SAN FRANCISCO, July 28, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Digital Realty
(NYSE: DLR), a leading global provider of carrier- and
cloud-neutral data center, colocation and interconnection
solutions, announced today the next milestone in its collaboration
with NVIDIA. Together with Core Scientific, Digital Realty
has deployed the industry's first Data Hub powered by the NVIDIA
DGX™ A100 at its Interxion Digital Docklands Campus
near the heart of London's
financial center. With today's announcement, Digital Realty
is accelerating digital transformation by introducing a new
AI-ready infrastructure solution that enables customers to rapidly
deploy AI models in close proximity to their data sets.
Building on the recent launch of Digital Realty's Data Hub,
today's announcement represents a major step forward on the
company's roadmap to make AI-ready infrastructure available
globally on PlatformDIGITAL™. Digital Realty was the first
data center provider to earn an NVIDIA DGX-Ready Data Center
certification and currently operates DGX-certified data centers in
more than 20 markets worldwide. The new program with Core
Scientific represents an innovative collaboration between industry
leaders to tackle the AI infrastructure challenges impacting
today's modern enterprises.
The initial deployment opens up a new artificial intelligence
platform-as-a-service (AI PaaS) solution, architected specifically
for data science teams. Built on Digital Realty's Data Hub
featuring the NVIDIA DGX A100 system – the world's first 5
petaFLOPS AI compute system – in combination with Core
Scientific's Plexus™ for orchestrating data science workflow,
it reduces the complexity and cost to open access to
next-generation technology for data science and AI development
teams. As a result, enterprises gain access to AI-ready
infrastructure to localize data and solve the global coverage,
capacity and connectivity needs that come with deploying AI at
scale.
"AI is poised to have a dramatic impact on the way businesses
drive their digital transformation initiatives, but it's critical
to have a foundation in place to remove the data gravity barriers
that inhibit innovation," said Digital Realty Chief Technology
Officer Chris Sharp.
"PlatformDIGITAL provides an ideal location for the data
aggregation, staging, analytics and management that are critical
for optimizing data exchange and maintaining data compliance.
Our collaboration with NVIDIA is at the forefront of driving the
adoption of enterprise AI worldwide. With the addition of
Core Scientific's intelligent orchestration toolset, we are making
it easier for enterprises to rapidly deploy AI
workloads."
The combination of NVIDIA DGX A100 systems and Core Scientific's
Plexus™, which orchestrates, schedules and manages data science
workflow with its AI fabric, enables data science teams to work
with a simplified and streamlined AI development workflow.
The integrated solution speeds insights from data, providing IT
teams a platform that supports enterprise transformation.
"Enterprise customers need AI solutions to drive business
transformation, but they may not have the facilities and platform
designed to accelerate data science innovation," said Tony Paikeday, Senior Director of Product
Marketing, Artificial Intelligence Systems at NVIDIA. "The
collaboration between Digital Realty, Core Scientific, and NVIDIA
offers customers a simplified, cost-effective AI platform that
streamlines access to NVIDIA DGX POD infrastructure with data
science workflow tools in world-class environments optimized for
enterprise AI development."
"With the vast majority of workloads running in colocation
facilities, enabling best-in-class AI PaaS infrastructure in a
near-cloud environment helps customers unlock the value of their
data lakes," said Ian Ferreira,
Chief Product Officer AI at Core Scientific. "The ability to
train models near your data lake, then use the Data Hub to move
around to global edge facilities via a single pane of glass, is a
game changer for data scientists."
As the first global data center provider to join the NVIDIA
DGX-Ready Data Center Program, Digital Realty provides a fully
NVIDIA-certified environment to successfully run AI
workloads. Digital Realty opens up access to a vibrant
community of content, cloud and network partners on
PlatformDIGITAL, coupled with Core Scientific's fully managed AI
Fabric and the NVIDIA DGX POD infrastructure to offer enterprise
customers full-stack solutions that accelerate AI deployments.
Digital Realty continues to expand its AI potential to
capitalize on one of the fastest growing market opportunities in
the world. Digital Realty looks forward to working closely
with NVIDIA sellers and the extended NVIDIA Partner Network (NPN)
to facilitate training.
- Learn more about Digital Realty's work with NVIDIA:
https://www.digitalrealty.com/nvidia-digital-realty-partnership
- Join us on Aug 19 for a webinar
with Core Scientific and NVIDIA at 7am
PST, 10am EST, 3pm BST to learn more about the new solution:
https://www.go.interxion.com/Speeding-Business-Innovation-AI-Platform-as-a-Service
- Take a virtual tour of Cloud House in the Interxion Digital
Docklands
campus:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NcZx-slu8w&feature=youtu.be
About Digital Realty
Digital Realty supports the data
center, colocation and interconnection strategies of customers
across the Americas, EMEA and APAC, ranging from cloud and
information technology services, communications and social
networking to financial services, manufacturing, energy, healthcare
and consumer products. To learn more about Digital Realty,
please visit digitalrealty.com or follow us on LinkedIn
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This press release contains forward-looking statements which are
based on current expectations, forecasts and assumptions that
involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual outcomes
and results to differ materially, including statements related to
Digital Realty's collaboration with NVIDIA and Core Scientific,
NVIDIA DGX A100 and AI PaaS solutions, cost savings and reduction
in complexity, future deployments, and PlatformDIGITAL™ and Data
Hub. For a list and description of risks and uncertainties,
see the reports and other filings by the company with the U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission. The company disclaims any
intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking
statements, whether as a result of new information, future events
or otherwise.
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