LAS VEGAS — Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. on Tuesday said it will “supercharge the creation, adoption and management of AI factories” with the help of NVIDIA Corp.
Under the accord, announced at the Discover conference here, HPE is expanding its NVIDIA AI Computing by HPE portfolio of AI factory solutions with NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, including new composable solutions optimized for service providers, model builders and sovereign entities, as well as the next generation of HPE Private Cloud AI. The integrated end-to-end solutions and services for AI factories remove the complexity of customers having to compile a full AI tech stack on their own when building a modern AI-ready data center, according to both companies.
“Generative, agentic and physical AI have the potential to transform global productivity and create lasting societal change, but AI is only as good as the infrastructure and data behind it. Organizations need the data, intelligence and vision to capture the AI opportunity and this makes getting the right IT foundation essential,” HPE CEO Antonio Neri said in a news release.
In a keynote speech at the Sphere on Tuesday that was augmented by AI-rendered waterfalls, a forest, and rippling tide, Neri said: “Soon it will be IT’s responsibility to manage a digital workforce.” (On Monday, Neri said he was looking forward to clearing the “final hurdle” to complete HPE’s $14 billion acquisition of Juniper Networks Inc., calling networking the “core” of a modern IT architecture in the AI era.)
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang, who was not in attendance this year after a cameo appearance in 2024, added in a statement, “We are entering a new industrial era — one defined by the ability to generate intelligence at scale. Together, HPE and NVIDIA are delivering full-stack AI factory infrastructure to drive this transformation, empowering enterprises to harness their data and accelerate innovation with unprecedented speed and precision.”
HPE also introduced GreenLake Intelligence, a new agentic AI framework for hybrid operations.
By transforming GreenLake cloud into an agentic AI-powered hybrid cloud, HPE is acknowledging enterprise is entering a new AI-native era. “Every organization wants to innovate faster — though not constrained by legacy infrastructure, growing technical debt, and the complexity of managing sprawling hybrid environments. The intersection of AIOps and agentic AI presents an opportunity for organizations to overcome these legacy challenges and transform their operations and enterprises,” Neri said in another statement.
GreenLake Intelligence is adding new agents for networking, observability, cloud costs, sustainability and workload optimization. A new HPE Aruba Networking Central agentic mesh autonomously analyzes network and security conditions, providing precise analysis and actionable remediation, Neri said.
In addition, HPE announced an agentic AI mesh with HPE Aruba Networking to create an extra administrative team that works for itself autonomously. And it unveiled a technology partnership with MLS’s Inter Miami FC and its forthcoming soccer-specific stadium, Miami Freedom Park, in 2026.
As enterprises increasingly commit resources to AI use, HPE strongly enforced its software and infrastructure services with Tuesday’s announcements, say analysts.
“HPE articulated a clear vision of its enterprise opportunities through its networking and hybrid cloud offerings,” Daniel Newman, CEO of The Futurum Group, said in an interview here. “If HPE is to continue to differentiate itself from Dell and Lenovo, it must focus on its software strength and heavy emphasis on enterprise solutions.”
HPE’s AI moves are largely being couched in its prowess as a services company that aids customers and governments in easing the adoption of technology. The company is emphasizing its ability to help businesses and agencies teach technical skills, ready and prepare data, provide an AI-optimized architecture, and provide solutions, an executive said.
“HPE’s super power is our services. Our AI Avengers make it happen,” Marc Waters, senior vice president of customer success, services and solution at HPE, said in an interview. “The AI opportunity is everything — not just to thrive, but to survive.”
At a press conference following his keynote, Neri expounded on the challenges still facing AI adoption at enterprises — “It is not an IT-led initiative; it is a business-led initiative,” he said — and benefits. “Enterprises can see that with agentic AI, they can perform specific tasks,” he said. (HPE, Neri said, uses AI agents for procurement, among other jobs.)
“Infrastructure is cool again,” Neri joked, before hastily adding, “It always was, really. It never went away. It is just used in a different way. CIOs need to become service brokers.”
Trish Damkroger, HPE’s senior vice president and general manager of high performance computing and AI, put it simply: “The bottom line is you got to make this easy” for enterprises with so many AI agent choices.
