VMware and Nvidia team to deliver virtualized AI workloads
VMware Inc. and Nvidia Corp. today are teaming up to hasten development of enterprise artificial intelligence applications.
New releases of the virtualization giant’s vSphere 7 server virtualization and vSAN 7 storage virtualization product will run applications requiring AI-ready infrastructure with improved security and simplified operations. Specifically, VMware and Nvidia said they’ll deliver a software stack that enables customers to develop new applications as well as modernize existing applications and infrastructure using Nvidia hardware.
Updates to the jointly developed AI-Ready Enterprise platform include certification of VMware vSphere 7 Update 2 for Nvidia AI Enterprise, which is described as a cloud-native collection of optimized AI applications and frameworks. The combination enables up to 20 times faster performance of Nvidia graphic processing unit-based workloads on top of VMware virtual machines than was previously possible.