HPE expands Nvidia AI portfolio

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has expanded its Nvidia AI Computing by HPE portfolio with new offerings designed to enable secure, scalable AI factories and advanced data centre networking.

The expansion includes the opening of an AI Factory Lab in Grenoble, France. This facility is intended to allow enterprises to test and validate workloads on a sovereign, air-cooled infrastructure operating entirely within the European Union (EU).

The lab supports compliance with EU data sovereignty requirements and is available for global customers seeking to evaluate their AI deployments in a regionally compliant setting.

The Grenoble lab is equipped with HPE servers, HPE Juniper Networking PTX and MX Series routers, Nvidia accelerated computing hardware, Nvidia Spectrum-X Ethernet networking, HPE Alletra storage, and the government-ready version of Nvidia AI Enterprise software.

This allows customers to assess performance on EU-based infrastructure, addressing regulatory compliance for distributed AI workloads.

The Grenoble-based AI Factory Lab is scheduled to open in the second quarter of 2026.

HPE also announced its collaboration with Carbon3.ai to establish the Private AI Lab in London.

This environment uses the HPE Private Cloud AI platform, the Nvidia AI Enterprise suite, and Nvidia hardware to support enterprise adoption of AI applications in the UK.

Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang said: “We’re transforming the data centre into an AI factory — a manufacturing plant for the new industrial revolution — and by deploying the full stack of NVIDIA accelerated computing and Spectrum-X Ethernet networking with HPE, we’re creating the template for sovereign AI.

“The new AI Factory Lab provides a foundry where customers can turn data into value, securely and at scale.”

In response to requirements around operational sovereignty in Europe, HPE Private Cloud AI now offers additional graphics processing unit (GPU) configurations using NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition and Hopper GPUs.

Integration of STIG-hardened and FIPS-enabled Nvidia AI Enterprise in isolated environments supports security for compliance-driven workflows.

The platform adopts Nvidia Multi-instance GPU (MIG) technology to provide fractionalisation capabilities aimed at optimising resource utilisation.

New Datacenter Ops Agents from World Wide Technology (WWT), Nvidia, and HPE are being introduced to automate management tasks across agentic AI and hybrid cloud environments.

HPE’s sovereign AI factory solutions are now delivered with system architectures designed for country-specific regulatory compliance. These reference designs incorporate security controls necessary for audit support and regulated industry alignment.

For datacentre networking, HPE has integrated the Nvidia Spectrum-X Ethernet platform with BlueField-3 data processing units (DPUs), extending high-performance connectivity both within and between datacentres and clouds.

These networking capabilities are further expanded using HPE Juniper Networking’s MX and PTX routing platforms for low-latency connections across geographically distributed clusters.

On the storage side, HPE will deliver the Alletra Storage MP X10000 Data Intelligence Nodes as of January 2026.

This storage architecture introduces inline analytics by embedding Nvidia accelerated computing directly within the data path.

Running the Nvidia AI Enterprise stack according to the reference design for the Nvidia AI Data Platform, these nodes analyse incoming data in real time to support automated pattern inference for downstream AI pipelines.

HPE has introduced the Nvidia GB200 NVL4, now available for enterprise deployment. Each system integrates two Grace CPUs and four Blackwell GPUs per node, supporting up to 136 GPUs per rack.

On security integration, CrowdStrike has been named the endpoint protection provider for HPE Private Cloud AI deployments across hybrid environments.

This builds on CrowdStrike’s existing partnerships with both HPE and Nvidia around securing accelerated large language model applications.

HPE president and CEO Antonio Neri said: “HPE and Nvidia continue to provide the foundation for secure AI factories at any scale, with new innovations that deliver a greater range of performance for more diverse workloads than ever before.”

Fortanix technology will also be applied alongside Nvidia Confidential Computing on HPE Private Cloud AI platforms to secure agentic workloads in highly regulated or sovereign use cases.

Sovereign AI factory architectures are also available now, while orders for the Alletra Storage MP X10000 Data Intelligence Nodes will begin in January 2026.

“HPE expands Nvidia AI portfolio” was originally created and published by Verdict, a GlobalData owned brand.

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