Ooredoo Group at present introduced it’s changing into an NVIDIA Cloud Associate (NCP), aligned with its technique of changing into the main digital infrastructure supplier within the MENA (Center East and North Africa) area. Via this collaboration, Ooredoo is leveraging NVIDIA’s superior accelerated computing platform to assist allow the AI revolution within the area.
Capitalising on the numerous market demand for accelerated computing and hyperconnectivity throughout its MENA footprint, Ooredoo is growing an AI-ready platform powered by NVIDIA’s full-stack innovation throughout methods, software program, and companies.
This platform will function a precious useful resource, supporting governments and empowering enterprises and startups to securely course of their personal datasets, in addition to produce precious insights as tokens that energy improvements for its customers.
Aziz Aluthman Fakhroo, Group CEO, Ooredoo, mentioned: “Implementing NVIDIA’s full-stack platform for accelerated computing and generative AI, Ooredoo is supplied to be on the forefront of the AI revolution in MENA, driving digitalisation and innovation because the main digital infrastructure supplier within the area. Working with NVIDIA, we intention to satisfy the considerably rising demand for accelerated computing infrastructure to help superior AI fashions.”
Reworking industries with next-generation AI and GPU choices
Via this collaboration, governments, enterprises, and startups in Qatar, Algeria, Tunisia, Oman, Kuwait, and the Maldives may have entry to NVIDIA’s newest full-stack AI platform.
Ooredoo plans to deploy hundreds of NVIDIA Tensor Core GPUs in its AI knowledge centres to help the area, enabling prospects to leverage a state-of-the-art AI platform with superior infrastructure, instruments, and software program. This can optimise processes and drive operational efficiencies throughout industries.
Prospects will profit from Ooredoo’s GPU-as-a-Service, which affords on-demand entry to a number of the most superior AI and machine studying instruments obtainable – together with one of the vital transformative applied sciences obtainable at present, generative AI.
Ronnie Vasishta, Senior Vice President of Telecom, NVIDIA, mentioned: “As a trusted regional telecommunications supplier, Ooredoo Group combines deep enterprise and client relationships with the flexibility to put money into and deploy AI infrastructure and companies. By offering NVIDIA’s full-stack AI computing platform to prospects, Ooredoo will assist make it simpler for his or her prospects to deploy generative AI functions and companies.”
Ooredoo driving regional progress via localised infrastructure and AI internet hosting options
Ooredoo Group’s collaboration with NVIDIA is a part of its bigger intention to spice up AI infrastructure within the MENA area whereas enabling enhanced safety, optimised efficiency, and customisation to align with native requirements.
Consequently, the nations the place Ooredoo operates can set up native clouds, facilitating the event of native AI ecosystems and functions and reinforcing knowledge safety measures.
Ooredoo will have the ability to supply GPU-as-infrastructure, giving its prospects the flexibleness to combine accelerated computing with their very own cloud options or immediately host them on premises. This ensures prospects have essentially the most environment friendly and tailor-made AI processing capabilities at their disposal.
The initiative is anticipated to drive financial progress, job creation, and technological innovation throughout the area by empowering prospects with a state-of-the-art AI cloud platform. Ooredoo will work on the implementation in shut coordination with the stakeholders in every nation to make sure alignment with native necessities and to maximise the advantages of its AI initiatives to advance sovereign AI targets.
A number one digital infrastructure supplier
Ooredoo’s digital ecosystem encompasses core telecom companies and a devoted knowledge centre platform, in addition to unbiased entities centered on wi-fi towers, monetary know-how, and subsea cable ventures. It aligns with Ooredoo’s technique to rework right into a telecom and infrastructure holding with a de-layered multi-business construction, with an overarching aim to develop into the impartial provider of selection, creating synergies throughout its ecosystem whereas guaranteeing enterprise sustainability and growth.
The settlement with NVIDIA was signed throughout TMForum’s DTW24 in Copenhagen within the presence of Ooredoo Group CEO Aziz Aluthman Fakhroo and NVIDIA Senior Vice President of Telecom Ronnie Vasishta.
