NVIDIA BlueField-Powered Cybersecurity and Acceleration Arrive on NVIDIA Enterprise AI Factory Validated Design

Source: NVIDIA AI Blog

AI is powering breakthroughs across industries, helping enterprises operate with greater intelligence and speed. As AI factories scale, the next generation of enterprise AI depends on infrastructure that can efficiently manage data, secure every stage of the pipeline, and accelerate the core services that move, protect, and process information alongside AI workloads.

NVIDIA has expanded the NVIDIA Enterprise AI Factory validated design to include NVIDIA BlueField cybersecurity and infrastructure acceleration capabilities. This accelerates the data‑center services that keep AI factories running and delivers security that can operate at the same speed as AI.

Leading software platforms from NVIDIA BlueField ecosystem partners Armis, Check Point, F5, Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks, Rafay, Red Hat, Spectro Cloud, and Trend Micro are now validated as part of NVIDIA Enterprise AI Factory, helping enterprises enhance runtime protection, streamline operations, and strengthen the infrastructure that powers AI.

How NVIDIA BlueField Accelerates the Operating System of AI Factories

NVIDIA BlueField, the processor powering the operating system of AI factories, accelerates the essential services that support AI—networking, storage, security, and orchestration—so that CPUs and GPUs can stay focused on AI itself.

By handling these tasks on a dedicated processor, BlueField enables enterprises to scale AI with consistent performance while maintaining strong, real‑time security across the entire AI pipeline.

• Zero‑trust, hardware‑accelerated security that operates at the same speed and scale as enterprise AI workloads.
• Offloading and isolating security functions to a dedicated processor strengthens security at every layer while keeping AI operations running smoothly.
• The NVIDIA DOCA Argus framework provides AI runtime visibility and threat detection, giving enterprises real‑time security across data ingestion, fine‑tuning, and inference.

Expanding the AI Factory Ecosystem With New Validated Partner Solutions

The expanded NVIDIA Enterprise AI Factory validated design integrates leading cybersecurity and infrastructure software, each validated to run on NVIDIA RTX PRO Servers and designed to harness NVIDIA BlueField acceleration.

These integrations reduce cyber threats and vulnerabilities by enabling real‑time monitoring across enterprise AI infrastructure, improving isolation between AI workloads, and providing visibility and control over AI data—all while maintaining efficiency and performance as traffic and scale increase.

The newly integrated software platforms include:

• Armis Centrix – continuous cyber exposure management across AI factories of any size.
• Check Point Infinity AI Cloud Protect – real‑time network and host security against AI threats using NVIDIA DOCA Argus telemetry.
• F5 BIG‑IP Next for Kubernetes – efficient AI workload isolation, policy enforcement, and reliable performance for evolving Kubernetes environments.
• Fortinet FortiGate VM – next‑generation firewalling and zero‑trust segmentation directly in data‑center infrastructure, extending the Fortinet Security Fabric to protect AI factories.
• Palo Alto Networks Prisma AIRS – enforcing zero‑trust, AI runtime protection at the infrastructure layer with NVIDIA DOCA Argus.
• Rafay – operating production AI factories with consistent controls, multi‑tenant isolation, and extensible infrastructure services.
• Red Hat OpenShift – a production‑grade application platform with enhanced networking and security for AI factories.
• Spectro Cloud PaletteAI and PaletteAI Secure – built for highly sensitive and regulated environments, making full‑stack AI easy to integrate, fast to deploy, and efficient to manage.
• Trend Vision One – infrastructure‑level monitoring and policy enforcement that combines real‑time telemetry with global threat intelligence.

With BlueField acceleration and the new integrated applications from ecosystem partners, the NVIDIA Enterprise AI Factory validated design gives enterprises a stronger foundation for deploying secure, efficient AI at scale.

Learn more about the NVIDIA BlueField platform and other AI innovations by joining NVIDIA at CES, running through Friday, Jan. 9, in Las Vegas.