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Dell’s AI pitch gets a little more personal
At Dell Technologies World in Las Vegas, Dell said it’s adding Dell Deskside Agentic AI to the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA. Translation: instead of forcing every AI workflow to bounce around the cloud, companies can run more of it locally, with less latency, more control, and fewer data-sovereignty headaches.
That matters because enterprises are still figuring out how to deploy AI without turning every project into a compliance thriller. Dell is basically saying, “What if the AI lived closer to the work — and closer to the security team?”
Why investors should care
This isn’t just shiny demo theater. Dell is trying to move from being the box seller in the corner to the infrastructure layer companies actually build on. If customers want local agentic AI, secure policy enforcement, and a smoother NVIDIA-powered stack, Dell gets to play the recurring enterprise hardware-and-services game instead of a one-and-done sale.
And because NVIDIA is woven across the whole platform now, Dell gets to ride the same AI wave that’s been making data-center budgets look like they’ve had three espressos.
The bigger picture
Dell’s AI story keeps getting more specific, and that’s usually a good thing. Generic “we do AI” slogans are easy; shipping production-ready products with a clear use case is harder. If this sticks, Dell could keep carving out a nicer margin lane in enterprise AI infrastructure.
Big picture: Dell is trying to make AI less of a cloud-only party trick and more of a practical on-prem tool businesses can actually use.