With its 12th generation of HPE ProLiant, HPE lays down a roadmap for server innovation that separates it from its more commodity-centric competition. With any infrastructure modernization investment, businesses should expect greater efficiency with greater performance per system and per watt. In this realm, HPE ProLiant Compute Gen12 is no exception, touting the ability to deliver an impressive seven to one consolidation versus its generation 10 technology.

In addition to performance, any organization considering an internal AI initiative is acutely aware of the increased power and cooling demands of accelerator technology. The efficiency enhancements in Gen12, combined with the ability to support direct liquid cooling technology, are important and necessary inclusions, given the direction of AI-empowered application development and adoption. These efficiency capabilities will serve any organization well, but for those firms with AI workloads in development, modernization to improve efficiency across the entire server estate is often vital to support future scale.

Beyond the individual systems, HPE’s ProLiant Gen12 portfolio-level improvements to security and AI-informed insights—part of HPE Compute Ops Management—demonstrate the strategic importance of making the right server vendor selection. Ensuring cyber resilience and adhering to any related regulatory requirements such as DORA will only become more onerous in the future. Partnering today with providers that are already investing in ensuring the security of the solution and the supply chain will reduce risk and cost in the future. According to HPE, the HPE Integrated Lights-Out (iLO) 7 can ensure an unbreakable chain of trust with full line of sight from the factory and throughout HPE’s supply chain. HPE’s ability to extend this level of control to its end-of-life services via its Onsite Decommission services adds incremental benefits related to both reducing business risk and the operational cost of managing infrastructure.

As the AI-era of business matures, businesses will increasingly demand greater efficiency, greater consolidation, and greater security from their server environments. Selecting server infrastructure is a strategic decision, not just a tactical one. HPE’s Gen12 combination of software, security, and efficiency is a clear step on the path that innovation is, and should be, headed.