Ooredoo Qatar has announced a strategic partnership with Rafay Systems to deliver an enterprise-grade Platform-as-a-Service powered by NVIDIA accelerated computing, further expanding its sovereign AI infrastructure in Qatar. The collaboration builds on Ooredoo’s recent deployment of NVIDIA AI infrastructure and enables organisations to build, train, and deploy AI and generative AI applications securely within Qatar’s borders.
The partnership gives enterprise customers self-service access to GPU resources, AI tools, and model workbenches for training, fine-tuning, and deploying AI workloads. The platform includes built-in governance, cost transparency, and compliance capabilities, ensuring data sovereignty while accelerating innovation.
Sheikh Ali bin Jabor bin Mohammad Al Thani, CEO of Ooredoo Qatar, said the partnership places GPU-accelerated AI directly in the hands of local businesses, allowing them to access secure, on-demand AI infrastructure that reduces time to innovation while keeping data fully sovereign.
As part of the offering, Ooredoo and Rafay will provide NVIDIA NIM microservices for inferencing and Model-as-a-Service delivery, NVIDIA Blueprints for rapid AI deployment and workload optimisation, and NVIDIA NeMo microservices to enable the development and customisation of foundation models, including the NVIDIA Nemotron open model family. These capabilities are natively supported within the Rafay Platform, allowing customers to deploy them without additional integration or infrastructure work.
Rafay co-founder and CEO Haseeb Budhani said the collaboration enables regional enterprises to instantly deploy, scale, and operate AI models and applications with full sovereignty and operational efficiency, leveraging native integration with NVIDIA’s AI software stack.
