Transforming the data path: Dell’s new releases move enterprises closer to the agentic data center

AI is taking shape, moving from models that answer questions to models that can reason. Now models are powering the agentic era, and Dell Technologies Inc. has announced several extensions to its AI Data Platform designed to manage this new paradigm. These include extending the Dell Data Orchestration Engine with three new capabilities: the Unified Semantic Layer, the Enterprise Knowledge Graph and Knowledge Agents. Dell also added a new capability in the Data Processing Engine designed to accelerate the enterprise data prep for AI. The engine will run on graphics processing units using Nvidia Corp.’s cuDF library. The intent, as explained on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio, by Arthur Lewis (pictured), president of the Infrastructure Solutions Group at Dell, is to bring the Data Processing Engine and Dell’s storage engines closer together, reducing unnecessary data movement with capabilities such as zero-copy data access, memory-to-memory transfer and distributed processing. Dell…