India, June 30 -- India's AI story is entering a less glamorous but more important phase. The early rush was about models, pilots, and proof-of-concepts. Now enterprises are facing the harder question of whether their data centers can actually support AI at scale.

Dell Technologies is betting that many of them will need a storage and private cloud reset before AI becomes a daily business tool. The company has introduced PowerStore Elite in India, alongside updates across its AI Factory, private cloud, data protection, and automation portfolio.

The idea is simple. AI cannot work well if enterprise data is slow, scattered, or trapped in old systems. PowerStore Elite is meant to sit close to that data and support newer workloads, including...