Catalyst provides the first comprehensive suite of developer APIs focused on eliminating fragmentation and enabling zero trust, reliable, distributed applications

KubeCon+CloudNativeCon North America, Booth #B27— Diagrid, provider of tools and services to build applications based on open source technologies, today announced Catalyst, a suite of unified APIs for messaging, data and workflow. Catalyst frees developers from the fragmentation of code sprawl, infrastructure lock-in and ever-increasing security vulnerabilities. The APIs, which are based on the popular Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) open source project Dapr, enable developers to drastically reduce boilerplate code, and can be used from any cloud and with existing infrastructure.

"For the better part of two decades, the downside of the industry's rapid innovation has been an ever-growing sprawl of APIs, primitives and services," said Stephen O'Grady, RedMonk principal analyst. "Developers are struggling under the weight of a sea of different interfaces, and enterprises are becoming more aware of the problem that is fragmentation. That problem is exactly what Diagrid is attacking with Catalyst."

Diagrid's Catalyst lowers cost of ownership for code and infrastructure, while enabling a faster time to market and better use of developer resources by providing:

• Unified APIs: Consumption-based APIs implementing industry-standard patterns for:
  •  Workflow orchestration
  • Request/Response messaging
  • Publish/Subscribe messaging
  •  Connectors to message external systems
  • Key/Value state management
• Zero Trust Security: Enforce security across applications and existing infrastructure by providing centralized RBAC, access policies, authentication and federated identities.
• Reliability and Fault Tolerance: Employ circuit breakers, retries, timeouts and rate limiting for applications and existing infrastructure. 
• Infrastructure Flexibility: Swap infrastructure services with zero code changes, preventing vendor lock-in, future-proofing designs and providing portable code.
• Serverless Infrastructure: Fully offload infrastructure management with serverless databases and pub/sub brokers that are ready in seconds, scale with demand and require no operational support. 

Catalyst APIs work with the user's existing infrastructure in the cloud and are powered by Dapr, a battle-tested open-source project that was co-created by the founders of Diagrid. More than 10,000 developers across over 6,000 organizations use Dapr and, according to the latest CNCF project usage survey data, Dapr accounts for 10% of production users. The State of Dapr 2023 survey found that 95% of organizations using Dapr save a significant amount of developer time, with a majority reporting time savings of more than 30%.

Diagrid will preview Catalyst at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America at booth B27.

Diagrid Executive Quotes:

• "Developers and architects have a wealth of options available today when building distributed applications. This choice, however, leads to fragmentation—and with it increased code sprawl, cloud vendor lock-in and security vulnerabilities," said Mark Fussell, Diagrid co-founder and CEO. "Catalyst's unified APIs, with its swappable infrastructure model and cross-cutting capabilities, reduce code maintenance and provide holistic, zero trust security. By defining golden paths using industry patterns developers can use their existing skills and infrastructure to build secure and reliable applications."
• "Application developers are the silent majority in the cloud-native ecosystem and for years have been forced to plumb together dozens, if not hundreds, of different cloud services and frameworks," said Yaron Schneider, Diagrid co-founder and CTO. "Diagrid Catalyst enables all developers running on any cloud to focus on their core business and remove the hassle of writing repetitive code that results in insecure and unreliable systems."

BigID integration gives customers 360° data visibility and control across Google Cloud Marketplace and beyond

BigID, a leader in data security, privacy, governance and compliance, today announced that its BigID Data Intelligence Platform is now available on  Google Cloud Marketplace , empowering organizations to have greater visibility and control into their data. 

With more organizations needing help understanding where their data lies - much less getting control of it across all of their cloud services - the partnership between BigID and Google Cloud enables them to automatically discover sensitive data across global accounts and ephemeral resources on Google Cloud. Organizations can find and inventory sensitive data across  Google Cloud services, including Google Drive, Cloud Storage, Gmail, BigQuery, Cloud Bigtable, Cloud Spanner, Datastore, and Cloud SQL.

