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INTELLIGENT BRANDS // Software for Business

Nutanix simplifies adoption of Generative AI with software-defined solution

Nutanix now offers a GPT-in-a-Box solution for customers looking to jump-start their AI and ML innovation – while maintaining control over their data .

The solution is a full-stack software-defined AI-ready platform , along with services to help organizations size and configure hardware and software infrastructure suitable to deploy a curated set of large language models ( LLMs ) using the leading open-source AI and MLOps frameworks on the Nutanix Cloud Platform .
It allows customers to easily procure AI-ready infrastructure to fine-tune and run generative pre-trained transformers ( GPT ), including LLMs at the Edge or in their datacenter .
“ As customers look to design and deploy generative AI solutions , they find themselves struggling with balancing the deep expertise required to install , configure and run these workloads with concerns around their data security and protecting company IP – all while controlling costs ,” said Greg Macatee , Senior Research Analyst , Infrastructure Systems , Platforms and Technologies Group at IDC .
“ With GPT-in-a-Box , Nutanix offers customers a turnkey , easy-to-use solution for their AI use cases , offering enterprises struggling with generative AI adoption an easier on-ramp to deployment .”
The Nutanix GPT-in-a-Box solution delivers ready-to-use customer-controlled AI infrastructure for the Edge or the core datacenter and allows customers to run and fine-tune AI and GPT models while maintaining control over their data . Nutanix provides a full complement of security and data protection offerings ideal for AI data protection .
“ Helping customers tackle the biggest challenges they face in IT is at the core of what we do , from managing increasing multi-cloud complexity to data protection challenges and now adoption of generative AI solutions while keeping control over data privacy and compliance ,” said Thomas Cornely , SVP , Product Management , Nutanix . “ Nutanix GPT-in-a-Box is an opinionated AI-ready stack that aims to solve the key challenges with generative AI adoption and help jump-start AI innovation .”
The platform can also be leveraged to run other GPT models , as well as fine tune these models leveraging internal data , hosted on included Nutanix Files or Objects Storage services .
“ Leveraging AI to more efficiently and effectively help our customers is a top priority for us but , as a regulated financial services organization , maintaining full control over our data is necessary ,” said Jon Cosson , CISO at JM Finn . “ The Nutanix Cloud Platform delivers the performance , flexibility and security required to safely deploy AI workloads .”
In a recent survey , 78 % of Nutanix customers indicated that they were likely to run their AI / ML workloads on the Nutanix Cloud Platform . p
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