Oracle Expands Distributed Cloud Capabilities with NVIDIA AI Enterprise

Rhea-AI Summary

Oracle (ORCL) has announced that NVIDIA AI Enterprise software platform will be available on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). The platform will be accessible through OCI's distributed cloud network, purchasable with Oracle Universal Credits. Unlike other marketplace offerings, it will be natively integrated into the OCI Console for faster deployment and direct billing support.

The integration provides access to 160+ AI tools for training and inference, including NVIDIA NIM microservices. The service will be available across OCI's public regions, Government Clouds, sovereign clouds, OCI Dedicated Region, Oracle Alloy, OCI Compute Cloud@Customer, and OCI Roving Edge Devices.

Notable implementations include Nomura Research Institute using Oracle Alloy in Tokyo and Osaka datacenters, e& UAE deploying NVIDIA Hopper GPU clusters in OCI Dedicated Region, and Zoom utilizing OCI to support AI Companion in Saudi Arabia while maintaining regional data compliance.

Positive

• Native integration of NVIDIA AI Enterprise platform expands Oracle's AI capabilities
• Deployment across multiple cloud environments enhances flexibility and market reach
• Strategic partnerships with major clients (Nomura, e& UAE, Zoom) demonstrate market adoption
• Integration supports sovereign AI deployment, addressing regulatory compliance needs

Negative

• None.

Insights

Cloud Technology Analyst

Oracle's integration of NVIDIA AI Enterprise across its distributed cloud represents a significant enhancement to its enterprise AI strategy. The native availability through the OCI Console—rather than as a marketplace offering—creates a streamlined deployment pathway that addresses critical friction points in enterprise AI adoption.

The technical implementation enabling customers to use existing Universal Credits for NVIDIA's AI platform demonstrates Oracle's focus on simplifying the commercial aspects of AI adoption. By making NVIDIA's 160+ AI tools and NIM microservices available across their entire distributed cloud portfolio (public regions, Government Clouds, sovereign clouds, Dedicated Regions, Alloy, and edge devices), Oracle has created a consistent AI development environment spanning diverse deployment scenarios.

What's particularly notable is Oracle's emphasis on sovereign AI capabilities—addressing a growing market requirement for organizations facing strict data residency and compliance mandates. The OCI AI Blueprints with no-code deployment recipes highlight Oracle's focus on reducing GPU onboarding time from weeks to minutes, which directly addresses the technical skill barriers many enterprises face.

The customer examples validate Oracle's technical approach, especially with Zoom optimizing AI models to run on OCI GPU shapes in Saudi Arabia while maintaining regulatory compliance, and e& UAE deploying NVIDIA Hopper GPUs within Dedicated Regions to develop localized generative AI services.

Enterprise Strategy Analyst

This partnership expansion represents a strategic positioning move in the intensifying enterprise AI platform competition. By integrating NVIDIA AI Enterprise natively rather than through marketplace channels, Oracle creates meaningful differentiation in how AI capabilities are consumed and billed.

The distributed cloud implementation is particularly notable as it aligns with enterprise requirements for flexible deployment options while maintaining operational consistency. For enterprises navigating complex regulatory landscapes, the availability of enterprise-grade AI capabilities within sovereign cloud environments creates substantial value—as demonstrated by the highlighted customer implementations.

The deal structure utilizing Universal Credits for NVIDIA AI Enterprise purchases streamlines procurement and potentially accelerates adoption by removing financial and contractual friction. Oracle's ability to offer direct billing and support represents a competitive advantage over alternative procurement channels.

The customer evidence is compelling—Nomura Research Institute's implementation through Oracle Alloy to help Japanese customers access AI technologies in a sovereign environment, e& UAE's deployment of NVIDIA Hopper GPU clusters to develop generative AI services within their dedicated region, and Zoom's optimization of AI Companion for Saudi Arabian regulations. These implementations validate Oracle's strategy of combining distributed cloud flexibility with AI capabilities to address specific regulatory and operational requirements.

This partnership enhancement strengthens Oracle's competitive positioning against hyperscale cloud providers by emphasizing deployment flexibility and sovereignty while delivering cutting-edge AI capabilities.

