As artificial intelligence becomes an essential component of modern business strategies, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. is leveraging industry expertise through a strategic partnership with Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd.

This collaboration aims to provide companies with the critical infrastructure and guidance needed to navigate the complexities of AI implementation. Despite the growing recognition of AI’s potential, many business leaders remain uncertain about the best starting point for their AI journey, according to Abdi Goodarzi (pictured, right), generative AI enterprise performance leader at Deloitte.

HPE’s Marc Waters and Deloitte’s Abdi Goodarzi talk about preserving the human element.

“The use cases are vast and countless, but you have to have some guiding principles in order to unlock the value of AI, especially generative AI,” he said. “There’s data that needs to be unlocked. There [is] logic that needs to be established. That’s where Deloitte comes in and brings industry expertise and technology expertise and engineering capabilities on top of what Nvidia and HPE do. That’s where the magic happens.”

Goodarzi and Marc Waters (left), senior vice president of customer success, services and solutions at HPE, spoke with theCUBE Research’s Dave Vellante and Rebecca Knight at HPE Discover, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed what HPE and Deloitte are taking into consideration when finding the best AI solutions for their customers. (* Disclosure below.)

AI industry expertise can be hard to find

There are far fewer experts in generative AI than there are people who want to use it, so bridging that skills gap is a key part of HPE and Deloitte’s joint offerings. Their third partner is Nvidia, which provides the hardware to undergird AI-based solutions.

“Understanding what to prioritize, having the right skills in place in order to even know where to begin and how to progress is a significant barrier … actually having the right data sources and meaningful data sources in order to drive and make that AI perform for you is a key barrier,” Waters said. “When you think about our new private cloud for AI, we can drive the implementation, the optimization, driving that platform all the way through, plus the skills component.”

The collaboration’s goal is to enable, not replace, the human element,and maintain trust with customers, Goodarzi and Waters emphasized. In particular, HPE Private Cloud AI is ideal for manufacturing and other industries with devices on the edge or that require high security, according to Waters.

“You look at that industry expertise and solution orientation, where we are in terms of driving that private cloud platform for AI. Because in these data-rich edge-based environments, highly regulated environments, then private cloud is clearly the platform of choice,” he said. “You bring those pieces together, it’s about fast time to value, which ultimately is a source of competitive differentiation.”

Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE Research’s coverage of HPE Discover: 

(* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for HPE Discover. Neither Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. and Intel Corp., the primary sponsors of theCUBE’s event coverage, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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