Viking Enterprise Solutions Announces Award-Winning Edge AI Turnkey Appliance
- Innovative solution addressing traditional edge computing limitations and inefficiencies
- Recognition as 'Best of Show' at FMS 2024 demonstrates market validation
- Versatile application potential across multiple high-growth industries
- Strategic partnerships with major tech companies (AMD, NVIDIA) enhance product credibility
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Viking's new Edge AI appliance represents a strategic expansion into the growing edge computing market, leveraging partnerships with AMD and NVIDIA.
Viking Enterprise Solutions (Sanmina's product division) has unveiled a strategic product that addresses fundamental challenges in edge computing architecture. The new Viking Edge AI appliance solves a critical technical problem: traditional edge deployments struggle with limitations in storage, compute power, and network capabilities that force constant data movement between edge and cloud environments.
The system's architecture combines AMD CPUs, NVIDIA accelerated computing, and NVIDIA DPUs with Cloud Native Kubernetes AI framework—creating an integrated platform that enables real-time AI inferencing directly at the edge. This represents a significant technical advantage over conventional approaches by eliminating latency, security vulnerabilities, bandwidth limitations, and delayed response times inherent in cloud-dependent edge deployments.
What's particularly notable is the system's flexibility in supporting both virtualized GPUs and various NVIDIA GPU configurations, allowing customization for specific use cases across multiple verticals: smart manufacturing, automation, media, transportation, healthcare, and surveillance applications. The "Best of Show" award at FMS 2024 (Future of Memory and Storage) validates the innovation behind this product.
From a competitive standpoint, Viking's approach of delivering a turnkey solution lowers the barrier to entry for organizations looking to implement edge AI, potentially accelerating adoption and expanding the addressable market. By creating a pre-integrated solution that enables data scientists and ML architects to deploy NVIDIA AI Enterprise, NVIDIA NIM microservices, and custom microservices, Viking addresses a significant pain point in the market: the complexity of building edge AI infrastructure from disparate components.
Traditional edge architecture relies on constant data movement between the edge and the cloud because of limitations on storage, compute power and network access at the edge. This reduces efficiency due to challenges with latency, security, bandwidth and real time response. Viking Edge AI combines powerful compute, storage and network in one edge appliance allowing users to rapidly deploy their algorithms.
Viking Edge AI combines AMD CPUs, NVIDIA accelerated computing, and NVIDIA DPUs with Cloud Native Kubernetes AI framework. The system provides real-time AI inferencing and modeling within a software infrastructure enabling data scientists and machine learning architects to deploy NVIDIA AI Enterprise, NVIDIA NIM microservices and customers' own microservices. Viking Edge AI supports use cases like smart factory (visual inspection), automation, media & entertainment, transportation & logistics, healthcare and video monitoring.
"Viking's Edge AI addresses the existing architecture challenges with a turnkey solution enabling customers to quickly deploy their applications without the need for additional infrastructure. This system supports virtualized GPUs as well as a wide range of NVIDIA GPUs to provide flexibility in meeting the demands of different edge AI use cases," said Rick Kumar, SVP of Viking Enterprise Solutions.
Viking Edge AI was awarded "Best of Show" at FMS 2024: the Future of Memory and Storage.
For further information about Viking Edge AI please visit https://www.vikingenterprisesolutions.com/vss3120/.
About Viking Enterprise Solutions
Viking Enterprise Solutions, a division of Sanmina Corporation, provides advanced data center products including solid-state memory and disk-based storage server appliances, JBOD storage systems and other products for a variety of data center and storage applications. Viking Enterprise Solutions award winning products are tailored for integration into OEM, system integrator and data center products, reducing development and operating costs while improving time-to-market. More information is available at www.vikingenterprisesolutions.com.
About Sanmina Corporation
Sanmina Corporation (NASDAQ: SANM) is a Fortune 500 company and a leading integrated manufacturing solutions provider serving the fastest-growing segments of the global Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) market. Recognized as a technology leader, Sanmina provides end-to-end manufacturing solutions, delivering superior quality and support to Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) primarily in the industrial, medical, defense and aerospace, automotive, communications networks, and cloud infrastructure markets. Sanmina has facilities strategically located in key regions throughout the world. More information about the company is available at www.sanmina.com.
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