Earlier this year, global IT services giant Wipro Ltd. announced that it’s set aside $1 billion toward investing in artificial intelligence initiatives over the next three years.

As a key cloud partner of VMware Inc., the company hopes to accelerate the adoption of enterprise AI by bringing its power to customers across a wide range of industries.

“It’s been very successful — we have got go-to-market solutions together,” said Mahesh Chandra (pictured, right), senior vice president and head of cloud and infra services at Wipro. “We go together on the virtualization on the cloud. As I said, they’re our key cloud partner. Today, we are the number one partner for VMware for all Tanzu-based application modernization projects. That’s number one. We have over 500 plus joint clients together.”

Chandra and Ramachandran Padmanabhan (left), vice president of FullStride cloud solutions at Wipro Ltd. spoke with theCUBE industry analysts John Furrier and Lisa Martin at VMware Explore 2023, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed the growing importance of enterprise AI and the partnership between Wipro and VMware to accelerate its adoption. (* Disclosure below.)

The partnership’s finer details

Both companies have structured the partnership to address three key areas. Alongside go-to-market, there’ll be joint customer engagement, where both companies provide training and support as customers deploy AI apps. Lastly is joint innovation, where both companies collaborate on new AI solutions as well as solve emerging problems such as data privacy and security.

“If I look at the bottom of the pyramid is all your infrastructure and the orchestration vendors like VMware, that’s where you have the large compute, storage and networking that comes in,” Padmanabhan noted. “You have the AI chipset vendors that are truly bringing in the compute power of the GPUs. Then you would have a next set of layers where developers like us need to get involved and the engineering practices of looking at how can you use these AI practices [in] how to develop it, how to deploy it [and] how to monitor it…”

Beyond investing funds, Wipro has also made notable gains in consolidating internal AI efforts across technology, platforms, R&D, partners, talent and more into one umbrella. That ecosystem is tagged ai360, according to Chandra.

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

(* Disclosure: Wipro Ltd. sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither Wipro nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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