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Amazon, Google and Microsoft aren’t the only hyperscalers on the map; cloud platforms such as The Constant Company LLC, known as Vultr, are making inroads. Artificial intelligence has put pressure on hyperscalers and neoclouds to manage huge amounts of data as part of their infrastructures. Fortunately, Vultr started its AI journey ahead of schedule, according to Kevin Cochrane (pictured), chief marketing officer of Vultr. “We’ve been working on our AI infrastructure since the early days,” he said. “We were the first to fractionalize the [Nvidia] A100. We were one of the first to market with the H100. And we’ve been building the most resilient, secure, compliant AI infrastructure at global scale ever since.” Cochrane spoke with theCUBE’s Savannah Peterson at the Nvidia GTC Washington, D.C. event, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed Vultr’s strategy for growth and cloud security. (* Disclosure below.) Vultr reaches security milestone Vultr’s platform now reaches 90% of the world’s population in 2 milliseconds, and it just completed a multi-year journey to get FedRAMP compliance, a government-wide program designed to standardize cloud security assessment. “In this day and age of AI infrastructure, you have a lot of new providers,” he said. “Now they’re renting those GPUs out to you. And … you have to wonder how secure, how compliant are these things.” Vultr is moving fast in the enterprise world, expanding its network and gaining new customers at conferences such as GTC. Cochrane’s favorite tool for customer and partner acquisition is Morty, a stuffed bird mascot. “I stand in every conference in the center of a room and I take this bird and I throw it at people,” he said. “And when they catch it, then I say, ‘Now you need to talk to me.’” As for Vultr’s technology, Cochrane sees vibe coding AI infrastructure as the next big step. The company also plans to remain inclusive of other cloud platforms and technologies. “We firmly believe in a multicloud hybrid-cloud world,” he said. “We believe that all enterprises are always going to have a heterogeneous infrastructure, and we want to bring it all together, marshal it and bring it forward into this new age of AI.” Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the Nvidia GTC Washington, D.C. event: (* Disclosure: Vultr sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither Vultr nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.) Photo: SiliconANGLE
