Dell, HPE, and Others Unveil AI Innovations at GTC 2026

SAN JOSE, California — Next-generation Nvidia Vera Rubin AI Platform dominated the headlines at GTC 2026, but the deeper story was how Dell Technologies, HPE and a wave of storage specialists moved to differentiate themselves above the silicon layer, with new offerings spanning AI servers, storage, data orchestration and managed “AI factory” stacks aimed at helping data center operators build their AI infrastructure.

Major hardware and cloud providers announced support for Nvidia’s upcoming Vera Rubin platform and launched new servers and cloud instances powered by the Nvidia RTX PRO 4500 and 6000 Blackwell GPUs. At the same time, many providers focused their biggest bets on the top of the stack.

“We’re seeing a lot of partners trying to improve the stack. From a competitive landscape perspective, you’re increasingly seeing these pure infrastructure players getting into data management,” said Omdia analyst Mike Leone. Data center knowledge. “Most of the infrastructure…