As companies increasingly migrate their systems to the cloud, they face significant challenges in controlling and optimizing spend. Rapid data growth and the need for real-time analytics have led to increased costs and performance bottlenecks. Traditional CPU-based methods may be insufficient to efficiently handle large-scale data processing, resulting in higher operating costs and slower decision-making.
Relatedly, Cognizant has taken a significant step in enhancing its data modernization offering by integrating NVIDIA’s accelerated computing platform, which includes NVIDIA RAPIDS, part of the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software platform. This collaboration, along with the Cognizant Data and Intelligence Toolkit, is designed to address the growing challenges businesses face in controlling cloud computing costs.
“This collaboration with NVIDIA aims to transform the way businesses process and analyze large data sets, delivering unprecedented levels of speed and efficiency. “Customers transitioning to a GPU-based infrastructure will also lay the foundation for implementing new and exciting generative AI use cases in critical business tasks,” explains Annadurai Elango, executive vice president and Global Head of Core Technologies & Insights at Cognizant.
Advantages of Accelerated Computing
Cognizant’s enhanced data modernization offering is designed to enable customers to accelerate data processing tasks, outperforming traditional CPU-based processing without requiring code changes in Apache Spark-based workloads with RAPIDS Accelerator for Apache Spark. By reducing processing time and improving resource efficiency, companies can achieve significant cost savings and gain a competitive advantage through more sophisticated and accurate analytics.
John Fanelli, vice president of enterprise software at NVIDIA, said: “Businesses moving to the cloud need efficient solutions for large-scale data processing and real-time analytics to accelerate the development and generation of enhanced data for AI with agents. “With NVIDIA RAPIDS accelerated data processing, Cognizant can help businesses significantly reduce IT costs and accelerate workloads to extract more value from their cloud investments.”
Cognizant Data and Intelligence Toolkit
The Cognizant Data and Intelligence Toolkit is a set of accelerators designed to eliminate friction in the journey from data to decisions. This toolkit plays a key role in the offering by improving the performance of analytical processing, data preparation, model training and deployment, leveraging NVIDIA GPU acceleration through RAPIDS software libraries and APIs.
Benchmarks show a 2.5x speedup in engineering and data science workloads and a 66% reduction in compute costs compared to CPU processing. When combined with the anticipated 50-80% automation in cloud modernization processes powered by Cognizant accelerators, Cognizant and NVIDIA software helps enterprises accelerate their data processing capabilities, optimize costs and drive innovation.
