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Dell Automation Platform – NativeEdge overview
The platform also enables zerotouch operations, reducing reliance on on-site IT personnel. Automated onboarding and lifecycle management allow infrastructure to be deployed and maintained remotely, while embedded zero-trust security ensures consistent policy enforcement across all nodes.
Crucially, NativeEdge supports both virtual machines and containerised workloads. This allows enterprises to modernise incrementally, running legacy applications alongside newer AI services without requiring wholesale infrastructure replacement.
AI data platforms and orchestration Edge orchestration is not limited to infrastructure management. It increasingly extends into data orchestration, where the ability to access, process and govern distributed data determines the effectiveness of AI systems.
Dell’ s AI Data Platform with NVIDIA plays a key role here, acting as the data foundation of the AI Factory. It integrates storage, accelerated compute and software frameworks to support workloads ranging from retrieval-augmented generation to multimodal search and agentic AI systems.
In distributed environments, data is often generated faster than it can be transported. Edge orchestration must therefore decide what data is processed locally, what is sent to central systems and how insights are fed back into enterprise-wide models.
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