Hewlett Packard Enterprise Tuesday launched a comprehensive generative AI solutions portfolio co-developed and co-branded by AI kingpin Nvidia including a breakthrough HPE Private Cloud AI offering.
The new ‘Nvidia AI Computing By HPE’ portfolio unveiled at HPE Discover provides a complete co-developed generative AI compute, storage and networking portfolio to accelerate AI adoption that also extends into the channel with joint enablement and training program with combined business market development funds (MDF) for partners.
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The first-ever co-developed, co-branded and joint go-to-market model for HPE aims to go much deeper with GenAI compute, storage and networking infrastructure integration with Nvidia than rivals Dell Technologies and Cisco.
The announcement, which is being showcased in the first-ever keynote at the dome-shaped Sphere arena in Las Vegas with HPE CEO Antonio Neri and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, aims to establish a new benchmark for delivering generative AI solutions to enterprise customers.
The biggest game changer in the expansion of the decades-long partnership between the two companies is an HPE Private Cloud AI solution developed with Nvidia that is designed to be up and running with just three clicks.
“Nvidia and HPE didn’t just want to bring Nvidia and HPE technologies together into a solution but we wanted to deliver an experience that would truly accelerate time to value for an enterprise adopting generative AI,” said HPE Executive Vice President Hybrid Cloud and CTO Fidelma Russo in a press briefing. “And this is why we have engineered the industry’s first turnkey private cloud for AI.”
Russo said the breakthrough new offering – which is built on top of HPE’s GreenLake cloud service- is ready to run out of the box. “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 said.
The HPE-Nvidia collaboration on HPE Private Cloud AI ensures enterprise customers are “always guaranteed” the latest Nvidia AI enterprise and NIM software with HPE software, said Russo.
“So day zero and day one is fast and simple and day two is built to enhance productivity of every team deploying AI from pilots to production,” said Russo.
“We do not believe that there are similar offers in the marketplace,” she said. “We are confident that when you actually see this…you will see that this is a totally integrated system. You need very little services to get started and you are ready to deploy in minutes.”
Manuvir Das, vice president of enterprise computing for Nvidia, said the jointly developed HPE Private Cloud AI is being tuned and optimized “every night” at the internal Nvidia NIM AI factory.
That ensures, Das said, that enterprise customers are getting the “latest optimizations” with the Nvidia AI Computing By HPE portfolio.
“You know you are getting the latest optimizations and you are at the state of the art for executing models without really worrying about it at all,” Das said.
The HPE Private Cloud for AI turnkey solution will be available for partners to start quoting to customers as of July 8 and shipping in September, backed up by a full set of combined enablement tools and AI competencies from the two companies, said HPE Vice President of Worldwide Channel and Partner Ecosystem Simon Ewington.
Ultimately, HPE is providing a path from AI “opportunity to reality” for partners with the “deepest partnership with Nvidia we have seen anywhere in the industry,” said Ewington. “Other vendors have got reference architectures. We have come with a turnkey solution that is available to quote from July 8 and will be shipping in September.”