VMware, Nvidia Target Businesses That Want Their Own AI (reuters.com) 4
VMware on Tuesday said it has developed a new set of software tools in partnership with Nvidia aimed at businesses which want to develop generative artificial intelligence in their own data centers rather than the cloud. From a report: VMware, which is close to being acquired by chip firm Broadcom in a $69 billion deal, makes software that corporations use to run their privately owned data centers. For more than two decades, VMware's tools have been used by businesses to divvy up the computing power in central processor chips, which are the brains of traditional servers. On Tuesday, the company released a new set of tools help designed to manage Nvidia chips, which dominate the market for AI systems that can read and write text in human-like ways.
They'd be better off partnering for this (Score:2)
C3.AI and Palantir are moving aggressively into this commercial space with DIY AI-driven analytics. It would make a lot more sense for nVidia and VMWare to simply look for hooks on those contracts rather than try to offer something that will be outside of their core markets.
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C3.AI and Palantir are moving aggressively into this commercial space with DIY AI-driven analytics. It would make a lot more sense for nVidia and VMWare to simply look for hooks on those contracts rather than try to offer something that will be outside of their core markets.
One of the world's leaders in maximizing hardware with virtualization, is looking to help companies maximize hardware once again to use with AI. Not really seeing how that is somehow "outside" of their core market.
VMWare isn't in the market to really care what you do with virtual servers other than making it work in a virtual environment. Therefore they probably don't care what you really do with AI. They're just looking to offer the same kind of efficiencies.
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The vast majority of ESX hosts are still manually installed. Host profiles are barely used. Stateless ESXi is basically ignored. VMware containers are pretty much ignored which is why VMware is basically killing them off.
If you are dependent on vMotion, VMware's one killer feature, everyone else has it too... and you should ne
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Because they only ever had one market, splitting one computer into many so each one can behave like a legacy PC so admins don't have to do anything different than the 1990s admins did.
Well, that's certainly one limited way of looking at the CTO/CIO who bought a Ferrari of a server because that's what all his friends are running, and then gets mocked for putting around in first gear all day. VMWare came in and kinda proved you don't have to waste servers like that, and the concept of running a server or server farm has never been the same since. Hardware efficiency was the target and goal, not merely "legacy" support. Not to say features to convert many "critical" physical legacy envir