Turning Sovereign AI Infrastructure into Real Business Outcomes
Aleria is helping organizations move beyond AI experimentation and into full-scale production. Working with DDN and NVIDIA, Aleria delivers a unified AI platform that combines high-performance infrastructure, enterprise data orchestration, and agentic AI applications into a fully functional AI factory.
At the foundation of this architecture is DDN’s AI data intelligence platform, providing the performance, scalability, and reliability required to support sovereign AI environments. With DDN storage integrated into the platform, Aleria enables enterprises, governments, banks, healthcare organizations, and industrial leaders to securely run AI on their own data, in their own environments, with the speed and control required for mission-critical operations.
The Challenge: Moving from AI Pilots to AI Production
Many enterprises are still stuck in fragmented AI pilots. They have powerful GPUs, cloud services, and dozens or even hundreds of proofs of concept, but struggle to turn those efforts into operational value.
For sovereign AI environments, the challenge is even greater. Organizations need to protect sensitive data, maintain control over infrastructure, and ensure AI systems can operate securely, reliably, and at scale.
Aleria’s customers needed a way to unify structured and unstructured data, connect enterprise systems, orchestrate GPU and CPU resources, and deploy real AI applications — without relying entirely on hyperscale cloud environments.
The Solution: A Unified AI Factory with DDN, NVIDIA, and Aleria
Aleria brings the software and application layer that connects NVIDIA accelerated computing with DDN’s high-performance data platform. Together, the companies are enabling a sovereign AI factory architecture designed for enterprise and national-scale AI.
The platform connects structured and unstructured data across enterprise systems, including Oracle, SAP, email, finance, HR, legal, procurement, video, and industry-specific applications. Aleria’s fusion layer and agentic AI platform allow organizations to interact with their data, generate insights, automate workflows, and build AI-driven applications across the business.
DDN provides the data foundation that allows these AI workflows to perform at production speed. With DDN, organizations can feed GPUs efficiently, access large volumes of enterprise data, and support demanding AI workloads across training, inference, RAG, video AI, and agentic workflows.
Real-World Impact
Aleria has already delivered its platform to more than 1,000 customers across industries, including banking, real estate, satellite, mining, agriculture, healthcare, hospitals, and government.
Banking: From 270 AI Pilots to Enterprise-Wide AI Operations
At First Abu Dhabi Bank, Aleria replaced a large cloud consumption model with an on-premises AI platform powered by GPU infrastructure, Aleria software, and DDN.
The result: the bank moved from 270 AI proofs of concept to production AI across HR, finance, legal, board operations, customer experience, and security. According to Aleria, the deployment helped the bank save approximately $110 million in cloud infrastructure costs while enabling sensitive AI operations to run inside the bank’s own environment.
Real Estate and Procurement: Months of Work Reduced to Days
For Aldar, a major real estate company in Abu Dhabi, Aleria connected AI into procurement, architecture, land, and business systems to accelerate development planning. Processes that previously took four to six months can now be completed in days, with interactive AI-generated proposals that improve speed, quality, and operational efficiency.
Aleria also cited procurement work for the new Walt Disney Park in Abu Dhabi, where more than 180 GB of technical and commercial documents were processed in hours rather than months.
Why DDN
AI factories depend on fast, reliable access to data. DDN provides the data intelligence layer that enables Aleria’s platform to operate at enterprise and sovereign scale.
With DDN, Aleria customers can:
- Run AI on-premises and in sovereign environments
- Support structured and unstructured data at scale
- Improve GPU productivity and AI application performance
- Reduce dependence on external cloud infrastructure
- Enable secure, air-gapped AI operations for sensitive workloads
- Move from AI experimentation to production business outcomes
The Future: Sovereign AI Built on Trusted Infrastructure
For Aleria, sovereign AI is not just about infrastructure. It is about giving enterprises and governments control over their most valuable data and intelligence.
Together, DDN, NVIDIA, and Aleria are enabling a new model for AI factories — one where organizations can run high-value AI workloads securely, efficiently, and independently.
As enterprises and nations look to build sovereign AI capabilities, Aleria’s advice is clear: start with the right foundation. DDN provides the AI data platform required to power that foundation and help organizations turn sovereign AI ambition into real operational value.