Mar 23 2026

NVIDIA GTC 2026: NVIDIA’s Partner Ecosystem Is Enabling Artificial Intelligence for the Enterprise

Leading tech providers including Hitachi Vantara, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Lenovo and VAST Data came to NVIDA GTC this year with new solutions designed to assist enterprise organizations with their artificial intelligence initiatives. All of them are partnering with NVIDIA to bring their offerings to market, and many are seeking to help enterprises develop and manage AI factories.

The key to success — even for tech giants such as NVIDIA — is in collaborating with valued partners. As NVIDIA’s Charlie Boyle explained, “An AI factory wouldn’t be possible without an ecosystem.”

To learn more about NVIDIA GTC 2026, visit our conference page. 

Participants

    Octavian Tanase, Chief Product Officer, Hitachi Vantara

    Julius Francis, Senior Director of Product Marketing for Routing Infrastructure Business, Hewlett Packard Enterprise

    Phil Manez, Vice President of GTM Execution, VAST Data

    Dale Brown, Global Head of Growth for AI Solution Sales, Hewlett Packard Enterprise

    Robert Daigle, Director of Global AI Business, Lenovo

    Charlie Boyle, Vice President of DGX Systems, NVIDIA

Video Highlights

  • According to Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s Julius Francis, AI factories are facing a networking problem, but HPE’s partnership with Juniper Networks and NVIDIA offers an “end-to-end, full-stack solution for the AI grid.”
  • VAST Data is also bringing an AI platform to market, partnering with NVIDIA and bringing in cybersecurity expertise from CrowdStrike.
  • Lenovo also announced a full-stack solution, which Robert Daigle said is based on modular building blocks that scale from deploying AI at your desktop all the way to gigafactory scale solutions.