Company delivers an Enterprise AI foundation in
collaboration with NVIDIA, Hugging Face, and ecosystem of partners
to speed time to value for on-premises use cases
.NEXT Conference – Nutanix (NASDAQ: NTNX), a leader in
hybrid multicloud computing, today announced new functionality for
Nutanix GPT-in-a-Box, including integrations with NVIDIA NIM
inference microservices and Hugging Face Large Language Models
(LLMs) library. Additionally, the company announced the Nutanix AI
Partner Program, aimed at bringing together leading AI solutions
and services partners to support customers looking to run, manage,
and secure generative AI (GenAI) applications on top of Nutanix
Cloud Platform and GPT-in-a-Box. Nutanix GPT-in-a-Box is a
full-stack solution purpose-built to simplify Enterprise AI
adoption with tight integration with Nutanix Objects and Nutanix
Files for model and data storage.
“We saw a great response to our original launch of Nutanix
GPT-in-a-Box, validating the needs of Enterprise customers for
on-premises software solutions that simplify the deployment and
management of AI models and inference endpoints,” said Thomas
Cornely, SVP of Product Management at Nutanix. “Enterprise is the
new frontier for GenAI and we're excited to work with our fast
growing ecosystem of partners to make it as simple as possible to
run GenAI applications on premises at scale while maintaining
control on privacy and cost.”
Nutanix GPT-in-a-Box 2.0
The company announced GPT-in-a-Box 2.0, which will deliver
expanded NVIDIA accelerated computing and LLM support, along with
simplified foundational model management and integrations with
NVIDIA NIMs microservices and the Hugging Face LLM library.
GPT-in-a-Box 2.0 will include a unified user interface for
foundation model management, API endpoint creation, end-user access
key management, and will integrate Nutanix Files and Objects, plus
NVIDIA Tensor Core GPUs.
GPT-in-a-Box 2.0 will bring Nutanix simplicity to the user
experience with a built-in graphical user interface, role-based
access control, auditability, and dark site support, among other
benefits. It will also provide a point-and-click-user interface to
deploy and configure NVIDIA NIM, part of the NVIDIA AI Enterprise
software platform for the development and deployment of
production-grade AI, to easily deploy and run GenAI workloads in
the Enterprise and at the Edge.
“We've partnered with Nutanix as one of our key technology
partners to enable our AI ambitions while empowering a future where
technology serves humanity,” said Khalid Al Kaf, COO at Yahsat. “We
are not just keeping pace with the future; we're actively shaping
it, leveraging Nutanix GPT-in-a-Box, which provides us with simple,
end-to-end management capabilities and ability to maintain control
over our data.”
Partnership with Hugging Face to Deliver Integrated Access to
LLM Library
Nutanix also announced a partnership with Hugging Face to help
accelerate customers’ AI journey by providing integrated access to
the Hugging Face library and execution of LLMs for Nutanix
customers. Joint customers will be able to leverage Nutanix
GPT-in-a-Box 2.0 to easily consume validated LLMs from Hugging Face
and execute them efficiently.
Through this partnership, Nutanix and Hugging Face will develop
a custom integration with Text Generation Inference, the popular
Hugging Face open-source library for production deployment of Large
Language Models, and enable text-generation models available on the
Hugging Face Hub within Nutanix GPT-in-a-Box 2.0. It will deliver a
seamless workflow to deploy validated AI LLMs from Hugging Face
with full support from Nutanix, significantly expanding the number
of supported LLMs. This will create a jointly validated and
supported workflow for Hugging Face libraries and LLMs, ensuring
customers have a single point of management for consistent model
inference.
Strengthened Unstructured Data Platform for AI/ML
Nutanix also enhanced its unstructured data platform for AI/ML
and other applications with increased performance, density, and
TCO. Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) now supports a new 550+
Terabytes dense low-cost all-NVMe platform and up to 10
Gigabyte/second sequential read throughput from a single node
(close to line speed for a 100 Gigabit ethernet port), enabling
faster data reads and more efficient use of GPU resources. Nutanix
will also add support for NVIDIA GPUDirect Storage to further
accelerate AI/ML applications. Additionally, to protect the
extremely valuable and often confidential data such as data sets
used to train and process AI/ML workloads, Nutanix Data Lens
extends cyber resilience value to Objects in addition to Files
data. A new Data Lens Frankfurt-based point of presence enables
broader adoption in EU customers, meeting their own compliance
needs.
