HPE Highlights Modular Design and Post-Quantum Security at OCP Global Summit

Industry / Press Release October 14, 2025

October 13 2025 -- As AI continues to shape the way businesses are evolving at an unprecedented pace, it is all the more critical that HPE remains steadfast in its commitment to innovation, security, and open standards for our customers. At this year’s OCP Global Summit in San Jose, hosted by Open Compute Project, the company is bringing that commitment with new features and support for the latest NVIDIA AI infrastructure and networking updates.

Embracing Modularity and Open-Source Hardware Standards

Modularity has become a cornerstone of modern server architecture, enabling interoperability, scalability, and security while reducing operational costs. Earlier this year, HPE introduced six HPE ProLiant Compute Gen12 servers with modular designs that are fully compliant with the Open Compute Project standards, in line with HPE’s commitment to open-source collaboration across its portfolio. The modular design of these HPE ProLiant Compute Gen12 servers enables flexibility, giving enterprise customers and service providers the ability to exercise greater control by fine-tuning infrastructure to fit dynamic business needs.

This portfolio includes mainstream servers like the HPE ProLiant Compute DL320, DL325, DL340, and DL345 Gen12. Furthermore, the HPE ProLiant Compute DL380a Gen12 offers GPU acceleration for AI workloads, and the HPE ProLiant Compute DL580 Gen12 offers scale-up capabilities for larger workloads and applications.

HPE iLO 7: A Leap Forward in Server Security

Cybersecurity Awareness Month serves as a reminder of the importance of securing digital infrastructure, and HPE Integrated Lights Out (iLO 7), first introduced in February, is further bolstering its capabilities with new features. HPE iLO 7 is enabled by the integrated secure enclave, an HPE innovation which uses a dedicated security processor and secure storage to safeguard HPE ProLiant Compute servers at every phase of its lifecycle. The capabilities initially introduced in HPE iLO 7 allowed HPE ProLiant Compute Gen12 to be the first and only servers to meet NIST’s quantum computing resistant security requirements.

Available immediately, HPE iLO 7 now supports stronger and longer encryptions keys, up to 4096-bit RSA keys, for post-quantum cryptography. Additionally, while the latest HPE ProLiant Compute servers adopt modular hardware architecture, HPE iLO 7 has also become a detachable data center modular hardware system (DC-MHS) module. Modularity comes with many benefits; however, a standardization of parts can also give rise to supply chain risks with counterfeit parts. This version of HPE iLO ensures that modules are authentic HPE-produced parts, ensuring system fidelity. Additionally, if a customer experiences an issue with a component, like a host processor module (HPM), the customer’s settings will still be preserved when the component is replaced.

HPE iLO also supports local key management server integrations through its secure enclave capabilities and by the first half of 2026 both HPE iLO 6 and iLO 7 will add support of Key Management Interoperability Protocol (KMIP), aligning with the latest remote key security standards. With these features, HPE is further bolstering server management security with unique capabilities only available from HPE.

AI leadership: Top MLPerf Benchmarks and NVIDIA AI Computing by HPE

The HPE ProLiant Compute Gen12 servers aren’t just modular and secure—they are incredibly powerful. HPE ProLiant Compute and HPE Cray servers achieved 14 No.1 rankings in the MLPerf Inference v5.1 benchmarks, showcasing industry-wide prowess in various AI workloads. This achievement is made possible by HPE’s ongoing collaboration with NVIDIA to deliver innovation across the NVIDIA AI Computing by HPE portfolio.

Today, HPE is also announcing new solutions based on the NVIDIA Kyber architecture announcement and will support the upcoming NVIDIA Spectrum-XGS Ethernet scale-across technology as part of the Spectrum-X Ethernet Platform. These next-generation AI factory solutions will help customers optimize data flows and reduce latency. Support for NVIDIA Spectrum-XGS Ethernet and an HPE solution based on NVIDIA Kyber will be available time-to-market.

Cybersecurity Awareness Month: A Time to Reflect and Act

During Cybersecurity Awareness Month, it’s important to recognize the role innovation plays in securing the digital future. HPE’s advancements in hardware and security are not just technical achievements, they are a commitment to customers who require trust and resilience throughout their infrastructure.

If you find yourself at OCP Summit this week, stop by HPE booth A42 to explore HPE’s latest AI solutions and modular computing designs that are shaping the future of business while keeping security front-and-center.