HPE expands partnership with VMware and Intel to accelerate AI for all organizations

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Brad Sweeney - Sr. Product Manager, HPE

In June this year, Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced new AI Inferencing solutions powered by new HPE ProLiant Gen11 servers, engineered and optimized for AI. While AI offers massive potential to transform business productivity and deliver new experiences for customers, getting there can initially seem like a daunting task for organizations. Like any major initiative for a business, it’s a team event requiring different expertise and experience to achieve the right objective. And, of course, if you can avoid “reinventing the wheel,” your team can avoid the pitfalls and challenges that other organizations have faced in the past.

By leveraging these partnerships and frameworks, our customers can fast-track their AI Initiatives. HPE ProLiant AI solutions continue to expand on this approach with an ecosystem that combines the best innovation for technology, partnerships, and frameworks.

What are we announcing today?

In August, VMware announced VMware Private AI™. This architectural approach for AI services enables privacy and control of corporate data, choice of open source and commercial AI solutions, quick time to value, and integrated security and management through VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF).

HPE, VMware, and Intel will help enterprises build and deploy private and secure AI models with VMware Private AI and boost AI performance by harnessing the Intel AI software suite, 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors with built-in accelerators, and Intel GPU Max Series GPUs on HPE ProLiant DL380a Gen11 servers.

What are the key benefits?

Privacy and security for AI models: VMware Private AI takes an architectural approach for AI services that enables privacy and control of corporate data and includes integrated security and management. This partnership will help enterprises build and deploy private and secure AI models running on VCF, which enhances security and delivers integrated lifecycle management, among other benefits.

Boost AI performance: Customers can achieve excellent performance for traditional AI, as well as large language models (LLM) workloads, using the integrated capabilities built into VCF and Intel processors, hardware accelerators, and optimized software. For example, vSphere, one of the core components of VCF, includes vSphere Distributed Resources Scheduler, which improves AI workload management by grouping hosts into resource clusters for different applications and ensuring that virtual machines (VMs) have access to the right amount of computing resources, preventing resource bottlenecks and optimizing resource utilization.

Get AI everywhere: HPE, VMware, and Intel are providing enterprises with a fully validated AI stack to enable enterprises to do data prep, machine learning (ML), fine-tuning, and inference optimization using across their on-premises environments.

Top uses cases:
VMware Private AI and VMware’s collaboration with HPE and Intel enable several use cases for enterprises by securely enabling classical AI/ML and LLMs, fine-tuning, and deployment (inference) within their private corporate environment. Here is a description of the top use cases.

• Code generation: Enterprises can use their models without the risk of losing their IP or data and can accelerate developer velocity by enabling code generation.
• Contact centers resolution experience: Enterprises can fine-tune models against their internal documentation and knowledge base articles, including private support data, and, in turn, realize more efficient customer service and support with meaningful reductions in human interactions in support/service incidents.
• Classical machine learning: Classical ML models are used for a variety of real-world applications across the financial services, health and life sciences, retail, research, and manufacturing industries. Popular ML use cases include customized marketing, visual quality control in manufacturing, personalized medicine, and retail demand forecasting.
• Recommendation engines: Enterprises can enhance experiences by suggesting or recommending additional products to consumers. These can be based on various criteria, including past purchases, search history, demographic information, and other factors.

Optimized platform for AI—HPE ProLiant Gen11 Servers

To meet the specific needs of our customers, we designed the HPE ProLiant DL380a Gen11 Server from the ground up for AI. Well before AI went from being a niche project to mainstream initiative for many organizations, we foresaw the need for a new generation of compute to deliver more acceleration to meet the emerging demands of new workloads for AI, ML, and graphics.

This new generation of compute is needed to deliver key innovations, not just in acceleration, which is what sets HPE ProLiant Gen11 servers apart in the industry. While performance is a key consideration for AI, the new generation of ProLiant delivers compute that is secure, automated, and optimized:

• Trusted security by design: Protect your infrastructure, workloads, and data with a trusted edge-to-cloud security architecture. The HPE compute core is hardened through a proven, zero trust approach to security to minimize threats to hardware and risks from third-party software.
• Intuitive cloud operating experience: Simplify the way you control compute from edge to cloud with a cloud operating experience. Transform business operations and pivot your team from reactive to proactive with global visibility and insight through a unified console.
• Optimized performance for your workloads: Get the performance you demand to accelerate any workload from the data center to the edge. Achieve operational efficiencies and performance economics to accelerate innovation everywhere your data lives.

HPE ProLiant DL380a Gen11 Server—Technical details

With all the emerging AI technology at our disposal (and so much more coming), it could feel daunting just to get started, but rest assured, HPE is committed to being your trusted partner in this exciting time.

Together with Intel and VMware, our AI solutions will not only speed up your Day 1 operations but do so securely. Learn more about our HPE ProLiant AI solutions at HPE.com/ProLiant/AI, and check out the official announcement from VMware here.


Bradley Sweeney joined HPE in August 2022 and now leads AI Solutions for the worldwide Compute Business Unit. His charter is to drive the development of emerging AI solutions on HPE ProLiant servers with a focus in vision AI, speech AI, and generative AI.