Parallel Works Launches Its ACTIVATE AI Partner Ecosystem to Ease Complex AI Needs

Building and implementing advanced cloud infrastructure and AI workloads are becoming more and more popular for a wide range of tasks within companies but doing this work without deep expertise and plenty of professional guidance is usually very difficult.

To improve the odds of success, Parallel Works, which develops vendor-neutral AI and high performance computing (HPC) products to drive cloud-based AI initiatives, recently launched its new ACTIVATE AI Partner Ecosystem that is designed to make it much easier for enterprises to find qualified AI partners that can help with these critical and difficult integrations. The new vendor-neutral partner ecosystem complements the company’s flagship ACTIVATE control plane that is used by IT teams to provision, manage, and share on-premise, cloud, and hybrid high-performance compute-intensive applications and AI models at scale for simulation, analytics, and AI workloads.

Matthew Shaxted, the co-founder and CEO of Parallel Works, told ChannelE2E that the fledgling ACTIVATE AI Partner Ecosystem is all about simplifying truly difficult and complex processes to make them more approachable and usable by a broader range of partners so they can better serve their customers.

"It enables partners – whether MSPs, resellers, or systems integrators – to deliver advanced cloud infrastructure and AI workloads without needing to build or maintain the underlying orchestration stack themselves,” said Shaxted. “This makes it significantly easier for partners to scale their services, focus on customer experience, and bring differentiated solutions to market more quickly.”

Helping Partners Help Their Customers

By using the new ecosystem, ACTIVATE AI partners will “gain a turnkey platform with APIs, automation tools, and a customizable UI, making it easy to deploy GPU-powered workloads across global infrastructure with minimal lift,” said Shaxted. “We are also continuing to simplify partner onboarding and integration processes to reduce time-to-value.”

Driving the creation of this partner ecosystem is the recent and constant expansion of nimble new “neocloud” cloud providers that offer specialized high-performance computing services, including GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS) options to serve demanding AI and machine learning workloads.    

“As AI workloads become more complex, dynamic integration with leading neocloud GPU providers is key to building a strong, scalable ecosystem,” said Shaxted. “That is where the ACTIVATE AI Partner Ecosystem comes in. By teaming up with a wide range of partners and streamlining orchestration across hybrid environments, we give organizations the flexibility to deploy AI wherever it makes the most sense – without being locked into a single vendor.”

Fueled by the Rapid Rise of AI

These new capabilities are needed to address new kinds of AI users that may be too small for today’s traditional and larger hyperscalers.

“The rapid rise of AI is fueling demand for more flexible, integrated ecosystems to build, train, and deploy AI at scale,” said Shaxted. “Traditional infrastructure is too rigid and managing fragmented tools across clouds slows innovation. With our Partner Ecosystem and ACTIVATE AI, we are giving users unified access to high-performance compute and the ability to scale on their terms, creating an open AI environment where they stay in control.”

What About MSPs?

The development of the partner ecosystem was driven by the needs of Parallel Works’ internal team and some of its customers, said Shaxted. “While they were not specifically requested by traditional MSPs, we take all partner feedback into account, and many of the features we have built, like automation, multi-user access, and white-labeling, align well with what MSP-like partners need to serve their end customers effectively.”

The ACTIVATE AI Partner Ecosystem initially includes a diverse group of partners, with more to come in the future.

GPU-as-a-Service and neocloud partners include Vultr, Voltage Park and Canopy Wave, while GPU aggregator partners include VALDI, GPU Trader and Shadeform. Technology partners include QLAD and Juice, while Storj is a storage partner. Reseller partners include Pier Group, The Pinnacle Group and Core Micro Systems, Inc.