HPE's Neri: Five Bold Bets on AI's Future

At HPE Discover in Las Vegas, CEO Antonio Neri reframed enterprise IT's role from operating technology to designing outcomes. His keynote outlined five key shifts: networks as AI performance multipliers, self-driving operations moving from concept to reality, and storage emerging as a critical bottleneck alongside GPUs. Neri also spotlighted the rise of agentic enterprises, warning of agent sprawl as developers deploy AI agents outside IT governance. HPE is positioning its Private Cloud AI platform as the control layer for managing autonomous systems, signaling that AI adoption now demands full lifecycle management, not just model deployment.