HPE Expands AI Factory With Nvidia Vera CPU and Agent Toolkit for Autonomous Enterprise AI

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Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced an expansion of its AI Factory portfolio in collaboration with Nvidia, adding the Nvidia Vera CPU for agent orchestration and the Nvidia Agent Toolkit for managing autonomous agents safely in production enterprise environments. The expanded offering integrates Nvidia Confidential Computing for hardware-based data protection and security across the full infrastructure stack, alongside new Blackwell GPUs, Spectrum-X Ethernet networking and BlueField DPUs, creating what HPE describes as a complete enterprise-scale agentic AI infrastructure with security governance built in from the hardware layer upward.

The Vera CPU is Nvidia's custom processor designed specifically for the orchestration and memory management roles in agentic AI systems, where a central processor needs to coordinate multiple GPU-accelerated AI agents running different subtasks simultaneously, passing context between them and managing the overall flow of multi-step autonomous tasks. In a pure GPU setup these orchestration tasks are handled by general-purpose CPU hardware that was not designed with the specific memory bandwidth and latency requirements of agentic coordination in mind. A purpose-built orchestration processor reduces the bottlenecks that emerge when autonomous AI systems need to coordinate at scale.

The Agent Toolkit sits at the software layer, providing guardrails and governance frameworks that allow enterprises to deploy autonomous agents in production without the agents operating outside defined boundaries or accessing resources they should not. Enterprise AI deployment has consistently identified governance and control as the primary adoption barrier, separate from capability questions, and HPE is positioning the Agent Toolkit as the infrastructure response to that concern rather than leaving governance entirely as a software overlay on top of unconstrained hardware.

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