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Vendor Lock-in Mitigation

Vendor Lock-in Mitigation

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2024

Qdrant Hybrid Cloud is launched, enabling deployment in any environment (cloud, on-premise, edge). This offering integrates with various infrastructure providers (OCI, Red Hat OpenShift, Vultr, DigitalOcean, OVHcloud, Scaleway, Civo, STACKIT) and AI frameworks (LlamaIndex, LangChain, Haystack, Airbyte, JinaAI, Aleph Alpha). Tutorials demonstrate building AI applications like RAG systems, chatbots, and recommendation engines on partner platforms, emphasizing flexibility, data sovereignty, and control. This post specifically details the integration with Scaleway, highlighting its AI-focused resources, scalability, European focus, and sustainability commitment, and provides a tutorial for building RAG applications on this combined platform.

2024

Are You Vendor Locked? - Qdrant

5/5/2024

This post introduces the concept of 'Hardware is the New Vendor Lock' due to the high cost and supply constraints of AI compute, specifically GPUs. It argues that while Qdrant is designed to be cost-effective and run on CPUs, customers' broader AI infrastructure can lead to vendor lock-in. The post advocates for Kubernetes as a solution to decouple infrastructure from cloud hosts, enabling easier migration. It also announces and details Qdrant Hybrid Cloud, a managed service that unifies Kubernetes clusters from diverse environments to offer flexibility and control.

Qdrant's Trusted Partners for Hybrid Cloud Deployment - Qdrant

4/15/2024

Introduces Qdrant Hybrid Cloud, a managed vector database deployable across diverse environments. Highlights partnerships with infrastructure providers and AI frameworks to facilitate flexible, sovereign, and private AI application development. Provides numerous tutorials showcasing practical implementations of Qdrant Hybrid Cloud with partner solutions.

Qdrant Hybrid Cloud: the First Managed Vector Database You Can Run Anywhere - Qdrant

4/15/2024

Introduces Qdrant Hybrid Cloud, a managed vector database deployable across cloud, on-premise, and edge environments. Highlights Kubernetes-native architecture, decoupled data/control planes, and a unified management interface for flexible, secure, and sovereign data processing. Details partnerships with infrastructure providers and AI frameworks, and provides a quickstart guide for onboarding Kubernetes clusters.

Qdrant Hybrid Cloud and Scaleway Empower GenAI - Qdrant

4/10/2024

This post announces and details the integration of Qdrant Hybrid Cloud with Scaleway's cloud infrastructure. It highlights the benefits of this partnership for AI development, including access to AI-focused resources, scalable vector search, European focus, and sustainability. It also provides a tutorial for building RAG applications using Qdrant Hybrid Cloud on Scaleway, emphasizing data sovereignty and ease of deployment.