Hewlett Packard Enterprise has launched a comprehensive suite of agentic AI tools in partnership with Nvidia at the company’s flagship Discover 2026 technology conference, marking a significant expansion of HPE’s AI Factory portfolio. The new offerings are designed to help enterprises deploy and manage autonomous AI agents at scale — capabilities that are increasingly central to competitive advantage across industries.
The expanded AI Factory solutions now include support for the Nvidia Vera Rubin NVL72 rack-scale system, Nvidia’s most advanced AI computing platform, as well as the HPE Cray Supercomputing GX240 Compute blade. These hardware additions, combined with enhanced software capabilities, create an end-to-end infrastructure platform for organizations building and running large-scale AI workloads.
Among the most significant new capabilities are tools supporting Spectrum-X Ethernet, BlueField-3 Data Processing Units (DPUs), and ConnectX-8 SuperNICs — specialized networking hardware that dramatically improves the efficiency of AI workloads by offloading network processing from GPUs and CPUs. These components, available immediately, enable enterprises to build AI clusters that deliver better price-performance ratios than general-purpose networking infrastructure.
A particularly innovative addition is Zerto Software’s continuous data protection functionality, which provides the ability to “rewind to a clean state” when AI systems encounter errors or produce undesired outputs. This capability addresses one of the practical challenges of deploying autonomous AI agents in production environments — the need to quickly recover from unexpected behaviors without manual intervention.
HPE’s agentic AI platform is specifically designed to address the operational needs of enterprises running AI at scale. As organizations move from experimenting with AI to deploying it in business-critical workflows, the infrastructure requirements become substantially more demanding. The platform provides the reliability, observability, and management capabilities needed to run AI agents with the same operational confidence as traditional enterprise applications.
HPE has also broadened its ecosystem of validated AI reference designs, allowing enterprises to quickly deploy tested configurations that are known to deliver predictable performance for common AI workloads. These turnkey solutions reduce the time required to go from AI pilot to production, accelerating the business value that organizations can extract from their AI investments. With the rapid evolution of AI capabilities, HPE’s investment in a comprehensive AI Factory ecosystem positions the company as an essential partner for enterprises navigating this transformative technology shift.
