Nvidia-Vertiv partnership reflects a shift toward co-designed infrastructure – News

Nvidia Corp.’s vision for the future of data centers is co-designed infrastructure, based on its network of partnerships.

Vertiv Group Corp., which specializes in physical infrastructure and thermal management for data centers, is one of those partners. The company recently announced new reference architectures for Nvidia’s Omniverse, a 3D graphics collaboration platform.

“Omniverse is extremely important,” said Gio Albertazzi (pictured, left), chief executive officer of Vertiv Group Corp. “It’s a vision of where the gigascale industry is going. And the fact that we are prominently visible in [the] Nvidia material discourse presentation is a testament to our role. The partnership is not just about having the technology or the ability to scale today … but working together with them [and] co-designing.”

Albertazzi spoke with theCUBE’s John Furrier at theCUBE + NYSE Wired: AI Factories – Data Centers of the Future event, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, News Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed the future of AI factories and Vertiv’s evolving partnership with Nvidia.

The long-term value of co-designed infrastructure

Vertiv, which recently saw a third quarter 27% year-on-year growth, sees itself as essential to the new ecosystem of “smart” hardware. Its ability to interconnect the “power chain” of an artificial intelligence factory supports the innovations of Nvidia and major industry players.

“Our role is really enabling the industry,” Albertazzi said. “Without power, cooling, the physical infrastructure, it’s hard to think about a data center. It’s hard to think about an AI factory. The centrality of what we do is absolutely, indisputably important.”

Nvidia’s strategy revolves around co-designing, as in engineers from different companies working side-by-side to develop the infrastructure of the future. Getting to be involved in that decision-making is a privilege, Albertazzi emphasizes, and Vertiv is committed to being Nvidia’s long-term collaborator.

“Every element of this chain needs to be optimized from a technology standpoint,” he said. “But then it is how the system works together that makes a difference. You need to really think about the system, optimize the system and deploy rapidly. And then, there is a software layer that controls and optimizes the way the various parts of this complex system works together.”

Here’s the complete video interview, part of News’s and theCUBE’s coverage of theCUBE + NYSE Wired: AI Factories – Data Centers of the Future event:

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