Nutanix has collaborated with major server OEMs to provide
customers breadth and choice with a wide range of AI-optimized GPUs
and density-optimized GPU systems. These AI-optimized GPUs,
including the NVIDIA L40S, H100, L40, and L4 GPUs, are now
supported on Nutanix GPT-in-a-Box. Nutanix also now supports
density-optimized GPU systems from Dell, HPE, and Lenovo to help
lower the total cost of ownership by allowing customers to deploy a
smaller number of systems to meet their workload demands. The
company also announced planned support for NX-9151 which is based
on the NVIDIA MGX reference architecture.
Nutanix AI Partner Program
To further support customers’ AI strategies, Nutanix announced
the new AI Partner Program providing customers with simplified
access to an expanded ecosystem of AI partners to deliver
real-world GenAI solutions. Partners will help organizations build,
run, manage, and secure third-party and homegrown GenAI
applications on top of Nutanix Cloud Platform and the Nutanix
GPT-in-a-Box solution, targeted at prominent AI use cases.
This broad ecosystem of partners will help address diverse use
cases including operations, cybersecurity, fraud detection, and
customer support, across verticals such as healthcare, financial
services, and legal and professional services. Initial partners
include: Codeium, DataRobot, DKube, Instabase, Lamini, Neural
Magic, Robust Intelligence, RunAI, and UbiOps.
Program benefits to partners include:
- Nutanix AI Ready validation: All partners will receive
Nutanix AI Ready validation to demonstrate interoperability with
Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure, Nutanix AHV hypervisor, and Nutanix
Kubernetes Platform.
- Full-stack solutions: Partners in the program will
benefit from individual solution briefs highlighting the benefits
of the Nutanix and partner solution. Additionally, select partners
will receive a tech note, best practice guide, or reference
architecture to simplify implementation with joint customers.
- Promotional and go-to-market alignment: Partners will
benefit from go-to-market and demand generation activities centered
around the AI use case for enterprises. They will be provided with
access to promotional and go-to-market opportunities including
content creation, blog posts, webinars, podcasts, and other events,
to help drive awareness and demand for key use cases.
Nutanix GPT-in-a-Box 2.0 is expected to be available in the
second half of 2024. Support for NVIDIA GPU Direct and NX-9151 are
currently under development. Additional features announced in NUS
as well as Data Lens are currently available to customers. More
information can be found here.
Supporting Quotes:
- “Our partnership with Nutanix will help extend Hugging Face to
more enterprises looking for private and secure control of their
LLMs,” says Clem Delangue, CEO and co-founder, Hugging Face. “Our
mission is to enable organizations of all sizes to build their own
AI with open source. Our work with Nutanix will make it easy for
enterprises to build AI applications on premises leveraging Text
Generation Inference.”
- “Customers looking to leverage GenAI have a responsibility to
maintain control over sensitive, private data,” said Dave Pearson,
IDC’s Research Vice President for Infrastructure. “Through these
new features and partnerships, Nutanix looks to enable
organizations to build a private and secure AI-ready platform and
accelerate GenAI adoption in the Enterprise.”
Additional Resources:
- Blog: GPT-in-a-Box 2.0 is Here With Four Ways to Level Up Your
GenAI
- Blog: Accelerating the Delivery of Complete AI Solutions for
Organizations: Announcing the Nutanix AI Partner Program
- Join the Alliance Partner Program
- Nutanix AI
- Nutanix Validated Design for GPT-in-a-Box
- NVIDIA MGX
About Nutanix
Nutanix is a global leader in cloud software, offering
organizations a single platform for running apps and data across
clouds. With Nutanix, companies can reduce complexity and simplify
operations, freeing them to focus on their business outcomes.
Building on its legacy as the pioneer of hyperconverged
infrastructure, Nutanix is trusted by companies worldwide to power
hybrid multicloud environments consistently, simply, and
cost-effectively. Learn more at www.nutanix.com or follow us on
social media @nutanix.
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