Customers will be able to accelerate sovereign AI and deploy AI solutions anywhere in OCI's distributed cloud

AUSTIN, Texas, March 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Oracle today announced that NVIDIA AI Enterprise, an end-to-end, cloud-native software platform that accelerates data science and streamlines the development and deployment of production-ready AI, will be available on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). To support sovereign AI, among other deployments, and provide customers with easy access to NVIDIA's accelerated, secure, and scalable platform, NVIDIA AI Enterprise will be available anywhere in OCI's distributed cloud, and customers will be able to purchase it with their existing Oracle Universal Credits.

Unlike other NVIDIA AI Enterprise offerings through a marketplace, OCI will make it available natively through the OCI Console, reducing the time it takes to deploy the service and provide direct billing and customer support. Customers can quickly and easily access 160+ AI tools for training and inference, including NVIDIA NIM™ microservices, a set of optimized, cloud-native inference microservices designed to simplify the deployment of generative AI models. This end-to-end set of training and inference capabilities on OCI will enable customers to combine them with OCI services for building applications and managing data across a range of distributed cloud deployment options.

"We want our customers to be able to develop and deploy their AI solutions on OCI in the quickest way possible," said Karan Batta, senior vice president, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. "With NVIDIA AI Enterprise on OCI, customers will be able to benefit from the latest AI infrastructure and software innovations while having the flexibility to leverage the wide array of deployment options provided by our distributed cloud. This will help customers accelerate sovereign AI by enabling them to take advantage of industry-leading AI solutions that provide greater control over operations, location, and security."

"NVIDIA AI Enterprise provides the building blocks for developers creating modern AI applications," said Justin Boitano, vice president of Enterprise Software Products, NVIDIA. "Oracle's integration of NVIDIA AI Enterprise on the OCI Console will deliver a seamless experience to speed the development and deployment of generative, agentic, and physical AI across local regions."

By delivering NVIDIA AI Enterprise through the OCI Console, Oracle will enable NVIDIA AI Enterprise to be quickly and easily deployed across OCI's public regions, Government Clouds, sovereign clouds, OCI Dedicated Region, Oracle Alloy, OCI Compute Cloud@Customer, and OCI Roving Edge Devices. The availability of NVIDIA AI Enterprise across OCI's distributed cloud will help customers meet security, sovereignty, regulatory, and compliance requirements when developing, deploying, and operating their enterprise AI stack. NVIDIA AI Enterprise will be available as a deployment image for GPU instances and Kubernetes clusters using OCI Kubernetes Engine.

To further help customers accelerate their AI deployments, OCI AI Blueprints provide no-code deployment recipes that enable customers to quickly run AI workloads without having to make decisions about the software stack or manually provision the infrastructure. The blueprints help reduce GPU onboarding time for scaled deployments from weeks to minutes by offering clear hardware recommendations for NVIDIA GPUs, NIM microservices, and prepackaged observability tools.

Expansive AI and Cloud Options Help Customers Accelerate Sovereign AI
To address digital sovereignty requirements and accelerate the adoption of AI, many organizations are taking advantage of accelerated computing and AI from NVIDIA on OCI.

Nomura Research Institute (NRI), a leading global provider of consulting services and system solutions, uses Oracle Alloy to help its customers move to the cloud faster and more securely. With Oracle Alloy, NRI can provide customers in Japan with new customized services and help them access the latest AI and cloud technologies in a sovereign environment.

"We rely on Oracle Alloy in our Tokyo and Osaka datacenters to advance our multicloud strategy and help our customers drive innovation," said Shigekazu Ohmoto, senior corporate managing director, NRI. "To provide our customers with high-performance infrastructure within a dedicated cloud environment, we've deployed NVIDIA Hopper GPUs and plan to deploy NVIDIA AI Enterprise. This will help support our customers' enterprise AI use cases, including generative AI and large language model development, while adhering to stringent governance, security, and data sovereignty requirements."

e& UAE, the flagship telecom arm of e&, serves more than 13 million customers and over 300,000 small and medium-sized businesses in the UAE. Deploying NVIDIA Hopper GPU clusters within its OCI Dedicated Region has helped e& UAE facilitate the localization and development of new generative AI services and applications for its customers.

