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Dell Technologies helps customers design modern disaggregated data centres with storage, cyber resilience, software and integrated solution innovations. Why it matters Organisations face increasing demands to efficiently manage and secure both modern and traditional workloads across on-premises data centres, cloud and edge environments. IT and business needs keep changing, so the modern data centre must be ready for anything. Dell’s approach to disaggregated infrastructure combines management of shared compute, networking and storage resource pools with software-driven automation, security and partner integrations. Advanced storage and cyber resiliency capabilities Dell storage and cyber resiliency advancements deliver the performance and protection that modern data centres need. Dell PowerProtect Data Domain All-Flash appliances improve cyber resiliency with up to four times faster data restores and two times faster replication performance. They are more efficient, taking up 40% less rack space and saving up to 80% on power when compared to HDD systems. Dell PowerScale software advancements enhance object storage support and cyber resilience. The PowerScale Cybersecurity Suite offers comprehensive solutions to protect, access and recover critical data. Customers can boost application performance with Amazon EC2 cloud burst and reduce costs by backing up to Dell ObjectScale, Amazon S3 or Wasabi. PowerStore Advanced Ransomware Detection helps organisations validate data integrity and minimise downtime from ransomware attacks using advanced AI analytics. The news comes as Dell celebrates PowerStore’s fifth anniversary and over 17,000 global customers. Automate private cloud and edge operations Dell software automates the deployment and control of a disaggregated private cloud Dell software automates the deployment and management of disaggregated private cloud and edge solutions built with Dell’s industry-leading infrastructure and partner technologies. Dell Private Cloud offers a new approach to deploying, managing and scaling private clouds built with cloud software from vendors like Broadcom, Nutanix and Red Hat on Dell disaggregated infrastructure. Dell Private Cloud Organisations can protect their investment with reusable infrastructure, simplify operations with full lifecycle management and support customer choice with a catalogue of validated blueprints. Automation helps customers provision a private cloud stack in 90% fewer steps than manual processes, delivering a cluster in just two and a half hours with no manual effort.   Dell Private Cloud is delivered using the Dell Automation Platform, a software platform designed to simplify how customers deploy and operate disaggregated solutions with secure, zero-touch onboarding and centralised management. Transition between cloud ecosystems “Dell Private Cloud has proven to be the right fit to helps us meet our business priorities,” said Keith Bradley, vice president, IT and Security, Nature Fresh Farms. “The flexibility to transition between cloud ecosystems and the ability to repurpose hardware is a game-changer for us by providing investment protection and enabling us to respond to evolving business needs quickly.” Dell NativeEdge features New Dell NativeEdge features make it the most avant and cost-effective key for virtualised workloads New Dell NativeEdge features make it the most advanced and cost-effective solution for virtualised workloads at the edge and in remote branch offices.  Critical data is protected and secured with policy-based load balancing, VM snapshots and backup and migration capabilities. Organisations can manage diverse edge environments consistently with non-Dell and legacy infrastructure support. Perspectives "At Dell Technologies, we’re defining the future architecture of the intelligent enterprise,” said Arthur Lewis, president, Infrastructure Solutions Group, Dell Technologies. “Our disaggregated infrastructure approach helps customers build secure, efficient modern data centres that turn data into intelligence and complexity into clarity.”

