Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced that German IT service provider COMLINE SE is expanding its cloud offering based on
HPE Private Cloud AI
to help customers achieve competitive advantage with generative AI.
COMLINE will also use the solution to further automate its service
delivery with AI. Part of the
NVIDIA AI Computing by HPE portfolio,
HPE Private Cloud AI was co-developed with NVIDIA to enable fast and
easy deployment of private AI applications with a focus on inferencing,
retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and fine-tuning.
HPE Private Cloud AI will be added to COMLINE's existing HPE GreenLake environment
which is operated in its data centers in Berlin and Frankfurt/Main.
Immediately after deployment, COMLINE will kick off a first generative
AI project with a large customer in the real-estate business, where HPE
Private Cloud AI will be used to classify 1.6 million legal documents
per day for compliance checks.
With eleven offices in Germany and one in Poland, COMLINE
helps its customers to achieve competitive advantage through IT
innovation - based on three key values: sustainable, approachable,
authentic. The company offers all required services as a one-stop shop:
strategic consulting, design of digital products and services, IT
service automation, software development and cloud services.
"In our AI consulting engagements we recognized a high demand for a
generative AI as-a-service offering that helps customers take the step
from proof of concept to production at scale - while ensuring data
sovereignty which we can provide from our German cloud data centers,"
said Ralf Schäfer, chief operating officer, COMLINE SE. "We selected HPE
Private Cloud AI because it's really a turnkey solution - unlike
competitive offerings which require a lot of custom integration. Going
forward, we'll be able to set up new generative AI use cases with just a
few clicks. This accelerates time to market for our customers, and it
reduces our own service delivery costs."
HPE Private Cloud simplifies AI deployment and shortens time to value
HPE Private Cloud AI features a deep integration of preconfigured AI
hardware and software from HPE and NVIDIA, including HPE AI Essentials
and NVIDIA AI Enterprise, including NVIDIA NIM and NeMo microservices,
providing cloud user experience and instant AI productivity. Customers
can deploy and operationalize virtual assistants in seconds, simplifying
the process from end to end.
COMLINE will initially deploy two HPE Private Cloud AI systems with "small bundle" configurations
to offer GenAI as a service to midsized and large customers. In
addition, COMLINE will use the new solution to further automate the
operation of its cloud data centers. The company has comprehensively
automated its IT operations in recent years to lower cost and enhance
customer experience. With AI, COMLINE will amplify its differentiation,
for example by deploying AIOps in operations and AI assistants as
human-machine interfaces for the service desk or customer self-service.
"Service providers like COMLINE have a huge opportunity to outcompete
their global rivals in the field of generative AI because they can
uniquely provide local end-to-end support and data sovereignty," said
Axel Sidki, head of Hybrid Cloud Solutions, HPE Germany. "COMLINE
leverages HPE Private Cloud AI as an icebreaker to quickly enter the
generative AI as-a-service market and scale as customer demand
increases. We very much look forward to opening the next chapter of our
long-standing partnership."