We have found that, regardless of specific industry segment, organizations are interested in delivering one or more of the following business outcomes when implementing CV and VMS solutions:

• Increasing operational efficiency
• Strengthening safety and security
• Improving sustainability
• Enhancing the people experience -whether those people are customers, employees, constituents, or other stakeholders
• Generating new revenue opportunities

There are multiple options to consider when designing an integrated CV and VMS solution. Most implementations include products from numerous vendors so a significant integration effort is required before systems are live.

Dell Technologies is pioneering a move away from narrow scoped technology and platform solutions. We focus on understanding the value potential for each of the above business outcomes based on end users' voices and our industry knowledge. We then tailor a solution starting with a unified platform design that can support an integrated set of CV and VMS software applications that all work together with the hardware to achieve those outcomes.

The following architecture diagram shows the details of our unified platform design. These platform components have successfully met the needs of multiple enterprise-scale computer vision solutions for various industries and desired outcomes. The Dell Validated Design for Computer Vision represented in the following figure is a universal platform capable of hosting multiple applications from VMS and CV software partners for solutions extending from the edge to the core and the cloud.

At the bottom of the diagram, we show a storage service provided by our PowerScale Scale-out NAS solution. In the middle of the diagram, we represent the flexibility of the VxRail with vCenter to provide pools of virtualized hardware that can be shared across the virtual machines and containers hosted on the cluster. Our Dell Validated Designs for Computer Vision include many examples of how we host multiple applications from multiple partners harmoniously on a single cluster, including the efficient allocation of GPUs using either pass-through mode or as vGPUs with NVIDIA AI Enterprise software. Above the VxRail layer is our optional threat detection and response layer that is supplied by Secureworks. We have also demonstrated how to run the local agents and data collectors on the VxRail cluster that hosts our partner applications, including streaming information to the cloud for analysis and receiving the most recent definition and signature specifications. The top of the diagram signifies how end users and administrators can have a consolidated set of application and management tools to interact with and manage all their VMS and CV assets from a single platform.