Unlocking the Generative AI Revolution with HPE and NVIDIA

From improving customer experiences to sales forecasting and automation, Generative AI is increasingly being leveraged by businesses in search of new efficiencies and operational gains. But while ready-made tools such as Copilot and ChatGPT are adding value, there is a growing desire to extend the role of AI into business specific and customised use cases.

While this puts AI skills and expertise into sharp focus, attention is also turning to the infrastructure that will help tap into this potential. With AI such a compute-hungry endeavour, how businesses procure, deploy and leverage the right hardware and software they need to establish their own AI competency is high up the list. This is even more critical for geo-dispersed organisations hoping to realise the benefits in multiple international locations where AI poses new challenges to the global IT supply chain.

It’s this demand that has driven HPE and NVIDIA to collaborate on a range of AI-focused solutions, including a first-of-its-kind turnkey private cloud offering that is set to accelerate the adoption of generative AI.

So, what does this all mean?

Breaking new ground with HPE Private Cloud AI

The headline product from HPE and NVIDIA’s joint AI portfolio, HPE Private Cloud AI provides a comprehensive solution that integrates HPE’s AI storage and computing with NVIDIA’s AI computing, networking and software. This enables enterprises of every size to gain a fast and flexible path for developing and deploying Generative AI while leveraging their own on-premises infrastructure as part of a private cloud.

Enabled by HPE GreenLake Cloud, HPE Private Cloud AI provides businesses with a single interface to observe and manage their AI across hybrid environments. OpsRamp serves up critical oversight - delivering end-to-end observability across the NVIDIA accelerated computing stack, while a new OpsRamp operations copilot helps to analyse large datasets and deliver insights via a conversational assistant. ??

The solution also includes NVIDIA’s AI Enterprise software and HPE AI Essentials platform which gives businesses access to AI frameworks and curated AI and data foundation tools to ensure optimised delivery and secure deployment for a variety of use cases. ?

Private cloud AI makes perfect sense

While the public cloud offers much value for businesses, those looking to leverage it for their AI ambitions are encountering common challenges. In particular, uncertainty over security and the location of your data creates unwelcomed sovereignty and compliance headaches. Equally, with no ownership of the underlying infrastructure there is minimal scope for “fine-tuning” performance important to AI development, or scope to move the needle on service availability. Costs are also unpredictable and prone to escalation, with bloated ‘t-shirt size’ bundles leading to overprovisioning, and hidden costs such as ingress and egress charges. ?

By leveraging a private cloud environment, businesses can retain their valuable AI datasets on-premises and in-country, a move that puts you firmly back in control as the data is securely managed, guaranteeing data sovereignty and compliance. Moreover, the cloud-like experience promised with HPE’s GreenLake model puts you in the infrastructure procurement driving seat, and armed with granular consumption intelligence to smooth out capacity planning, plus buffer infrastructure capacity for usage hikes, it’s now possible to have a bigger stake in the performance of your AI models.

The arrival of HPE Private Cloud AI looks set to put businesses in command of their AI roadmap in a way we’ve not seen until now – ensuring rapid deployment and efficient scale, without falling into the trap of added cost and complexity the result of creating custom hardware solutions that could feel like the binary alternative to public cloud.

Managed AI (as-a-service!)

Even for the most sophisticated IT teams, capturing the opportunities of AI is a big deal.

That’s why Viadex has created Hybrid AI-as-a-service. Not only is it built on the HPE GreenLake platform and is ready to harness HPE Private Cloud AI, working with our sister company and specialist AI consultancy, Razor, we also roll together all the strategic guidance, deployment and ongoing support you need to ensure AI delivers on the value it promises.

Importantly, with ever-tightening restrictions on the global movement of hardware for use in AI (including the classification of dual-use goods), our global supply solutions also take all the sweat out of getting hardware and expertise to wherever you do business, so your AI plans won’t get bound up in red tape.

Delivered as a comprehensive managed service, everything is covered by one monthly bill, even across global deployments, and is delivered by a single expert partner that ensures technical, operational and logistical peace of mind.

Embark on your AI odyssey today

If you’ve started exploring or are about to begin looking at the potential of Generative AI to transform your business, then get in touch with the Viadex team today. We’re offering an AI discovery session to examine how you can kick start your AI journey and leverage the latest HPE and NVIDIA offerings as part of your own Private Cloud AI environment.

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