How Dell Is Building the Secure Agentic Enterprise

Dell's AI Blueprint for Identity, Agents and Agentic Infrastructure Jennifer Lawinski • March 17, 2026

Going all-in on artificial intelligence with a top down strategy and a ravenous appetite for innovation has helped Dell transform its operations and grow revenue by roughly $30 billion over the past two years, and the company's evolution lays out a blueprint for how CIOs should think about building infrastructure for AI and managing an army of agents.

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Dell's strategy begins with drinking its own Kool Aid and becoming an early consumer of the very technology it builds infrastructure to support.

"You cannot do AI with the infrastructure of the past," said Dell CTO and Chief AI Officer John ...