"At e& UAE, we are committed to pioneering AI-driven innovation while ensuring data sovereignty, security, and operational control," said Hazem Gebili, senior vice president, Enterprise Service Solutions, e& UAE. "The strategic collaboration with Oracle and NVIDIA enables us to accelerate our sovereign AI initiatives, empowering us to develop and deploy cutting-edge AI services tailored for government, enterprise, and smart city applications. By leveraging OCI Dedicated Region across our two UAE datacenters, we gain seamless access to over 150 on-premises cloud services, allowing us to modernize mission-critical operations and business support systems with AI-powered efficiencies. The integration of NVIDIA Hopper GPUs and NVIDIA AI Enterprise further strengthens our capabilities, enabling us to rapidly scale, innovate, and deliver next-generation generative AI solutions that redefine customer experiences and business transformation in the UAE."

Zoom Communications, Inc., an AI-first work platform for human connection, is using OCI to support Zoom AI Companion in Saudi Arabia. OCI is helping Zoom keep customer data in-region and deliver AI-first solutions. To support compliance with Saudi Arabian regulations while maintaining top-tier performance, Zoom optimized its AI models to run on efficient OCI GPU shapes.

"Saudi Arabia is a key market for Zoom, and we continue to invest in Zoom Workplace and AI Companion to provide solutions that meet the unique needs of businesses here," said Velchamy Sankarlingam, president of product and engineering, Zoom. "By optimizing AI Companion to operate efficiently with GPU shapes accelerated by NVIDIA in a local OCI region, we're enabling Saudi companies to take full advantage of AI without facing constraints."

Additional Resources

• Learn more about Oracle's sovereign AI offerings
• Learn more about Oracle's distributed cloud strategy
• Learn more about how Oracle and NVIDIA are collaborating to help enterprises accelerate agentic AI inference
• Read more about how Oracle delivers sovereign AI anywhere with NVIDIA
• Read more about OCI AI Blueprints

About Oracle Distributed Cloud
Oracle's distributed cloud delivers the benefits of cloud with greater control and flexibility. Oracle's distributed cloud lineup includes:

• Public cloud: Hyperscale public cloud regions serve any size of organization, including those requiring strict EU sovereignty controls. See the full list of regions here.
• Dedicated cloud: Customers can run all OCI cloud services in their own data centers with OCI Dedicated Region, while partners can resell OCI cloud services and customize the experience using Oracle Alloy. Oracle also operates separate U.S., UK, and Australian Government Clouds, and Isolated Cloud Regions for national security purposes. Each of these products provides a full cloud and AI stack that customers can deploy as a Sovereign Cloud.
• Hybrid cloud: OCI delivers key cloud services on-premises via Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer and Compute Cloud@Customer and is already managing deployments in over 60 countries. Additionally, OCI Roving Edge Infrastructure, which consists of multiple configurations of ruggedized and portable high-performance devices, helps customers leverage remote AI inferencing at the edge.
• Multicloud: OCI is physically deployed within all the hyperscale cloud providers, including AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure, providing low latency, natively integrated Oracle database services, including Oracle Database@AWS, Oracle Database@Azure, Oracle Database@Google Cloud, and Oracle HeatWave on AWS. Oracle Interconnect for Microsoft Azure and Oracle Interconnect for Google Cloud allows customers to combine key capabilities from across clouds.

About Oracle
Oracle offers integrated suites of applications plus secure, autonomous infrastructure in the Oracle Cloud. For more information about Oracle (NYSE: ORCL), please visit us at oracle.com.

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FAQ

What new AI capabilities is Oracle (ORCL) adding to its cloud infrastructure?

Oracle is adding NVIDIA AI Enterprise platform to OCI, providing 160+ AI tools for training and inference, including NVIDIA NIM microservices, available through native integration in the OCI Console.

How will NVIDIA AI Enterprise deployment differ on Oracle (ORCL) compared to other platforms?

Unlike marketplace offerings, NVIDIA AI Enterprise will be natively integrated into OCI Console, enabling faster deployment, direct billing, and customer support.

Where will Oracle (ORCL) make NVIDIA AI Enterprise available in its distributed cloud?

It will be available across OCI's public regions, Government Clouds, sovereign clouds, Dedicated Region, Alloy, Compute Cloud@Customer, and Roving Edge Devices.

Which major companies are already implementing Oracle (ORCL)'s new AI capabilities?

Nomura Research Institute in Japan, e& UAE for telecom services, and Zoom for AI Companion in Saudi Arabia are implementing the new AI capabilities.