IBM announced that its IBM Fusion solution has delivered one of the industry’s first implementations of NVIDIA’s AI Data Platform reference design incorporating NVIDIA RTX 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs, NVIDIA Networking and NVIDIA AI Enterprise software to a major healthcare customer, UT Southwestern Medical Center. The deployment equips the medical centre with large-scale training and inferencing capabilities, enabling larger models, more complex datasets and fast semantic query responses. IBM says its Fusion content-aware data services integrate with NVIDIA’s NeMo Retriever Microservices, allowing clients to automatically process, index and vectorise unstructured and semi-structured data into AI-ready formats. Use-cases already outlined include drug-discovery acceleration via NVIDIA’s BioNeMo framework, AI-driven patient-avatars for clinical simulation, and the Helixa AI Assistant for researcher productivity. “IBM Fusion is engineered to help organizations conduct deep research by unifying applications and access to data across hybrid clouds to help simplify discovery and data activation that is AI-ready,” said Sam Werner, GM of IBM Storage. “Our integrations with NVIDIA is built to help clients unlock hidden insights from data to supercharge AI and analytics initiatives.” Anne Hecht, Senior Director of Enterprise Platforms at NVIDIA, added: “AI is opening transformative opportunities in healthcare research from decoding genomics to interpreting complex medical imaging and accelerating translational breakthroughs. The context-aware IBM Fusion platform, built with the NVIDIA AI Data Platform reference design, is making diverse, multimodal datasets available to researchers and healthcare providers using AI to accelerate discovery.”
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At a time when enterprises are striving to operationalise “agentic AI” systems AI agents that act autonomously and continuously ingest and act on data this collaboration between IBM and NVIDIA represents a strategic advancement. The reference design empowers infrastructures to handle the volume, velocity and variety of data required for agentic systems, bridging enterprise-scale storage and accelerated compute. With UT Southwestern as the first live deployment, the announcement signals IBM’s positioning of Fusion as a foundational platform for AI-driven research and analytics across sectors beyond healthcare, including financial services, telecommunications and critical infrastructure. As organisations look to scale deep learning and generative-AI initiatives, the IBM–NVIDIA partnership offers a path from hybrid-cloud data management to performant inference and intelligent agent delivery.