HCLTech's Cognitive Infra & platform on Azure powered by ePACE

HCLTech's Cognitive Infrastructure and Platform powered by ePACE (Extensible Platform Automation and Configuration Engine) on Microsoft Azure empowers customers to adopt Gen AI solutions with the support of ePACE. It helps customers adopt Gen AI solutions on the Azure cloud.

Introduction:

HCLTech Cognitive Infra services is an offering focusing on assessing, building and running AI and GenAI workloads on Azure Cloud in highly automated, consistent and secure manner with ePACE . It is a pivotal tool in facilitating the adoption of Generative AI at scale on Microsoft Azure cloud platform while ensuring consistency, security and operational excellence. By automating and standardizing the lifecycle management of Platform-as-a Service (PaaS) solutions, ePACE enables organizations to efficiently deploy and manage AI workloads on Microsoft Azure.

Overview:

HCLTech's Cognitive Infra & platform on Microsoft Azure powered by ePACE is an unified cognitive infra and platform designed to simplify and optimize the management of environments. With the full range of Cognitive Infrastructure Services, HCLTech helps enterprises accelerate Generative AI adoption and overcome transformation challenges. Built to operate on Microsoft Azure, ePACE leverages Azure cloud capabilities and native services to provide a fully integrated solution for managing cognitive infrastructure across Azure . With the combination of automation and configuration management, ePACE enables enterprises to manage complex infrastructures efficiency, proactively detect and resolve issue and ensure consistent performance. Integration with Azure PaaS Services:

ePACE seamlessly integrates with Azure's suite of PaaS offerings, including Azure AI Studio, Azure OpenAI Service, Azure Machine Learning, and Azure AI Services. This integration allows for the streamlined provisioning and management of these services, ensuring that AI models and applications are deployed consistently and efficiently across the enterprise.

Benefits of HCLTech Cognitive Infrastructure –

a) Access to Microsoft ecosystem

b) Reference architectures and frameworks to support adoption of Generative AI vertical and horizontal use cases

c) HCLTech for managing cognitive infrastructure landscape

d) Consulting services to support scale adoption of Generative AI.

HCLTech's Cognitive Infra & platform on Microsoft Azure powered by ePACE is bundled with three services to ensure seamless lifecycle management of the platform. These three services are provided post “Assessment of AI Platform via Readiness Index validation” Or “Workshop on design of cognitive infra and implementation.

1. Design and Build
2. Onboard and Stabilize
3. Operate and Improve

Service Description:

In order to gather and finalize platform requirements, including platform architecture, security, size, and scalability demands, HCLTech provides services around platform build & Ops assessment as mentioned below -

Day 0 – Design and Build

a) Architecture as per use cases

b) Provisioning and automation of Azure AI/ML and GenAI services

c) Configuration management for platform.

Day 1 – Onboard & Stabilize

a) Standardized AI model onboarding

b) Blueprints of AI services as per customer scenario

c) RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) /Lang chain workflow management

d) Use Case onboarding

e) LLMOps workflow setup

f) Query management & prompt engineering

Day 2 – Operate & Improve

a) Observability setup for AI and Gen AI services

b) Dynamic infra optimizations technique

c) Feedback management framework

HCLTech Cognitive Infrastructure Services:

HCLTech helps enterprises accelerate their GenAI adoption and handle transformation challenges through a range of services such as AI advisory services, Platform and Infrastructure build, operate and manage services. At the same time customer can also customize their existing use case. Complementing HCLTech's Cognitive Infrastructure Services, ePACE provide a comprehensive approach to manage AI infrastructure. These services encompass the design, deployment, and management of AI platforms, ensuring that organizations have the necessary infrastructure to support Generative AI workloads. By leveraging ePACE in conjunction with Cognitive Infrastructure Services, businesses can achieve a robust and scalable AI environment on Azure. In summary, ePACE plays a critical role in helping customers adopt Generative AI at scale on Azure by automating and standardizing the management of PaaS services. This combined with HCLTech's Cognitive Infrastructure Services, provides a solid foundation for organizations to implement and scale AI and GenAI solutions effectively.