ThinkOn extends VMware control plane for private AI infrastructure
Private AI infrastructure is gaining traction as organizations seek greater control over sensitive data and operating costs while meeting regulatory requirements. ThinkOn Inc. is extending its VMware-based cloud model to meet that demand while keeping Canadian workloads under domestic operational and legal control.
The company’s sovereign cloud provides the infrastructure foundation for Canada’s Sovereign AI Platform, which serves thousands of federal employees across 23 departments, according to ThinkOn. The company is also seeing broader interest in private AI from organizations weighing data control and the cost of on-demand services, according to Craig McLellan (pictured), founder of ThinkOn.
“We’re a modest-sized company. We get between three and four inquiries a week,” he said. “I would say half of those, for AI-type services, are for private AI. We’re starting to see quite a significant bump in the level of activity.”
McLellan spoke with theCUBE Research’s Christophe Bertrand and co-host Alison Kosik at VMware Explore, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed sovereignty, compliance and the economics of operating private AI on VMware infrastructure. (* Disclosure below.)
