Viking Enterprise Solutions, a division of Sanmina Corporation, unveiled Viking Edge AI on June 17, 2025, a computational storage appliance designed to overcome traditional edge computing limitations. Awarded “Best of Show” at FMS 2024, this solution integrates advanced compute, storage, and networking to enable seamless AI deployment at the edge.
Viking Edge AI combines AMD CPUs, NVIDIA GPUs, and DPUs for edge computing.
Eliminates latency, security, and bandwidth issues in traditional edge setups.
Supports real-time AI inferencing for smart factories, healthcare, and more.
Integrates Cloud Native Kubernetes for NVIDIA AI Enterprise and microservices.
Awarded “Best of Show” at FMS 2024 for innovative edge AI design.
Enables rapid AI algorithm deployment without additional infrastructure.
Traditional edge architectures struggle with constant data transfers to the cloud due to limited storage, compute, and network capabilities. Viking Edge AI resolves these issues by consolidating powerful compute, storage, and networking into a single appliance. “Viking's Edge AI addresses the existing architecture challenges with a turnkey solution enabling customers to quickly deploy their applications without the need for additional infrastructure,” said Rick Kumar, SVP of Viking Enterprise Solutions. This reduces latency, enhances security, and ensures real-time AI responses.
The appliance leverages AMD CPUs, NVIDIA accelerated computing, and NVIDIA DPUs within a Cloud Native Kubernetes AI framework. It supports real-time AI inferencing and modeling, enabling data scientists to deploy NVIDIA AI Enterprise, NVIDIA NIM microservices, and custom microservices. Viking Edge AI caters to use cases such as smart factory visual inspections, automation, media & entertainment, transportation, logistics, healthcare, and video monitoring, offering flexibility through virtualized GPU support and compatibility with various NVIDIA GPUs.
Viking Edge AI’s “Best of Show” award at FMS 2024 underscores its innovation in simplifying edge AI deployment. By eliminating the need for extensive infrastructure, the appliance accelerates adoption across industries, enhancing efficiency and supporting real-time decision-making. The solution positions Viking Enterprise Solutions as a leader in edge computing, addressing critical challenges in performance and scalability.
Viking Edge AI empowers enterprises to deploy AI applications swiftly and securely, transforming edge computing with a scalable, award-winning solution that drives innovation across multiple sectors.
Viking Enterprise Solutions, a division of Sanmina Corporation, provides advanced data center products including solid-state memory and disk-based storage server appliances, JBOD storage systems and other products for a variety of data center and storage applications. Viking Enterprise Solutions award winning products are tailored for integration into OEM, system integrator and data center products, reducing development and operating costs while improving time-to-market.
Sanmina Corporation is a Fortune 500 company and a leading integrated manufacturing solutions provider serving the fastest-growing segments of the global Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) market. Recognized as a technology leader, Sanmina provides end-to-end manufacturing solutions, delivering superior quality and support to Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) primarily in the industrial, medical, defense and aerospace, automotive, communications networks, and cloud infrastructure markets. Sanmina has facilities strategically located in key regions throughout the world.
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