Other key benefits for Google Cloud customers include:

• Automatic Data Discovery: Automate the discovery of sensitive, personal, regulated, and critical data across the Google Cloud environment with BigID's Auto-Discovery app.
• Unified Data Labeling & Policy Enforcement: Consistently label, categorize, and enforce data protection policies across both Google Cloud and non-Google Cloud data repositories for stronger data protection.
• Proactive Security Risk Identification: BigID's Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) solution empowers organizations to proactively identify and mitigate potential data security risks.
• Streamlined Procurement: Procurement is made more convenient and efficient through direct access via Google Cloud Marketplace, saving organizations valuable time.
• Optimized Cloud Spend: Maximize your cloud investment with dollar-for-dollar drawdown options against Google Cloud commitments, ensuring cost-effectiveness.

"This partnership empowers Google Cloud customers to elevate their data management and protection capabilities, reinforcing BigID's commitment to help organizations to take control of their data," said Connie Dodmead, Senior Director of Technology Alliances of BigID. "Organizations can now gain more clarity and control required for top-tier data security, privacy, and governance."

"We are proud to welcome BigID to our growing partner ecosystem," said Dai Vu, Managing Director, Cloud Marketplace & ISV GTM Initiatives at Google Cloud. "With its solution now available on Google Cloud Marketplace, BigID is empowering our joint customers to have greater visibility and control into their data."

Britive's market leadership reflected by 225% surge in platform adoption, innovative patent, and key findings from the 2023 State of Cloud Identities and Privileges Report

Britive, the leader in securing identities and access to cloud resources with its Cloud Identity Security Platform, today announced several key milestones that highlight significant market momentum with rapid platform adoption, an innovative patent, and key insights from its 2023 State of Cloud Identities and Privileges Report.

Britive's mission to unify, simplify and secure privileged identities and access in multi-cloud environments is exemplified by the customer adoption it experienced in 2023. The Britive Cloud Identity Security Platform continues to see surging growth and now:

• Manages over 3.5 million identities, marking a 225 percent increase since September 2022
• Secures over 8,500 multi-cloud environments for customers across the financial, media, automotive, consumer goods and other verticals
• Eliminates over 56 million static permissions, a 237 percent increase

These key indicators underscore enterprise organizations' need for effective cloud access management that eliminates standing privileges that otherwise could be leveraged by threat actors in identity-based attacks.

New Industry Report Provides Snapshot of Greatest Identity Access Challenges & Opportunities for Enterprise Multi-Cloud Environments

Britive's 2023 State of Cloud Identities and Privileges Report provides comprehensive insights and best practices for cloud access based on a survey of more than 1,000 IT and cloud practitioners at leading organizations across multiple verticals.

The report sheds light on top cloud identity trends and challenges, offers critical recommendations for enterprise decision-makers regarding cloud access management and equips them with the strategic guideposts they need to succeed in their multi-cloud environments.

Britive Awarded U.S. Patent for Dynamic Privileged Access Governance Technology

The company also announced that it was recently awarded a patent (U.S. Patent 11770382-B1) by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for a dynamic privileged access governance technology and associated processes that provide secure cloud-native access management that mirrors the dynamic nature of cloud environments.

Britive's groundbreaking technology bridges a major gap between security and cloud teams by enabling security teams to implement and monitor security controls and policies without disrupting the dynamic and agile workflows of cloud developers, platform engineers, data analysts and business end-users.

Britive Launches Access Builder, Empowers All Users with Frictionless Self-Service Access

For enterprises and organizations of all sizes, securing a multi-cloud environment is more attainable than ever with Britive's recently launched Access Builder, an innovative solution designed to empower developers and business users by facilitating self-service access requests to vital cloud infrastructure, applications, and data.

The new Access Builder introduces several game-changing benefits and features, including:

• Removes complexity: Eliminates the need for complicated, time-consuming workflows and manual processes previously essential for access requests.
• Elevates productivity: Empowers users, including DevOps teams, infrastructure engineers, and business analysts, to construct their own access profiles, thereby bypassing the conventional and inefficient request and approval workflows that legacy identity governance and administration offerings impose.
• Enhances security: Enforces authorization guardrails while allowing users to build their access profiles for ephemeral JIT deployment, which tremendously reduces the risks of over-privileged accounts with standing (24x7x365) access.

Britive's platform works across major cloud service providers, including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, and major SaaS platforms such as Salesforce, ServiceNow, Snowflake, Google Workspace, Workday, and Microsoft Office 365. 

