NVIDIA expands VMware’s Project Monterey early trial program to create a secure data center

NVIDIA today announced the expansion of cooperation with Lenovo. Lenovo will participate in Project Monterey’s NVIDIA early trial program, which will leverage the security and performance of the NVIDIA® BlueField® data processor to help build an enterprise data center that meets modern needs.

Project Monterey was announced by VMware and NVIDIA and industry ecosystem partners at the VMworld 2020 conference, expect to use the latest network technologies including NVIDIA BlueField DPU to improve the performance, manageability, and security of enterprise-level data centers.

NVIDIA, Lenovo, and VMware collaborate to develop data center, cloud, and edge architectures into software-defined and hardware-accelerated models to handle modern workloads such as AI and machine learning. Companies participating in the early trial program can use a pre-configured cluster supported by VMware, which is accelerated by a server equipped with BlueField DPU, including Lenovo ThinkAgile VX and ThinkSystem Ready-Nodes.

“AI is transforming data centers, driving demand for new workloads and architectures,” said Justin Boitano, vice president and general manager of Enterprise and Edge Computing at NVIDIA. “Lenovo’s collaboration in our Project Monterey early access program is a key step in allowing enterprises to embrace AI’s transformational benefits while tackling security and performance challenges.”

“Lenovo and NVIDIA’s collaboration on the Project Monterey early access program enables a fundamental solution shift towards advanced, DPU-powered data center architecture,” said Kamran Amini, vice president and general manager of Server, Storage and Software Defined Solutions at Lenovo ISG. “NVIDIA BlueField DPUs provide performance and security which enhance the modern data center that is software defined and hardware accelerated.”