Commvault, a leading provider of cyber resilience and data protection solutions for the hybrid cloud, today announced it is extending its Kubernetes protection to support virtual machines (VMs) running on Red Hat OpenShift Virtualisation. This new capability enhances cyber resilience for organisations moving to modern application environments. Containerised workload adoption Containerised workload adoption is rapidly growing: Gartner predicts 90% of G2000 companies will use container management tools by 2027, and the Containers as a Service (CaaS) market is forecasted to hit nearly $USD 44B by 2034. This surge makes integrated data protection and recoverability critical. Enterprises must mitigate downtime from ransomware and other disruptions while managing complex data protection across hybrid environments. Using disparate tools for VMs and containers can create overhead, duplicate efforts, and heighten risk. These are just some of the reasons a unified cyber resilience strategy is vital for protection against evolving threats, reducing complexity, streamlining operations, and lowering total cost of ownership (TCO). Addressing the problems Commvault addresses this by enabling customers to automatically discover, protect, and recover VMs running on Red Hat OpenShift Virtualisation alongside their containerised workloads, all through the Commvault Cloud platform. These capabilities can be particularly valuable for DevOps, SRE, IT/backup admins, and technology leaders (CIOs, CISOs, CTOs) that are managing cloud-native estates.  For customers, this means: Robust Cyber Resilience: Commvault offers air-gapped and immutable backups with advanced recovery for VMs on Red Hat OpenShift Virtualisation, enabling improved business continuity in the face of ransomware and other threats. Faster and More Flexible Recovery: Customers can restore VMs both in-place and out-of-place, including VM configurations, accelerating deployment and minimising downtime. Unified Protection for Hybrid Workloads: Customers can simplify operations by managing both traditional and cloud-native workloads through a single platform, reducing tool sprawl and operational silos. Cost Savings and Operational Efficiency: Customers can eliminate the need for separate backup infrastructure or tools for VMs, lowering TCO and increasing administrative efficiency. Words from CommVault's CTO “We’re proud to deepen our collaboration with Red Hat through support for Red Hat OpenShift Virtualisation. Together, we’re committed to delivering industry-leading cyber resilience and data protection across hybrid environments for our joint customers,” said Pranay Ahlawat, Chief Technology and AI Officer, Commvault. Words from Red Hat's VP “Red Hat OpenShift Virtualisation is an included feature of Red Hat OpenShift, the industry’s leading hybrid cloud application platform powered by Kubernetes, providing a modern platform for organisations to streamline VM migrations and management on a trusted, more consistent foundation,” said Ashesh Badani, Senior Vice President and Chief Product Officer, Red Hat. “By collaborating with Commvault, we're enabling enterprise-grade data protection for Red Hat OpenShift Virtualisation workloads, giving users greater confidence as they run and scale their essential virtualised applications,”  concluded Badani. Availability  Commvault support for Red Hat OpenShift Virtualisation will be available for early adopters in early summer and is targeted for general availability by early autumn. Pricing is aligned with existing Commvault Kubernetes protection models. 

Nutanix, a pioneer in hybrid multi-cloud computing announced the Nutanix GPT-in-a-Box™ solution for customers looking to jump-start their artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) innovation while maintaining control over their data. Software-defined AI-ready platform The new offering, available currently, is a full-stack software-defined AI-ready platform, along with services to help organisations size and configure hardware and software infrastructure suitable to deploy a curated set of large language models (LLMs) using the open-source AI and MLOps frameworks on the Nutanix Cloud Platform™. It allows customers to easily procure AI-ready infrastructure to fine-tune and run generative pre-trained transformers (GPT), including LLMs at the edge or in their data centre.  Generative AI and AI/ML application New use cases emerge every day as organisations look to leverage generative AI to improve customer service Many enterprises are grappling with how to quickly, efficiently, and securely take advantage of the power of generative AI and AI/ML applications, especially for use cases that cannot be run in the public cloud because of data sovereignty, governance, and privacy concerns. New use cases emerge every day as organisations look to leverage generative AI to improve customer service, developer productivity, operational efficiency and more. Challenges with AI adoption From automated transcription of internal documents to a high-speed search of multimedia contents, and automated analysis, many organisations see the opportunity with AI but are struggling with growing concerns regarding intellectual property leakage, compliance, and privacy.  