Case Study

Accelerate AI Innovation by Right-Sizing your IT Infrastructure
This strategic guide outlines how to maximize ROI by right-sizing IT infrastructure for AI workloads. It provides five critical considerations to help leaders balance performance, cost, and scalability while avoiding the pitfalls of over-provisioning.
- Topic
- IT Management
- Published
- 21 Jan 2026

Maximize your ROI and eliminate "AI Sprawl." Discover how to deliver optimal efficiency and performance by matching your infrastructure to your specific AI goals.
Implementing AI is a major milestone, but doing so without a right-sized infrastructure strategy leads to wasted budget and performance bottlenecks. With 32% of organizations viewing cost as a major hurdle, the question isn't just how to use AI, but where to run it for maximum efficiency.
This guide, "Accelerate AI Innovation by Right-Sizing Your IT Infrastructure," breaks down the five key factors every IT leader must consider to achieve AI success while staying on budget.
Key Highlights:
Cost Efficiency: On-premises inferencing with Dell and NVIDIA can be up to 4x more cost-effective than public cloud deployments.
Infrastructure Flexibility: AI can be run across diverse environments including workstations, data centers, or public clouds depending on the use case.
The Over-Provisioning Trap: Strategic planning helps organizations avoid under- or over-provisioning hardware, ensuring optimal resource utilization.
Use Case Specificity: Identifying whether a project requires pre-built models or custom fine-tuning dictates the necessary infrastructure capacity.
Model Size Optimization: Encourages starting with the smallest possible model to achieve results, reducing hardware demand.
Performance Balancing: Critical for customer-facing digital assistants that require immediate responses and rapid scalability.
Concurrency Management: The importance of understanding user volume to prevent service outages and performance degradation.
Output Requirements: Recognition that text, image, and video outputs have vastly different capacity and performance needs.
The Dell AI Factory: Leveraging the industry’s first end-to-end enterprise AI solution for repeatable and scalable outcomes.
