HPE and NVIDIA are expanding their AI Factory portfolio with new agent-optimized infrastructure, including the NVIDIA Ve
Enterprises are moving agentic AI from proof of concept to production, and HPE and NVIDIA are building the next generation of AI factories to support this shift. At HPE Discover Las Vegas through June 18, the companies announced significant expansions to the HPE AI Factory, introducing NVIDIA Vera CPU and NVIDIA Agent Toolkit for HPE Private Cloud AI.
The Vera CPU represents a significant milestone as the first processor built specifically for agents. It is designed to handle the tool calls, orchestration and real-time data processing required across the agent loop, delivering deterministic, low-latency performance. The HPE ProLiant Compute DL394 Gen12 with the Vera CPU will become available in 2027 alongside HPE Private Cloud AI, a turnkey AI factory co-engineered with NVIDIA. The New York Stock Exchange, working with Redpanda and HPE, is an early enterprise customer exploring the Vera CPU.
The Vera CPU is part of the NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform, built for frontier-scale models larger than 1 trillion parameters and ramping into full production with the NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 rack-scale system available from HPE. Every Vera Rubin NVL72 system will ship with full-stack NVIDIA Confidential Computing across every chip. HPE is also introducing the HPE Compute XD700, built on NVIDIA HGX Rubin NVL8 and supporting up to 128 Rubin GPUs per rack.
NVIDIA Agent Toolkit includes NVIDIA Nemotron open models, the NVIDIA OpenShell secure runtime and NVIDIA NemoClaw blueprints, 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 and governance capabilities, while new HPE Zerto Software can detect rogue agent actions and use continuous data protection to rewind to a clean state.
On the data infrastructure side, HPE Alletra Storage MP X10000 achieved foundation-level NVIDIA-Certified Storage status and automatically applies metadata and governance policies to prepare unstructured data for AI pipelines, improving token throughput.
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. HPE ProLiant Compute DL380a achieved NVIDIA-Certified Systems certification 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, runtime threat detection and network encryption without performance impact. HPE AI Factory at Scale, HPE Sovereign AI Factory and HPE Private Cloud AI are now available with NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs, NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet networking, NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs and NVIDIA ConnectX-8 SuperNICs. Next-generation Vera Rubin NVL72 systems will include 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 standard Ethernet. For large-scale and sovereign workloads, NVIDIA InfiniBand options including NVIDIA Quantum-X800 InfiniBand are available with the HPE Cray Supercomputing GX5000.
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, supporting use cases from AI development through production-scale deployment.