Heard on the Street – 3/21/2024

Welcome to insideBIGDATA’s “Heard on the Street” round-up column! In this regular feature, we highlight thought-leadership commentaries from members of the big data ecosystem. Each edition covers the trends of the day with compelling perspectives that can provide important insights to give you a competitive advantage in the marketplace.

Cloudera and NVIDIA Collaborate to Expand Generative AI Capabilities with NVIDIA Microservices

Cloudera, the data company for trusted enterprise AI, today announced its expanded collaboration with NVIDIA. Cloudera Powered by NVIDIA will integrate enterprise-grade NVIDIA NIM microservices, part of the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software platform, into Cloudera Machine Learning, a Cloudera Data Platform service for AI/ML workflows, to deliver fast, secure, and simplified end-to-end generative AI workflows in production. 

DDN AI400X2 Turbo Appliance Accelerates Gen AI and Inference for Data Center and Cloud by 10x

DDN®, a global leader in artificial intelligence (AI) and multi-cloud data management solutions, announced the latest addition to its powerful A3I® solutions, the DDN AI400X2 Turbo. 30% more powerful than the AI400X2, the previous industry performance leader, the AI400X2 Turbo boasts faster performance and expanded connectivity options.

NVIDIA Blackwell Platform Arrives to Power a New Era of Computing

GTC 2024—Powering a new era of computing, NVIDIA announced that the NVIDIA Blackwell platform has arrived — enabling organizations everywhere to build and run real-time generative AI on trillion-parameter large language models at up to 25x less cost and energy consumption than its predecessor.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Debuts End-to-End AI-Native Portfolio for Generative AI

Today at NVIDIA GTC, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) announced updates to one of the industry’s most comprehensive AI-native portfolios to advance the operationalization of generative AI (GenAI), deep learning, and machine learning (ML) applications.

Hitachi Vantara Announces Collaboration with NVIDIA to Create New Portfolio of Industrial AI Solutions

Hitachi Vantara, the data storage, infrastructure, and hybrid cloud management subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501), today announced a collaboration with NVIDIA to create a new generation of transformational artificial intelligence (AI) solutions. Hitachi Vantara will develop a portfolio of solutions, Hitachi iQ, to drive targeted AI outcomes by layering industry-specific capabilities on top of its AI solution stack, so outcomes can be more specific and relevant to an organization’s business. 

Smarter AI for All: Lenovo Unveils Hybrid AI Solutions that Deliver the Power of Tailored Generative AI to Every Enterprise in Collaboration with NVIDIA 

Today, at NVIDIA GTC, a global AI conference, Lenovo announced new hybrid AI solutions, built in collaboration with NVIDIA, that deliver the power of tailored generative AI applications to every enterprise and cloud, bringing transformational capabilities to every industry.

Pure Storage Accelerates Enterprise AI Adoption to Meet Growing Demands with NVIDIA AI 

Pure Storage® (NYSE: PSTG), the IT pioneer that delivers advanced data storage technology and services, today announced new validated reference architectures for running generative AI use cases, including a new NVIDIA OVX-ready validated reference architecture. As a leader in AI, Pure Storage, in collaboration with NVIDIA, is arming global customers with a proven framework to manage the high-performance data and compute requirements they need to drive successful AI deployments. 

The Five Step Playbook to Move GenAI into Production

In this contributed article, Josh Reini, Developer Relations Data Scientist, TruEra, discusses how gaining the required confidence to deploy GenAI apps at scale can be challenging, and structured evaluation has gained recognition as a key requirement on the path from science experiment to customer value. Evaluation frameworks can play a critical role in this journey by allowing developers to run experiments faster and gain systematic validation for production readiness. Connecting such an evaluation framework with a scaled observability platform brings confidence in production. This article explores five practical steps to move LLM applications from early prototypes to scaled, production applications.

Video Highlights: NumPy, SciPy and the Economics of Open-Source — with Dr. Travis Oliphant

In this video presentation, our good friend Jon Krohn, Co-Founder and Chief Data Scientist at the machine learning company Nebula, explores the origins of NumPy and SciPy with their creator, Dr. Travis Oliphant. Dr. Oliphant shares his journey from personal need to global impact, the challenges overcome, and the future of these essential Python libraries in scientific computing and data science.