For the week ending June 27, CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their ‘A’ game to the channel including Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Snyk, Rubrik, AMD, HCLTech and EdgeCore.
Topping this week’s Five Companies that Came to Win list is Hewlett Packard Enterprise, which made a big move in the agentic AI space this week, as well as unveiling a number of significant changes to its partner program.
Development security provider Snyk and data security company Rubrik both make the list for announcing strategic acquisitions. And Data Center service provider EdgeCore is investing big in a new data center campus in Virginia, adding to its already significant data center capacity in the Old Dominion state.
HPE Launches Greenlake Intelligence Agentic AI Framework
Hewlett Packard Enterprise tops this week’s list of companies that came to win with the company’s debut of GreenLake Intelligence, a framework of autonomous, self-learning agentic AI assistants for managing hybrid IT environments.
GreenLake Intelligence agents are capable of detecting and preventing IT issues before they disrupt operations and fixing IT problems across the entire hybrid/multi-cloud, multi-vendor IT stack, according to HPE, which held its HPE Discover event in Las Vegas this week.
“We are moving beyond AI that simply analyzes or recommends toward a new intelligent agentic AI admin workforce,” said HPE President and CEO Antonio Neri in an HPE Discover keynote. “These AI admins will continuously optimize your infrastructure and resolve issues, helping you save both time and cost.”
GreenLake Intelligence leverages the orchestration automation platform HPE gained through its acquisition of Morpheus in August 2024 and the AIOps technology it acquired when it bought OpsRamp in March 2023.
HPE also introduced its newly unified Partner Ready Vantage channel program that combines 11 different programs into a single offering aimed at rewarding both transactional and specialty partners. It also debuted a new tier, Triple Platinum Plus, within its partner program that’s aimed at getting more of its largest transactional partners to sell the complete HPE networking, compute and hybrid cloud portfolio.
The company also expanded its Nvidia AI Factory-based offerings with new HPE servers running on Nvidia Blackwell GPUs, including the new HPE Compute XD690 with up to eight Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell GPUs.
Snyk Strengthens Its Hand Against Emerging AI Threats With Acquisition
Developer security platform provider Snyk this week acquired AI security research firm Invariant Labs in a move to bolster the company’s recently launched AI Trust Platform.
Snyk is also leveraging the acquisition to establish Snyk Labs, the company’s new research arm focused on advancing the AI security services delivered through the AI Trust Platform, according to the company.
The addition of Invariant Labs boosts Snyk’s ability to help customers secure AI-native and agentic applications, including large language models and autonomous agents. Snyk can now support security teams as they deal with “urgent and unfamiliar risks” in AI-native software, the company said.
Invariant Labs is the latest in a line of Snyk acquisitions that includes Probely, a Portugal-based developer of Dynamic Application Security Test (DAST) technology for security testing of APIs that Snyk bought in November 2024, and Helios, whose technology captures security relevant data from live applications, that Snyk acquired in January 2024. Earlier Snyk acquisitions included DeepCode, Reviewpad and Enso Security.
Rubrik Eyes Predibase Acquisition To Accelerate Customer AI Projects
Speaking of strategic acquisitions, data security vendor Rubrik this week announced a deal to buy Predibase, a startup developer of technology used to train and fine-tune large language models.
Rubrik said it can leverage Predibase’s technology to help customers move their agentic AI projects more quickly from pilot to production at scale. With Predibase’s technology clients can get AI results with better accuracy, lower costs, better performance and automated data governance, according to the company.
Rubrik CEO Bipul Sinha said the acquisition should help Rubrik move beyond a reputation as a data security vendor to one as “a key enabler for building AI.”
“Together, we’ll be building towards a shared vision at the intersection of AI, security, and data–what we believe to be the most important frontier in enterprise software,” Predibase CEO Devvret Rishi said in a statement.
AMD And HCLTech Strike Strategic Alliance To Deliver AI, Cloud Solutions
Chip designer AMD and global systems integrator HCLTech make this week’s list for establishing a strategic alliance to deliver advanced AI and cloud solutions for enterprise customers.
The two companies are expected to co-invest in innovation labs and training programs that they said will “provide enterprises with innovative tools that unlock new business opportunities and enhance operational efficiency.”
AMD landed the partnership with HCLTech, ranked No. 16 on CRN’s 2025 Solution Provider 500 list, as the Santa Clara, Calif.-based company ramps up channel investments to continue putting pressure on Intel in the CPU market and challenging Nvidia with increasingly powerful data center GPUs for AI.
With more than 220,000 employees and over 60 innovation labs across 60 countries, HCLTech provides a wide range of technology services, including generative and agentic AI development, to customers in more than a dozen industries, such as automotive, consumer goods, manufacturing, retail and financial services.
The innovation labs being run by AMD and HCLTech are meant to “serve as testbeds for advanced technologies,” including the chip designer’s EPYC server CPUs, Ryzen Pro processors for PCs and Instinct data center GPUs.
EdgeCore To Plow $17B Into New Virginia Data Center Campus
Denver-based data center provider EdgeCore announced Wednesday that it plans to spend $17 billion to build a 1.1-gigawatt facility in Virginia.
The 3.9 million-square-foot data center campus will be built on 697 acres of land in the Shannon Hill Regional Business Park area of Louisa County, the company stated in a press release. Once it comes online, it will be EdgeCore’s third data center campus in the Old Dominion state. EdgeCore currently has about 500 megawatts of capacity under management in Virginia.
EdgeCore said once the new data center is complete, the facility will use the most efficient environmental standards when it comes to the water and air-cooled systems that are employed to cool the facility, striving to meet its benchmark water usage of less than .01 liters per hour.
The newest EdgeCore news brings the company’s total active market count to six, including Ashburn and Culpeper, Virginia; Silicon Valley; Greater Phoenix; and Reno, all of which have been designed to accommodate data centers for single hyperscale tenants.