Additionally, organisations looking to build an AI-ready stack often struggle with how to best support ML administrators and data scientists, while the prospect of large AI investment costs has enterprises stalled in their AI and ML strategy. Install, configure, and run With GPT-in-a-Box, Nutanix offers customers a turnkey, easy-to-use solution for their AI use cases" “As customers look to design and deploy generative AI solutions, they find themselves struggling with balancing the deep expertise required to install, configure, and run these workloads with concerns around their data security and protecting company IP, all while controlling costs,” said Greg Macatee, Senior Research Analyst, Infrastructure Systems, Platforms and Technologies Group at IDC. “With GPT-in-a-Box, Nutanix offers customers a turnkey, easy-to-use solution for their AI use cases, offering enterprises struggling with generative AI adoption an easier on-ramp to deployment.” Nutanix GPT-in-a-Box solution The Nutanix GPT-in-a-Box solution delivers ready-to-use customer-controlled AI infrastructure for the edge of the core data centre and allows customers to run and fine-tune AI and GPT models while maintaining control over their data. Nutanix provides a full complement of security and data protection offerings ideal for AI data protection. AI-ready stack Nutanix GPT-in-a-Box is an opinionated AI-ready stack that aims to solve the key challenges" “Helping customers tackle the biggest challenges they face in IT is at the core of what we do, from managing increasing multi-cloud complexity to data protection challenges, and now the adoption of generative AI solutions while keeping control over data privacy and compliance,” said Thomas Cornely, SVP, Product Management at Nutanix. “Nutanix GPT-in-a-Box is an opinionated AI-ready stack that aims to solve the key challenges with generative AI adoption and help jump-start AI innovation.” Inclusions with GPT-in-a-Box This new solution includes: The Industry-pioneering Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure™ platform, with the Nutanix Files Storage™ and Objects Storage™ solutions, the Nutanix AHV® hypervisor, and Kubernetes, along with NVIDIA GPU acceleration, which can be sized for large to small scale. Nutanix services to help customers size their cluster and deploy an opinionated stack with the leading open-source deep learning and MLOps frameworks, an inference server, and a curated set of large language models such as Llama2, Falcon, and MPT. The ability for data scientists and ML administrators to immediately consume these models with their choice of applications, enhanced terminal UI, or standard CLI. The platform can also be leveraged to run other GPT models, as well as fine-tune these models leveraging internal data, hosted on included Nutanix Files or Objects Storage services. Nutanix Cloud Platform The Nutanix Cloud Platform delivers the performance, flexibility, and security required to safely deploy AI workloads" “Leveraging AI to more efficiently and effectively help our customers is a top priority for us but, as a regulated financial services organisation, maintaining full control over our data is necessary," said Jon Cosson, CISO at JM Finn. "The Nutanix Cloud Platform delivers the performance, flexibility, and security required to safely deploy AI workloads." Scalability, performance, resilience The Nutanix GPT-In-a-Box solution builds on the full stack scalability, performance, resilience, and ease of use that the Nutanix Cloud Platform is known for. Nutanix’s expertise with scalable infrastructure across public cloud, datacentre, and edge use cases delivers the ideal environment to fine-tune and run AI applications while maintaining control over the data. In fact, in a recent survey, 78% of Nutanix customers indicated that they were likely to run their AI/ML workloads on the Nutanix Cloud Platform. Key contributions Nutanix’s expertise and involvement in the open-source AI community provide customers with a strong foundation Nutanix’s expertise and involvement in the open-source AI community provide customers with a strong foundation on which to build their AI strategy. Key contributions include participation in the MLCommons (AI standards) advisory board; co-founding and technical leadership in defining the ML Storage Benchmarks and Medicine Benchmarks; serving as a co-chair of the Kubeflow (MLOps) Training and AutoML working groups at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).  Supporting quotes Sarwar Raza, Vice President, Cloud Services, Red Hat “Red Hat is helping organisations across various industries to accelerate business and mission-critical initiatives through the development and deployment of AI-enabled applications in the hybrid cloud." "With this launch, joint customers can take advantage of Red Hat OpenShift AI along with the Nutanix AI-ready stack to jump-start innovation on a consistent, scalable open-source foundation while maintaining control over their data.” Dinanath Kholkar, SVP and Global Head of Partner Ecosystems & Alliances at TCS TCS has a long track record of embracing technology innovations in a secure manner to satisfy customer demand" “Enterprises everywhere are looking to leverage the generative AI opportunity but many, especially in regulated industries, are concerned with potential IP and data security issues. TCS has a long track record of embracing technology innovations in a secured manner to satisfy customer demand and enable them to focus on business outcomes." "Nutanix GPT-in-a-Box along with TCS Cognix, a future-ready service delivery platform, allows customers to realise the value of artificial intelligence and machine learning by providing service resiliency, business agility, and enhanced customer experience to organisations.” Vinod Chandran, COO, Hexaware “Taking advantage of the potential of generative AI is one of the most significant opportunities available to global enterprises today, and finding the right partner to guide this journey is crucial." "Nutanix GPT-in-a-Box, along with consulting and solutions from Hexaware, can help jumpstart this AI journey by addressing some of the key talent, security, compliance, deployment, and scale challenges they’re facing today.” Prasad Vellanki, CEO, DKube “Generative AI is top of mind for many enterprises, but most don't have the in-house resources to fully take advantage of this opportunity." "Nutanix GPT-in-a-Box, along with solutions from DKube, simplifies enterprise AI adoption with an AI-ready stack to jumpstart innovation.”