Nokia and Lenovo are joining forces for some data centre networking and automation solutions that support ‘the massive and highly precise compute, storage and transit needs’ of AI and ML.
These data centre solutions will be a combination of Lenovo ThinkSystem servers and storage and various Nokia products related to data centre fabric, IP routing, DDoS security portfolios, and network automation. The combined solutions are pitched as helping to meet the processing and network performance requirements of modern workloads, by which it largely seems to mean AI.
As the release puts it: “As AI models are trained, data centres for inferencing will be needed where AI clusters are networked both within and between the data centres at the edge, which requires high-speed, reliable and secure interconnectivity.”
The integration of all these component parts with something called a validated blueprint architecture enables ‘seamless automation of AI/ML and compute-intensive workloads with enhanced observability, programmability, and extensibility’, so we are told.
