How VMware & NVIDIA are Unleashing AI for Every Enterprise

Over the past few years, we’ve seen VMware and NVIDIA’s long-time partnership going from strength to strength. Here are some of the major innovations and joint solutions that are globally available for businesses looking to modernise their data centre and take the first steps on their road to AI adoption.?

AI-Ready Enterprise Platform?

According to Gartner, only 53% of AI projects make it from pilot to production, with the complexity of integrating AI solutions with existing infrastructure cited as a major barrier to AI implementation.?

VMware & NVIDIA’s AI-ready enterprise platform overcomes these challenges and delivers best-in-class AI software with NVIDIA AI Enterprise that’s certified for VMware vSphere. Deep integration means that IT teams now have everything they need to use VMware vSphere to quickly virtualise AI workloads on NVIDIA-Certified Systems.?

NVIDIA AI Enterprise is an end-to-end, cloud-native suite of AI and data science applications and frameworks that optimises business processes and increases efficiency by using key enabling technologies for the rapid deployment, management, and scaling of AI workloads in the modern hybrid cloud.?

It also enables AI researchers, data scientists, and developers who work in large-scale data centres, to have the best software, data analytics and AI/ML in place, so they can successfully deliver their AI projects while being supported by IT teams using already familiar tools. You can read more about the platform here.?

VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) compatible?

As part of Project Monterey, VMware has been working closely with NVIDIA to transform modern data centres built on the popular VCF platform and have created the SmartNIC, a chip that’s DPU-enabled to solve the infrastructure challenges created by a new generation of applications.?

This is exciting news for customers, who will be able to build more robust and secure distributed networks inside VCF, thanks to the advanced technology of NVIDIA BlueField data processing unit (DPU).??

The BlueField DPU not only accelerates networking, storage, and security services for high-performance, hybrid cloud workloads, it also improves threat detection, protection, and remediation in one combined, intrinsically secure solution.??

This is game-changing for app developers in manufacturing industries and product design teams, who regularly collaborate and need secure and optimised architecture to work freely together, without the constant threat of disruption from cyberattacks.?

VMware Horizon and NVIDIA virtual GPU (vGPU)?

As well as differentiating data centre portfolios with solutions focused on next-gen, hybrid cloud architecture, VMware & NVIDIA are helping partners enable remote workers with modern virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) by offering them exclusive access to NVIDIA vGPU software with VMware Horizon 8.???

NVIDIA vGPU and VMware Horizon accelerates workflows and improves application performance by making virtualised workspaces instantly accessible to everyone, regardless of location. It also has a range of flexible deployment options so enterprises can securely deploy their VDI environments and access data, without being confined to traditional office environments.??

Perfectly positioned?

Arrow is in the unique position of having exclusive distribution agreements with NVIDIA and VMware. This means that Arrow is the only aggregator in the UK that can deliver end-to-end solutions from all three portfolios; offering partners a broader range of complementary, best-in-class technologies, that can open the door to even more data centre opportunities.?

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