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PRIVATE CLOUD AI FOR DEFENCE

Sovereignty Without Compromise

Take Control of Your AI Infrastructure, AI models and data - securely, locally, and reliably - while building vital in-house skills.

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Transforming Complexity into Clarity

As cyber threats grow more sophisticated and operational environments become increasingly complex, the need for assured control over infrastructure and data is more pressing than ever. HPE Private Cloud AI (PCAI), delivered in partnership with Centerprise International, offers a sovereign-by-design AI platform built to meet the demands of defence operations.
Powered by NVIDIA and pre-integrated at the factory, PCAI enables rapid deployment and can be fully operational within a day. It supports a secure and efficient path from pilot to production while ensuring defence organisations retain complete control over infrastructure, data and mission posture.

Defence-Ready. Sovereign-Controlled.

Mission-Driven Capabilities for UK Defence

Air-Gapped for High Assurance

For environments that demand complete isolation, PCAI supports fully air-gapped deployment—no internet dependency, zero data leakage, and maximum resilience.

Cyber Assurance and Compliance

Built on Zero Trust principles and aligned with MOD standards (e.g., Cyber Essentials Plus, NCSC), PCAI ensures uncompromising control over sensitive defence workloads.

Operational Independence

Retain full control over AI development and deployment, without external jurisdictional risk or third-party dependencies.

Secure Supply Chain

With all integration and support managed by UK-based Centerprise International, you reduce exposure to foreign technologies and geopolitical uncertainties.

Postural Flexibility

Scale, adapt, and evolve AI infrastructure on your terms—with full visibility and control.

Turnkey AI Acceleration

Full AI software stack with hundreds of pre-trained models ready to go with a few clicks and to be further trained using defence data and total security.

Designed for Defence Transformation

Supporting the Strategic Defence Review and Future Defence Industrial Strategy

In line with the direction set out in SDR 2025, UK defence continues to emphasise the importance of aligning sovereignty with national growth, innovation and resilience.
PCAI supports this goal through:

Onshore AI Investment

Developed and supported entirely within the UK to drive high-value employment, R&D, and technological independence.

Integrated Support for Defence Targeting Web

PCAI is ready to power the next evolution of the MOD’s Defence Targeting Web, supporting secure, scalable AI integration across joint environments.

An Ecosystem for Growth

Tap into 75+ validated AI use cases and a broad ISV/GSI partner ecosystem, accelerating adoption and innovation with governance built-in.

Networking

Redundant 100GbE data and management switches

Integrated Software

Includes HPE AI Essentials and NVIDIA AI Enterprise

Built to Scale. Built to Perform.

Configurations from Developer to Large-Scale Deployments

NVIDIA RTX PRO™ 6000 Blackwell, H100/H200 and B300 (coming soon).

Up to 84% power savings and 26:1 data centre consolidation

Unified control via the HPE Private Cloud AI UI for air gaps and via HPE GreenLake for connected solutions.

Pre-staged LLMs and toolchains including Jupyter, MLflow, and RAG services

Your Trusted Procurement Partner

With Centerprise International, you gain a direct route to sovereign AI, with procurement, integration, and support handled under a trusted UK-based framework.

Fast-track procurement and commercial alignment

End-to-end deployment and post-launch support

MOD-aligned assurance and compliance

With HPE PCAI and Centerprise, sovereignty is your operational advantage.

Your Trusted Procurement Partner

Centerprise is the official procurement enabler and touchpoint for HPE Private Cloud AI. With decades of experience in delivering secure and mission-critical IT solutions, Centerprise ensures:

– Fast-track procurement and commercial alignment.
– End-to-end service coordination and post-deployment support.
– A direct, expert-led engagement model tailored to your organisation.

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Experience It First-Hand

Test-drive HPE Private Cloud AI in a secure Equinix data centre over 6–8 weeks with full support and real-world use case evaluation.

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