The default assumption for AI is that it belongs on the public cloud. An easy enough assumption to make, when we’re so used to throwing our data at web-accessible tools.

What of the data that shouldn’t ever go off-premises, then? We’re talking about sensitive and proprietary data fit only for the private cloud for security’s sake. That almost definitely should not go on the public cloud.

VMware Cloud Foundation lets you run AI and containerised workloads on a private cloud you control and govern. It’s a move more are making, as 51% of organisations still worry about data privacy in the public cloud.

One platform for your VMs and your AI

The awkward split has been virtual machines on your existing infrastructure, and anything modern, containers, AI, ML, pushed out to a separate platform or the public cloud. That’s two environments, two sets of tooling, and two things to secure.

VMware Cloud Foundation has an integrated Kubernetes runtime. The platform running your virtual machines happens to run your container and AI workloads, too.

Practically, it means that your new AI project doesn’t require building a separate stack beside the one you already run. Imagine the time savings.

The controls come with the platform

Control isn’t only about where the data sits; it’s about what governs it. The security features protecting the rest of your estate apply to the AI workloads on the same terms.

That means micro segmentation, encryption at rest and in transit, role-based access, data governance, auditing and threat detection. Your sensitive data is held to one policy, whether the workload is a database or a model in training.

Consistent wherever the workload runs

VMware Cloud Foundation runs as one consistent platform across your data centre, edge, private and public clouds, and the sovereign clouds where data residency is the rule.

Built-in migration moves workloads between those places without re-architecting them, so what you get is to keep a sensitive model on infrastructure you govern, and still run less sensitive workloads wherever suits, under the same controls.

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