DBT Bureau
Pune, 20 Sep 2025
Dell Technologies reported that Zoho Corporation is leveraging the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA for its enterprise and agentic AI capabilities. This collaboration, which powers Zoho’s proprietary and multimodal large language models (LLMs) and other AI offerings, makes enterprise AI and agentic AI adoption practical and accessible for businesses.
Why it matters
Zoho’s suite of more than 55 products, along with its proprietary AI solutions like Zia LLM and agentic AI tools, support more than 130 million users globally across a wide spectrum of business needs such as sales, finance, collaboration and HR. To meet the demands of these businesses, Zoho requires infrastructure capable of accelerating AI innovation while helping ensure data sovereignty, which has been a critical facet of their Indian data center development program, aligned with the government’s recently revised Digital Personal Data Protection rules.
By leveraging the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA, Zoho gains a high-performance, on-premises platform that expedites the development and deployment of advanced AI models—helping businesses streamline and automate complex workflows, uncover actionable insights and innovate without compromising on trust or security.
Building a new foundation for enterprise AI solutions
The Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA plays a vital role in Zoho’s enterprise AI solutions, fostering innovation and ensuring efficient deployment:
- Accelerated model development and deployment: Dell PowerEdge servers, integrated with NVIDIA accelerated computing platform and AI software, enable rapid prototyping, frequent experimentation cycles, and efficient deployment of Zoho’s multimodal LLMs; bringing advanced AI solutions to Zoho customers faster. These models are optimized for tasks like data extraction, summarization and code generation, and are available in three sizes – 1.3 billion parameters, 2.6 billion parameters and 7 billion parameters – to suit varying levels of complexity and business needs.
- AI agents for enterprise integration: Zoho delivers a robust suite of prebuilt AI agents designed for seamless enterprise integration. Powered by the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA, the Zia Agent Marketplace enables customers to quickly deploy agentic AI solutions including tools to create custom AI agents. With access to more than 700 actions, to start with, from across Zoho’s products and based on real organizational roles, users, including businesses, ISVs and developers can innovate with ease and accelerate adoption of agentic AI.
- Global scalability with localized privacy and data sovereignty: With Dell, Zoho ensures its AI solutions are privacy-first and aligned with local data sovereignty requirements. This collaboration strengthens India’s AI ambitions, contributing to a sovereign and innovation-driven AI infrastructure that supports enterprise growth worldwide.
Power AI workloads with Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA
The Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA combines Dell’s infrastructure and services expertise with the NVIDIA accelerated computing platform to deliver a robust foundation for Zoho’s AI workloads. Zoho’s AI solutions leverage Dell PowerEdge XE-Series servers with NVIDIA accelerated computing, NVIDIA NeMo and NVIDIA networking, helping users develop more robust, secure LLMs with low-latency networking and high performance. In addition, Dell ProSupport for Infrastructure provides around-the-clock expert support and proactive issue resolution, ensuring maximum uptime, reliability and accelerated productivity for Zoho’s demanding AI workloads.
Perspectives
“AI is most valuable when it delivers measurable business outcomes at scale,” Venkat Sitaram, senior director and country head, Infrastructure Solutions Group, India, Dell Technologies. “The Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA is enabling innovators like Zoho and its customers to keep pace with AI innovation such as agentic AI. These powerful AI tools are equipping enterprises for the future without compromising on performance, trust, compliance or sovereignty over their data.”
“Through our collaboration with Dell Technologies and NVIDIA, we’ve built an AI infrastructure that is secure, scalable and tailored to real-world enterprise needs,” Ramprakash Ramamoorthy, director, AI Research, Zoho Corp. “From the Zia LLM to our Zia Agent marketplace, we’re delivering practical, context-aware AI that helps businesses achieve faster time-to-value while protecting customer data. The Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA accelerated our AI model development with cutting-edge hardware and software, enabling faster time-to-value for us and our customers.”
