AI is rewriting the private cloud playbook as Dell moves beyond traditional HCI

Private cloud infrastructure is taking on a new role as enterprises rethink where workloads should run and how systems should be built for artificial intelligence. The shift is being driven by several pressures at once. Organizations are looking more closely at public cloud costs, seeking greater control over data and weighing how quickly infrastructure can adapt as AI workloads place new demands on compute, storage and networking. At the same time, changing virtualization strategies are creating pressure for systems that support more than one operating environment. These trends are reshaping the role of private cloud. Rather than recreating traditional data centers, enterprises are looking for infrastructure that provides cloud-like simplicity while allowing compute and storage to scale independently. “It’s about economics, it’s about control and it’s about AI sovereignty,” said Dave Vellante, chief analyst at theCUBE Research. “But to make private clouds viable in this AI era, some things have to change. There’s a massive demand for disaggregated architectures and infrastructure, but customers, they don’t want to be integrators all over again.” During the “Rethinking Private Cloud for…