Accelerating AI Initiatives with Multi-Cloud

Accelerating AI Initiatives with Multi-Cloud?

Since ChatGPT hit the market on November 30, 2022, AI has become a household topic—even though technologists across many fields have been working with AI and ML since the late 1950s.??

Why all the buzz now? Because, in short, generative AI (genAI) makes AI technology accessible to almost any user. It uses natural-language interaction—turning everyday English, for example, into a programming language—and combines it with the ability to generate brand-new content, including text, code, images, videos, audio and more. That means almost every field requiring humans to create original content is up for reinvention, from education to financial services to healthcare. And while there’s a lot of hype today around consumer tools like ChatGPT, most of the value of genAI over the next few years will be driven by enterprises using domain-specific data unique to their industry and their businesses.?

How can companies capture the value of generative AI??

You’ve probably used ChatGPT or Jasper AI for edutainment purposes, such as writing a business report in the style of Raymond Carver or composing a birthday ditty with a nod to Taylor Swift. If you’re in marketing, maybe you’re using genAI to help brainstorm taglines or snappy headlines.??

But the potential for applied genAI is far greater. In a recent blog post, “Capturing the Value of Generative AI in the Enterprise ,” VMware CEO Raghu Raghuram says “it’s clear we are in the midst of a once-in-a-generation breakthrough, opening up opportunities to transform major business functions like software development, customer support, sales and marketing.”??

To realize the promise of this potential innovation super cycle, however, Raghuram says we must collectively address three critical challenges: affordability, democratized AI expertise, and trust.???

Why is multi-cloud the essential foundation for innovation—AI and otherwise??

Technology companies like VMware will play a key role in making powerful genAI technology more affordable, accessible and trustworthy—in large part through supporting technologies like multi-cloud.?

Organizations today navigate complex technology and business environments, trying to stoke their innovation engines with the smart use of new technologies while maximizing efficiency and reducing cost and complexity. They’re playing both offense and defense. A multi-cloud approach meets these dual needs, offering a modern platform for innovation—one that helps ensure maximum choice and flexibility.??

For example, VMware multi-cloud solutions give organizations the flexibility to train their AI models in one environment and then run the inference process (the process of drawing conclusions, as gen AI does, based on specific data) in another environment, with security and resilience across any environment they select. To fuel their AI systems, many businesses want to harness highly distributed data that resides in on-premises public clouds, across multiple public clouds, and at the edge. Multi-cloud solutions enable that, too.?

What are successful strategies for adopting multi-cloud solutions??

Many companies use multiple clouds but aren’t yet taking full advantage of the multi-cloud solutions that would enable them to run all their clouds as one integrated environment, in a cloud-smart way. With 87 percent of enterprises using two or more clouds,* solutions like those from VMware can help.??

Organizations intent on becoming cloud smart need to take an architected and planned approach to multi-cloud and digital transformation. With a cloud-smart approach, they can select the right cloud for an app, based on its specific requirements. And they can better realize key business benefits, including cost savings, greater revenue and more.?

At VMware, we understand the challenges on the path to multi-cloud. Our VMware IT team is the first to use the products our engineering teams produce. We document some of those experiences in our Customer Zero podcast series. Check out the most recent episode where we speak with two VMware IT leaders about cloud transformation and the move to multi-cloud—and what being cloud smart means for VMware teams.?

How is VMware approaching AI?

In the July 2023 edition of the VMware Multi-Cloud Briefing series, VMware President Sumit Dhawan and VP of VMware Cross-Cloud Services Vittorio Viarengo explored the impact genAI will have on enterprises across all industries. They shared insights about:?

• The opportunities and challenges CIOs globally see in transforming their businesses with AI?
• Why multi-cloud environments will be the foundation for enterprise AI?
• The importance of a responsible and ethical approach to AI?
• The role of an AI-enabling ecosystem for customer choice and flexibility?
• AI research priorities for VMware?
• VMware’s focus on accelerating and simplifying customers’ adoption of AI?

VMware is intent on helping organizations accelerate their genAI initiatives with both our own broad multi-cloud services portfolio and through our partnerships with recognized leaders in the AI space.?

Learn more at VMware Explore?

Register today for VMware Explore in Las Vegas, August 21 – 24, 2023, and for regional VMware Explore conferences around the globe to learn more about VMware’s strategy for helping enterprises take advantage—fast—of genAI.?

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*VMware. "FY23 H1 Benchmark.” N=1,080 enterprise (5,000+ employees) technology decision-makers. March–June 2022.?

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How are you using multi-cloud to support your AI initiatives? Let us know in the comments. #CloudConnect