As enterprise AI adoption accelerates, organizations are increasingly seeking platforms that transform GPU infrastructure into scalable, governed AI services. Rafay Systems has expanded its Elevate partner ecosystem through strategic collaborations with Cisco, Dell Technologies, NVIDIA, Unisys, and other technology providers to help enterprises, cloud operators, and sovereign AI providers deploy production-ready AI infrastructure.
Rafay Systems is strengthening its partner ecosystem to support the growing demand for enterprise AI infrastructure capable of delivering more than raw GPU capacity.
According to the company, customers increasingly require platforms that provide self-service AI environments, infrastructure governance, lifecycle management, and token-based AI service delivery across private, hybrid, and sovereign cloud environments.
The expanded Elevate ecosystem is designed to help organizations operationalize AI infrastructure while simplifying deployment and management across diverse hardware platforms and enterprise environments.
Over recent months, Rafay has announced several collaborations aimed at expanding enterprise AI infrastructure capabilities.
In March, Rafay partnered with DataDirect Networks (DDN) to combine DDN's high-performance data platform with Rafay's infrastructure orchestration and lifecycle management capabilities. The collaboration is intended to simplify AI infrastructure deployment while accelerating production-ready AI environments.
In May, Rafay achieved NVIDIA AI Cloud-Ready validation, confirming that its platform meets NVIDIA's standards for production-grade AI cloud infrastructure.
The validated platform supports API-driven AI infrastructure, multi-tenancy, token-metered NVIDIA NIM microservices, and operational controls for AI cloud providers. Current deployments include organizations such as Yotta in India, Cassava Technologies in Africa, Firmus in Australia, and TELUS in Canada.
Rafay also expanded its relationship with Dell Technologies by making its platform available through the Dell Extended Technologies Complete program while joining the Dell AI Ecosystem Program.
The combined solution integrates Dell AI infrastructure with Rafay's orchestration platform, providing organizations with multi-tenant AI environments featuring GPU allocation, quota management, role-based access control (RBAC), governance, and cost visibility.
Through its partnership with Unisys, Rafay combines managed cloud services with AI infrastructure orchestration to support governed AI workloads across public, private, and hybrid cloud environments.
The joint offering includes lifecycle management, hybrid cloud orchestration, token-based pricing, AI model management, and integrated security capabilities for regulated industries.
At Cisco Live US 2026, Rafay became a Cisco Solutions Plus partner, allowing customers to procure the Rafay Platform alongside Cisco AI infrastructure through a single purchase order.
The integrated offering combines Cisco's AI networking, compute, GPU, and security technologies with Rafay's orchestration and governance software. The solution is designed to help neocloud and sovereign AI providers accelerate deployment while improving GPU utilization and AI service delivery.
Beyond these collaborations, Rafay has also expanded its ecosystem through additional agreements with Deloitte, Gruve, Carahsoft, and 2CRSI.
According to the company, the Elevate partner ecosystem provides partners with revenue opportunities through referral and resale programs while offering co-marketing initiatives, technical enablement, certifications, and GPU infrastructure management capabilities.
"The first wave of AI infrastructure was about securing GPU capacity and monetizing it by the hour, but the next wave is about making that capacity consumable, governable and monetizable," said Rupen Shah, vice president of partners and ecosystems at Rafay Systems. "Our partner momentum reflects that customers do not just need GPU clusters. They need the operating layer to turn those clusters into AI services their users can access, trust and pay for at higher margins."
As organizations increasingly deploy AI across enterprise, cloud, and sovereign environments, infrastructure orchestration and governance are becoming essential components of production AI platforms.
Through its expanding partner ecosystem, Rafay Systems aims to help organizations operationalize GPU infrastructure into scalable AI services that support secure, governed, and multi-tenant deployments across modern enterprise environments.
About Rafay Systems
Rafay Systems is a leading platform provider for modern infrastructure and AI workloads, delivering Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) capabilities that enable organizations to operationalize compute infrastructure with self-service automation, governance and multi-tenancy. The Rafay Platform helps enterprises, cloud providers and sovereign AI cloud operators transform raw infrastructure into fully operational platforms for AI, Kubernetes and cloud-native applications. By simplifying infrastructure orchestration and lifecycle management, Rafay enables organizations to accelerate innovation while maintaining security, consistency and operational control. For more information, visit rafay.co.
