Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison has struck a collaboration deal becoming Indonesia’s first NVIDIA Cloud Provider Partner.
The collaboration was formally established through a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed by Indosat Ooredoo Hutchinson president director and CEO Vikram Sinha and NVIDIA SVP of telecom Ronnie Vasishta at the Mobile World Congress 2024 in Barcelona.
Pioneering the Indonesian market as the first NVIDIA cloud provider partner, Indosat and its subsidiary, Lintasarta, will work to bring NVIDIA’s full-stack AI platform to enterprises in Indonesia for the first time and offer customers access to NVIDIA’s graphics processing unit (GPU) technologies with high-density data centres.
At a later stage, Indosat and Lintasarta’s NVIDIA-powered AI cloud services aim to develop a new generation of sustainable, hyper-connected AI-ready data centres.
As part of the collaboration with NVIDIA, Lintasarta aims to provide GPU-as-a-Service (Deka GPU) and give customers access to the latest artificial intelligence capabilities specifically tailored for high-demand computing tasks, including infrastructure, platform, and bare metal services.
AI supercomputers are now critical infrastructure, and the collaboration will establish the foundation to empower Indonesia to become an AI nation.
Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison group intends to leverage its data centers to enable a sovereign AI platform for driving innovation across the ecosystem.
“This collaboration marks a pivotal moment in Indonesia’s journey towards becoming a global AI-powered digital nation,” Sinha said.
“The technology will be implemented by data centers operated by BDx Indonesia, a joint venture of Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison, Lintasarta, and BDx Data Center.
“As a technology powerhouse, Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison aspired to become one of the main drivers of democratising digitalisation in the nation. It tallies with our long-term commitment to connecting and empowering every Indonesian, and this collaboration with NVIDIA will play a crucial role in helping achieve that vision.”
