Sterling AI Factory
Accelerate your AI advantage with an AI Factory specialized for your organization. Transform data into intelligent interactions while innovating and advancing what’s possible within a secure environment.
The Trusted AI Factory Integrator
An AI Factory is more than just another data center server. These cutting edge systems turn raw data into actionable artificial intelligence innovations, enabling training, refinement, and deployment all within one system. This advancement allows enterprises and organizations to be more agile within their own AI to production, speeding up timelines. There are, however, a some hurdles to overcome before the benefits of an AI Factory can be fully experienced.
Teams need a way to quickly and efficiently integrate the necessary infrastructure to enable AI Factory capabilities. That coupled with compatibility, troubleshooting, optimization, continued maintenance, and future enhancements all create time consuming, highly technical tasks requiring advanced certifications and experience. That’s where we come in, with our technical expertise and industry partnerships enable the capability to produce complete AI Factory solutions that are ready to perform. Our experts rack, stack, troubleshoot, optimize, and deploy your AI Factory so that all you have to do is get to work on your next innovation.
6x Dell Technologies Federal Partner of the Year
2025 Intel Partner of the Year – Solution Provider, Public Sector IT Modernization
2024 NVIDIA Public Sector Partner of the Year
3x HPE Platinum Partner of the Year
A Better Approach to AI Factory
We approach AI Factory solutions by first engaging with clients to assess their specific AI goals and sizing the appropriate architectures. Our engineers design and assemble these solutions in accordance with our findings, often through pre-kitting or warehouse-level rack integration for fully configured and tested systems. Our team then deploys and validates the AI factory, ensuring it’s a ready-to-use platform that accelerates client innovation on-premise or in hybrid environments.
Discover
Read MoreWe begin with an informal, collaborative discussion with your team followed by a series of in-depth assessments to identify vulnerabilities, inefficiencies, and other assorted opportunities for growth.
Design
Read MoreNext, our team of experts develops a number of forward-thinking strategies based on our findings. We then create the blueprints necessary to bring those innovative solutions to life.
Integrate
Read MoreDuring the implementation phrase, our team ensures the seamless integration of the chosen solution, painstakingly verifying that everything is running correctly, at optimal performance.
Empower
Read MoreThroughout the process, we take a consultative approach, providing strategic insights, training, and expert advice from start to finish.
AI Factory Specialized for Your Needs
Our team has the expertise to produce an AI Factory tailored to your unique use case. We can then expand upon that design at scale, with production at one of our secure CID Centers, enabling faster time to production and less downtime troubleshooting on premises. Our partnerships and certifications across the industry enable us the unique benefit of compiling an OEM agnostic solution, ensuring you get the right components to succeed while mitigating the traditional costs associated with AI Factory deployments.
AI-Optimized Infrastructure
We deliver robust, right-sized infrastructure that’s optimized for unique AI Factory workloads. Our team identifies the ideal integration for clients, from on-premises installations to hybrid cloud environments. We provide powerful servers from industry leaders that are specifically engineered for demanding AI workloads and high-performance computing. This infrastructure is designed to right-size AI investments and enable scalable AI deployment anywhere, leveraging advanced processing capabilities for efficient AI model training, fine-tuning, and inference.
AI Platforms & Reference Architectures
Sterling deploys AI platforms that significantly accelerate “time to first token” by eliminating complex design and build efforts. This includes NVIDIA AI Enterprise, NVIDIA Run:ai, and Red Hat OpenShift integrations for ease of development, management, and deployment. Our team further enhances deployment consistency and margins for AI factories through our efficient warehouse assembly of pre-kitted AI Factory solutions.
Data Management for AI Factory
We recognize that valuable AI data, the raw material for AI factories, often resides on-premises and at the edge. We specialize in bringing AI to this critical data, leading in its storage, protection, and management. Our AI Factory solutions utilize industry leading primary storage devices, complemented by advanced data protection solutions and robust backup strategies.
