Las Vegas, Nevada – Antonio Neri took the stage at HPE Discover 2025’s opening day keynote, captivating a massive audience at the iconic Sphere in Las Vegas. Thousands of excited attendees filled the unique venue, buzzing with anticipation to hear HPE’s vision and groundbreaking announcements for the future of AI, hybrid cloud, and networking. The electrifying atmosphere underscored the industry’s eagerness to discover what lies ahead from HPE. With the opening of the annual conference, it’s impossible not to reflect on how far HPE has come in just a year. Last year, at Discover 2024, the rallying cry was clear: HPE was firmly establishing itself as “The Edge to Cloud to AI Company.” We saw the formal pivot to an AI-first strategy, with the landmark introduction of HPE Private Cloud AI, a turnkey solution co-developed with NVIDIA. GreenLake continued its expansion, becoming even more central to delivering cloud experiences everywhere, and edge computing, including new private 5G solutions, remained a strong focus.
Fast forward to this week at Discover 2025, and those foundational themes have seen quite the evolution. HPE’s development teams have had a laser focus on developing their AI offerings into a far more sophisticated and integrated vision. While AI, Hybrid Cloud, and Networking are still the pillars, the conversation this year is deeply nuanced, driven by real-world customer needs and the rapid maturation of AI.
From Foundational AI to Agentic Intelligence:
One of the most striking evolutions from 2024 to 2025 is the shift from “AI at the core” to a focus on Agentic AI. This isn’t just about deploying AI models; it’s about intelligent, autonomous agents, applications, and even robotics working in concert with human operators. This concept of “Agentic Operations” demands a new level of intelligent infrastructure, pushing the boundaries of what networks and data centers must deliver. As businesses move from merely building AI models to actively using them for “inference” at scale, the processing power and specialized infrastructure are increasingly moving from the public cloud back into enterprise data centers, at least partially. This trend makes the enterprise network and compute infrastructure more critical than ever.
Hybrid Cloud Responds to Customer Demand:
The continued emphasis on Hybrid Cloud at this year’s Discover is a clear response to escalating customer demand for flexibility, control, and data sovereignty. While GreenLake has long been HPE’s answer to delivering a consistent cloud experience, this year sees a deeper development in hybrid and sovereign cloud models. It’s about empowering customers to run workloads where they make the most sense—on-premises, at the edge, or in a public cloud—all managed seamlessly. This flexibility is no longer a nice-to-have for enterprise customers; it’s a strategic imperative.
OpsRamp: The Unsung Hero of Integrated Management:
A consistent and increasingly impactful pattern over the last few years, and especially prominent at Discover 2025, is HPE’s deeper leverage of the OpsRamp product. This isn’t just a side note; it’s a cornerstone of HPE’s strategy. OpsRamp is becoming the backbone for managing third-party components within the HPE ecosystem. In a world of heterogeneous IT environments, the ability to monitor, manage, and automate across diverse vendor solutions is a critical differentiator. This capability allows HPE to offer a truly unified operational experience, something many “pure play” vendors struggle to achieve.
Agentic AI Ops: Bridging the Network-Server Divide:
Perhaps one of the deepest revelations today is the promise of Agentic AI Ops. While traditional networking companies often have a siloed view, HPE’s integrated portfolio allows for a holistic approach. Agentic AI Ops, driven by the intelligence infused across the HPE stack, promises to deliver significant benefits in automating and optimizing operations from the network edge right through to the server. This integrated visibility and control are critical for the low-latency, high-performance demands of AI workloads, offering proactive problem resolution and efficiency gains that pure networking or pure server companies struggle to achieve.
Day 1 Wrap-Up: Your Infrastructure is the AI Enabler
HPE at Discover 2025 made it abundantly clear: your IT infrastructure is not just supporting AI; it is the enabler of AI. From purpose-built compute and networking designed for Agentic Operations, to the refined capabilities of GreenLake delivering hybrid cloud at scale, and the powerful, integrating force of OpsRamp, HPE is demonstrating a cohesive strategy to help enterprises harness the full power of AI.
Keep an eye out for deeper dives into more products announced at the show. We have lots to talk about including AI-Optimized Servers with NVIDIA GPU’s, Storage with AGentic AI Capabilities, Networking gear leveraging DPU’s, and a sustainable data center collaboration with Danfoss.
