Hybrid cloud AI solutions are becoming essential as business leaders navigate the rapidly changing landscape of technology and market demands.

Red Hat Inc., in partnership with Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co., is driving innovation in virtualization and artificial intelligence. The companies’ efforts are helping organizations transition smoothly into the next era of technology.

Red Hat’s Ryan King talks about hybrid cloud AI solutions.

“GreenLake bringing pay-as-you-go into the context of the private cloud space and hybrid cloud is a great enabler for our platform,” said Ryan King (pictured), senior director of the global hardware partner ecosystem at Red Hat. “We’re seeing two patterns, more customers, and we’re also seeing that adoption ramp, because when you have a consumption model, it’s easy to consume and it’s easy for people to try and become consumers.”

King spoke with theCUBE Research’s Dave Vellante and  Rebecca Knight at HPE Discover, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed the growing partnership between HPE and Red Hat, how AI empowers developers and Red Hat’s partnership with Nvidia Corp. (* Disclosure below.)

Powering the next generation with hybrid cloud AI solutions

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI offers a strong foundation for AI and machine learning projects. It’s transforming how businesses create and deploy AI models, according to King.

“RHEL AI is at its basics level, it’s RHEL, but it’s in a new format called Image Mode, which we can talk a little bit about. It includes InstructLab, it includes the runtimes and then it includes the Granite model,” he said. “For customers that are asking, ‘How can I, in a dated sovereignty space around data is IP, hold on to my data and take these foundational models and fine-tune them for my company’s use case?’ What RHEL AI is doing is democratizing that approach.”

AI is an extremely resource-heavy technology, calling for hefty computing to fully support its many capabilities. Red Hat and Nvidia teamed up to bring the power of AI to its customers with the help of Nvidia’s new Nvidia Interface Microservice capability, integrated with Red Hat OpenShift AI to optimize AI models efficiently, King explained.

“It really is a sandwich. You’ve got everything down to the kernel, you have the GPU and the driver, and you have layers like CUDA and you have PyTorch,” he said. “At every layer, we have to optimize with them and then we have to manifest into real usability concepts, which we do with OpenShift AI for MLOps. They’re helping to do with the consumability and availability of these different things through NIM or through the packaging that Intel’s offering.”

Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE Research’s coverage of HPE Discover:

(* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for HPE Discover. Neither Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. and Intel Corp., the primary sponsors of theCUBE’s event coverage, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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