{"id":641622,"date":"2026-04-25T12:59:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T10:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=641622"},"modified":"2026-05-07T11:13:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T09:13:35","slug":"hewlett-packard-enterprise-rolls-out-new-servers-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/enterprise\/641622-hewlett-packard-enterprise-rolls-out-new-servers-in-south-africa.html","title":{"rendered":"Hewlett Packard Enterprise rolls out new servers in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The South African arm of Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is tackling two pillars in its 2026 strategy for South Africa, starting with a push to modernise legacy server infrastructure employed locally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As old enterprise technology is replaced, HPE introduces AI-native networking, and it says partners in South Africa are already seeing the benefits of these changes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Mandy Duncan, country manager of HPE Networking South Africa, using outdated legacy systems starts to constrain companies as expansion ambitions grow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Trying to scale AI on outdated digital foundations is like playing Jenga on a wobbly table: early wins stack up quickly, but as ambition grows, every underlying weakness is magnified,” she said in an opinion piece.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“South African organisations are reaching this point with AI,” she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Local companies are now seeking to accelerate AI adoption, driven by international headlines and advice from notable investment firms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

South African IT mainstay Mustek announced a R7 million investment<\/a> into AI, with a plan to offer partners AI solutions through its newly acquired marketplace platform provider, Business AI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

KPMG reported in 2025 that 71% of African CEOs are investing in AI technology<\/a> and skills, with 32% indicating that integrating AI into core operations was a major challenge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“AI workloads behave very differently from traditional enterprise applications,” said Duncan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She explained that training models generates enormous amounts of east-west traffic across data centres and cloud environments, while AI inferences require ultra-low latency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AI networks require both scale and speed, and legacy systems are unable to meet the growing demands of a technology evolving rapidly across the globe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Traditional networks, designed for predictable north-south traffic, were not built for this scale or volatility,” she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Today, networks must securely connect infrastructure, applications, users and data, while supporting compute-intensive workloads and increasingly complex hybrid environments.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, local organisations face challenges that make these requirements more inaccessible. Companies in South Africa face skills shortages and infrastructure constraints in AI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

HPE launches ProLiant Gen 12 AI-ready servers in South Africa<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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HPE’s ProLiant Gen 12 servers introduced in February 2025.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Duncan said that instead of bolting AI into existing legacy systems, local companies should move towards AI-native systems, infrastructure built to address the growing demand for AI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“AI-native networks simplify operations, increase productivity, and deliver more reliable performance at scale by continuously analysing network behaviour and predicting issues before they impact users.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duncan gives an example of hospitality partners of HPE that are employing AI-enabled networks, and how these networks are able to recognise returning guests as soon as they connect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“At large-scale events such as the Nedbank Golf Challenge, AI-native networking has enabled thousands of attendees to connect seamlessly while receiving real-time, location-aware information on their devices,” she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This automation of operations allows companies to reduce reliance on manual processes, like creating individual tickets for each customer or user.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

HPE introduced its ProLiant Gen 12 servers in South Africa to address challenges in the local infrastructure environment. These servers deliver stronger processing power and improved workload density.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Riaan Swart, Tarsus Distribution’s HPE GM Enterprise \u2014 traditional technologies, said that the latest generation HPE compute platforms allow organisations to modernise while lowering operational costs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Moving to the latest generation compute platforms allows businesses to consolidate workloads while improving efficiency and control.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new servers are AI-native, with AI-driven analytics and processing, potentially lowering power and cooling requirements for companies thanks to their efficiency and performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Consolidating workloads onto newer generation servers can significantly reduce the number of systems required in a data centre,” said Swart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As local companies seek to adopt AI and scale their operations, integrating modern solutions begins by evaluating existing server environments and identifying the best locations for AI-ready infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said that replacing legacy infrastructure should enable organisations to scale, secure, and manage their environments more effectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

HPE says that South African organisations adopting AI should replace legacy systems entirely with AI-native infrastructure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341213,"featured_media":641624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57364],"tags":[37815,41668,104625,737,104626,104551,65950],"class_list":["post-641622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-enterprise","tag-hewlett-packard-enterprise","tag-hpe","tag-mandy-duncan","tag-mustek","tag-proliant-gen-12-servers","tag-riaan-swart","tag-tarsus-distribution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641622"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641622"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":646041,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641622\/revisions\/646041"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}