At VMware Explore, VMware’s channel leaders took stock of recent changes to channel enablement, and provided a brief road map as well.
With more than one full year under his belt leading VMware Canada, Reeves gave his take on the company’s positioning in Canada and what the major announcements will mean for Canadian customers and partners.
VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA is built on VMware Cloud Foundation, optimized for AI and will run fully secure Generative AI applications.
VMware sees this as a ‘new Tanzu’ and views its enhancements as fundamental to their multi-cloud story going forward.
The innovations, which are all free add-ons to Black Kite’s platform, include the ability to parse using a cyber-specific database rather than the general Internet, with parsing of data specific to individual companies coming very soon.
The new offering adds an Opinionated AI stack and related services to Nutanix’s infrastructure and storage stacks, and the company believes it will find a good reception from the SMB to the enterprise.
CrushBank continues its evolution beyond an AI-powered search platform with the addition of new Generative AI capabilities to their platform.
Judy offers an enterprise-grade platform with seven separate solutions that are designed and priced for the SMB market.
The VAST DataStore, VAST DataBase and DataBase Engine combine to deliver on VAST’s long term plan of utilizing their storage technology for deep learning as well.
The new solutions involve a joint Generative AI validated design and Dell Professional Services in collaboration with NVIDIA, all of which are also available through channel partners.
Splunk AI encompasses a set of design principles around machine learning, as well as a variety of new and expanded machine learning tools.
These new data management solutions include new Storage Arrays that make it easier for organizations to enable AI workloads.
The new collaboration will not be sold separately, but will be rolled into the existing offering around Rubrik and Microsoft Sentinel, meaning that partners will not have a new product to sell, but will have something new to show cutting edge capability to customers.
Zoho’s latest extension of their AI capabilities is powered by an OpenAI integration, although they are working on an in-house version of their own which will emphasize privacy concerns.
HPE’s emphasis on AI going forward was good news for Canonical, which is already strong in the area.
HPE made several major announcements in their opening keynote, but the one that clearly excited CEO Antonio Neri the most was entering the Artificial Intelligence public cloud market.
While Deep Instinct’s new Stratosphere partner program was put in place last year, Ortbals’ task is to grow it by adding some more structure and bringing in top MSSP partners.
Project Harmony was the one new initiative specifically for partners announced at this year’s Dell Technologies World, within the context of a news-rich event which will create many other partner opportunities.
The new AI features are aimed at non-technical business users as well as technical ones, expanding the democratization of analytics to cover many more users.
Michael Dell thinks the commercial potential of Generative AI is greater than PCs and smartphones, although what the market seems to want from it, and what influencers think the market wants, are not the same thing.
