Turn scattered AI pilots into scalable, production-grade AI applications by unifying data, compute, and operations on Dell XE.

• AHEAD designs and integrate Dell Validated Designs for AI on PowerEdge XE platforms, combining GPUs, storage, networking, and advanced cooling into production-ready AI factories tuned for your workloads.
• Through AI assessments and use-case workshops, we iterate in our Dell XE lab environments to co-engineer architectures, validate performance, and align platforms with governance, security, and operations requirements before scaling broadly.
• With AHEAD Foundry and secure-by-design architectures, we accelerate time-to-production and de-risk AI investments. See measurable gains in productivity plus lower TCO and more efficient use of your existing Dell investments.

Strategic advisory services expertly tailored to guide your transformation

• Consolidate to a common PowerFlex platform that can support data center scaling for any workload with linear performance scaling and extremely low latency.
• Through careful application dependency mapping, take your workloads to any cloud with operational consistency by leveraging PowerFlex on prem and in the cloud.
• Innovate with an end-to-end AI infrastructure strategy. AHEAD constructs custom AI infrastructure across cloud, core and edge that aligns to your AI workloads and business goals, powered by PowerEdge servers.
• Protect your Dell infrastructure. AHEAD cyber resiliency workshops help you create immutable copies of your backup data, with analytics to validate your data and provide quick insights into incidents.

Outcome-oriented services to accelerate impact, built on leading platforms with AHEAD IP

• Modernize fast with minimal disruption. Our infrastructure experts implement a strong IaC foundation in PowerFlex in the cloud, containerize workloads to ensure success, and fast track you to automation of key cloud technologies.
• Many organizations have designed their data centers around VMware hypervisors for almost 20 years. AHEAD is the only VMware partner worldwide with all eight Master Services competencies and Cloud Verified Status. We bring a holistic and vendor-agnostic perspective to the challenge of adopting more of the VMware portfolio or removing parts of it from your environment. Whether you want to bring VCF to your Dell stack or implement PowerFlex for universal storage with a hypervisor-agnostic strategy, AHEAD can help.
• Lower the TCO of your Dell hyperconverged or cloud infrastructure. From automation workflows in PowerCore to expertise in complex data storage solutions like PowerStore, AHEAD designs and optimizes your Dell infrastructure for scalability, governance, and cost optimization.

AHEAD offers full Dell management capabilities, from design to migration to XaaS

• Driver faster adoption, value, and consumption of PowerFlex through our automation workflows and self-service portals in the AHEAD Automation Hub.
• Our FinOps teams help you manage costs through an APEX consumption model.
• AHEAD Foundry securely designs, integrates, and deploys all Dell solutions, and offers customization for edge, embedded, and rack mount applications.
• Dell integrations in our full IT lifecycle management Hatch platform offer complete visibility into the supply chain and asset management.

Accelerate purpose-built solution delivery with tightly integrated Dell OEM platforms and AHEAD services.

• Co-design and integrate Dell OEM platforms into turnkey, production-ready solutions, leveraging AHEAD Foundry for custom rack, edge, and embedded configurations aligned to your workloads and environments.
• Streamline large-scale deployments from core to far edge with standardized architectures and industrial edge expertise, simplifying logistics and on-site complexity through a single, trusted partner.
• Gain full visibility into the OEM lifecycle with Hatch integrations that connect procurement, configuration, and asset management, so you can scale confidently while controlling risk and cost.
• Protect OEM-based solutions with proven Dell cyber recovery and data protection designs that help you detect threats in backups, speed recovery, and keep critical services available in the face of cyberattacks.