HPE’s Nvidia GTC AI Enterprise Computing Blitz: Five Things To Know
Hewlett Packard Enterprise introduced at Nvidia GTC a slew of new offerings in its Nvidia by HPE Computing lineup including Alletra Storage MP support for Nvidia networking, Private Cloud AI developer kit and Nvidia agentic AI blueprints.
The new HPE unified data layer – which brings together both structured and unstructured data – works in conjunction with the Nvidia AI Data Platform.
HPE and Nvidia said the work the two companies are doing together opens the door for enterprise customers to achieve faster time to insight in the agentic AI era.
Furthermore, HPE said its Alletra MP B10000 will add unified block and file storage, new software defined cloud storage on Microsoft Azure and integrated ransomware detection and recovery.
HPE is also introducing a new HPE Private Cloud AI Developer system that partners have been clamoring for to enable them to speed up the development of AI applications for their enterprise customers.
HPE Vice President of Global HPE GreenLake Partner & Service Provider Sales Ulrich “Uli” Seibold said in his 21 years at HPE he has never seen as strong a collaboration and integration between two companies.
“This is something that has never happened with any other type of partner,” he said. “The integration is so different to everything I have seen in the past. Even if you talk about other technology OEM or software partners I have never seen this kind of intensity. Everyday we have calls where we talk to each other.”
The partnership goes deep in the channel too with both companies jointly looking at which partners to invest to drive a new era of AI solutions forward, said Seibold. “We do joint trainings, joint enablement sessions around the globe,” he said.
Seibold said the HPE AI Developers Kit system is a sign of just how fast HPE partners and service providers are moving to bring AI to the enterprise
In fact, he said, partner requests for the AI developer kit system is a sign of how fast the market is moving to embrace AI solutions.
“What we realized is that partners are asking more and more if they can get a developer’s kit,” he said. “Six or eight months ago I didn’t believe partners would be developing their own AI applications so quickly…More and more of our partners want to develop individualized AI applications or chatbots into an enterprise customer ready solution. This fits perfectly into our strategy to have AI data on premise.”
The lesson, Seibold said, is simply: “Never underestimate partners or the channel…They understand how to make money.”
Here are five things you need to know about the new Nvidia by HPE Computing offerings.
New HPE Private Cloud AI Developer’s System, 'Fast-Tracking' Agentic AI With Nvidia Blueprints Support
HPE announced an HPE Private Cloud AI developer system—powered by Nvidia — with AI software, 32 TB of integrated storage and an integrated control node.
“Our new HPE Private Cloud AI Developer’s Edition is built to provide a powerful, accessible starting point for AI innovation,” said HPE Senior Vice President and General Manager of Private Cloud And Flex Solutions Cheri Williams. “This solution delivers instant AI development capabilities, and it has the same pre-defined software tools in our standard Private Cloud AI offers with a scalable foundation that seamlessly works with the larger configurations in the portfolio. This gives developers and data engineers the flexibility to build and iterate quickly and easily move to higher performing infrastructure.”
HPE is also “fast-tracking” its agentic AI software charge with support of prevalidated Nvidia Blueprints including agentic workflows, multimodal data ingestion and virtual assistant agents.
“(HPE) Private Cloud AI enables customers to quickly enable new and emerging blueprints as Nvidia continues to expand their catalogue of blueprints,” said Williams.
HPE also announced that HPE Private Cloud AI now supports HPE Data Fabric. “With HPE Data Fabric built in developers have seamless access to distributed enterprise data, reducing bottlenecks in AI pipelines and enabling faster model iteration and deployment,” said Williams.
HPE ‘Doubles Down’ On HPE Private Cloud AI ISV Software Including New Deloitte Partnership
HPE is “doubling down” on its Unleash AI ISV Private Cloud offensive to “build, scale and optimize” HPE Private Cloud AI applications.
“We are making it easier to automate AI driven workflows with (multiagent AI software maker) CrewAI which is now prevalidated in Private Cloud AI as part of the Unleash AI program,” said Williams. “This gives developers a turnkey way to orchestrate multi-agent automation, improving enterprise efficiency with AI-driven decision making.”
HPE announced that it has entered into an expanded partnership with Deloitte — the $67.2 billion global technology strategy, tax and systems integration behemoth — focused on joint go-to-market sales activities for the Deloitte Zora AI for Finance solution focused on transforming financial decision making- on HPE Private Cloud AI.
