Cloud spend is a board-level enterprise concern, as companies assess the net benefits they’re enjoying against the expenditure invested.

With artificial intelligence joining the mix — and considering its resource-intensive nature — the severity of that concern has increased. VMware Inc.’s platform is delivering full visibility through which organizations can manage workloads across their central processing units and graphics processing units inventories, according to Chris Wolf (pictured), vice president of AI Labs at VMware.

“With the scarcity of GPUs, it’s one of the reasons people are coming to us, because we can give them a platform that provides full awareness of their CPU and GPU inventory and can intelligently share those between workloads,” Wolf said. “It is key to gain access to these compute devices but then also to save money at the same time.”

Wolf spoke with theCUBE industry analysts Dave Vellante and John Furrier at VMware Explore 2023, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed how VMware’s new product direction is accommodating emerging AI use cases. (* Disclosure below.)

The full-channel rollout

AI, just by itself, is raising the cost of processing hardware to unprecedented levels. And despite the situation having eased considerably, graphics processing units are still pretty hard to come by — especially in the scale required for compute-intensive AI applications.

VMware is delivering the headwinds required for its channel partners to offer these capabilities frugally and on-premises to their end users. The company is already seeing an uptick in the demand for those capabilities, according to Wolf.

“AI workloads are going to drive compute density and compute capacity, which is going to benefit, for us, Cloud Foundation in particular, because we really see this as an important platform for customers to be able to run these workloads in proximity to their data and to also maintain control of their data,” he said. “Then you are going to see some ISVs start to benefit as well from this.”

Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of VMware Explore 2023:

(* Disclosure: This is an unsponsored editorial segment. However, theCUBE is a paid media partner for VMware Explore 2023. VMware Inc. and other sponsors of theCUBE’s event coverage do not have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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