The Rafay platform is NVIDIA AI Cloud-Ready validated, giving neocloud and sovereign AI cloud operators the assurance that their Rafay-powered AI factories can serve their most demanding AI customers.
Sunnyvale, California, May 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Rafay Systemsa leader in infrastructure orchestration for AI and cloud-native workloads, today announced NVIDIA AI Cloud Ready verification. This validation confirms that the Rafay platform meets NVIDIA’s software standards for operating production-grade AI cloud infrastructure. Rafay is one of the first few independent software vendors to earn this designation, joining a select group of platforms validated to provide the API-driven, multi-tenant capabilities needed by AI factories to process neocloud and sovereign workloads at scale.
From metals to models, the Rafay platform offers a set of capabilities that allow AI factories to quickly monetize. token-Base consumption options. Operators leveraging the Rafay platform can meet the most demanding requirements from the world’s largest GPU consumers, including frontier model builders, while also being prepared to meet enterprise governance and automation requirements.
The NVIDIA AI Cloud-Ready Initiative NVIDIA Cloud Partner (NCP) Program, part of the NVIDIA Partner Network (NPN)leverages the NCP reference design, which defines hardware standards for AI cloud infrastructure. Just as the NCP program has become the industry standard for how AI factories are built, the AI Cloud-Ready initiative defines how cloud AI factories deliver use cases. The NVIDIA Cloud Partner Program and AI Cloud-Ready Initiative are working together to define a full-stack recipe for a cloud AI factory. Customers are likely to demand that GPU providers comply with these standards before engaging in high-value collaboration.
From rack to profit
The AI factory market is rapidly maturing. Carriers around the world are deploying NVIDIA-powered infrastructure at unprecedented scale. Buyers evaluating neocloud and sovereign AI cloud providers are asking a pointed question: “Can you deliver infrastructure as a service?” The NVIDIA AI Cloud-Ready initiative is the answer to that question.
The Rafay platform provides API-driven access to AI computing with built-in hard and soft multi-tenancy, self-service workflows, and production-grade governance. The Rafay platform, when combined with NVIDIA infrastructure controllers, provides operators with a validated day-1 AI cloud platform. No custom integration required. Telecom operators using the Rafay platform: token– Pay-as-you-go access to models hosted as NVIDIA NIM Microservices and apply leverage NVIDIA NeMo Turn GPU power into revenue from the moment your infrastructure comes online with libraries, AI blueprints, and a full range of AI compute services.
said Haseeb Budhani, CEO and Co-Founder of Rafay Systems. “NVIDIA AI Cloud-Ready and its Cloud Partner Program provide a standard for how to build and deploy AI factories from hardware to software stack.” Providers will be able to offer validated hardware and software from day one.”
Built in parallel with NVIDIA and validated at scale
Rafay’s AI Cloud-Ready certification reflects a multi-year technology relationship with NVIDIA. Among other deep integrations, the Rafay platform NVIDIA Infrastructure Controllerhandles rack-scale provisioning. NVIDIA Grace Blackwell Rafay, on the other hand, provides orchestration, governance, and service delivery layers on top of that. Work with NVIDIA cloud providers to form a complete stack from bare metal to AI services. Rafay is also a member. NVIDIA Inception Program for startups.
The Rafay platform is compliant with: Designs validated with NVIDIA Enterprise AI Factory Natively supported for Blackwell-based enterprise deployments NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPU and RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition For full-stack GPU cloud orchestration. Future support is also planned NVIDIA BlueField-4 DPUavailable via NVIDIA DSX Air For customers who want to verify development from metal to model. Rafay too Reference architecture released GPU PaaS with NVIDIA Accelerated Computing and NVIDIA AI Enterprise software.
“Neocloud and service providers are racing to build AI factories that can support the most demanding production-grade workloads,” said Warren Barclay, vice president of product management at NVIDIA. “Now NVIDIA AI Cloud-Ready Validated, the Rafay platform with NVIDIA Infrastructure Controller provides a turnkey, full-stack recipe for deploying API-driven AI clouds. This validated software stack helps neocloud and sovereign AI cloud operators provide the secure user isolation and built-in guardrails needed to scale enterprise AI globally.”
What does Rafay being “AI Cloud Ready” mean for carriers?
The Rafay platform is NVIDIA AI Cloud-Ready validated, so Rafay customers instantly meet four key market requirements:
- API-driven infrastructure access: Kubernetes, virtual machines, SLURM, and bare metal are provided as services, accessible programmatically through exposed APIs, and available on demand.
- Hard and soft multi-tenancy: Isolate workloads at the hardware and platform level, enabling quota enforcement and policy governance across teams, applications, and regions.
- Support for production AI workloads: Validated compatibility with NVIDIA accelerated computing stack, including orchestration, networking, and AI platform software. token– Pay-as-you-go NVIDIA NIM microservices, NVIDIA NeMo Libraries and AI Blueprints.
- Enterprise-grade operations management: Lifecycle management, security, compliance, self-service workflows, and real-time monitoring that large-scale buyers require before committing to capacity.
For operators evaluating AI cloud readiness, Rafay provides out-of-the-box capabilities without the cost, complexity, or time required to build or assemble a platform in-house.
Rafay powers AI factories on six continents
The Rafay platform powers sovereign AI and neocloud AI deployments around the world.
- Yotta, India’s premier AI cloud, runs the Shakti Cloud Platform on NVIDIA and Rafay.
- Cassava Technologies is deploying Africa’s first NVIDIA-powered AI factory on the Rafay platform.
- Firmus Technologies has integrated Rafay’s PaaS capabilities into its green energy-powered Australian AI cloud.
- TELUS is working with Rafay and NVIDIA to build a Sovereign AI Studio in Canada.
- Additional deployments will span the Middle East, Latin America and Southeast Asia.
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About Rafay Systems
Rafay Systems is a leading platform provider for modern infrastructure and AI workloads, offering Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) capabilities that enable organizations to operate their computing infrastructure with self-service automation, governance, and multi-tenancy. The Rafay platform helps enterprises, cloud providers, and sovereign AI cloud operators transform their raw infrastructure into a fully operational platform for AI, Kubernetes, and cloud-native applications. Rafay simplifies infrastructure orchestration and lifecycle management, enabling organizations to accelerate innovation while maintaining security, consistency, and operational control. For more information, please visit: rafai.co.
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