How NVIDIA, VMware Are Bringing GPUs to the Masses

Last week virtualization giant VMware held its VMWorld 2019 user conference in San Francisco. The 23,000 or so attendees were treated to notable innovation the virtualization from the host company as well as its many partners. One of the more interesting announcements that I believed flew under the radar was the joint NVIDIA–VMware initiative to bring virtual GPU technology (vGPU) to VMware’s vSphere and the VMware cloud on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Virtual GPUs have been in use for some time but weren’t available to run on virtual servers. Now businesses can run workloads, such as artificial intelligence and machine learning, using GPUs on VMware’s vSphere.