Nutanix recently introduced enhancements at its Next 2024 conference in Barcelona to help organizations transition away from VMware and implement artificial intelligence (AI) workloads more easily. These improvements include new deployment options for Nutanix AHV with partners like Cisco, support for reusing popular vSAN ReadyNode configurations, and improved resiliency features such as multi-party approval controls for Secure Snapshot changes and multi-site disaster recovery support.
Nutanix also unveiled the second iteration of Nutanix GPT in box, which includes integrations with Nvidia Inference Microservices (NIM) and the Hugging Face Large Language Model (LLM) Library. Other updates include a new graphical user interface, key management for end users, integration with Nutanix files and objects, and support for Nvidia’s Tensor Core GPUs. These enhancements aim to simplify the deployment and management of AI models and inference endpoints for enterprise customers.
The integration with NIM will streamline AI model deployment across the enterprise and at the edge, while the partnership with Hugging Face will make it easier for businesses to build AI applications on-premises with text generation inference. Nutanix Unified Storage now offers a new low-cost dense platform with all-NVMe technology using Micron 30TB flash modules and support for Nvidia GPU Direct Storage for improved performance.
Furthermore, Nutanix GPT-in-a-Box now supports AI-optimized GPUs from Nvidia, as well as density-optimized GPU systems from Dell, HPE, and Lenovo, to help reduce total cost of ownership by using fewer systems to meet workload demands. The new version of GPT in-a-Box is expected to be available in the second half of 2024.
Overall, Nutanix’s enhancements aim to help customers modernize their infrastructure, simplify operations, increase cyber resilience, and facilitate the execution of genAI applications on premises at scale while maintaining control over privacy and costs. These improvements reflect Nutanix’s continued focus on innovation in delivering enterprise virtualization and containerization platforms.
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