HPE CEO Antonio Neri: GreenLake Intelligence Brings ‘Agentic AI Admin Workforce’ To Life

‘We are moving beyond AI that simply analyzes or recommends toward a new intelligent agentic AI admin workforce,’ says Neri. ‘These AI admins will continuously optimize your infrastructure and resolve issues, helping you save both time and cost.’

Hewlett Packard Enterprise President and CEO Antonio Neri Tuesday told thousands of partners and customers that the GreenLake Intelligence agentic AI framework is set to unleash a new era of agentic AI admins that will proactively resolve IT issues and optimize infrastructure.

“We are moving beyond AI that simply analyzes or recommends toward a new intelligent agentic AI admin workforce,” said Neri in an HPE Discover keynote address at the futuristic Sphere venue in Las Vegas. “These AI admins will continuously optimize your infrastructure and resolve issues, helping you save both time and cost.”

Neri described GreenLake Intelligence as designed to “dramatically simplify” how customers manage and run IT operations. “This is like having extra admins each tuned to a specific part of your IT,” he said. “GreenLake Intelligence is built on a mesh of intelligent agents that collaborate, work and act with context across your entire hybrid IT estate.”

The GreenLake Intelligence admins are powered by domain-specific large language models “fine-tuned using insight from years of HPE telemetry logs, configuration and support data, spanning trillions of data points,” said Neri. “They understand the language of enterprise IT.”

The GreenLake Intelligence framework provides native support for the Model Context Protocol, which allows the agents to share learnings across all of the IT domains. “When an issue arises, your AI agents reason across that entire IT stack and alert the right person with the full data and insight of what’s happening, then they propose a fix and even act while keeping you informed. This is not just surface-level automation. It is deep systemwide-level intelligence grounded in full-stack control of compute, storage, networking and software.”

HPE said GreenLake Intelligence will be delivered through ongoing innovation, starting with the GreenLake Copilot beta, which will be available in the third quarter (July 1 to Sept. 30).

Among the other pieces that make up the agentic AI Admin workforce offensive are HPE Aruba Networking Central with agentic mesh, which will be available starting in the third quarter of 2025; the HPE Alletra Storage MP X10000 with Model Context Protocol support planned for the second half of this year; and new enhancements to the HPE OpsRamp AI-powered IT operations platform, which will be available in the fourth quarter.

Also coming in the fourth quarter are a new HPE CloudPhysics Plus assessment tool designed to provide automated recommendations for workload costs and optimization, and the HPE CloudOps Software suite, bringing together OpsRamp, HPE Morpheus Enterprise Software and HPE Zerto Software.

Neri said he sees a bright future for how agentic AI will forever change the IT landscape. “What excites me the most is this is just the beginning,” he said. “You need help identifying and resolving network issues, your networking AI admin takes the lead. You need more storage capacity and better IOPS [input output operations per second], your storage AI admin will take care of it. If you want to get your cloud costs under control, your FinOps AI admin will help you right-size and consolidate.”

As for HPE partners, Neri said the GreenLake Intelligence framework opens the door for them to build their own AI agents to “deliver differentiated AI-powered services and scale your value” with customers.

HPE partners, for their part, said they see HPE taking the lead in the race to build agentic AI solutions that will dramatically reduce the cost of IT operations in a multi-vendor, multi-cloud hybrid world.

Patrick Shelley, CTO at PKA Technologies, a Montvale, N.J., solution provider, said he was “blown away” by the GreenLake Intelligence agentic AI Admin model.

“This is a huge breakthrough,” said Shelley. “This makes HPE the leader in the agentic AI era. The competitors talk about having platforms for agentic AI. HPE is the only one showing you how they are integrating it into their product lines and what you can do with it.”

To that point, Shelley said the ability to incorporate agentic mesh technology into the Aruba networking platform is poised to save network admins “days and hours” trying to determine where the precise problem is that is causing network issues.

A key differentiator for HPE, said Shelley, is the ability to provide the agentic AI framework across the complete networking, storage and compute stack. “The reason that HPE is ahead in agentic AI and bringing it all together is because they have the network, storage and compute,” he said. “The HPE competitors are going to have to figure out how they do that.”

Shelley complimented Neri as a visionary thought leader who has “put all the pieces” of the agentic AI puzzle together before competitors. “It’s exciting to be able to bring this to our customers and show them that HPE is at the forefront of agentic AI, implementing it throughout their entire portfolio. It is going to be exciting to see where it goes.”

Michael Maher, director of professional services at CPP Associates, Clinton, N.J., one of HPE’s top GreenLake partners, said GreenLake Intelligence is going to open the door for customers to “propel their businesses forward” to greater profitability.

“This is going to mean reduced time to market and improved intelligence around their own data and analytics,” he said. “It’s going to allow them to take information that was stale and stagnant and reconstitute it and repurpose it in meaningful ways. It’s going to allow them to grow and be more competitive in their own market spaces. For us, we get to facilitate that, which means we get to know our customers better and understand their businesses better. It is going to allow us to help them more completely and thoroughly in every step of the process.”

Maher said he sees the GreenLake Intelligence platform as a “revolutionary” step forward for IT. “What you are going to see as a result of this is a massive reinvestment in the business with companies upskilling their team members to take it to the next level. You are now going to have top-level talent internally helping these businesses move faster in their markets.”

Maher said he sees IT leaders working closely with the agentic AI admins so with “proper intelligence” they can apply a “fix” for IT issues. “This is a shift in how customers are going to do business,” he said. “The net benefit to the customer is going to be able to reinvest not just dollars but human capital and talent in a way that is going to drive more innovation for their own businesses.”

Maher said he was excited to see the Alletra MP 10000 emerge as a data-centric AI agent platform. “This makes Alletra MP massively more attractive,” he said. “It takes the fear out of trying AI. This expands accessibility to AI in a way nobody else has thought of.”

As for the HPE agentic AI innovation, Maher said: “HPE is not keeping pace—they are leading the race.”