Dell AI Data Platform Wins 2025 CRN Tech Innovators Award

At Dell Technologies, we believe that technology can empower real progress, and when our efforts are recognized, it's both an honor and an inspiration. We're excited to announce that the Dell AI Data Platform is a winner in the 2025 CRN Tech Innovators Awards, celebrated for helping customers on their data journey with Dell PowerScale, ObjectScale and Data Lakehouse. This recognition reinforces our commitment to building technology that delivers a positive impact for our customers and partners worldwide.

Celebrating excellence with CRN

The annual CRN Tech Innovators Awards spotlight the most groundbreaking products and solutions in the IT channel across more than 30 categories. Winners are hand-selected by a panel of experienced CRN editors who evaluate hundreds of entries for capabilities, ingenuity and potential to solve the industry's most pressing challenges. Being named a winner underscores not just innovative technology, but Dell's role as the leading solutions provider for modern data architectures and AI workflows.

Transforming data management with the Dell AI Data Platform

Organizations today are inundated with structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data. The Dell AI Data Platform helps organizations harness the power of this data, delivering a unified foundation that simplifies data management, analytics and AI workloads.

Dell PowerScale and ObjectScale are core to the platform's architecture. PowerScale leads the industry in scalable, high-performance file storage, while ObjectScale delivers secure, cloud-ready object storage. By tightly integrating these technologies with advanced data lakehouse functionality, the Dell AI Data Platform provides a seamless environment for every type of data.

Key platform features:

• Place: The Dell AI Data Platform empowers organizations to place data where it delivers the most value across on-premises, edge and multicloud environments. With the seamless integration of PowerScale and ObjectScale, users can efficiently manage and access unstructured and structured data, wherever it resides.
• Process: Powered by the Dell Data Lakehouse, the platform unifies structured and unstructured data for high-performance analytics and AI workloads. This integrated foundation breaks down traditional data silos, accelerates data processing and enables teams to transform raw information into actionable insights faster and more efficiently.
• Protect: Enterprise-grade security and comprehensive data protection are at the foundation of the platform. Automated safeguards, compliance and user access controls, governance and modern backup ensure that critical data remains protected, available and resilient against ever-evolving threats. Designed around real customer needs, the platform reduces IT complexity, speeds time-to-insight and frees organizations to innovate confidently.

"Each of the 2025 CRN Tech Innovators Awards winners is a standout offering that reimagines what's possible in the IT channel. Each creates the opportunity to build bold solutions that solve real-world challenges for end users and drive success for channel partners. We congratulate our winners for their commitment to innovation, partner success and customer impact, and we can't wait to see how they continue to push technology boundaries forward."

-Jennifer Follett, VP, U.S. Content, and Executive Editor, CRN

Looking to a future fueled by innovation

This recognition underscores our commitment to driving innovation at every turn. You can expect even further investment in data management, AI advancements and solutions that help you thrive in a dynamic, data-driven world.

Whether you're in healthcare, finance, manufacturing, education, the Dell AI Data Platform, powered by PowerScale, ObjectScale, and our data lakehouse expertise is here to give you a foundation to fuel cutting-edge AI use cases with your data.

The 2025 CRN Tech Innovator awards are featured in CRN's August issue.

We invite you to join us in celebrating this achievement. Please share the news using #CRNInnovators, tag @DellTech and @CRN-Media, and keep the conversation going with your feedback, your questions, and your vision for the future. Together, we're advancing innovation and driving human progress.

Thank you for being a vital part of our journey. The future is bright, and we're ready to shape it alongside you.

Learn more about the Dell AI Data Platform and how it can transform your business. Visit us at Dell Technologies.