HPE Unveils ProLiant Compute Gen12 Servers Engineered for Advanced Security, AI Automation and Performance

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced 8 new ProLiant Compute Gen12 servers, the latest additions to a new-gen of enterprise servers that introduce industry-first security capabilities, optimize performance for complex workloads and boost productivity with management features enhanced by AI.

These servers will feature upcoming Intel Xeon 6 processors for data center and edge environments.

“Our customers are tackling workloads that are overwhelmingly data-intensive and growing ever-more demanding,” said Krista Satterthwaite, SVP and GM, compute, HPE. “The new HPE ProLiant Compute Gen12 servers give organizations – spanning public sector, enterprise and vertical industries like finance, healthcare and more – the horsepower and management insights they need to thrive while balancing their sustainability goals and managing costs. This is a modern enterprise platform engineered for the hybrid world, designed with innovative security and control capabilities to help companies prevail over the evolving threat landscape and performance challenges that their legacy hardware cannot address.”

Chip-to-Cloud and Full Lifecycle Security
The ProLiant Compute Gen12 portfolio sets a new standard for enterprise security with built-in safeguards at every layer – from the chip to the cloud – and every phase of the server lifecycle. HPE Integrated Lights Out (iLO) 7 introduces an enhanced and dedicated security processor called secure enclave that is engineered from the ground up as HPE intellectual property. ProLiant Compute servers with HPE iLO 7 will help organizations safeguard against future threats as the first server with quantum computing-resistant readiness and to meet the requirements for a high-level cryptographic security standard, the FIPS 140-3 Level 3 certification ⁽¹⁾.

The chip-enhanced security features of HPE iLO 7 uniquely distinguish ProLiant servers from other vendors. Embedded into the server hardware, secure enclave establishes an unbreakable chain of trust to protect against firmware attacks and creates full line-of-sight from the factory and throughout HPE’s trusted supply chain. This extends to the end of the product lifecycle with the company’s Onsite Decommission Services which collects equipment and transports it to an authorized sorting and recycling facility. 

AI-Driven Insights Improve Operations Management, Automation and Power Efficiency
HPE Compute Ops Management is a cloud-based software platform that helps customers secure and automate server environments. Proactive and predictive automation, now enhanced with AI-driven insights, helps organizations improve energy efficiency by forecasting power usage and enabling enterprises to set thresholds to control costs and carbon emissions on a WW level. A new global map view simplifies management so customers can instantly identify server health issues across distributed IT environments and multi-vendor toolset integration reduces downtime by up to 4.8 hours/server every year ⁽²⁾. Automated on-boarding simplifies server set-up and ongoing management, particularly in remote or branch-office deployments where local IT resources are not available.

All new Compute Ops Management features, including AI-informed insights, new map-based visibility and 3rd-party tool integration, will be available to ProLiant Compute Gen10 servers and newer.

To aid customers evaluating future purchases, a standalone tool called HPE Power Advisor estimates environment performance metrics such as energy costs and greenhouse gas emissions.

Servers Optimized for Performance, Energy Efficiency and Available with Direct Liquid Cooling
New additions to the ProLiant Compute Gen12 portfolio are right-sized to address demanding workloads that include AI, data analytics, edge computing, hybrid cloud and VDI solutions. Addressing the exponential growth in power demands placed on data centers, the ProLiant Compute Gen12 portfolio is engineered to optimize performance, energy efficiency and cost with up to 41% better performance per watt compared to legacy enterprise systems ⁽³⁾. ProLiant Compute Gen12 servers deliver up to 65% in power savings/year ⁽⁴⁾ and enable organizations to free up data center capacity with one Gen12 server providing the same compute performance as seven Gen10 servers ⁽⁵⁾.

“Partnering with reliable, innovative hardware vendors like HPE helps us meet the evolving needs of our clients and empower them with comprehensive, workload-optimized IT infrastructure solutions,” said William Bell, EVP, products, phoenixNAP. “We were the first customer in the world to order HPE ProLiant Compute Gen12 servers and the benefits of the upgrade were immediate. By delivering these advanced technologies as a service, phoenixNAP enables organizations of all sizes to tackle challenges related to performance, energy efficiency, data security, and infrastructure management at scale.”

To meet customer demand for more energy efficient data centers, HPE is offering optional direct liquid cooling (DLC) on Intel-based HPE ProLiant Compute Gen12 1-socket and 2-socket rack servers. Liquid removes heat more efficiently than air, removing more than 3,000 times more heat based on volume ⁽⁶⁾. The company has built the world’s fastest direct-liquid cooled supercomputers ⁽⁷⁾ and with more than 300 DLC patents and over 50 years of experience, HPE is a leader in deploying direct liquid-cooled servers and data centers.

Availability:

• Six of the 8 new HPE ProLiant Compute Gen12 servers featuring upcoming Intel Xeon 6 processors will be available Q1 2025. This includes HPE ProLiant Compute DL320, DL340, DL360, DL380, DL380a and ML350 Gen12 servers.
• HPE Synergy 480 and ProLiant Compute DL580 Gen12 servers are expected Summer 2025.
  
• The ProLiant Compute Gen12 portfolio will be available standalone or via HPE GreenLake, offering scalability, cost efficiency and service agility. These solutions can be purchased through an authorized channel partner. HPE Services helps customers make the most of the ProLiant Compute Gen12 portfolio by providing advisory, professional, operational, managed, financial and asset management assistance to accelerate business operations.
  

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[1] FIPS 140-3 Level 3 certification is a standard adopted by National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Commercial National Security Algorithm (CNSA) 2.0 to verify cryptographic modules.
[2] Forrester Consulting, New Technology: The Projected Total Economic Impact of HPE Compute Ops Management, commissioned by HPE (June 2024)
[3] Based on internal power and performance measurements comparing an 86-core HPE ProLiant Compute Gen12 server compared to a similarly configured Gen10 server.
[4] Reflects results posted on spec.org SPECrate2017_int_base: #20893 published as of 01-01-2025. The performance per watt advantage is based on internal power and performance measurements on similar configured high energy efficient servers and compared against an estimated 86-core Gen12 system. SPEC and SPECrates are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC).
[5] Reflects results posted on spec.org SPECrate2017_int_base: #20893 published as of 01-01-2025 that compares estimated thermal design power of a 48-core HPE ProLiant Compute Gen12 server. SPEC and SPECrates are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC).
[6] A propylene glycol-based liquid coolant cools 3.94X the heat as compared to an equal mass of air and is 869.9X denser than air, making this liquid coolant capable of handling 3427.5X the heat of the same volume of air.
[7] Per the November 2024 TOP500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputers.