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9/10/24, 1:57 PM [South Africa] Dell Technologies, Red Hat partner to fuel open source AI workloads - Africa Business Communities

Dell Technologies and Red Hat have announced that they are bringing Red Hat Enterprise

Linux AI (RHEL AI) to Dell PowerEdge servers.

RHEL AI is a foundation model platform built on an AI-optimized operating system that
enables users to more seamlessly develop, test and deploy artificial intelligence (AI) and

generative AI (gen AI) models.

The two say this joint effort establishes RHEL AI as a preferred platform on the Dell

PowerEdge R760xa server.

“AI by nature requires extensive resources spanning enabled servers, compute power and

GPUs. As organizations evaluate and implement gen AI use cases, it is imperative that

they build on a platform that is able to scale with their business while also providing the

agility to experiment and develop AI-driven innovations. ‘’Joe Fernandes, vice president

and general manager, Generative AI Foundation Model Platforms, Red Hat said.

‘’By collaborating with Dell Technologies to validate and empower RHEL AI on Dell

PowerEdge servers, we are enabling customers with greater confidence and flexibility to

harness the power of gen AI workloads across hybrid cloud environments and propel their

business into the future.” he added.

This collaboration helps organizations more readily implement successful artificial

intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) strategies to scale their IT systems and power

enterprise applications across their businesses. Dell and Red Hat are providing a more

consistent AI experience on optimized, AI-enabled hardware solutions, all delivered on the

trusted platform of RHEL AI on Dell PowerEdge. This initiative aims to simplify the AI
experience for users by continuously testing and validating hardware solutions, including

NVIDIA accelerated computing, with RHEL AI.

“Validating RHEL AI for AI workloads on Dell PowerEdge servers provides customers with

greater confidence that the servers, GPUs, and foundational platforms are tested and

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