Intel and VMware Partnership

Intel and Broadcom's VMware Cloud Foundation division are enabling next-generation datacenter to cloud capabilities with the broadest portfolio of trusted software and enterprise hardware solutions; enabling businesses to move faster, innovate more, and operate efficiently.

VMware, Accelerated by Intel®

VMware and Intel provide a holistic and open path forward, addressing the full data, modeling and deployment pipeline, with the freedom to compute on whichever architecture is best. Take to the AI open road with us, starting with getting the most out of the only x86 CPU with built-in AI acceleration optimized for VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF).

The top Cloud Service providers implement VMware and Intel deployment-ready products and solutions, harnessing the latest technologies, such as Intel® Deep Learning Boost, or MySQL optimizations, to deliver the best performance per dollar.

VMware and Intel keep IT front-and-center in the quest for rapid digital business transformation, by providing IT organizations a clear path to digital transformation with consistent infrastructure and operations. VMware and Intel solutions, built upon software-defined HCI architecture, powered by natively integrated virtualization technologies, offer customers self-driving operations and management on industry-standard Intel® Technology.

Unlock the full potential of your infrastructure through hardware acceleration and security by design. VMware solutions optimized to run on Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors with built-in hardware accelerators for the workloads needed help enable faster innovation more efficiently at scale.

VMware and Intel are transforming networking and security with the Virtual Cloud Network, a networking vision for the digital era. Built on Intel Architecture, a ubiquitous software layer across data center, cloud, edge, and other hardware infrastructure is enabled that creates:

A cloud networking fabric with consistent connectivity from edge to edge.
Security that is intrinsic to the infrastructure and not bolted on.
A network delivered in software for maximum agility.

With this platform, customers are securing their application infrastructure wherever applications reside, embracing connections to the cloud, and unifying branch and edge environments across their businesses.

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Unlock Enterprise AI with Confidence: Intel® AI for Enterprise Inference on VMware Cloud Foundation

Organizations today need AI that’s secure, scalable, and ready to run on the infrastructure they already trust. Intel® AI for Enterprise Inference on VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) is built to meet these needs—offering a fully integrated, cloud-native platform to power AI across data center, cloud, and edge environments.

Why Choose This Solution?

Run AI Anywhere: Build and deploy AI models on your existing VMware infrastructure—across hybrid and multi-cloud environments—with no need for specialized systems.
Accelerate Time to Value: Speed up AI development and deployment with a fully validated software and hardware stack, including Intel’s optimized AI tools, models, and reference pipelines.
Lower TCO at Scale: Leverage Intel® Xeon® processors with built-in AI acceleration and Intel® Gaudi® 3 AI accelerators to maximize performance-per-dollar for inferencing workloads.
Enterprise-Grade Security & Control: Keep your data private and your models secure with robust virtualization, workload isolation, and compliance-ready infrastructure.
Flexibility for Any AI Use Case: From small models to large-scale inference, this solution supports a broad spectrum of AI workloads—including language models, computer vision, and real-time analytics.

With tight integration between Intel’s cutting-edge AI hardware and software and VMware’s proven infrastructure platform, enterprises can confidently scale AI across the business while maintaining operational consistency and governance.

Intel AI for Enterprise Inference on VCF also supports the Open Platform for Enterprise AI (OPEA) initiative, enabling modular, standards-based AI adoption that evolves with your needs.

Download Intel's AI Software Suite - Pre-Packaged Containers and Toolkit:

Title	URL
Deep Learning Training	https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/tools/oneapi/ai-tools-selector.html
Inference & Optimization	https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/tools/oneapi/ai-tools-selector.html
Data Analytics Optimization	https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/tools/oneapi/ai-tools-selector.html
Classical Machine Learning	https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/tools/oneapi/ai-tools-selector.html
Intel Extensions for Transformers	https://github.com/intel/intel-extension-for-transformers
Intel Distribution of OpenVINO™	https://docs.openvino.ai/2023.1/openvino_docs_install_guides_installing_openvino_docker.html

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Workload Performance

Performance considerations are vital for the overall success of cloud computing. Discover how workloads will perform on Intel-based cloud solutions with VMware.

Today’s vSAN users have increasingly large and valuable stores of data in their vSAN clusters. New AI tools and capabilities will be essential for leveraging the data on those clusters. Intel® AMX brings extensive hardware and software optimizations, enabling you to design and deploy AI projects quickly and efficiently with optimized training and inferencing.

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Intel AMX Product Brief

VMware Cloud Foundation powered by Intel technology results in a unified software-defined Data Center platform for running and managing private cloud, multi-cloud, and edge containerized workloads. Built-in inferencing enables customers to efficiently turn data into insight on a flexible hybrid cloud environment.

Xeon Scalable Processors

Intel Ethernet Technology

Intel® Artificial Intelligence Solutions

Intel Arc Graphics

Running your data center more efficiently is necessary for digital transformation. Improved workload efficiency with faster performance can also lead to server consolidation and lower power consumption. Combining VCF 9.1 with Intel® Xeon® 6 processors gets you there.

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