"Securing identities and access is paramount for businesses of all sizes, regardless of industry or vertical. With these major milestones we're showcasing our rapid adoption driven by our pioneering work to provide our customers the best cloud access management solution possible," said Art Poghosyan, Britive CEO and co-founder. "Our recent patent not only cements our leadership position in the dynamic cloud security landscape but proves that we're effectively enabling our customers to eliminate the complexity of securing identities and access to cloud resources so they can expand their cloud footprint confidently. By introducing innovations like Access Builder, we're not just simplifying access – we're transforming and democratizing it. We envision a world where cloud access is seamless, secure, and efficient, and with these innovations we're defining the future of cloud access right now."

Pure Storage®, the IT pioneer that delivers the world's most advanced data storage technology and services, today announced it has been positioned by Gartner® as a Leader in the Magic Quadrant™ for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage for both its Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute, in the rapidly growing storage market for unstructured data.

Portfolio Momentum:

First introduced in 2017, Pure Storage FlashBlade® has rapidly grown to provide global enterprises with a consolidated, scale-out platform underpinned by an innovative architecture that delivers the efficiency, simplicity, and performance required to power unstructured data workloads. The FlashBlade portfolio serves as a critical pillar in Pure Storage's end-to-end, all-flash data storage platform - all available via the Evergreen//One consumption model and based on a single, AI-powered management platform, Pure1® - supporting. With its incredible growth, FlashBlade continues to serve as the leading platform for customers' modern file and object data requirements.

In the past year alone, FlashBlade has achieved several critical milestones, including:

• Introduction of FlashBlade//E™: A scale-out unstructured data repository built to handle exponential data growth with industry-leading energy efficiency, FlashBlade//E consumes up to 5x less power while providing 10-20x more reliability, 60% lower operational costs, and 85% less e-waste than hard disk-based systems. At an acquisition cost competitive with disk and much lower operational costs, the introduction of FlashBlade//E makes Pure Storage's vision of an all-flash data center a reality.
• Industry Momentum: FlashBlade continues to see rapid adoption across use cases and industry verticals. From accelerating time to market for new AI services and propelling AI innovation, to reducing genomic pipeline turnaround times to achieve better patient outcomes, to driving better financial services experiences, global customers rely on FlashBlade to fast-track modernization and remain competitive.
• Impact on Enterprise Sustainability: With FlashBlade//S™, customers can achieve up to 65% energy and emissions savings compared to competitive flash-based products, based on Pure Storage's latest ESG analysis, conducted by a third party. Combined with the meaningful savings achieved with the recently announced Pure//E™ family, which includes FlashBlade//E and FlashArray//E™, Pure Storage remains the most energy efficient data storage technology in the market.

Executive Insight:

"Expanding the FlashBlade portfolio further solidifies Pure Storage's leadership in the growing unstructured data market. We're excited that the all-flash promise is now finally real for all tiers in the datacenter. Pure's continued recognition as a Leader in the latest Gartner Magic Quadrant report is a strong validation of FlashBlade's success in the market." – Shawn Hansen, General Manager, Core Platform Business Unit, Pure Storage

WekaIO (WEKA), the data platform provider for performance-intensive workloads, announced today that it has been named a Visionary in the 2023 Gartner^® Magic Quadrant™ for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage for a third consecutive year. The company was evaluated for its WEKA^® Data Platform software solution and recognized for its Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute.

According to Gartner, By 2027, 60% of infrastructure and operations leaders will implement hybrid cloud file deployments, up from 20% in early 2023. By 2028, 70% of file and object data will be deployed on a consolidated, unstructured data storage platform, up from 35% in early 2023.¹

WEKA is helping many of the world's leading enterprises and research organizations to overcome the performance limitations, latency bottlenecks, and inefficiencies of their legacy data infrastructure systems to more optimally manage unstructured data and performance-intensive workloads and derive maximum value from their data.

The WEKA Data Platform is purpose-built to modernize enterprise data stacks in the era of hybrid cloud and generative AI. Its advanced, software-based architecture transforms stagnant data storage silos into dynamic data pipelines that help to power data-starved GPUs more efficiently and fuel performance-intensive workloads like artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and high-performance computing seamlessly and sustainably. The WEKA platform delivers affordable high performance at scale running on-premises, in the cloud, at the edge, and in hybrid and multicloud environments.