AI Factory Integration
We offer comprehensive integration services for complex AI Factory environments, providing crucial networking platforms for high-performance AI fabrics. Its AI Factory deployment made simple at any scale.
AI Factory Services
We act as a comprehensive partner, providing the hardware, software, integration, and expertise necessary to design, deploy, and manage robust AI factory solutions that accelerate time to value for our customers.
AI Readiness Assessment
Our team assesses your data, infrastructure, and workforce to identify gaps and opportunities toward your successful AI transformation. We align your AI strategy with measurable business outcomes, provide a detailed AI journey assessment, a high-level roadmap, and estimated costs. Our strategic approach empowers clients to confidently embrace AI capabilities, transforming initiatives into actionable steps that foster long-term success.
Infrastructure Deployment Services
Our Infrastructure Deployment Services operationalize end-to-end solutions for transforming and optimizing your IT environment. Our certified engineers expertly handle physical hardware installation—including the racking, cabling, and power setup for servers, storage, and networking equipment. We specialize in configuring operating systems, hypervisors, and complex virtualization platforms.
Rack Integration Services
Leave the construction and troubleshooting of your server racks to us. Our engineers produce a unique rack solution in one of our secure CID locations where we optimize power, cooling, and operational performance. Additionally, we proactively troubleshoot any potential issues prior to deployment, thus ensuring a seamless, problem-free experience along with an out-of-the-box, ready-to-work performance.
AI Advisor Services
Our team is comprised of certified AI Advisors for sales and engineering. Allow us to act as a trusted advisor, expertly guiding you through leading OEM portfolios from assessment to deployment of you AI Factory – and beyond.
Storage Assessment
Handle storage efficiently with a Storage Assessment. Our experts evaluate the health of your storage infrastructure, its overall performance, and its capacity-growth needs. Identify any misconfigurations and find consolidation opportunities to reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) while optimizing responsiveness.
Data Protection Assessment
Assess your current data center for improper data protection policies and procedures. Our team identifies any lapses in compliance, security measures, or backup processes and provides your team with a proactive solution that will keep your data safe from disaster. Allow us to guide you through industry-standard data security practices, additional data archival and backup procedures, and database compliance frameworks built to satisfy even the most stringent industry standards.
Modern Data Center Assessment
Identify areas of improvement, vulnerabilities in your current infrastructure, cost-effective measures you can adopt, and how best to reach your IT goals—all through one of our Modern Data Center Assessments. Our team will guide you to the ideal outcome for your organization while providing you with a comprehensive data center solution that will keep you ahead of the competition.
AI PC Readiness Services
Our AI PC readiness services maximize NPU-enabled PC potential. Our AI Assessment crafts tailored strategies and ensures data readiness alongside AI PC deployments. Specialized AI PC configuration provides custom imaging, optimized AI capabilities, and rigorous checks for seamless integration with your system. We guide you from strategy to a user-ready experiences, accelerating your AI initiatives right out of the box.
AI Factory Enabled for Every Sector
We strive for excellence in everything we do, regardless of the customer’s size or their level within the government. We’ve been a trusted resource for federal agencies, state and local entities, entire school districts, commercial industries, healthcare institutions, AI leaders, and so many more. Explore how our AI Factory solution can impact clients below.
Federal Agencies
Federal customers can leverage AI factories in defense applications to rapidly develop and deploy advanced AI capabilities for critical missions. This includes accelerating intelligence analysis, advancing cybersecurity with AI-enhanced security features, and powering autonomous systems. The factories provide secure, confidential compute environments for sensitive data, enabling faster training of complex models and efficient inference at scale, even in disconnected or austere environments. This accelerates innovation, improves decision-making, and strengthens national security.
Read MoreState, Local, and Education
State and local governments can significantly benefit from AI factories by accelerating the deployment of advanced AI for smart city initiatives, public safety, educational research, and administrative efficiency. These pre-built, optimized platforms reduce the complexity and high costs associated with custom AI infrastructure, allowing state, local, and educational institutions to leverage powerful AI capabilities more readily, improve citizen service, and drive innovation within budget constraints.
