Enterprises are transitioning agentic AI from proof-of-concept to production deployment, and HPE and NVIDIA have expanded the HPE AI Factory to meet this demand. At HPE Discover Las Vegas through June 18, both companies announced the HPE ProLiant Compute DL394 Gen12 with the NVIDIA Vera CPU, available in 2027 and featuring HPE Private Cloud AI, a turnkey solution co-engineered with NVIDIA. Vera is the first CPU built specifically for agents, designed to handle the tool calls, orchestration, and real-time data processing required in agent workflows, delivering deterministic, low-latency performance. The New York Stock Exchange, working with Redpanda and HPE, is an early enterprise customer exploring the Vera CPU with this system. The Vera CPU is part of the NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform, built for frontier-scale models larger than 1 trillion parameters and shipping with full-stack NVIDIA Confidential Computing across every chip.

Beyond compute, HPE is integrating the Compute XD700, built on NVIDIA HGX Rubin NVL8, into the AI Factory to support up to 128 Rubin GPUs per rack. The NVIDIA Agent Toolkit—encompassing NVIDIA Nemotron open models, the NVIDIA OpenShell secure runtime, and NVIDIA NemoClaw blueprints—is now available with HPE Private Cloud AI, providing enterprises with an agentic AI operating system for monitoring agent behavior, enforcing governance policies, and safely building and running autonomous, long-running multi-agent systems. HPE Private Cloud AI adds secure local agent registration, allowing customers to approve AI models, skills, and tools against centralized governance and security policies before deployment. New HPE Zerto Software capabilities detect rogue agent actions and use continuous data protection to rewind systems to a clean state when needed.

Security and data infrastructure have been enhanced throughout the portfolio. NVIDIA Confidential Computing is now available across the HPE AI Factory through HPE Services, protecting models and private data during execution for on-premises and sovereign deployments through cryptographic attestation and encryption at every stage. The HPE ProLiant Compute DL380a achieved certification through the NVIDIA-Certified Systems program for NVIDIA Confidential Computing, validating robust application performance with hardware-based protection. Across all HPE AI Factory solutions, NVIDIA BlueField DPUs and NVIDIA DOCA provide in-silicon zero-trust policy enforcement and runtime threat detection. On the storage side, the HPE Alletra Storage MP X10000, which achieved the foundation level of NVIDIA-Certified Storage, automatically applies metadata and governance policies to prepare unstructured data for AI pipelines, improving token throughput.

Networking infrastructure has been comprehensively upgraded. Every Vera Rubin NVL72 system will ship with NVIDIA networking built in, including NVIDIA Vera BlueField-4 DPUs, NVIDIA ConnectX-9 SuperNICs, and NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet, with NVIDIA Spectrum-6 switching delivering 1.6 times higher networking performance for AI communication versus off-the-shelf Ethernet. Spectrum-X Ethernet networking is now the standard for HPE AI Factory with NVIDIA across all solution types. For large-scale and sovereign workloads, HPE is also adding NVIDIA InfiniBand networking options, including NVIDIA Quantum-X800 InfiniBand with the HPE Cray Supercomputing GX5000. All HPE AI Factory solutions now include NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs, NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet networking, NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs, and NVIDIA ConnectX-8 SuperNICs. At HPE Discover, the Unleash AI partner program is expanding with nearly a dozen new AI software partners including Aizen, BridgeTEK, deepset, Deliverance, Faclon Labs, Gallop, Rocket, Supervity, Thales, Trustwise, and Vortiqx.