Artificial intelligence (AI) promises several exciting benefits but navigating private AI infrastructure offerings can be a complex task, however with the right approach, it can be made manageable and highly beneficial. Embracing the opportunity to enhance efficiency, drive innovation, and gain a competitive edge. This guide aims to help SME leaders navigate the private AI landscape, leveraging Vissensa’s Consulting expertise and solutions provided by Dell EMC and Equinix.

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What Are You Looking to Achieve?

Before diving into AI offerings, it’s crucial to clearly define what your business wants to achieve using this technology. Identify specific business problems or opportunities where AI can add value. This could range from improving customer service, optimising supply chain operations, enhancing marketing efforts, or automating routine tasks.

Conduct thorough research looking into both commercial and open-source frameworks to find one that aligns with your business’s requirements. Consider factors such as functionality, scalability, ease of integration, and the track record with partners who offer AI expertise.

Consider factors such as:

  • Reputation and Expertise: Choose partners with a strong reputation and proven expertise in AI. Look for case studies, customer testimonials, and industry recognition
  • Customisation and Flexibility: Ensure the AI solution can be tailored to your business’s specific needs and can integrate seamlessly with existing data systems
  • Support and Training: Opt for partners that offer robust support and training to help your team effectively use and manage the AI solution

Choosing the Right Partner

Choosing the right infrastructure partners will enable a business to take advantage of current and future AI advancements. Equinix offers world-class colocation services that provide secure, reliable, and scalable environments for hosting AI applications. By co-locating your businesses private AI infrastructure in Equinix data centres, SMEs can benefit from reduced latency, enhanced security, and improved performance.

Equinix AI cabinets are designed to handle the intense computational demands of AI applications. These cabinets are equipped to support high-density hardware, such as GPUs and specialised AI accelerators, which are essential for running complex AI models. Expanding such cabinets is achieved easily with the flexible of growing to other available co-location cabinets in the same facility.

Cabinets such as these, when combined with Equinix’s interconnection services, enable seamless connectivity between different cloud providers, data centres, and networks. This is particularly important for AI workloads that require access to diverse data sources and computational resources. With Equinix Fabric, SMEs can establish direct and secure connections to cloud services, partners, and customers, facilitating the integration and deployment of AI solutions from private offices.

Upon deciding which model your business wants to use, such as Meta’s LLaMA or OpenAI’s ChatGPT, ComputeNetworkingStorage infrastructure is required to run it. This is why leveraging a trusted partner like Dell EMC is vital in making the right choice for a mature AI partner. Dell EMC is a leader in providing high-performance and scalable infrastructure solutions that are crucial for AI workloads. Offerings like powerful HPC solutions that are essential for processing large datasets and running complex AI algorithms. PowerScale storage systems provide scalable and high-performance storage that can handle the demanding requirements for models like Meta’s LLaMA or OpenAI’s ChatGPT. 

The Dell EMC PowerEdge servers are designed to deliver the performance needed for AI workloads, ensuring that SMEs can run their AI models efficiently and effectively with offering either large to small like the PowerEdge XE8545 server which offers the highest core count AMD CPUs powered with the highest NVIDIA A100 tensor core GPUs or the much smaller PowerEdge R6515 server operating the latest AMD EPYCTM Processor optimised for Big Data and AL Workloads. 

The AI Factory from Dell provides an end-to-end AI enterprise solution that integrates compute, storage, and software capabilities. This solution simplifies the deployment of AI applications with pre-tested, integrated hardware and software, making it easier for SMEs to adopt AI. With Dell EMC’s integrated solutions, SMEs can reduce the time and complexity associated with setting up AI environments, allowing them to focus on leveraging AI for business growth. 

Vissensa’s expertise in partnering with businesses to consult on what and how to adapt AI for their business’s needs, then moving onto implementing infrastructure, and integrating AI solutions into SMEs existing systems is extensive – Vissensa provides end-to-end implementation support. With ongoing management Managing AI systems requires continuous monitoring and maintenance. Vissensa offers managed services to ensure your AI applications run smoothly and efficiently.

Navigating private AI infrastructure offerings can be challenging, but with a clear strategy and the right partnerships, SMEs can successfully adopt private AI to drive innovation and growth. By understanding your business needs, researching available solutions, evaluating providers, and leveraging expert partnerships, you can effectively implement AI and unlock its full potential for your business. 

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