HPE unveiling its latest vision for hybrid IT in the form of GreenLake Intelligence, an agentic AI framework for hybrid operations, at its annual Discover conference on Tuesday.
Accessed through GreenLake Copilot, which will be available in beta in the third quarter of 2025, GreenLake Intelligence will provide what the company calls a “unified hybrid cloud operating model powered by agentic AIOps.” It will deploy AI agents to handle tasks across the computing estate.
Those agents will be autonomous but will always have a human in the loop where necessary, said Varma Kunaparaju, SVP & GM, OpsRamp Software and Cloud Platforms.
“Ultimately, the goal here is being able to reason and understand the multi-vendor, multi-cloud, full-stack context, to be able to deliver that intelligence that is needed,” he said during a media briefing. It will be able to deliver this across HPE’s stack as well as those of other vendors and multi-cloud estates, he said: “The underpinning of this is primarily grounded by the context, the topology, the metrics, the logs, the traces, and all the observability data that we are collecting across the entire stack that ultimately drives the GreenLake intelligence.”
The agents gather telemetry from the customer’s environment using model context protocol (MCP) and combine it with HPE’s domain knowledge across the stack, and, he said, provide insights that are “difficult or impossible” for humans to extract, allowing for faster detection and remediation of problems, as well as better planning and forecasting.
It’s not about creating more dashboards and more reports. “It’s all about embedding intelligence directly into the operation stack so that the IT teams can act with speed and confidence,” he said. “Our design with GreenLake Intelligence is to help customers fix issues faster, prevent failures earlier, shift focus to innovation and ultimately deliver business outcomes that they are expected to deliver.”
Like a teammate who never sleeps
Agentic AI is coming to Aruba Central as well, with an autonomous supervisory module talking to multiple specialized models to, for example, determine the root cause of an issue and provide recommendations. David Hughes, SVP and chief product officer, HPE Aruba Networking, said, “It’s like having a teammate who can work while you’re asleep, work on problems, and when you arrive in the morning, have those proposed answers there, complete with chain of thought logic explaining how they got to their conclusions.”
Several new services for FinOps and sustainability in GreenLake Cloud are also being integrated into GreenLake Intelligence, including a new workload and capacity optimizer, extended consumption analytics to help organizations control costs, and predictive sustainability forecasting and a managed service mode in the HPE Sustainability Insight Center.
In addition, updates to the OpsRamp operations copilot, launched in 2024, will enable agentic automation including conversational product help, an agentic command center that enables AI/ML-based alerts, incident management, and root cause analysis across the infrastructure when it is released in the fourth quarter of 2025. It is now a validated observability solution for the Nvidia Enterprise AI Factory.
OpsRamp will also be part of the new HPE CloudOps software suite, available in the fourth quarter, which will include HPE Morpheus Enterprise and HPE Zerto. HPE said the new suite will provide automation, orchestration, governance, data mobility, data protection, and cyber resilience for multivendor, multi cloud, multi-workload infrastructures.
Matt Kimball, principal analyst for datacenter, compute, and storage at Moor Insights & strategy, sees HPE’s latest announcements aligning nicely with enterprise IT modernization efforts, using AI to optimize performance. “GreenLake Intelligence is really where all of this comes together. I am a huge fan of Morpheus in delivering an agnostic orchestration plane, regardless of operating stack and regardless of hardware vendor,” he said. “This is really the manifestation of the tech, ops, and people recipe. It’s really about making workloads run where they should in the most secure and optimized manner.“
AI Factory
HPE is expanding its Nvidia AI Computing by HPE AI factory offerings, with validated stacks designed for multiple uses. Its AI factory at scale focuses on organizations such as service providers and model builders, and its AI factory for sovereigns offers nations, governments, and public sector organizations specialized capabilities such as air-gapped management. The company has added configurations powered by HPE ProLiant Gen12 servers, which it says add zero-trust security and Nvidia Blackwell support. It is also introducing a new federated architecture that lets GPUs be pooled and shared across multiple generations of hardware.
Kimball highlighted several aspects of HPE’s AI factory announcements: its bigger emphasis on inference, which he said is critical; its inclusion of blueprints to help accelerate the activation of AI in the enterprise; and finally the expanded partnership with Accenture to remove the friction associated with activation. “It’s about looking at the pain points enterprise IT is having in the AI journey and mitigating them through products and partners,” he said.
HPE Cloud Commit
To help organizations pay for all this, HPE is introducing HPE Cloud Commit, a way for GreenLake customers to achieve savings and access additional services by committing to long-term, predictable spending.
Cloud Commit encompasses hardware such as HPE Alletra storage, integrated private cloud systems, the CloudOps suite and its individual components, and a number of HPE services. Customers will be able to aggregate their current GreenLake spend with future commitments to achieve further savings.
The program will be available starting in August to current and prospective GreenLake customers.
HPE Financial Services is also offering new financing programs for CloudOps and its individual components, as well as for HPE Alletra storage and HPE Private Cloud AI.
The bottom line, said Kimball, is that agentic AI is real, “And enterprise IT is trying to find how it is going to make this journey from discrete, traditional AI (ML Ops) to this future state that is more automated, near autonomous. It’s not just about buying an AI Factory from your favorite OEM and the magic happens. Before any of it, a modernization of the existing environment has to happen, in terms of technology, operations, and people. And I think this is what HPE is trying to achieve with its latest announcements.”
Source:: Network World