AI factories are redefining how intelligence is built, deployed and scaled — turning once-static infrastructure into dynamic production lines for data-driven innovation. As organizations look to harness their own information more effectively, they’re realizing the real advantage lies closer to home.

With more than 83% of the world’s data still on-premises, Dell Technologies Inc. has a unique opportunity to transform enterprise information into intelligent, purpose-built systems through its AI factory approach, according to Arthur Lewis (pictured), president of infrastructure solutions group at Dell. The company anticipated the generative AI trend with its Dell AI Factory solution, a set of tools and services that make it easier for users to deploy and scale AI. As interest in both private clouds and proprietary AI models grows, so does the need for innovative data center technology.

Dell’s Arthur Lewis discusses proprietary AI with theCUBE.

“Fifty percent of a traditional data center’s data is actually dark,” Lewis said. “Another big percent is sitting in cold backup. You can envision a world where this is a system that’s built out where all of this data is observable and active, sitting in hot and warm tiers, constantly in circulation, feeding these engines and agents that will get built out over time.”

Lewis spoke with theCUBE’s John Furrier and Dave Vellante for theCUBE + NYSE Wired: AI Factories – Data Centers of the Future event series, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed Dell’s AI factories and why infrastructure is cool again.

Inside the infrastructure powering AI factories

Lewis credits Dell’s current success with the forward-thinking decisions it made in 2022. The company decided to focus on comprehensive AI infrastructure solutions for customers that wanted to harness their existing data.

“Artificial intelligence is more than AI servers,” Lewis said. “It is a fundamental revolutionary technology that’s going to modernize how customers take advantage of their most valuable asset, which is their data. In order to do so, you have to have a fully integrated system, which includes the compute, the network, the storage and the software, a full-stack solution.”

In addition to the company’s AI Factory solution, its Automation Platform has built-in capabilities that allow users to build out private clouds quickly. The industries that have been fastest to adopt AI include finance, healthcare and manufacturing, according to Lewis, who advises businesses to upgrade their infrastructure as soon as possible.

“You look at what Hudson River Trading is doing to further AI innovation in quantitative trading, it’s amazing,” he said. “Several other examples in healthcare. When you listen to the type of acceleration that’s going to happen in research in areas that we have struggled to make progress over the last several decades, all of this stuff is going to advance at light speed over the next several years all because of AI.”

Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of theCUBE + NYSE Wired: AI Factories – Data Centers of the Future event series:

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