HPE Launches Vertical AI Solutions

HPE Launches Vertical AI Solutions
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced new offerings to help customers ramp up, optimize and scale artificial intelligence (AI) usage across business functions to drive outcomes such as better demand forecasting, improved operational efficiency and increased sales.

The new offerings include HPE Digital Prescriptive Maintenance Services, Artificial Intelligence Transformation Workshop and Apollo 6500 Gen10 System. HPE has also extended its AI partner ecosystem through a reseller agreement with WekaIO to deliver optimized storage performance in AI environments.

PwC predicts the global GDP to grow 14 percent, the equivalent of $15.7 trillion, by 2030 as a result of AI, with increased labor productivity and consumer demand being the most impactful business outcomes. However, while AI holds great promise, current adoption rates are low. According to Gartner’s 2018 CIO Agenda Survey, four percent of CIOs globally have implemented AI, while a further 46 percent have developed plans to do so.

HPE Digital Prescriptive Maintenance combines services from HPE Pointnext, such as consulting, proof of value and implementation, with technologies and reference architectures from HPE and select partners. The solution captures all relevant data sources in the enterprise, including real-time and batch data from IoT devices, data centers and the cloud. New HPE Artificial Intelligence Transformation Workshop helps enterprises get started rapidly with the identification of AI use cases aligned to their business priorities.

The new HPE Apollo 6500 Gen10 System with support for eight NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPUs delivers dramatic increases in application performance, enabling a 3x faster model training than previous generations. As a result, enterprises can realize deep learning business outcomes faster. To increase flexibility and choice for customers, HPE is extending its broad ecosystem of AI solution partners by entering an agreement with WekaIO to resell its file storage software  MATRIX, complementing HPE’s Lustre-based storage solutions.

Digital Prescriptive Maintenance Services are now available in Europe and will be globally available in June 2018 via Pointnext. The Artificial Intelligence Transformation Workshop is globally available via Pointnext. The Apollo 6500 Gen10 will be available from HPE and its channel partners in May, as well as WekaIO MATRIX.