Read MoreCommercial Industries
Commercial clients can leverage AI factories to rapidly develop and deploy AI-powered products and services. This includes accelerating model training for new offerrings, enhancing customer experiences through intelligent virtual assistancts and personalized interactions, optimizing operational efficiencywith predicitive analytics and automation, and improving decision making. Enable faster innovation and gain a competitive advantage with a specialized AI Factory from Sterling.
Read MoreProven Success with AI Factory
Sterling partnered with Dell to implement an advanced AI Factory for Leidos. This significant project involved deploying high-performance Dell PowerEdge servers, PowerScale storage, and NVIDIA networking, optimized with Red Hat OpenShift for large-scale AI/ML workloads. Sterling’s certified engineers provided crucial onsite hardware configuration, virtualization strategy, and a comprehensive three-day training program covering hardware, NVIDIA AI Enterprise software, and OpenShift. This end-to-end solution, including system testing and knowledge transfer, showcases Sterling’s deep expertise in delivering complex, secure, and scalable Dell AI infrastructure, reinforcing our role as a premier Dell partner for transformative federal projects.
2025 Leidos Partner Network Public Sector Partner of the Year
Partnered with the Best
We strategically leverage 1,500+ industry partnerships across all our solutions, allowing us to provide optimal performance outcomes for every deployment. We’re a highly regarded Global Solutions Integrator who is routinely called upon to carry out AI Factory deployments for customers. With Sterling, you can rest easy in the knowledge that you’re receiving more than just the best products in the business; you’re also receiving custom, tailor-made AI Factory solutions, built to perform and supported by the leading names in tech.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is AI Factory?
An AI factory is a pre-built, tested, and integrated AI compute platform solution. It’s designed to accelerate the deployment of AI capabilities, significantly reducing the complexity and time typically involved in setting up infrastructure for AI development, experimentation, and large-scale training. This turnkey offering allows businesses to achieve value faster by providing a ready-to-use environment for their AI initiatives.
In what ways does AI Factory accelerate innovation for clients?
AI factories accelerate client innovation by providing pre-built, tested, and supported architectures that drastically shorten the deployment cycle of AI compute platforms. This eliminates significant time and effort typically spent on infrastructure setup, allowing data scientists and developers to move directly into productive experimentation and training at scale. By simplifying the underlying complexity, clients can focus more on developing new AI models and applications, bringing novel solutions to market faster and gaining a competitive edge.
What are some key benefits associated with AI Factory implementation?
Our AI Factory solutions deliver accelerated time to value and innovation by providing turnkey, scalable infrastructure that significantly reduces complexity, effort, and costs commonly associated with in-house development efforts. By working with Sterling, clients gain optimized performance and reliability at deployment, freeing internal teams to strategically focus on groundbreaking AI development rather than infrastructure troubleshooting and management.
Why should I use Sterling for my AI Factory solution?
Sterling differentiates itself by providing end-to-end expertise in NVIDIA AI Factory solutions, leveraging our Rack Integration microservice to deliver pre-configured, fully tested AI compute platforms comprised of components from our industry leading brand partners. This significantly accelerates clients’ time to productive AI experimentation and training, eliminating complex deployment hurdles for both on-prem and hybrid environments, ensuring rapid innovation with guaranteed performance and support.
What is Sterling Rack Integration and how does it support AI Factory initiatives?
Our Rack Integration service delivers fully assembled, configured, and tested rack-level AI Factory compute platforms to clients. This significantly differentiates Sterling by eliminating complex on-site deployment hurdles and drastically accelerating the time it takes for clients to begin productive AI experimentation and training. Instead of receiving components, clients receive a ready-to-run AI Factory.
Expand Possibilities with a Sterling AI Factory
Accelerate the you AI goals with a Sterling AI Factory – a leading solution for streamlining deployments and getting your team the advancements for agile development.