NVIDIA becomes Cohesity investor as 'grandfather of AI' announces flurry of partnerships
The likes of CrowdStrike, Pure Storage and NetApp want a seat at NVIDIA’s table
Tech companies all want a slice of NVIDIA's pie as the vendor has announced a feast of partnerships for its AI skills.
After Cisco's completion of its Splunk takeover yesterday, all eyes are on the networking vendor and how it is capitalising on the software play to take advantage of the AI capabilities at the chip set level.
"Nvidia is the grandfather of AI and now all the other ecosystem partners are coming to align and partner with them to enhance their AI capabilities and their businesses," Future Tech Enterprise CEO Bob Venero toldCRN US.
As the appetite for AI security applications continues to grow, so does NVIDIA's hunger to be the leader with a full course of new partnerships.
Cohesity today announced NVIDIA as a new investor, alongside the integration of NVIDIA AI Enterprise into the Cohesity Gaia platform as the cherry on top.
"Our collaboration, and NVIDIA's investment in our company, is a testament to the promise NVIDIA sees in Cohesity as a leader and innovator in generative AI as evidenced by Cohesity Gaia," said Sanjay Poonen, CEO and president of Cohesity.
Cohesity Gaia, the company's patent-pending collection of AI capabilities, will offer the recently announced NVIDIA NIM microservices and additional technologies as part of an enterprise-class, multi-cloud data platform, with ready-to-implement generative AI solutions.
With NVIDIA NIM, customers with Cohesity Gaia will be able to add genAI intelligence to data backups and archives.
CrowdStrike-NVIDIA on cybersecurity with genAI
Also on the menu is CrowdStrike coming in hot with its fresh strategic collaboration to deliver NVIDIA's AI computing services on the CrowdStrike Falcon XDR platform.
Combining Falcon platform data with NVIDIA's GPU-optimised AI pipelines and software, including NVIDIA NIM, puts custom and secure genAI model creation in the hands of CrowdStrike and NVIDIA customers.
CrowdStrike will leverage NVIDIA accelerated computing, NVIDIA Morpheus and NVIDIA NIM microservices to bring custom LLM-powered applications to the enterprise.
"Since our founding, CrowdStrike has pioneered the use of AI in cybersecurity. Our customers from all verticals, segments, and geographies are increasing adoption of AI/ML across their businesses, looking to generative AI for efficiency, speed, and innovation," said George Kurtz, co-founder and CEO at CrowdStrike.
"Our collaboration with NVIDIA combines the power of two innovative industry leaders to not only help customers meet and exceed necessary security requirements, but also increase adoption of AI technologies for business acceleration and value creation."
Pure Storage meets enterprise AI demand
Adding more to its NVIDIA partnership plate, Pure Storage has announced new validated reference architectures for running genAI use cases, including a new NVIDIA OVX-ready validated reference architecture.
The storage vendor is arming global customers with a proven framework to manage the high-performance data and compute requirements they need to drive successful AI deployments with the extended collaboration.
Bob Pette, VP of enterprise platforms for NVIDIA said Pure's data infrastructure enhances the flavour of NVIDIA's AI platform reference architectures.
"Pure's latest validated reference architectures and proofs of concept are helping drive AI innovation, providing businesses with the tools needed to unlock new possibilities and drive transformative outcomes."
NetApp partners with NVIDIA on AI data traceability
Meanwhile, NetApp is collaborating with NVIDIA to advance retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) for genAI applications.
The fresh out the oven deal directly connects the just-announced NVIDIA NeMo Retriever microservices to exabytes of data on NetApp's data infrastructure.
Every NetApp ONTAP customer will now be able to seamlessly "talk to their data" to access proprietary business insights without having to compromise the security or privacy of their data.
Until now, enterprises that wanted to build internal chatbots, co-pilots, and applications that leverage corporate knowledge were faced with complexity and uncertainty about how to get started without compromising data security or privacy.
"Retrieval-augmented generation pairs valuable data with the power of AI to make copilots transformative productivity tools," said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO at NVIDIA.
"Together, NVIDIA and NetApp can help enterprises build accurate, intelligent generative AI applications that let companies talk to their data — and foster a new wave of business opportunity."