- Northern Data Group's Taiga
Cloud brings comprehensive AI-as-a-Service to Europe by leveraging NVIDIA GPUs and the VAST
Data Platform.
- The partnership will deliver AI cloud services in
Europe, driven by 100 percent
carbon-free energy.
- Taiga Cloud provides access
to a vast NVIDIA GPU network in Europe, with over 20,000 GPUs.
FRANKFURT, Germany, May 22, 2024
/PRNewswire/ -- Northern Data Group's GenAI cloud platform,
Taiga Cloud, a leading European
generative AI cloud service provider (CSP) and VAST Data,
the AI data platform company, today announced a strategic
partnership. Together, Taiga Cloud
and VAST will deliver dedicated, scalable generative AI cloud
services to Europe, driven by 100
percent carbon-free energy.
Gartner[1] predicts that by 2030, AI could
consume up to 3.5 percent of the world's electricity. To meet this
growing demand, organizations are seeking sustainable and
energy-efficient AI solutions. Taiga
Cloud, a Cloud partner in the NVIDIA Partner Network,
provides access to a large NVIDIA GPU network in Europe, with over 20,000 NVIDIA GPUs,
including the latest NVIDIA H100 and A100 Tensor Core GPUs. Its
platform runs entirely on carbon-free, renewable energy, and boasts
a less than 1.2 Power Usage Effectiveness ratio.
Combining this efficiency with VAST's
differentiated Disaggregated Shared Everything (DASE)
architecture and Similarity data reduction software will
provide access to a high-speed, low-latency and data-sovereign
cloud built for accelerated computing, while ensuring organizations
aren't compromising on their sustainability objectives.
"Northern Data Group is committed to providing best-in-class
solutions driven by energy from renewable sources," said Aroosh
Thillainathan, Founder and CEO, Northern Data Group. "This
partnership with VAST Data is doing just this, helping to bring
scalable, sustainable solutions to customers, enabling them to
bring their best ideas to life."
Key benefits for customers leveraging Northern Data Group's
Taiga Cloud with the VAST Data
Platform include:
- Reduced Environmental Footprint with Sustainable
Infrastructure: With best-in-class infrastructure and the
latest liquid-cooling technologies to optimize GPUs for optimal
efficiency, renewable energy and waste-reduction solutions, and
VAST's efficient data management capabilities, organizations can
achieve aggressive sustainability goals in the face of power-hungry
AI deployments and applications - without compromising on
performance.
- A Robust Cloud Services Catalog: The VAST Data Platform
offers easy API access to encapsulate its storage, database, global
namespace and compute engine capabilities into Taiga Cloud's wide-ranging advanced cloud data
services and support, enabling Taiga
Cloud to pass on best-in-class services to customers.
- Improved Performance with Enterprise Features: VAST's
performance – particularly for AI-driven applications requiring
high throughput and fast access speed – flexibility, and
multi-tenancy, allows Taiga Cloud to
help customers manage, move and protect their data with
enterprise-grade features. Superior service levels, particularly in
GPU cluster interconnectivity and storage speed, are also possible,
which is crucial for intensive computational workloads.
- Expanded Access to Secure, Compliant GPU Services:
Thanks to VAST's multi-tenant, scalable solutions, Taiga Cloud securely and efficiently scales its
infrastructure in perfect harmony with its growing customer base -
allowing Taiga Cloud to serve
startups and smaller enterprises that might not have the capital to
invest in high-performance computing infrastructure
independently.
"With the VAST Data Platform, Taiga
Cloud is bringing to market one of Europe's leading GPU-accelerated clouds, with
robust services and support offerings for generative AI
deployments," said Chris Morgan,
Vice President, Solutions at VAST Data. "VAST provides CSPs
with software infrastructure solutions that combine the speed,
scale, security and GDPR-compliant operations that data-intensive
organizations across the globe require for their AI workflows."
About Northern Data Group:
Northern Data Group (ETR: NB2) is a leading provider
of High-Performance Computing (HPC) solutions to businesses and
research institutions, utilizing GPU- and ASIC-based solutions. Our
flexible compute power fuels innovation in our three core business
platforms: Taiga Cloud, Ardent Data
Centers, and Peak Mining. Through our HPC solutions, we pioneer
ambitious computing innovation that drives progress in the AI, ML
and Generative AI industries. Our close collaboration with
industry-leading manufacturers including Gigabyte, AMD, and NVIDIA
is fundamental to the acceleration of innovation across sectors
including life sciences, financial services, and
energy.
About VAST Data
VAST Data is the data platform company built for the AI era. As
the new standard for enterprise AI infrastructure, organizations
trust the VAST Data Platform to serve their most data-intensive
computing needs. VAST Data empowers enterprises to unlock the full
potential of their data by providing AI infrastructure that is
simple, scalable, and architected from the ground up to power deep
learning and GPU-accelerated data centers and clouds. Launched in
2019, VAST Data is the fastest growing data infrastructure company
in history. For more information, please visit and follow VAST
Data on X (formerly Twitter) and LinkedIn.
[1] Gartner Says CIOs Must Balance the
Environmental Promises and Risks of AI
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