tl;dr: Dell Technologies, Nutanix, and NVIDIA have partnered to deliver a unified AI factory solution designed to simplify AI deployment, enhance data security, and drive innovation. This solution offers scalable and efficient infrastructure and tools to accelerate AI-driven transformation. With expert workshops and end-to-end support, you can confidently build your AI factory and achieve strategic business growth. Reach out to your Dell representative to get started today!
Generative AI presents a powerful opportunity for businesses to innovate, boost productivity, and create exceptional customer experiences. Recognizing this need, Dell Technologies and Nutanix are expanding their partnership to help your organization build an engine for growth.
Enterprises are now shifting from AI experimentation to AI productization. This evolution is driving the emergence of AI Factories, where organizations can centralize critical resources like GPUs, data lakes, and high-speed networks. However, the path to AI-driven transformation is often filled with obstacles. Many organizations struggle with fragmented infrastructure, the rapid pace of change, and the need for specialized skills to manage AI tools and Kubernetes.
With Nutanix AI solutions and the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA, we are providing a complete, enterprise-grade platform that simplifies how you deploy, manage, and scale generative AI. This collaboration delivers a full-stack platform that allows your teams to focus on driving business value instead of wrestling with complex technology.
A Unified Solution for Enterprise AI
The collaboration between Dell, Nutanix, and NVIDIA directly addresses the challenges of AI adoption. By combining Dell’s market-leading infrastructure, Nutanix’s software innovation, and NVIDIA’s AI expertise, we deliver a solution that empowers your IT teams to manage the entire AI lifecycle with confidence.
This joint solution is designed for your AI initiatives, making advanced technology accessible to your current IT staff. The core of this offering lies in two key Nutanix solutions that serve as the operating system for your AI Factory.
Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP)
Containerized applications are the foundation of modern AI, but managing Kubernetes at scale is a common challenge. NKP simplifies this by providing an enterprise-grade Kubernetes solution. It offers a production-grade base without the complexity of managing individual components, allowing your team to establish secure, multi-tenant resource access and simplify the deployment of containerized applications. With comprehensive fleet management, you can deploy and manage clusters consistently across on-premises data centers, public clouds, and edge locations.
Nutanix Enterprise AI (NAI)
Built on the foundation of NKP, Nutanix Enterprise AI (NAI) delivers the higher-level services needed to operationalize generative AI. NAI acts as a control plane, providing a simple, UI-driven experience that allows IT administrators to manage shared inference services and the entire AI lifecycle. With NAI, your team can select, deploy, and monitor large language models (LLMs) and secure API endpoints quickly. This gives your organization the freedom to choose preferred models and make AI accessible to every team across the enterprise.
The Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA: Your Engine for Innovation
The Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA is a comprehensive solution designed to help you turn data into a strategic advantage. It combines powerful Dell infrastructure with NVIDIA GPUs, end-to-end software platforms, and expert services to accelerate your AI journey at every stage. Adding Nutanix solutions to this powerful stack provides tangible benefits that help you innovate with confidence and achieve operational excellence.
- Simplified Operations: The platform offers a unified, UI-driven experience for managing the entire AI lifecycle, from infrastructure to inference. This simplifies management and allows your team to focus on strategic growth.
- Consistent Performance: With Dell infrastructure optimized for AI workloads and Nutanix’s efficient software stack, you get predictable and reliable performance for your most demanding AI applications.
- Security: Safeguard your data with a platform built on an open, flexible, and secured architecture. NAI supports air-gapped deployments, ensuring your AI initiatives meet strict governance and compliance requirements.
- Cost Savings: By streamlining operations and providing a scalable platform, this solution helps reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO). You can scale your AI initiatives without worrying about unpredictable token or per-API charges.
- Flexibility: Run workloads anywhere, from desktop to data center, with Dell and NVIDIA’s broad AI portfolio. Nutanix also allows for easy license portability, offering flexibility as your needs evolve.
- Expert Services: From strategy and data preparation to implementation and scaling, Dell’s professional services provide the expertise you need to succeed.
Centralized and Secure AI Inferencing You Control
In the age of AI, protecting your data is more critical than ever. NAI is built with security at its core, offering a private, centralized shared inferencing platform that gives you complete control over your models and data.
By leveraging a centralized pool of GPUs, shared inference helps organizations maximize performance, utilization, and cost efficiency across AI workloads. This approach provides granular user-level consumption tracking and comprehensive administrative controls, ensuring effective resource management and governance.
Key security and management features include:
- Private Inference: Keep your sensitive data and proprietary models within your secure environment.
- Role-Based Access Controls (RBAC): Easily manage permissions for different users, from developers to platform engineers.
- Secure API Endpoints: NAI creates OpenAI-compatible APIs for your models, complete with SSL/TLS encryption and robust API key management.
Accelerate Innovation with a Validated Model Catalog
To succeed with AI, you need the freedom to choose the best tools for the job. NAI works closely with NVIDIA and Hugging Face to curate a set of validated models. This pre-validation includes security checks and resource requirement checks to ensure they will run well on available infrastructure.
- NVIDIA NIM: Deploy optimized, cloud-native microservices from NVIDIA to shorten the time-to-market for your generative AI models. Customers can bring their existing NVIDIA AI Enterprise licenses to the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA and use them with NAI.
- Hugging Face: Access and integrate validated LLMs directly from the extensive Hugging Face library.
- Bring Your Own Model: NAI allows you to upload and manage your own custom or fine-tuned models, giving you total control over your AI strategy.
This ensures that even organizations with the most rigorous security and compliance needs can deploy AI workloads in a secure and scalable environment.
Your Future with AI Starts Now
The partnership between Dell Technologies, Nutanix, and NVIDIA marks a significant step forward in making enterprise AI more accessible, manageable, and secure. By combining Nutanix’s leading software solutions with the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA, we empower organizations to unlock the full potential of their data and accelerate their journey toward AI-driven innovation. Read the Nutanix announcement here.
Ready to build your AI factory and drive your business forward? Get started on your AI journey by participating in a Dell Accelerator Workshop. Reach out to your Dell representative today to learn more.
