HPE Private Cloud AI: Understanding Its Value and Relevance
What is HPE Private Cloud AI? Well let’s talk about the AI landscape first. No matter the industry, we are all constantly looking to streamline, to simplify, to speed up. How can we make our business run better, smarter, faster, safer? This is the perennial question. Generative AI’s ability to synthesize huge amounts of data and to conduct complex calculations at beyond-human scale positions this tech as an appealing answer. Automation, summation, simplification—these actions are all entirely within GenAI’s wheelhouse.
If 2023 wasn’t already the Year of AI, then 2024 very well may be. GenAI is the buzzword on everyone’s lips. Over and over again, business leaders in multiple fields such as finance, healthcare, and more have indicated that they are exploring the benefits (and challenges) of GenAI tools and seeing how they can transform their business practices. According to a Gartner survey from Q4 of 2023, GenAI is the most frequently deployed AI tool in businesses through the U.S., Germany and the U.K.
And yet, AI deployments are not without their challenges. Many enterprises currently in exploratory mode with AI projects are struggling with scalability, data security and to prove value and viability. Many IT teams do not have the specialized expertise and/or cannot build the custom architecture that would be required to develop an enterprise-scale AI solution from scratch. Open-source solutions are great for innovation and experimentation but a nightmare to match seamlessly with a business’ underlying hardware. And let’s not forget the reputational challenges that pop up whenever the word “AI” is uttered. What about ethics, intellectual property concerns, privacy and customer experience and satisfaction? AI is exploding like a bomb into the middle of our technological landscape. But navigating that landscape can be like a tiptoeing through a minefield.
What’s the next, new, innovative step to solve these challenges?
In June 2024, Hewlett Packard Enterprises and NVIDIA unveiled NVIDIA Computing By HPE, a co-developed portfolio of enterprise AI solutions aimed at streamlining and simplifying the entire AI deployment workflow, from test cases to production-scale rollout. Anchored by HPE Private Cloud AI, this suite of products has game changing potential for the current GenAI development landscape.
In what HPE is calling the “first-of-its-kind turnkey, private-cloud AI solution,” this is a dream team scenario combining HPE’s best in class cloud services such as HPE ProLiant Gen12 inferencing servers, HPE AI storage, and HPE GreenLake cloud with NVIDIA’s AI computing, networking and software. While these two tech powerhouses have collaborated before, this product presents a whole new level of integration. This is not just two compatible solutions dropped into the same package. It has been jointly developed from the ground up, incorporating best-of-breed components from both HPE and NVIDIA.
It’s all about accessibility and ease of implementation, two common pain points of AI. According to HPE Executive Vice President Hybrid Cloud and CTO Fidelma Russo, this portfolio of tools can get up and running FAST. “You plug it in, you connect to the GreenLake cloud and three clicks later, boom! Your data science and IT operations teams are up and running the NVIDIA software stack,” she explained.
For those enterprises currently exploring GenAI tools, the limited offerings available in the past has meant they’ve had to piece together their AI infrastructure entirely à la carte, like some kind of unwieldy patchwork quilt. Imagine now that someone created an entire menu, custom designed specifically for YOU and your AI workflows. Layer that over HPE Greenlake for a private cloud experience and you’ve now got centralized, unified, and secure data storage, access and management.
This new suite of products has massive potential benefits for any enterprise looking to harness the power of GenAI. At its core, HPE Private Cloud AI is locked in on eliminating the challenges and roadblocks of AI deployments for businesses of all sizes, scales and industries.
- Turnkey AI Productivity – Get a head start and reduce time to market with an extensive library of pretested AI tools. No need to start from scratch. These essentials are designed for today’s most common workloads and are ready to go from test case to enterprise production scale.
- Robust Data Security – A private cloud solution minimizes risks, ensures data security and compliance, and instills confidence and trust.
- Centralized Access – Unify all data into one global namespace, making it universally accessible across your enterprise. A unified access point simplifies AI governance and manageability in a hybrid environment.
Cloud experience – The HPE Greenlake platform provides fully customizable, flexible infrastructure that can scale and adapt as an enterprise grows.
Why work with Comport
With any AI solution, Comport understands how important it is to do things right from the start and from the ground up. The process begins with a lot of listening. What are the challenges your business faces? What are near and long-term goals? Can an AI solution assist in easing the identified pressure points to move the enterprise forward strategically?
If you are already operating AI solutions, we can analyze your current ecosystem and advise on next steps. If you haven’t yet and are perhaps overwhelmed and intimidated by the infrastructure configuration and management, governance or compliance issues, or how to balance the freedom and experimentation offered by AI with very real security and privacy concerns, you need a trusted partner that can provide guidance. Someone who can identify the gaps in your system, then make recommendations designed specifically for your ecosystem.
AI is powerful, transformative tech. Harnessing its power and productivity does not come without challenges. It requires deep knowledge and expertise to develop a strategic implementation tailored to each business’ needs and goals. With Comport AI solutions, you get depth, breadth, and a collaborative partnership to provide best of breed AI tools that will maximize value and streamline your business’ workflows.
