VAST Data and Northern Data Group Partner to Deliver Market-Leading Scale, Speed, and Energy-Efficient AI Cloud
2024年5月22日 - 9:30PM
VAST Data, the AI data platform company, today
announced a strategic partnership with Northern Data Group’s GenAI
cloud platform, Taiga Cloud, a leading European generative AI cloud
service provider (CSP). Together, Taiga Cloud and VAST will deliver
dedicated, scalable generative AI cloud services to Europe, driven
by 100 percent carbon-free energy.
Gartner 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.”
Austin Weedfall
VAST Data
press@vastdata.com