"We are honored to again be recognized as a Visionary in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage," said Liran Zvibel, co-founder and chief executive officer at WEKA. "The rise of generative AI and proliferation of performance-intensive workloads are accelerating the pace of innovation at incomprehensible levels. It's an exciting time, but enterprises are under increased pressure to address performance bottlenecks, improve operational efficiencies, control costs, and rein in their carbon and energy footprint. WEKA is committed to helping them overcome these challenges so they can innovate and create without limits and capitalize on the immense opportunity presented by AI, ML, and GPU-powered computing."

PlatformDIGITAL®'s dedicated access to Amazon Web Services (AWS) Direct Connect provides data center customers in Seoul with secure, high-performance connectivity for hybrid IT workloads

Customers can leverage Digital Realty's global service orchestration platform ServiceFabric™, to establish hosted connections from nearly 135 data centers globally

Digital Realty, the largest global provider of cloud- and carrier-neutral data center, colocation, and interconnection solutions, announced today that a new AWS Direct Connect on-ramp is available at Digital Realty's ICN10 data center in Seoul enabling customers to access AWS services via a single cross connect as well as through ServiceFabric™, Digital Realty's global service orchestration platform. Digital Realty's ICN10 data center is the first carrier neutral facility to host an AWS Direct Connect on-ramp in Seoul.

By utilizing this reliable connection, Digital Realty's customers in Seoul can connect their private infrastructure to the AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region, enabling improved performance for hybrid architecture solutions with low-latency, secure, and cost-efficient connectivity to AWS.

Data exchange volumes and a corresponding demand for data center services in South Korea are expected to escalate over the next few years as the country's significance as an emerging data center hub grows. As one of the most innovative countries in the world, South Korea consistently leads in technology adoption, and is now unleashing a government-wide digital transformation by utilizing technologies like AI and the cloud to become a technology-led, data-driven society. IDC projects the country will be investing in artificial intelligence (AI) solutions, reaching $2.9 billion in AI spending by 2026.

AWS Direct Connect provides the high throughput and consistency required for data-intensive applications such as AI by providing a dedicated and secure connection, resulting in sensitive data traffic traveling exclusively between trusted endpoints, improving security and privacy. Digital Realty's customers, including financial services, e-commerce, healthcare, and manufacturing enterprises, can securely connect to AWS Direct Connect via low-latency, high-bandwidth interconnects to meet increasing business demands. PlatformDIGITAL® provides the physical meeting place where AWS customers and partners can establish direct connections to AWS, to optimize hybrid IT solutions.

With the addition of Seoul, and following the recent announcement of Ashburn, PlatformDIGITAL® now hosts 17 AWS Direct Connect cloud on-ramps globally in Amsterdam, Ashburn, Atlanta, Cape Town, Copenhagen, Dublin, Frankfurt, Johannesburg, London, Madrid, Marseille, Paris, Seattle, Seoul, Stockholm, Vienna and Zurich.

In addition to dedicated connections, customers can establish hosted connections in Amsterdam, Ashburn, Atlanta, Copenhagen, Dublin, Frankfurt, London, Madrid, Marseille, Paris, Seattle, Seoul, Stockholm, Vienna and Zurich via Digital Realty's interconnection and orchestration solution, ServiceFabric™, from over 135 Digital Realty locations globally.

"Our customers increasingly recognize the value of placing their private infrastructure in our facilities worldwide to facilitate hybrid architectures across a combination of colocation and one or multiple cloud platforms. The addition of AWS Seoul Direct Connect extends Digital Realty's robust portfolio of Direct Connect locations into the rapidly growing Asia Pacific region and will drive an exponential increase to connection density of PlatformDIGITAL®. The availability of cloud on-ramps, an extensive community of local and global carriers, as well as intelligent orchestration through ServiceFabric™ will provide our customers with comprehensive options to modernize their edge-to-cloud networking architectures," says Chris Sharp, Chief Technology Officer, Digital Realty.

"With AWS Direct Connect, you can transfer data privately and directly from your data center, office, or colocation environment into and out of AWS. These private connections can reduce your network costs, increase bandwidth throughput, and provide a more consistent network experience than connections over the public internet. Customers can choose dedicated 1 Gbps, 10 Gbps, and 100 Gbps connections, or work with an AWS Direct Connect delivery partner like Digital Realty for hosted connections with bandwidth from 50Mbps to 10 Gbps," says Emad Benjamin, General Manager, AWS Direct Connect.

