   ​  ​Top 5 ways to drive enterprise success Data Management Blog | Dell

Experience the energy of Dell Sales Academy—real-world training, teamwork and recognition that make every win matter.   ​  ​Experience the energy of Dell Sales Academy—real-world training, teamwork and recognition that make every win matter. Innovation Blog | Dell

This week we have introduced a wave of purpose-built datacenters and infrastructure investments we are making around the world to support the global adoption of cutting-edge AI workloads and cloud services. Today in Wisconsin we introduced Fairwater, our newest US AI datacenter, the largest and most sophisticated AI factory we’ve built yet. In addition to our Fairwater datacenter in Wisconsin, we also have multiple identical Fairwater datacenters under construction in other locations across the US. In Narvik, Norway, Microsoft announced plans with nScale and Aker JV to develop a new hyperscale AI datacenter. In Loughton, UK, we announced a partnership with nScale to build the UK’s largest supercomputer to support services in the UK. These AI datacenters are significant capital projects, representing tens of billions of dollars of investments and hundreds of thousands of cutting-edge AI chips, and will seamlessly connect with our global Microsoft Cloud of over 400 datacenters in 70 regions around the world. Through innovation that can enable us to link these AI datacenters in a distributed network, we multiply the efficiency and compute in an exponential way to further democratize access to AI services globally. So what is an AI datacenter? The AI datacenter: the new factory of the AI era Aerial view of Microsoft’s new AI datacenter campus in Mt Pleasant, Wisconsin. An AI datacenter is a unique, purpose-built facility designed specifically for AI training as well as running large-scale artificial intelligence models and applications. Microsoft’s AI datacenters power OpenAI, Microsoft AI, our Copilot capabilities and many more leading AI workloads. The new Fairwater AI datacenter in Wisconsin stands as a remarkable feat of engineering, covering 315 acres and housing three massive buildings with a combined 1.2 million square feet under roofs. Constructing this facility required 46.6 miles of deep foundation piles, 26.5 million pounds of structural steel, 120 miles of medium-voltage underground cable and 72.6 miles of mechanical piping. Unlike typical cloud datacenters, which are optimized to run many smaller, independent workloads such as hosting websites, email or business applications, this datacenter is built to work as one massive AI supercomputer using a single flat networking interconnecting hundreds of thousands of the latest NVIDIA GPUs. In fact, it will deliver 10X the performance of the world’s fastest supercomputer today, enabling AI training and inference workloads at a level never before seen. The role of our AI datacenters – powering frontier AI Effective AI models rely on thousands of computers working together, powered by GPUs, or specialized AI accelerators, to process massive concurrent mathematical computations. They’re interconnected with extremely fast networks so they can share results instantly, and all of this is supported by enormous storage systems that hold the data (like text, images or video) broken down into tokens, the small units of information the AI learns from. The goal is to keep these chips busy all the time, because if the data or the network can’t keep up, everything slows down. The AI training itself is a cycle: the AI processes tokens in sequence, makes predictions about the next one, checks them against the right answers and adjusts itself. This repeats trillions of times until the system gets better at whatever it’s being trained to do. Think of it like a professional football team’s practice. Each GPU is a player running a drill, the tokens are the plays being executed step by step, and the network is the coaching staff, shouting instructions and keeping everyone in sync. The team repeats plays over and over, correcting mistakes until they can execute them perfectly. By the end, the AI model, like the team, has mastered its strategy and is ready to perform under real game conditions. AI infrastructure at frontier scale Purpose-built infrastructure is critical to being able to power AI efficiently. To compute the token math at this trillion-parameter scale of leading AI models, the core of the AI datacenter is made up of dedicated AI accelerators (such as GPUs) mounted on server boards alongside CPUs, memory and storage. A single server hosts multiple GPU accelerators, connected for high-bandwidth communication. These servers are then installed into a rack, with top-of-rack (ToR) switches providing low-latency networking between them. Every rack in the datacenter is interconnected, creating a tightly coupled cluster. From the outside, this architecture looks like many independent servers, but at scale it functions as a single supercomputer where hundreds of thousands of accelerators can train a single model in parallel. This datacenter runs a single, massive cluster of interconnected NVIDIA GB200 servers and millions of compute cores and exabytes of storage, all engineered for the most demanding AI workloads. Azure was the first cloud provider to bring online the NVIDIA GB200 server, rack and full datacenter clusters. Each rack packs 72 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, tied together in a single NVLink domain that delivers 1.8 terabytes of GPU-to-GPU bandwidth and gives every GPU access to 14 terabytes of pooled memory. Rather than behaving like dozens of separate chips, the rack operates as a single, giant accelerator, capable of processing an astonishing 865,000 tokens per second, the highest throughput of any cloud platform available today. The Norway and UK AI datacenters will use similar clusters, and take advantage of NVIDIAs next AI chip design (GB300) which offers even more pooled memory per rack. The challenge in establishing supercomputing scale, particularly as AI training requirements continue to require breakthrough scales of computing, is getting the networking topology just right. To ensure low latency communication across multiple layers in a cloud environment, Microsoft needed to extend performance beyond a single rack. For the latest NVIDIA GB200 and GB300 deployments globally, at the rack level these GPUs communicate over NVLink and NVSwitch at terabytes per second, collapsing memory and bandwidth barriers. Then to connect across multiple racks into a pod, Azure uses both InfiniBand and Ethernet fabrics that deliver 800 Gbps, in a full fat tree non-blocking architecture to ensure that every GPU can talk to every other GPU at full line rate without congestion. And across

Discover why Dell supports the new Agentic Payments Protocol (AP2) and how open standards are building an interoperable future for AI-driven commerce.   ​  ​Discover why Dell supports the new Agentic Payments Protocol (AP2) and how open standards are building an interoperable future for AI-driven commerce. Agentic AI Blog | Dell

AI’s biggest challenge isn’t data or algorithms, it’s energy. Here’s what CIOs need to know about the AI energy challenge.   ​  ​AI’s biggest challenge isn’t data or algorithms, it’s energy. Here’s what CIOs need to know about the AI energy challenge. AI Solutions Blog | Dell

Dell Technologies is the leader in all-flash storage vendor revenue per IDC.   ​  ​Dell Technologies is the leader in all-flash storage vendor revenue per IDC. PowerStore Blog | Dell

Part 1 – AI Clusters Background For Networkers   ​  ​Part 1 – AI Clusters Background For Networkers Data Management Blog | Dell