Dell presents its vision of “AI anywhere on data everywhere”
Greg Findlen, Senior Vice President of Product Management of Data Management at Dell Technologies, said: “Organizations are stuck between a rock and a hard place and deserve a better answer. An answer that works with their data gravity and not against it, doesn’t force them to undertake a multi-year journey to centralize all their data in the public cloud or constantly play catch up to the myriad choices of proprietary and open-source technologies.”
“And while we’re at it, an answer that works for their current analytics and AI needs and emerging GenAI needs. We call this “AI anywhere on data everywhere.” Since most data remains on-premises, customers are left with two broad (both suboptimal) choices—either stitch together a complex web of tools and technologies and manage it on their own or replicate their entire data estate to the public cloud,” he added.
Findlen said: “AI loves data, but many enterprises are still scratching the surface. While significant advancements have been made in AI, locating, accessing and processing data across disparate environments remains a major roadblock.”
“Organizations need help with the rapid growth of data (and its copies) across multicloud, proliferating data sources, formats and tool choices, and an inability to scale as requirements grow. This prevents them from fully unlocking the potential of AI to drive business outcomes,” he added.
In October 2023, Findlen announced Dell’s vision for an open, modern data lakehouse and the vision for this lakehouse is as follows:
1. A highly secure single point of access to ALL data across the enterprise.
2. The ability to interoperate freely with the broader ecosystem of tools across on-prem and cloud.
3. A unified stack for any workload—BI, AI, ML and GenAI.
4. Blazing fast performance with decoupled compute and storage.
5. Predictable costs for the entire stack, including infrastructure.
6. A turnkey experience that simplifies purchase, deployment and lifecycle management.
7. A reduction in data movement by discovering and querying data in place before consolidating.
To deliver on these promises, Dell is developing the first phase of this solution, partnering with Starburst. Starburst is built on top of Trino, the open-source high-performance distributed SQL engine known for running fast analytic queries against data lakes, lakehouses and distributed data sources at internet-scale. It integrates global security with fine-grained access controls, supports ad-hoc and long-running ELT workloads and is a gateway to building excellent data products.
Combining Starburst with Dell’s leading compute (PowerEdge) and leading storage (ECS, ObjectScale and PowerScale) platforms, we’re giving customers the ability to set the foundation for a high-performance, infinitely scalable lakehouse on-premises and across multi-cloud environments.
Reference: AI Anywhere on Data Everywhere | Dell USA
