REDWOOD
CITY, Calif., Jan. 24,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Equinix, Inc. (NASDAQ:
EQIX), the world's digital infrastructure company®,
announced a fully managed private cloud service that enables
enterprises to easily acquire and manage their own NVIDIA DGX AI
supercomputing infrastructure for building and running custom
generative AI models.
Available immediately, the service includes NVIDIA DGX systems,
NVIDIA networking and the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software platform.
Equinix installs and operates each customer's privately owned
NVIDIA infrastructure and can deploy services on their behalf in
key International Business Exchange™ (IBX®)
data centers globally.
"To harness the incredible potential of generative AI,
enterprises need adaptable, scalable hybrid infrastructure in their
local markets to bring AI supercomputing to their data," said
Charles Meyers, president and CEO of
Equinix. "Our new service provides customers a fast and
cost-effective way to adopt advanced AI infrastructure that's
operated and managed by experts globally."
"Generative AI is transforming every industry," said Jensen
Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. "Now, enterprises can own NVIDIA
AI supercomputing and software, paired with the operational
efficiency of Equinix management, in hundreds of data centers
worldwide."
Scalable Service to Fuel Innovation Across
Industries
Through the service, enterprises can scale their
infrastructure operations to achieve the level of AI performance
needed to develop and run massive models.
Early access companies using the service include leaders in
biopharma, financial services, software, automotive and retail,
which are building AI Centers of Excellence to provide a strategic
foundation for a broad range of rapidly developing LLM use
cases.
These include accelerating time to market for new medications,
developing AI copilots for customer service agents and building
virtual productivity assistants.
Easy Access to Privately Managed NVIDIA AI
Supercomputing
Equinix's fully managed NVIDIA AI
supercomputing service enables customers to operate their AI
infrastructure in close proximity to their data.
The service offers high-speed private network access to global
network service providers, enabling quick generative AI information
retrieval across corporate wide area networks. In addition, it
provides private, high-bandwidth interconnections to cloud services
and enterprise service providers to facilitate AI workloads while
meeting data security and compliance requirements.
Using the service, customers can easily access their NVIDIA AI
Enterprise software to streamline the development and deployment of
production-grade AI applications, including generative AI.
NVIDIA AI Enterprise includes pretrained models, optimized
frameworks and accelerated data science software libraries—such as
the NVIDIA NeMo™ framework for building LLMs,
NVIDIA RAPIDS™ for data science, NVIDIA
Clara for healthcare and NVIDIA TensorRT™-LLM for
performance optimization of large language models.
Enterprise-Level Support
The comprehensive solution
also features enterprise-grade support and security. This includes
Equinix's IBX data center professionals to help customers rapidly
build and deploy their custom AI models, as well as access to
NVIDIA AI experts.
Availability
The fully managed private cloud service
is available today. To learn more, visit the Equinix webpage or
contact your NVIDIA representative or systems integrator to learn
more.
About Equinix
Equinix (Nasdaq: EQIX) is the
world's digital infrastructure company®. Digital leaders
harness Equinix's trusted platform to bring together and
interconnect foundational infrastructure at software speed. Equinix
enables organizations to access all the right places, partners and
possibilities to scale with agility, speed the launch of digital
services, deliver world-class experiences and multiply their value,
while supporting their sustainability goals.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release
contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and
uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially from
expectations discussed in such forward-looking statements. Factors
that might cause such differences include, but are not limited to,
risks to our business and operating results related to the current
inflationary environment; foreign currency exchange rate
fluctuations; increased costs to procure power and the general
volatility in the global energy market; the challenges of
acquiring, operating and constructing IBX® and xScale® data centers
and developing, deploying and delivering Equinix products and
solutions; unanticipated costs or difficulties relating to the
integration of companies we have acquired or will acquire into
Equinix; a failure to receive significant revenues from customers
in recently built out or acquired data centers; failure to complete
any financing arrangements contemplated from time to time;
competition from existing and new competitors; the ability to
generate sufficient cash flow or otherwise obtain funds to repay
new or outstanding indebtedness; the loss or decline in business
from our key customers; risks related to our taxation as a REIT and
other risks described from time to time in Equinix filings with the
Securities and Exchange Commission. In particular, see recent and
upcoming Equinix quarterly and annual reports filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, copies of which are available
upon request from Equinix. Equinix does not assume any obligation
to update the forward-looking information contained in this press
release.
NVIDIA NeMo™, NVIDIA RAPIDS™ and NVIDIA TensorRT™ LLM are
trademarks of NVIDIA Corporation.
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