"We applaud Digital Realty's latest achievement in hosting the new AWS Direct Connect on-ramp at ICN10 in Seoul, a development that positions Seoul more firmly as a global data center hub. Colt is proud to be one of the first global network providers to establish a point of presence (PoP) at this innovative data center, extending our comprehensive network capabilities to customers seeking low-latency, high-bandwidth solutions. Our partnership with Digital Realty, coupled with AWS Direct Connect's availability at ICN10, offers our customers unparalleled connectivity options that meet the demands of today's data-driven world. We are committed to empowering businesses in Korea and beyond, providing seamless network connections between ICN10 and our Colt IQ-network that spans over 230 cities in 38 countries," says Sooyoung Sung, Korea Country Manager, Colt Technology Services.

MinIO to be the first 3^rd party object store natively integrated with VMware Data Services Manager, empowering organizations to engage with data intensive workloads

MinIO Inc., creators of the MinIO object storage suite, announced today an expanded partnership and a technical preview to deliver object storage on VMware Cloud Foundation by integrating with VMware Data Services Manager. This solution will combine VMware Cloud Foundation's more secure enterprise-class infrastructure and the MinIO Object Store to deliver a fully integrated experience for mission-critical workloads running on VMware Cloud Foundation. 

"Our integration with VMware Data Services Manager is a key milestone in the development of the private cloud," said Ugur Tigli, CTO of MinIO Inc. "The ability to seamlessly support both virtual machines and Kubernetes provides much needed flexibility for enterprises to modernize their infrastructure over time. This combined solution is further evidence of the importance object storage holds in the modern enterprise and we are excited to have MinIO natively integrated with VMware Data Services Manager."

Data Services Manager is a native extension of VMware vSphere that empowers customers to manage best-in-class data services on-premises to their internal customers, most notably application teams in the lines of business. Data Services Manager integration builds on MinIO and VMware's long history of technical collaboration, delivering a natively integrated experience and removing key dependencies in favor of greater administrator flexibility. IT admins will be empowered to manage multiple data services such as relational databases in addition to an object store with a consistent operating model and benefit from VMware vSAN's enterprise storage capabilities.

"VMware's strategy is to make advanced data services such as the MinIO Object Store as easy to consume for customers as we did for compute, networking and storage," said Vijay Ramachandran, vice president of product management, Storage and Data Infrastructure for VMware. "Customers and community members globally use MinIO every day to deliver better security, resiliency, durability and operational excellence across their deployments. Now together with MinIO, we are bringing this capability to VMware Cloud Foundation as a natively integrated data service to help accelerate data-driven innovation."

MinIO's software-defined, high-performance object store has delivered 325 GiB/s GET and 165 GiB/s PUT on 32 nodes of NVMe in its published benchmarks¹. With linear performance scaling, MinIO can handle the most demanding object storage workloads - from AI/ML and advanced analytics to security information and event management tasks. Additionally, MinIO is optimized to support both small objects and large objects, providing a highly extensible data store that serves as the foundation for modern datalakes. 

The integrated solution will support any storage, including vSAN, and will support any DVS, DHCP or static IP pools. It will provide a "bucket-as-a-service" solution to developers aimed at abstracting away the complexity associated with storage classes and policies while retaining that control for the VI administrator. Collectively, this offers the balance of developer flexibility and agility with the requirements for control and security.

VMware Private AI with Intel will deliver the transformative power of Artificial Intelligence through superior privacy, security, performance, scale and TCO

VMware Explore 2023 — VMware, Inc. today announced a collaboration with Intel to extend the companies’ more than two decades of innovation to help customers accelerate the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) and enable private AI everywhere – across data centers, public clouds, and edge environments. VMware and Intel are working to deliver a jointly validated AI stack that will enable customers to use their existing general-purpose VMware and Intel infrastructure and open source software to simplify building and deploying AI models. The combination of VMware Cloud Foundation and Intel’s AI software suite, Intel® Xeon® processors with built-in AI accelerators, and Intel® Max Series GPUs, will deliver a validated and benchmarked AI stack for data preparation, model training, fine-tuning and inferencing to accelerate scientific discovery and enrich business and consumer services.

