Nokia Plugs EDA Into Lenovo for AI Management
In a move that spotlights a trending focus on unifying management of networking, compute, and storage in AI clusters, Nokia announced an integration deal with Lenovo that will allow customers to manage Lenovo’s AI servers (the high-end ThinkSystem series) with Nokia’s recently announced datacenter management system, Event-Driven Automation (EDA).
Nokia’s EDA is billed as a comprehensive management platform that incorporates Nokia datacenter networking gear as well as servers and storage from other vendors, in this instance Lenovo. Its capabilities include digital twinning, intent-based networking, and observability. And EDA is based on Kubernetes, improving performance and making it easier to customize.
Nokia EDA functionalities. Source: Nokia
A Datacenter Focus
Nokia’s announcement is evidence that the company is focusing off some of its traditional telecom-related markets, which lost sales in the most recent quarter and are projected to continue losing money through the end of the year, as illustrated below:
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