Titanium Black Partner

Accelerate digital transformation and build infrastructure tailored to innovation. As one of the Top 3% of Dell partners globally, AHEAD brings you over 400 custom IP solutions that take any of your Dell platforms to the next level – from PowerStore to PowerFlex and more.

AHEAD AND DELL TECHNOLOGIES

AHEAD HELPS HEALTHCARE CLIENT DEVELOP AI ON DELL POWERSCALE

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Bringing AI to Healthcare on Dell PowerScale

Watch as AHEAD VP of Data Center Services, John Cole, explains how AHEAD helped a healthcare client of 10 years make the leap to AI – through small, manageable steps. By determining the most realistic AI use cases and workloads, we helped the client achieve a competitive advantage over other healthcare organizations and deliver a higher quality of patient care, all on infrastructure they had already invested in.

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AHEAD & DELL TECHNOLOGIES

METRICS AND AWARDS

AHEAD and Dell by the Numbers

Excellence in APEX Sales Award 2023
Top 3% of Dell Technologies partners globally
2,000+ successful deployments
450+ pre- and post-sales and technical certifications

AHEAD’s Dell Distinctions

Channel Services Delivery Excellence Award 2022
Member: Partner Technical Advisory Board & Sales Advisory Board
Advanced Deployment Services Partner – awarded for the highest quality standards

AHEAD’s 2023 Dell Rankings

AHEAD is ranked #1 in the following categories:

Unstructured Data Solutions
Data Protection Suite
PowerMax
Converged Infrastructure
Unique PowerFlex Customers
Tech Refresh & Comp Swap
PowerStore

WHY AHEAD FOR DELL TECHNOLOGIES?

Advise

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.

Transform

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.

Operate

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.

GET AHEAD OF YOUR COMPETITON

Cloud Optimization

AHEAD’s Managed FinOps team helps you save big on hybrid cloud expenditure by identifying proper workload placements and storage optimization opportunities.

Infrastructure Services

We’ve built and migrated some of the largest Dell solutions in the world, including a 13.5PB PowerFlex rack. Our strategic advisory services and proprietary Accelerators drive cost efficiency, increased performance, and increased availability in your infrastructure builds, from cloud to core to edge to far edge.

Cyber Recovery and Data Protection

AHEAD for Dell Cyber Recovery creates a completely logical Air Gapped Vaulted solution that leverages Dell PowerProtect Data Domain deduplication target to protect and isolate your backups. Dell CR Vault solutions strengthen your cyber-resilient strategy by identifying threats within your backups that reduce RTOs after an attack.

Unstructured Data Solutions

Dell PowerScale helps drive advanced data analytics and AI capabilities in your organization though data governance, tiering, protection, and compliance solutions for unstructured data.

Edge Management and Orchestration

Simplify logistics for even the most complex large-scale edge deployments. AHEAD’s Hatch platform and expertise in Dell NativeEdge help you easily procure, coordinate, and deploy edge and far edge technologies.