Deloitte’s Silicon to Service’ available for government, regulated industries
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Frank Konkel
Dell Technologies, NVIDIA and Equinix are also involved in the offering.
Artificial intelligence is all the rage across government — by last official count, Congress’ investigative arm identified some 1,200 AI efforts across federal agencies — but four large companies led by Deloitte have banded together with an end-to-end AI offering to potentially make some agencies’ journeys with the new technology a little easier.
On Wednesday, Deloitte announced an expansion of its Silicon to Service AI to government customers and regulated industries. The Silicon to Service offering, or S2S, is an end-to-end enterprise AI solution that brings together components from several leading technology companies, including Dell Technologies, NVIDIA and Equinix.
According to Deloitte, it’s designed for federal agencies and other more regulated users — those that need data security, sovereignty and traceability — to provide a quick, highly secure means to make use of AI.
“S2S gives government organizations more ways to access leading AI capabilities across their data centers, hosting providers and the cloud,” Ed Van Buren, principal with Deloitte Consulting LLP, said in a statement. “This reduces the time from initial AI concept to mission impact while allowing organizations to optimize the cost and security of their solutions.”
At its foundation, Deloitte’s S2S combines Dell Technologies’ infrastructure and PowerEdge servers running on NVIDIA’s GPUs and AI enterprise software, and it is housed within Equinix’ secure data center facilities, ultimately providing secure, managed and scalable AI services for public sector customers. While Deloitte offers pre-built accelerators for agency customers, they also offer customization “to meet the needs of each mission, particularly those with stringent security requirements.”
“We started the conversation with Deloitte about building AI capabilities where government customers can get rapid value out of AI solutions. And let’s make it easy for the customers,” Suri Durvasula, vice president of Federal Sales at Dell said on the sidelines of Dell Technologies World in Las Vegas. “It’s the Dell AI Factory powered by NVIDIA sitting in Equinix data centers with compliance built around it. It’s already built, so come kick the tires [on AI] and get used to it.”
Potential use cases include imagery analysis; document analysis and generation; rapid prototyping; and chatbots and AI agents.
“From service agents to complex multi-year planning, AI is scaling efficiency and productivity for governments and regulated industries,” said Anne Hecht, senior director, Enterprise AI at NVIDIA.