HPE launched new CloudOps Software, layered AI agents throughout its hybrid cloud stack, unveiled GreenLake Intelligence and expanded its AI factory. In addition, Digital Realty said it would standardize its data center footprint on HPE.

At its flagship Discover 2025 conference, HPE showcased its new branding as well as play for AI workloads. The big picture from HPE is that hybrid IT operations, networking, storage and AI operations can be largely turnkey via AI agents.

Antonio Neri, CEO of HPE, said the new vision for hybrid IT "is fueled by agentic intelligence at every layer of infrastructure." HPE, like Dell Technologies, is seeing increased interest in enterprise on-premises deployments of AI infrastructure.

HPE is looking to play at the intersection of hybrid IT, AIOps and agentic AI.

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During his keynote at Discover 2025 at the Sphere in Las Vegas, Neri made the following points:

  • HPE has been reimagined to enable new business models and experiences. 
  • "We are HPE and this is more than just a look. We are architects and engineers pioneering the next generation of computing. We are operators and sellers who know your business," said Neri.
  • "We are focused on three key essential building blocks: Networking to connect your data more securely and efficiently. Hybrid cloud to give you the flexibility to run workloads where it makes the most sense. And AI to help you unlock the full value of your data to accelerate outcomes," he said. 

Neri said it's time for a new approach with GreenLake and agentic AI:

"You are managing costs, you are chasing alerts. You are patching problems, infrastructure across silos. It takes many people to hold everything together and managing the complexity leaves little time to focus on the true innovation, but that is about to change agentic AI is fundamentally reshaping how we interact and manage it. We are moving beyond AI that simply analyzes and recommends towards a new intelligent agentic AI admin workforce. These AI admins will continuously optimize your infrastructure and resolve issues, helping you save both time and cost."

Here's a look at the key news items from Discover 2025:

  • The company launched HPE CloudOps Software that will combine OpsRamp, HPE Morpheus Enterprise Software and HPE Zerto Software. The parts of HPE CloudOps Software can be used individually or as part of a suite.

  • GreenLake hybrid cloud platform becomes an AI-powered system with AI agents in multiple roles via GreenLake Intelligence. GreenLake Intelligence uses agents to cut through silos, manual workflows, and optimization hurdles.
  • HPE said GreenLake Intelligence was built to bring a unified operating model across its stack. GreenLake Intelligence will deploy AI agents for sustainability operations, orchestration, FinOps, resiliency, security, observability, networking, storage and compute. These agents will work through a reasoning agent that will manage workloads and optimize the HPE stack. The company added that it will support FinOps capabilities with GreenLake Intelligence to optimize workloads and capacity, provide consumption analytics and forecast sustainability impacts.

  • With CloudOps offering one control plane, HPE said it will roll out its next-gen HPE Private Cloud AI with Nvidia. HPE said its latest private cloud AI stack will include secure, air-gapped deployment, new HPE ProLiant Gen12 configurations with Nvidia Blackwell support, multi-tenancy and a federated architecture to handle multiple GPU generations. HPE is targeting model builders, service providers and sovereign AI.

  • HPE Aruba Networking will be retooled on GreenLake Intelligence and add an agentic AI mesh and networking copilot. HPE Aruba Networking Central will get a copilot that serves as a front-end for root-cause analysis, automated remediation and security issues.
  • HPE OpsRamp Software expands its operations copilot with agents for product help and IT management. OpsRamp will get AI-based alerts, incident management and other tools via GreenLake Intelligence.
  • HPE Alletra Storage MP X10000 will add AI agent features and support Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers natively. That MCP connection will support GreenLake Intelligence, GreenLake Copilot and natural language interfaces to manage data workflows.
  • The company also continues to go after virtualized workloads and said its ecosystem for HPE Morpheus VM essentials has new integrations with HPE Private Cloud, integration with a growing ecosystem and connections to third-party hardware providers. HPE said it added Veeam and Commvault to its backup partnerships. External hardware support branches out to Dell PowerEdge and NetApp gear.

Separately, HPE said Digital Realty, which provides data center capacity, will standardize on HPE Private Cloud Business Edition across more than 300 data centers.

Constellation Research analyst Holger Mueller said HPE's hybrid cloud approach and use of AI agents to manage operations could resonate with enterprises. 

"The AI era comes to all things Ops in IT. And that is a key upgrade to the human operated Ops. When operations run at AI speed inside of the enterprise and outside attacks are powered by AI, then enterprise Ops need to run on AI as well - the sooner the better."

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