“Together we are bringing the best-in-class capabilities of both companies as this solution reimagines traditional finance executive reporting, turning static reports into dynamic, interactive insights,” said Williams. “CFOs can now access real time financial analysis, scenario modeling and market intelligence.”
The Zora AI for Finance application will be offered by HPE in partnership with Deloitte. “Not only are we supporting the development of this solution with joint go to market activities, we find it so valuable at HPE that we are choosing to deploy it internally as well,” said Williams.
Deloitte, as CRN has reported, is creating a GenAI agent applications bonanza based on Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s Private Cloud AI service.
Deloitte LLP has a 2025 product road map based on the HPE Private Cloud AI service that includes a significant number of new GenAI agents in the finance sector.
A New Unified Data Layer Supporting Structured And Unstructured Data
HPE’s new unified data layer breaks down data silos enabling customers to create “AI-ready data” across every part of an organization, said HPE Senior Vice President & General Manager Storage Jim O’Dorisio.
“Our ultimate vision is to deliver a unified data layer that is deeply integrated with our high-performance storage systems,” O’Dorisio said. “The intent there is to accelerate AI workloads at scale.”
The unified data layer provides the “intelligence, governance and orchestration” that all works seamlessly together from HPE Private Cloud AI to Alletra Storage MP.
HPE’s unified multi-cloud data layer from the edge to the cloud moves AI closer to the data, said O’Dorisio. “That is absolutely critical,” he said. “We know data has gravity. It ensures the AI workloads always have access to the right data and enables enterprises to scale AI faster and more efficiently. This is a foundation that enterprises are going to leverage going forward.”
HPE’s Data Fabric, CRN’s 2023 and 2024 Big Data product of the year which up until now has been aimed at enabling data lakehouse use cases, has been built out to deal with the distributed data challenge from the edge to the cloud, said O’Dorisio.
“It is not only distributed,” he said. “It is heterogenous. This ability to provide a single namespace from edge to cloud across a heterogenous set of data sources to deliver universal access, multiprotocol support, automated tiering and security is absolutely foundational to enabling efficient data-ready AI use cases.”
HPE Alletra MP B10000 Unified Storage With Ransomware Protection, New Azure Support
HPE is providing new unified block and file storage service with its Alletra MP B10000 storage arrays with enhanced security in the form of native multi-level ransomware detection, said HPE Senior Vice President And General Manager Storage Jim O’Dorisio.
“This is the first unified block and file service on a disaggregated architecture on the market,” proclaimed O’Dorisio.
The ransomware protection takes into account “integrated capability of anomaly detection” paired with HPE in array snapshot capabilities to help “customers understand” if there is a security issue with the ability to “capture, quarantine it and investigate” it, said O’Dorisio.
HPE is also extending its hybrid cloud capabilities by adding support for Microsoft Azure. That comes after HPE delivered AWS support last year. “We continue to build out the capabilities in the structured data management environment,” said O’Dorisio.
HPE Alletra MP Support For Nvidia Networking, New 'Cool' HPE Alletra MP X10000 AI Capabilities
As part of its no-holds barred Nvidia AI Computing by HPE offensive, HPE is now supporting Nvidia networking on its Alletra MP storage platform.
“We just continue to build on the successes that we have had (partnering with Nvidia) up to this point,” said O’Dorisio. “We will be supporting Nvidia networking with our Alletra Storage MP. This is really important as we work to optimize the performance and access for GPU hungry workloads. We are really excited about this and it is going to tie into our overall strategy for supporting AI and partnering with Nvidia into the future.”
HPE also announced that Alletra MP X10000 is providing new “data intelligence” capabilities to the platform with data enrichment and meta-data tagging supporting RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) data pipelines.
“This is a really cool capability,” said O’Dorisio. “It allows customers to literally chat with their data almost immediately upon ingestion. This is very unique because we are actually enriching the data as we are ingesting the data. It offers a radical simplification for customers.”
Last but not least, HPE has completed its joint development effort with Nvidia to integrate remote direct memory access (RDMA) to provide a whopping six times increase “from both a performance and latency perspective” for the Alletra MP X10000, said O’Dorisio. “We are super excited about that,” he said. “That is just another great example of our partnership with Nvidia from both a software and a hardware perspective.”
