Introducing New Storage Capabilities for
Unstructured Data, Planned Integrations with watsonx and IBM
Consulting Capabilities for Agentic Reasoning and other AI
Workloads
ARMONK,
N.Y., March 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE:
IBM) today announced new collaborations with NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA),
including planned new integrations based on the NVIDIA AI Data
Platform reference design to help enterprises more effectively put
their data to work to help build, scale and manage generative AI
workloads and agentic AI applications. As part of today's news, IBM
is planning to launch a content-aware storage capability for its
hybrid cloud infrastructure offering, IBM Fusion; intends to expand
its watsonx integrations; and is introducing new IBM Consulting
capabilities with NVIDIA to help drive AI innovation across the
enterprise.
A 2024 IBM report found that more than three in four executives
surveyed (77 percent) say generative AI is market-ready, up from
just 36 percent in 2023. With this push to put AI into production
comes an increased need for compute and data-intensive
technologies. The collaboration between IBM and NVIDIA will
enable IBM to provide hybrid AI solutions that take advantage of
open technologies and platforms while also supporting data
management, performance, security, and governance.
Leveraging the NVIDIA AI Data Platform reference architecture,
these new solutions are the latest in the IBM and NVIDIA
collaboration to build enterprise infrastructure for AI:
- Augmenting Unstructured Data Processing for AI
Performance: With IBM's new content-aware storage (CAS)
capability, enterprises will be able to extract the meaning hidden
in their rapidly growing volumes of unstructured data for
inferencing, without compromising trust and safety, to responsibly
scale and enhance AI applications like retrieval-augmented
generation (RAG) and AI reasoning. IBM Storage Scale will respond
to queries using the extracted and augmented data, speeding up the
communications between GPUs and storage using NVIDIA BlueField-3
DPUs and NVIDIA Spectrum-X networking. The multimodal document data
extraction workflow will also leverage NVIDIA NeMo Retriever
microservices, built with NVIDIA NIM. CAS will be embedded in the
next update of IBM Fusion planned for the second quarter of this
year.
- Enabling More Accessible AI: IBM plans to integrate its
watsonx offerings with NVIDIA NIM as part of a larger effort to
provide access to leading AI models across multiple cloud
environments. This will allow organizations to leverage watsonx.ai,
IBM's enterprise-grade AI platform and developer studio, to develop
and deploy AI models into their applications of choice while
utilizing externally hosted models. IBM's watsonx.governance also
allows enterprises to implement robust monitoring and governance of
NVIDIA NIM microservices across any hosting environment. This type
of interoperability is increasingly essential as organizations
adopt agentic AI and other advanced applications that require AI
model integration.
- Increasing Support for Compute-Intensive Workloads: With
more enterprises embracing generative AI and high-performance
computing (HPC), IBM Cloud expanded its NVIDIA accelerated
computing portfolio by announcing the availability of NVIDIA H200
instances on IBM Cloud. With its large memory capacity and high
bandwidth, the NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core GPU instances are engineered
to meet the demands of modern AI workloads and larger foundation
models.
- Transforming Processes with Agentic AI and NVIDIA: IBM
Consulting is introducing AI Integration Services to help clients
transform and govern end-to-end business processes with agentic AI
using NVIDIA Blueprints, such as industry-specific workflows that
require agentic AI at the edge. Example use cases include
autonomous inspection and maintenance in the manufacturing industry
or proactive video data analysis and anomaly response in the energy
industry.
- Optimizing Compute Intensive AI Workloads Across Hybrid
Cloud Environments: IBM Consulting helps clients build,
modernize and manage compute-intensive AI workloads across hybrid
cloud environments leveraging RedHat OpenShift and NVIDIA AI. This
includes technologies like NVIDIA AI Foundry, NVIDIA NeMo, NVIDIA
AI Enterprise, NVIDIA Blueprints, and NVIDIA Clara to accelerate
high-compute, complex tasks, while managing AI governance, data
security and compliance requirements.
"IBM is focused on helping enterprises build and deploy
effective AI models and scale with speed," said Hillery Hunter, CTO and General Manager of
Innovation, IBM Infrastructure. "Together, IBM and NVIDIA are
collaborating to create and offer the solutions, services and
technology to unlock, accelerate, and protect data – ultimately
helping clients overcome AI's hidden costs and technical hurdles to
monetize AI and drive real business outcomes."
"AI agents need to rapidly access, fetch and process data at
scale, and today, these steps occur in separate silos," said
Rob Davis, vice president, Storage
Networking Technology, NVIDIA. "The integration of IBM's
content-aware storage with NVIDIA AI orchestrates data and compute
across an optimized network fabric to overcome silos with an
intelligent, scalable system that drives near real-time inference
for responsive AI reasoning."
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