Northern Data Group and Gcore announce strategic partnership

Author: Simon Rowley

Northern Data has announced that it has signed a commercial partnership agreement with Gcore, a global edge AI, cloud, network, and security technologies provider to large enterprise clients. The commercial partnership will provide combined AI as a Service and AI delivery and networking technologies to enterprise clients and model developers.

Furthermore, the partnership establishes the Intelligence Delivery Network (IDN), a distributed global network that boasts 180 points of presence, more than 200 Tbps of network capacity, and over 14,000 peering partners; combined with Northern Data’s position as one of Europe’s largest GPU infrastructure providers. The IDN is designed to enable the low-latency and secure delivery of AI workloads at the edge, a critical driver for the wider adoption of AI inferencing applications. The AI inferencing market is expected to grow to $169 billion by 2032, according to Bloomberg Intelligence.

The IDN will be powered by Northern Data’s existing infrastructure and Gcore’s Everywhere Inference software and networking architecture. Through the combined infrastructure and software stack, customers will be enabled by a powerful vertically integrated toolkit of AI innovations, including Managed Kubernetes and an AI model library. The technology supports the deployment of both open source and custom-built AI models.

Northern Data and Gcore’s combined offering will be delivered with just a few clicks through an on-demand and simple-to-deploy architecture, offering clients real-time access to this full-stack solution and allowing Northern Data and Gcore to fully maximise the utilisation of its infrastructure. Additionally, the partnership will seek to deploy AI solutions globally, retain enterprise grade security and data protection and sovereignty, and optimise infrastructure resourcing.

Aroosh Thillainathan, Founder and CEO, Northern Data Group, comments, “We are combining Northern Data’s heritage of HPC and data centre infrastructure expertise with Gcore’s software innovation and engineering expertise, allowing us to accelerate our vision of delivering software-enabled AI infrastructure across a globally distributed compute network. This is an inflection point where the use of AI solutions is evolving rapidly, and we believe that this partnership will form a key part of the next phase of AI adoption.”

Andre Reitenbach, CEO, Gcore, adds, Partnering with Northern Data will provide Gcore and our enterprise customers access to one of the largest liquid-cooled GPU clusters and significant data centre capacity worldwide. This collaboration supports Gcore’s mission to connect the world to AI anywhere and anytime with low latency, leveraging cutting-edge infrastructure to power the next generation of AI-driven applications.”

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