Cognizant Expands AI Infrastructure Capabilities with Launch of Cognizant AI Factory

Cognizant announced the launch of Cognizant AI Factory. The multi-tenant, enterprise-grade offering is powered by Dell Technologies and NVIDIA AI infrastructure and software platform. It is designed to help organizations scale artificial intelligence more securely, efficiently and responsibly. The offering unifies the management of the AI lifecycle in a single environment from ideation and experimentation to deployment, orchestration and day-to-day operations. It creates a path for enterprises to move from proof-of-concept to operationalized AI at scale. Powered by the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA, the solution brings together high-performance, enterprise-grade infrastructure and NVIDIA's advanced AI software stack to unify management across private, public and hybrid cloud environments. Cognizant's proprietary Fractional GPU technology is interoperable with NVIDIA Multi-Instance GPU. It enables secure, isolated GPU slices that allow multiple business units or even multiple clients to run AI workloads concurrently in a unified environment. This approach preserves data integrity, maximizes utilization and lowers the barriers to adopting advanced AI capabilities across an enterprise. Internal benchmarking and controlled testing demonstrate the platform's potential to help achieve 50 to 60 percent lower total cost of ownership and up to 30 percent faster AI processing. The platform supports clients in meeting emerging standards such as ISO/IEC 42001:2023. Provisioning, governance and cost management are consolidated into a streamlined experience designed for the complexity of enterprise AI workloads. Cognizant AI Factory offers ready-to-use sandbox environments for experimentation and rapid internal pilots along with pre-built blueprints and MLOps pipelines to shorten time to value. It also includes an AI resiliency layer for monitoring, supporting governance and lifecycle management as well as a consumption-based pricing model. Sriram Kumaresan, Global Head of Cloud and Infrastructure Services at Cognizant, said the platform supports clients to turn AI into a durable engine for business value.