Artificial intelligence applications are the future of cloud computing, and Nutanix Inc. looks to capitalize on that with its Nutanix Enterprise AI offering.

Nutanix has partnered with Microsoft Azure to offer platform engineering and AI services across a hybrid environment. Its Enterprise AI solution will support customers’ AI workloads across private and public clouds.

“We brought a cloud operating model to an on-premises environment,” said Lee Caswell (pictured), senior vice president of product and solutions marketing at Nutanix. “[We’ve] now extended that operating model into Azure natively so that you can go and run … the same operating model you run on-prem and all of that enterprise resilience, the day two operations and security and privacy you can now extend into Azure and … extends now into AI. “

Caswell spoke with theCUBE Research’s Rob Strechay at Microsoft Ignite 2024, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed how AI applications are changing the industry and Nutanix’s partnership with Microsoft. (* Disclosure below.)

The hybrid advantages of Nutanix Enterprise AI

Nutanix Enterprise AI enables customers to deploy a full enterprise AI stack on their private clouds, on-premises or at the edge, in a secure manner. The platform is ready to be deployed on Azure Kubernetes, supporting what will most likely be a hybrid environment for AI, according to Caswell.

“For customers who are trying to get started, they’re trying to figure out how do I get started and don’t get locked into pieces that I might want to change over time,” he said. “That’s where we offer choices of LLMs, choices of GPUs, choices for running on-prem or in the public cloud, and then you can run where you’re most confident around security performance and even costs.”

As customers incorporate AI services into their businesses, Nutanix allows them to run their applications anywhere and inference from the most convenient location. This flexibility is highly desirable in markets such as healthcare, financial services and the public sector.

“Apps are now the competitive currency,” Caswell said. “That’s part of the Nutanix Enterprise AI solution. And with that, you get your choice of LLMs fully certified down to GPU-enabled servers from all of our top partners. Now you can go and run that right across the full hybrid experience from the edge into the virtual private data center and then now connect it into Microsoft Azure.”

Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE Research’s coverage of Microsoft Ignite 2024:

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

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