This is a sponsored article from HPE and NVIDIA promoting their joint "AI Factory" concept, a pre-integrated infrastructure package designed to help enterprises deploy, scale and govern AI systems more effectively. It highlights a common industry problem: many organisations have started AI projects but lack the top-level planning needed to build, operate and extract full value from their AI infrastructure, meaning key capabilities go unrealised.

The piece features a Q&A with Thierry Pienaar, HPE's Chief Technology Officer for HPC & AI, and Kaushik Shirhatti, NVIDIA's VP of AI Factory, who discuss how the model addresses enterprise-wide AI risks that older architectures cannot handle, including secure scaling across user groups and agentic workloads, intelligent load-balancing, and sovereign AI compliance. HPE AI Factory with NVIDIA combines NVIDIA's accelerated computing hardware and software with HPE's infrastructure, control plane and support services, and the article points readers to further content on workload-specific architectures and joint innovations from the partnership.