Dell expands its AI Data Platform with a unified semantic layer, enterprise knowledge graph and Knowledge Agents for governed context

What changed

Dell announced an expansion of its AI Data Platform on October 6. The Unified Semantic Layer gives structured and unstructured data consistent business definitions, the Enterprise Knowledge Graph maps relationships using metadata, lineage and query history, and topic-scoped Knowledge Agents consume governed slices of that graph. Those three capabilities are planned for the first half of 2027 rather than being generally available today. Dell also announced NVIDIA cuDF acceleration for its Data Processing Engine and reports about 3.9x average speedup over CPU-only runs, with a 20.4x peak in one batch workload; those are Dell's internal tests, and the GPU acceleration is planned for December 2026. The Storage Performance Tool and some AI-ready data services are available now.