HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE
“ We’ re here to bring together what works, scale what’ s needed and build only when the use case truly demands it”
Chad Smykay, AI CTO, HPE
server maintenance, financial data updates or supply chain coordination without requiring human oversight for standard operations.
HPE is developing strategies to support the agentic AI era through various internal committees and protocol development work. The company aims to provide infrastructure and services that enable secure, scalable agent deployment across enterprise environments whilst maintaining governance controls that organisations require.
The rapid pace of change on this front is both an opportunity and a challenge for tech companies and their customers alike. Major developments occur every three months rather than the traditional three-to-five-year technology adoption cycles that previously characterised enterprise markets.
Scale challenges persist despite technological advances Despite growing market demand and technological maturity, scale remains HPE’ s biggest focus in AI implementation across its global customer base.
The company requires extensive partner networks to meet customer demand across multiple industries, geographic regions and use case categories while maintaining the technical expertise standards that enterprise customers require.
The scale challenge extends beyond human resources to encompass the complexity of modern AI implementations. Today’ s AI projects require integration across multiple systems, careful data preparation, ongoing model maintenance and continuous monitoring for performance degradation or bias issues.
118 October 2025