Oracle powers AI efforts with Nvidia hardware

Oracle and Nvidia announced Tuesday a new partnership that promises to drive accelerated computing and Artificial Intelligence (AI) functionality for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Oracle is bringing more Nvidia hardware to OCI and Nvidia's AI Enterprise platform will be available on OCI instances, the companies said, adding that the development is part of a new multi-year partnership signed between the two businesses. "Combined with OCI's AI cloud infrastructure of bare metal, cluster networking, and storage, this provides enterprises a broad, easily accessible portfolio of options for AI training and deep learning inference at scale," Oracle and Nvidia said. Oracle CEO Safra Catz said in a statement that the expanded alliance with Nvidia will help Oracle deliver new solutions in industries ranging from healthcare to manufacturing, telecommunications to financial services. Jensen Huang, Nvidia CEO and founder, underscored his now-familiar mantra that AI and accelerated computing are the future of business.