More than 300,000 customers deploy VMware Cloud globally, and VMware virtualization software is deployed nearly everywhere in the enterprise where data is created, processed, or consumed. This makes VMware Cloud a fast means to bring AI-accelerated compute and models to wherever business gets done. Similarly, Intel offers open, scalable and trusted solutions to hundreds of thousands of customers. The ubiquity of VMware and Intel products in the enterprise is a powerful combination which will increase the accessibility of data science, and enable organizations globally to adopt Private AI, an architectural approach that aims to balance the business gains from AI with the practical privacy and compliance needs.

“When it comes to AI, there is no longer any reason to debate trade-offs in choice, privacy, and control. Private AI empowers customers with all three, enabling them to accelerate AI adoption while future-proofing their AI infrastructure,” said Chris Wolf, vice president of VMware AI Labs. “VMware Private AI with Intel will help our mutual customers dramatically increase worker productivity, ignite transformation across major business functions, and drive economic impact.”

“For decades, Intel and VMware have delivered next-generation data center-to-cloud capabilities that enable customers to move faster, innovate more, and operate efficiently,” said Sandra Rivera, executive vice president and general manager of the Data Center and AI Group (DCAI) at Intel. “With the potential of artificial intelligence to unlock powerful new possibilities and improve the life of every person on the planet, Intel and VMware are well equipped to lead enterprises into this new era of AI, powered by silicon and software.”

Boost AI Performance and get a More Secure AI Infrastructure with Lower TCO

VMware Private AI brings compute capacity and AI models to where enterprise data is created, processed, and consumed, whether in a public cloud, enterprise data center, or at the edge, in support of traditional AI/ML workloads and generative AI. VMware and Intel are enabling the fine-tuning of task specific models in minutes to hours and the inferencing of large language models at faster than human communication using the customer’s private corporate data. VMware and Intel now make it possible to fine-tune smaller, economical state of the art models which are easier to update and maintain on shared virtual systems, which can then be delivered back to the IT resource pool when the batch AI jobs are complete. Use cases such as AI-assisted code generation, experiential customer service centers recommendation systems, and classical machine statistical analytics can now be co-located on the same general purpose servers running the application.

VMware and Intel are designing a reference architecture that combines Intel’s AI software suite, Intel® Xeon® processors, and Data Center GPUs with VMware Cloud Foundation to enable customers to build and deploy private AI models on the infrastructure they have, thereby reducing total cost of ownership and addressing concerns of environmental sustainability. This VMware Private AI reference architecture with Intel AI will include:

• 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® processors with Intel® Advanced Matrix Extensions (Intel® AMX) deliver up to 10x significant out-of-box performance improvements using standard industry frameworks and libraries, end-to-end data science productivity tools, and optimized AI models.
• Intel® Data Center GPU Max contains up to 128 Xe cores and is Intel’s foundational GPU compute building block targeted at the most demanding AI workloads. Intel Max Series GPUs will be available in several form factors to address different customer needs.
• Intel’s AI software suite is packaged with end-to-end open source software and optional licensing components to enable developers to run full AI pipeline workflows from data preparation to fine-tuning to inference, accelerate building multi-node scaling and deploying AI on enterprise IT infrastructure. The open oneAPI framework enables processors and hardware accelerator-agnostic software development, allowing developers to write code once and run it across different architectures, eliminating the need for multiple code bases and specialized languages. Intel’s Transformer Extensions and PyTorch Extension’s deep integration with developer favorite open source Hugging Face libraries provide automated optimization recipes for fine-tuning and compressing models for efficient inference.

VMware Cloud Foundation brings consistent enterprise-class infrastructure, operational simplicity, and enhanced security to VMware Private AI through capabilities such as:

• VMware vSAN Express Storage Architecture which offers up to 30% greater performance¹ and minimal overhead for important capabilities such as encryption for I/O intensive AI/ML tuning and inferencing workloads.
• vSphere Distributed Resources Scheduler helps efficiently use spare compute capacity for AI model training and inferencing, leveraging the same clusters other AI applications use, thereby maximizing capacity and reducing TCO.
• VMware NSX for building micro segmentation and advanced threat protection capabilities.
• Secure boot and Virtual TPM to enable model and data confidentiality.

VMware Private AI will be supported by servers from Dell Technologies, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Lenovo running 4th Gen Xeon CPUs with Intel® Advanced Matrix Extensions (Intel® AMX) and Intel Max Series GPUs.