Nutanix Enterprise AI Goes Up to Eleven

After 50+ years of research in AI, ChatGPT exploded on the scene two years ago with a product so simple and straightforward that everyday people could use it. In my opinion, nothing has so delightfully hidden the complexity of a deeply technical product with a deviously simple UI since Google search 25 years ago.

One box, one question, your answer.

Companies worldwide have been scrambling to figure out how to incorporate GenAI into their offerings since. Not only is the opportunity huge, the large language model (LLM) “engines” are effectively free. It’s like gold fell from the sky.

The race to include GenAI into company’s products, however, still poses some key challenges. The engine may be free (Apache 2, Meta license, and others), but putting the bucket of parts together is still not easy. These parts include servers, GPUs, LLMs, serving engines, and more.

The other massive concern for customers is data security. Your data is the lifeblood of your company. This includes your research, your financials, your plans, your HR data, and much more. Every few months we hear about companies getting hacked or leaving data unsecured. The results can be disastrous. No one wants generative AI to be the reason for data escape.

This has led companies to be extremely cautious about exposing their data to cloud-based AI inferencing products. In my experience there is no way enterprise customers are going to open a back door to the cloud which risks data exposure. A misconfiguration, a mistake, poor cloud security, improper backups, poor access security can all make your private data public. No one except the hackers want that. It could severely damage your business.

Today, Nutanix responded to this key set of customer pain points with Nutanix Enterprise AI (NAI). NAI is a new product from Nutanix which makes creating active, secure, and on-premises inference endpoints with your choice of LLMs from Hugging Face and NVIDIA NIMs easy and secure, so you can power your generative AI applications.

We bring the power of generative AI to your data, where it lives safely and securely, behind your firewall and secured by your own team you trust. Your data stays safe and you get the power of GenAI where you want it, on-premises or in the cloud.

Nutanix Enterprise AI gives you Simplicity, Control, and Cost.

Simplicity: A enterprise-class user interface which is easy to deploy and use. It has the same look and feel as Prism Central, making it another friendly member of the family.

Control: Enterprise products require controls for protection internally and externally. We include user control and RBAC for the application. All user activity is audit logged, and all endpoints have API token access and management.

Cost: Choosing NAI means you get predictable total cost of ownership (TCO) on-premises or on-cloud. Cloud IaaS uses an always-running cost meter. You can just hear that cash register ring. Customers want another option.

Nutanix is a leading full-stack, single-vendor hybrid datacenter software product line and a Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure. Nutanix gives you the power to run hyper converged (HCI) with a wide range of hardware platform partners and NVIDIA GPUs. You also get Nutanix AOS, the AHV hypervisor, Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) Files and Objects, Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP), and now, Nutanix Enterprise AI (NAI). You size your GenAI infrastructure to match your needs.

Nutanix Enterprise AI goes up to 11.

You can easily set up the infrastructure you need to securely power your GenAI applications in minutes.

I’ve had the great fortune to lead this zero-to-one product effort and work with an amazing team. Opportunity knocked and we responded to create an amazing new product line. For more details on Nutanix Enterprise AI product, please follow the links below. We look forward to making your GenAI applicaitons simple to power, wherever you need to run them.

Nutanix Introduction to NAI Blog

Nutanix Enterprise AI Product Page