NVIDIA AI gets a boost with new Microsoft Azure tie-up
NVIDIA has announced a collaboration with Microsoft that will allow Microsoft Azure to host both NVIDIA Omniverse Cloud and NVIDIA DGX Cloud, giving millions of Microsoft enterprise users access to NVIDIA’s industrial metaverse and AI supercomputing resources via the cloud.
NVIDIA Omniverse Cloud is NVIDIA’s platform-as-a-service giving instant access to a full-stack environment to design, develop, deploy and manage industrial metaverse applications and bringing together their productivity and 3D collaboration platforms by connecting Omniverse and Microsoft 365 applications — such as Teams, OneDrive, Azure IoT services, and SharePoint. NVIDIA DGX Cloud is an AI supercomputing service that gives enterprises immediate access to the infrastructure and software needed to train advanced models for generative AI and other applications.
Calling this the iPhone moment for AI, Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA added:
The world’s largest companies are racing to digitalise every aspect of their business and reinvent themselves into software-defined technology companies. NVIDIA AI and Omniverse supercharge industrial digitalisation. Building NVIDIA Omniverse Cloud within Microsoft Azure brings customers the best of our combined capabilities.
With Omniverse connected to Azure Cloud Services the development and deployment of digital twins and IoT will be faster as companies can link real-time data from sensors in the physical world to their digital replicas. This will enable enterprises to build and operate more accurate, dynamic, fully functional 3D digital twins that automatically respond to changes in their physical environments with Azure providing the cloud infrastructure and capabilities needed to deploy enterprise services at scale, including security, identity, and storage.
A GTC keynote demo developed by Accenture amplifies the utility of integrating NVIDIA Omniverse with Microsoft Teams to enable real-time 3D collaboration. Running on Omniverse Cloud, and leveraging a Teams Meeting featuring Live Share, the Accenture demo showcases how this integration can shorten the time between decision-making, action, and feedback.
Omniverse Cloud, powered by NVIDIA OVX computing systems, will be available on Azure in the second half of the year while DGX Cloud will be available running in Azure at the beginning of next quarter.
NVIDIA DGX Cloud becomes a Cloud service
Beyond this, NVIDIA has partnered with Oracle Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and others to launch NVIDIA DGX Cloud, an AI supercomputing service that gives enterprises immediate access to the infrastructure and software needed to train advanced models for generative AI and other applications.
The service makes it possible for every enterprise to access its own AI supercomputer using a simple web browser, removing the complexity of acquiring, deploying, and managing on-premises infrastructure.
