--- title: HPE Discover 2026 Recap description: The AI infrastructure boom drove one of the most dramatic DRAM price spikes in recent memory. image: https://blog.b2xglobal.com/hubfs/DLV26-Audience-stage-16-9.avif --- [![B2X Global](https://blog.b2xglobal.com/hubfs/raw_assets/public/B2XGlobal_April2022/images/b2x-logo.svg "B2X Global")](https://b2xglobal.com/) - [Company](https://b2xglobal.com/about-us/) - [About Us](https://b2xglobal.com/about-us/) - [Careers](https://b2xglobal.com/careers/) - [Products](https://b2xglobal.com/products/) - [Solutions](https://b2xglobal.com/solutions/) - Resources - [Case Studies](https://blog.b2xglobal.com/tag/case-studies) - [Account Setup](https://b2xglobal.com/setup/) - [Documents](https://b2xglobal.com/documents/) - [B2X Global Blog](https://blog.b2xglobal.com) - [Managing Supply Chain Shortages](https://go.b2xglobal.com/managing-technology-supply-chain-shortages) - [Contact](https://b2xglobal.com/contact-us/) [B2X Store](https://store.b2xglobal.com/) - [Company](https://b2xglobal.com/about-us/) - [About Us](https://b2xglobal.com/about-us/) - [Careers](https://b2xglobal.com/careers/) - [Products](https://b2xglobal.com/products/) - [Solutions](https://b2xglobal.com/solutions/) - Resources - [Case Studies](https://blog.b2xglobal.com/tag/case-studies) - [Account Setup](https://b2xglobal.com/setup/) - [Documents](https://b2xglobal.com/documents/) - [B2X Global Blog](https://blog.b2xglobal.com) - [Managing Supply Chain Shortages](https://go.b2xglobal.com/managing-technology-supply-chain-shortages) - [Contact](https://b2xglobal.com/contact-us/) [B2X Store](https://store.b2xglobal.com/) - [HPE](https://blog.b2xglobal.com/tag/hpe) 06.22.2026 ## HPE Discover 2026 Recap By [B2X Global](https://blog.b2xglobal.com/author/b2x-global) ![HPE Discover 2026 Recap](https://blog.b2xglobal.com/hubfs/DLV26-Audience-stage-16-9.avif) HPE Discover 2026 wrapped last week at The Venetian Convention and Expo Center, capping four days of discussions and announcements around how HPE is preparing for the future. Across three keynotes and more than 225 breakout sessions attended by over 20,000 IT professionals, HPE made the case that the network — not compute alone — will determine which enterprises can actually run AI agents at scale. Here's a breakdown: ### **Did Someone Say AI? ** Three center stage keynotes and 225+ breakout sessions, we can only imagine how many times "AI" was mentioned over the span of a few days. Any guesses? Antonio Neri's opening keynote centered on hardware and software for running AI at scale: - Confidential computing becomes standard across the entire HPE AI Factory with NVIDIA portfolio, effective Q4 2026 — built-in data protection for sensitive AI workloads by default. - Support for AMD Helios AI rack solutions and NVIDIA Vera-based systems, broadening the range of AI compute platforms HPE can deliver. - NVIDIA AI Factory software updates, including the NVIDIA Agent Tool kit, NVIDIA Nemotron open models, NemoClaw, and the OpenShell secure runtime. - Secure agentic operations, ensuring AI agents run only within their own guardrails, plus Zerto integration for data recovery if something goes wrong. - The HPE Unleash AI partner ecosystem, bringing together 60-plus validated partners — including CrowdStrike and Fortinet — to help enterprises find trusted, pre-validated AI solutions.   ## The Power of One Before the main keynotes, HPE's Partner Growth Summit set the tone for the week under the banner "The Power of One" — unifying HPE, Aruba, and Juniper's channel organizations into a single program, experience, and portfolio. - Unified Partner Ready Vantage, live November 1 ("Partner Day One"). All partner programs — HPE Partner Ready, HPE Partner Ready for Networking (formerly Juniper), and Aruba — combine under one umbrella, with:- A single partner portal and digitized onboarding in under three days.- Unified deal registration and one MDF program. - Full access to resell HPE's complete portfolio — compute, storage, and networking — through one program. - Juniper partners onboarded at their existing tier level. - Behind the scenes, HPE has already consolidated four quoting tools into one, cut support response times from 40 to 8 seconds, and improved payment accuracy from 84% to 98%. - New Smart Choice SKUs — competitively priced, pre-configured server and storage bundles aligned to best available supply — plus Smart Models in OCA, workload-specific templates updated continuously against current inventory. | ## B2X Can Help Subsidize Smart Choice BOMs  *All of the following parts are in stock and available for immediate allocation. * - P66676-B21 (96GB 2Rx4 DDR5-4800 RDIMM) - P43331-B21 (64GB 2Rx4 DDR5-4800 RDIMM) - P69727-B21 (32GB 2Rx8 DDR5-6400 RDIMM) - P64706-B21 (32GB 2Rx8 DDR5-5600 RDIMM) - P64707-B21 (64GB 2Rx4 DDR5-5600 RDIMM) - P50227-B21 (1.6TB NVMe Gen4 High Performance MU SFF BC SSD) - P40499R-B21 (Renew 1.92TB SATA 6G RI SFF BC SSD) - P40567R-B21 (Renew 7.68TB NVMe Gen4 RI SFF SSD) - R0Q57A (MSA 2.4TB SAS 12G 10K SFF HDD) \*\*Reply to this email or ask your rep for current pricing & availability\*\* Are you taking advantage of the many benefits offered by HPE's Limited Distribution channel?  | | --- | ![Screenshot 2026-01-16 at 2.38.35 PM](https://21452601.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na2.net/hub/21452601/hubfs/Screenshot%202026-01-16%20at%202.38.35%20PM.png?width=1200&length=1200&name=Screenshot%202026-01-16%20at%202.38.35%20PM.png)   ![B2X Global](https://blog.b2xglobal.com/hubfs/B2X%20avatar.jpeg) ### B2X Global ###### DISTRIBUTION REIMAGINED At B2X Global, we believe in the power of perception. 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