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5 Big Partnerships Unveiled At VMware Explore: Nvidia, Oracle, IBM, Dell And Lenovo
O’Ryan Johnson
In addition to AI offerings with Nvidia and Lenovo, VMware Explore brought enhancements to VxRail from Dell as well as cloud advancements with Oracle and IBM.
At VMware Explore the virtualization all-star unveiled new products that deepen its ties with technology vendors including Nvidia, Oracle, IBM, Dell Technologies and Lenovo with products for channel partners across several lines of business.
“I genuinely believe that VMware is in an interesting situation around engaging with our strategic ecosystem to come up with differentiated solutions,” Zia Yusuf, VMware’s senior vice president of strategic ecosystem and industry solutions, told CRN. “Hopefully our customers will see a very logical story on how we can help them reduce the cost of inference, reduce the cost of training models. Get up and running faster. Leverage stuff that they already have to do that. So much of it is going to be an infrastructure cost issue.”
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The biggest news came with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang appearing on the main stage with VMware CEO Raghu Raghuram where they showcased VMware Private AI Foundation with Nvidia, which promises generative AI capabilities. VMware said that globally there is an estimated $4 trillion market oppotunity with generative AI.
“This is a giant offering,” Raghurham told the crowd.
Added Huang: “We been working together for many years on this dream that we’re going to talk about. We are reinventing enterprise computing in order to transition to the future in order to transition to accelerated computing,” Huang told the crowd.
Several other industry partners unveiled new products at VMware Explore, including IBM, Oracle, Dell and Lenovo, all of them as part of the ecosystem that Yusuf said is critical to the company’s progress. He said part of the magic is bringing all those partners together with VMware’s global systems integrators, a project his team has spearheaded.
