NVIDIA-certified environment at KIX13 offers
high-speed access to support accelerated artificial intelligence
workload deployments on PlatformDIGITAL®, a global meeting
place
AUSTIN,
Texas, July 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Digital
Realty (NYSE: DLR), the largest global provider of cloud and
carrier-neutral data center, colocation, and interconnection
solutions, announces KIX13, its newest data center in Osaka, Japan, has been certified NVIDIA DGX
H100-ready as part of the NVIDIA DGX-Ready Data Center program.
KIX13 was awarded the accreditation for its ability to provide a
dedicated, robust, and resilient environment optimized for
intensive computing systems deployments at scale.
DGX H100, the fourth generation of NVIDIA's purpose-built
artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure, is the foundation of
NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD™ that provides the computational power
necessary to train today's state-of-the-art deep learning AI models
and fuel innovation well into the future. With it, enterprise
customers can devise full-stack solutions that accelerate
artificial intelligence (AI) deployments, allowing for data
localization while meeting the global coverage, capacity and
connectivity needs that come with deploying AI at scale.
AI is swiftly becoming a driving force behind modern
technologies across multiple industries with applications in areas
such as optimization, preventive maintenance, virtual assistants,
fraud detection, and anomaly detection. Expected to
help solve the world's most challenging problems, the success of AI
deployments is dependent on data centers that can provide the
high-performance cooling, layout and connectivity required for AI
to operate highly effectively.
As modern enterprises adopt AI, leaders in the technology are
increasingly seeking access to real-time data as a core strategy to
enable instantaneous changes and decision-making. Digital Realty's
highly connected PlatformDIGITAL® community enables customers
to access vast data volumes, allowing them to confidently run AI
workloads in an NVIDIA-accelerated environment to innovate and
solve the world's most challenging computational problems, while
overcoming Data Gravity barriers. With ServiceFabric™, Digital
Realty's global service orchestration platform, customers can
streamline management of their hybrid IT infrastructure while
gaining access to a growing, open community of partners to which
they can connect and utilize for managed services – all on a
single, centralized platform.
Thanks to the scale and sophistication of its offerings, broad
customer base, and significant technical
resources, Digital Realty also provides the
precision-engineered power and cooling digital infrastructure that
can support the high-power computing needs of AI. At higher
workload densities, liquid cooling becomes an attractive option for
AI deployments for its more efficient heat dissipation. Digital
Realty's rich pedigree in
data center engineering allows Digital Realty to
provision a future-ready data center environment
that can handle the evolution from air to liquid cooling.
This also contributes to Digital Realty's and its customers'
progress towards reducing their Scope 1 and 2 carbon
emissions by 68% and Scope 3 emissions by 24%, by 2030.
The KIX13 certification marks another milestone in Digital
Realty's and NVIDIA's collaboration. Digital Realty was one of the
first data center providers to be awarded the "DGX-Ready Data
Center" certification at the launch of the program in 2019 and
currently operates DGX-Ready data centers in more than 20 markets
worldwide, including six sites across Asia Pacific.
"Organizations looking to implement enterprise AI are investing
in accelerated computing infrastructure – including hardware and
software purpose-built for AI – to deploy their models into
production quickly," says Charlie
Boyle, Vice President, DGX systems, NVIDIA. "With the
certification of Digital Realty's new KIX13 facility in the
DGX-ready data center program, customers have access to a flexible,
simple option for deploying the world's leading AI platform."
"Digital Realty understands the impact AI will have on the way
businesses drive digital transformation in the years to come.
However, business breakthroughs made possible with AI can only be
realized if enterprises are able to integrate the technology into
their operations, and that is where we come in," says Chris Sharp, Chief Technology Officer, Digital
Realty. "With Digital Realty's KIX13 DGX-Ready Data Center
certification, we remain focused on delivering a meeting place that
allows our customers to accelerate innovation and growth."
He added, "AI is poised to have a dramatic impact on digital
transformation initiatives, and it is critical to have a foundation
in place to remove the Data Gravity barriers that inhibit
innovation. PlatformDIGITAL® provides an ideal location for the
data aggregation, staging, analytics, and management that are
critical for optimizing data exchange and maintaining data
compliance."
About Digital Realty
Digital Realty brings companies
and data together by delivering the full spectrum of data center,
colocation and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL®, the
company's global data center platform, provides customers with a
secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter
Architecture (PDx ®) solution methodology for powering innovation
and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges. Digital Realty
gives its customers access to the connected data communities that
matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300+
facilities in 50+ metros across 27 countries on six continents. To
learn more about Digital Realty, please visit digitalrealty.com or
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