Our earnings materials are available on our IR website, and I encourage you to review these materials. We delivered a strong 3rd quarter with a record for both revenue and earnings per share and an all-time high in AI server orders. EPS was up 17% to $2.59, driven by improved profitability in AI and storage and continued operational scaling. Our strong performance and operational discipline led to continued robust Cash Flow and significant capital returns for shareholders.
We booked $12.3 billion in orders in the quarter, bringing year-to-date orders to $30 billion, both record figures. Our strong orders and customer base expansion clearly shows customers value our unique ability to design, deploy, and maintain large at-scale AI factories, especially our engineering and rapid deployment capabilities. Our five-quarter pipeline continued to grow sequentially across Neoclouds, Sovereigns, and enterprises, and remains multiples of our backlog, even when accounting for the robust demand we've seen. Moving to Traditional Servers, overall demand grew double digits, with growth accelerating sequentially in both EMEA and North America.
We saw growth across units, TRUs, our buyer base, and the mix of the 16th and 17th generation platforms, reflecting customers' preference for dense, high-performing compute configurations. Traditional x86 compute demand continues to benefit from workload expansion and AI driving broader IT modernization and consolidation. Moving to storage, while revenue declined 1% year-over-year, demand for our Dell IP portfolio remained strong. For two consecutive quarters, our all-flash array portfolio has delivered double-digit demand growth, supported by strong double-digit growth from PowerStore, PowerMax, ObjectScale, and PowerFlex.