As organizations work to put the power of AI algorithms in place, an increasing number of them are also working to ensure that these new capabilities fit within existing compliance and security guardrails. This is particularly the case in sectors such as government, healthcare, and finance where data sovereignty and privacy regulations play a significant role. The solution? VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA in a Sovereign Cloud.
What is VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA?
VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA is an architectural approach that aims to balance the business gains from AI with the practical privacy and compliance needs of the organization. VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA is about the platform and infrastructure architecture built in support of AI, which can be deployed in public clouds, virtual private clouds, data centers, and edge sites, and is comprised of the following core tenets:
Compute capacity and trained AI models reside adjacent to where data is created, processed, and/or consumed, whether the data resides in a public cloud, virtual private cloud, enterprise data center, or at the edge. This l requires an AI infrastructure that is capable of seamlessly connecting disparate data locales to ensure centralized governance and operations for all AI services.
An organization’s data remains private to the organization and is not used to train, tune, or augment any commercial or OSS models without the organization’s consent. The organization maintains full control of its data and can leverage other AI models for a shared data set as its business needs require.
Access controls are in place to govern access and changes to AI models, associated training data, and applications. Audit logs and associated controls are also essential to ensure that compliance mandates – regulatory or otherwise – are satisfied.
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What is a Sovereign Cloud?
A Sovereign Cloud is a cloud infrastructure that complies with particular data sovereignty requirements due to applicable laws of a jurisdiction or due to the policy of a public sector government or agency. Data sovereignty specific data residency, privacy, and security regulations. It ensures that data is stored and processed within the legal jurisdiction of the country, adhering to national and regional laws. This model is critical for organizations handling sensitive data or operating in regulated environments, where data privacy and compliance cannot be compromised or exposed to foreign jurisdiction.
What is VMware Cloud Foundation?
VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) is Broadcom’s flagship private cloud platform that combines public cloud scale and agility with private cloud security and performance, and proven lower total cost of ownership value. The platform is purpose-built to modernize private cloud infrastructure and accelerate innovation, delivering integrated, enterprise-class computing, networking, storage, management, and security across any environment. VCF includes native Kubernetes to support both virtual machines and containerized workloads on a single platform, it enables advanced AI/ML workloads at enterprise scale and offers integrated data services capabilities. IT can continuously optimize performance and costs, protect the business from threats, and enable the business to focus on business outcomes instead of operations through advanced observability and insights. VCF customers benefit from capabilities aligned to every part of their private cloud journey, from Day Zero installation and deployment through Day Two continuous operations. VMware Cloud Service Providers (VCSP) benefit from VCF license portability in which enables customers who have purchased subscriptions of VCF software and have complete mobility between their on-premises environment and supported VMware VCF endpoints of choice, especially VCSP.
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Why Use Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA in a Sovereign Cloud?
VMware Cloud Foundation provides a robust, integrated software-defined platform for managing computing, storage, and networking resources. It is ideally suited to support the deployment of Private AI in a Sovereign Cloud environment. Here’s why:
- Unified Infrastructure for AI Workloads: Provides a unified platform for managing AI workloads, combining traditional and AI applications on existing infrastructure through a single interface.
- Enhanced Security and Compliance: When it comes to AI and data, security is paramount. VMware Cloud Foundation delivers built-in security of encryption and provides some of the advanced security features such as micro-segmentation and zero-trust security architectures with the integration of our Security and Load Balancing solution. These features help protect sensitive data, ensuring it meets stringent compliance requirements mandated by data sovereignty regulations.
- Data Sovereignty and Control: Organizations can maintain data control within a Sovereign Cloud, meeting residency and privacy requirements for sensitive AI applications, such as LLMs and RAG.
- Scalability and Flexibility: The platform scales easily, supporting AI demands and enabling organizations to expand their infrastructure without compatibility concerns.
- Cost Efficiency: VMware Cloud Foundation offers a predictable and cost-efficient environment for AI, reducing operational complexity and costs compared to public cloud services.
- Support for Hybrid-Cloud Strategies: It allows organizations to adopt a hybrid strategy, running workloads across multiple environments while maintaining a consistent operational model.
Sample Use Cases for Private AI in Sovereign Cloud
Deploying Private AI in a Sovereign Cloud using VMware Cloud Foundation opens numerous possibilities for organizations across various sectors:
- Government Agencies: Government organizations can leverage AI to enhance public services, analyze large data sets, and improve decision-making processes, all while maintaining data sovereignty and adhering to national regulations.
- Healthcare Providers: Healthcare organizations can use AI for personalized medicine, diagnostics, and operational efficiency while ensuring patient data remains secure and compliant with regulations like GDPR or HIPAA.
- Financial Institutions: Banks and financial institutions can deploy AI for fraud detection, risk management, and customer analytics, maintaining full control over sensitive financial data to comply with regulatory requirements.
- Manufacturing: Manufacturers can use AI to optimize supply chains, enhance predictive maintenance, and improve product quality, keeping their data secure and sovereign.
What is Generative AI?
Generative AI refers to a category of artificial intelligence models designed to create new and original content, such as text, images, audio, video, or code. It uses machine learning techniques, particularly deep learning and neural networks, to generate outputs that resemble human-created content. These models learn patterns, structures, and features from large datasets and then use this knowledge to produce novel, coherent, and sometimes even creative outputs based on user prompts or instructions.
Combining the Power of Private AI and Generative AI
VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA in a sovereign cloud can provide a secure and compliant environment for running generative AI models, ensuring that customer data is protected and remains within the legal and regulatory boundaries specific to a region or organization. This combination is especially valuable for businesses that want the innovative power of generative AI while adhering to strict data governance and privacy requirements.
A Rise in Demand for Sovereign Cloud Solutions
As organizations become aware of the nature and significance of the laws surrounding data sovereignty, many are demanding Sovereign Cloud solutions. With the combination of VMware Private AI and VMware Cloud Foundation, organizations will drive innovation at unprecedented levels while adhering to security and compliance for their data.
With its full-stack, automated deployment and management, VMware Cloud Foundation is the perfect landing zone to harness Private AI in a Sovereign Cloud. Organizations trust it as a platform for innovation and to innovate with confidence, secure in the knowledge their data is fully protected at all times.
VMware Cloud Service Providers: Extending the Value of Private AI
Choosing a VMware Cloud Service Provider (VCSP) for Private AI services is a no-brainer because of how much value this approach can provide relative to setting up things by yourself.
For starters, VCSPs offer domain expertise and specialized resources so an organization does not have to have qualified application, AI, and IT teams in-house with a deep understanding of topics from managing AI models to support services as well as security. This simplifies deployment and ongoing management considerably, freeing up businesses to take advantage of AI for strategic business outcomes rather than the complexities of configuration and maintenance.
VCSPs provide on-demand, scalable infrastructure, allowing organizations to scale their AI resources up or down in line with demand without the requirement for large upfront investments in hardware. As an outcome of this AI applications will always perform with the best performance due to such scalability, avoiding having to keep track of infrastructure upgrades.
A VCSP provides strengthening of security and compliance with advanced capabilities and Secure Operations to protect data privacy, complying with high-level security protocols, and national and international regulatory standards. Utilizing a VCSP for VMware Private AI services achieves the right mix of cost, simplicity, and coverage so that managing this critical piece in house is less practical (and secure) if it can be avoided at all.
Conclusion
Combining VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA and a sovereign cloud provider represents a monumental step forward for enterprises looking to take advantage of the benefits of generative AI.
Looking ahead, organizations that choose this path will gain a head start in transforming the complexity of digital interruptions into the outcomes promised by AI.
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