VMware Cloud Foundation offers enhanced AI security and patching

VMware is positioning VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) as a leading platform for the AI era, emphasizing its unique approach to securing AI models, its commitment to software patching, and the integration of models from companies like Google and Nvidia into VCF, according to a recent report by CRN.

VMware's AI Factory, built on VCF, aims to simplify AI deployments by offering a pre-integrated and validated software stack. This allows customers to move from hardware to a model-as-a-service offering quickly. The platform supports approximately 150 models, including open-weight options from Nvidia and Google, and regional variants. Security is a key focus, with VMware hardening its own infrastructure using frontier AI models and integrating this process into its software development lifecycle. The company also provides customers with choices in AI accelerators, supporting Nvidia and AMD GPUs, and a variety of certified OEM hardware.

VMware is committed to monthly software patches, with innovations like Live Patching to minimize disruption during application. Customers are increasingly choosing VCF over public clouds for AI workloads due to concerns about data and intellectual property, seeking the user experience of the public cloud with enhanced security, cost control, and resiliency offered by a private cloud solution.

Source: CRN