At HPE Discover, Veeam Software and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced an expanded partnership to help organizations modernize and scale private cloud environments for AI and modern virtualized workloads. The collaboration introduces new validated designs for HPE Private Cloud AI, partner-ready packaging for faster deployments, and a new Data and AI Trust Maturity Model to help enterprises operationalize AI trust.
“Private cloud is evolving fast as customers want cloud agility with greater control, stronger governance, and the ability to operationalize AI closer to their data,” said John Jester, Chief Revenue Officer at Veeam. “AI will transform the enterprise, but only if leaders can trust the data that powers it. That trust starts with resilience – knowing data is protected, recoverable, and governed end-to-end.”
New Validated Designs for HPE Private Cloud AI
Veeam and HPE will release new validated designs for HPE Private Cloud AI, a turnkey AI factory co-engineered with NVIDIA as part of the NVIDIA AI Computing by HPE portfolio. These designs help customers deploy secure, AI-ready private environments with a unified data lakehouse, deployable models, and agentic use cases. The designs include:
- Veeam Data Platform and Veeam Kasten, part of the Veeam DataAI Command Platform, supporting operational continuity for virtualized and Kubernetes-based workloads.
- Safe data ingestion to prepare and ingest data for AI use cases with stronger controls and confidence in data handling, complementing HPE AI Essentials for model development and deployment lifecycle management.
“Enterprises are choosing private cloud to meet performance and sovereignty requirements while putting the right guardrails in place for AI,” said Patrick Osborne, SVP of Technology Acceleration for Hybrid Cloud at HPE. “With these new validated designs and our expanded collaboration with Veeam, we’re giving customers a ready-to-run path to deploy AI closer to their data.”
Resilient HPE Private Cloud: Partner-Ready Solutions
In support of HPE’s recent unified private cloud announcement, HPE and Veeam are enabling partners with sizing tools and smart templates to more easily position and deliver resilient private cloud deployments using HPE Private Cloud PC3000 with HPE Morpheus Software VM Essentials. This helps partners standardize designs, streamline scoping, and accelerate delivery. Veeam also provides a practical migration guide for moving vSphere VMs to virtual machines on HPE Morpheus.
Expanding the Roadmap: Security, Governance, and AI Trust
As AI shifts from assistive tools to autonomous agents, organizations face a growing gap between confidence in AI readiness and the ability to produce audit-ready evidence. Veeam and HPE are focusing on operationalizing AI trust through the Veeam DataAI Command Platform, the industry’s first unified data and AI trust infrastructure. The platform unifies DataAI Security, Governance, Compliance, Privacy, and Resilience, powered by the DataAI Command Graph.
Building on Data Resilience by Design, HPE Services will serve as a pilot partner for Veeam’s new Data and AI Trust Maturity Model, a framework that helps leaders assess their trust readiness across four pillars: Understood, Secured, Resilient, and Unleashed.
“Through this collaboration, Veeam and HPE will help customers move from AI experimentation to trusted execution – improving visibility and governance, reducing risk across AI data pipelines, and ensuring the ability to recover clean, trusted data when it matters most,” the companies stated.
Veeam (Booth #2039) is an exclusive sponsor of the HPE Virtualization and CloudOps Hub at HPE Discover 2026. For more information, visit Veeam and HPE Alliance.