Hewlett Packard Enterprise vs SambaNova

Hewlett Packard Enterprise — Hardware · Public · 2 of 2 figures sourced  |  SambaNova — Hardware · Private · Late-stage · 2 of 2 figures sourced

Relationship

HPE ProLiant Compute DL380a Gen12 and SambaRack both list AI compute hardware; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; smaller scale (private).

Assembled from the recorded fields for this pair, not hand-checked. The comparison below is read from each company’s own profile.

3 shared capabilitiesShared product typeSmaller scale

3 shared capabilities — Across all their products, both list AI compute hardware, model inference and server systems.

Ludbee capability tags · every product each company sells

Shared product type — Both ship hardware and infrastructure service.

Ludbee product records

Smaller scale — SambaNova: Late-stage, against Hewlett Packard Enterprise: Public.

Ludbee stage bands · public, late-stage or early-stage

Aligned comparison

FieldHewlett Packard EnterpriseSambaNova
StagePublicLate-stage
Founded20152017 2 yrs later
StatusPublicPrivate
CategoryHardwareHardware match
Stack layerApplication, Hardware, Infrastructure service, PlatformHardware, Infrastructure service, Model API
HeadquartersSpring, USASan Jose, USA

Capability overlap

Shared · 3

AI compute hardwareModel inferenceServer systems

Not verified for SambaNova · 3

Data analysisModel trainingWorkflow automation

Recorded for Hewlett Packard Enterprise. SambaNova’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Not verified for Hewlett Packard Enterprise · 1

Accelerator silicon

Recorded for SambaNova. Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Products, side by side

Algorithmic pairing — assembled from recorded fields, not hand-checked

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Infrastructure service

HPE Private Cloud AIInfrastructure service

Turnkey private AI stack co-engineered with NVIDIA, sold as integrated compute, storage and networking with a console to deploy, monitor and govern enterprise AI agents and models.

Hardware

HPE Compute XD690Hardware

8-GPU air-cooled server with NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra (B300 HGX) accelerators for large AI model training, tuning and inferencing, part of NVIDIA AI Computing by HPE.

HPE ProLiant Compute DL380a Gen12Hardware

4U rack server for AI inference supporting up to ten double-wide NVIDIA GPUs and Intel Xeon 6 processors.

HPE ProLiant Compute DL384 Gen12Hardware

Rack server for generative AI workloads with up to two NVIDIA GH200 NVL2 superchips, used to train and deploy larger AI models and as a building block of HPE Private Cloud AI.

HPE ProLiant Compute DL585a Gen13Hardware

10U rack server for production AI with two AMD EPYC 9006 processors and up to eight double-wide GPUs, for inference, RAG and agentic AI workloads.

HPE ProLiant Compute XD685Hardware

8-GPU server for large AI model training with a choice of NVIDIA or AMD Instinct accelerators and AMD EPYC 9005 processors.

SambaNova

Infrastructure service

SambaStackInfrastructure service

Full-stack AI system pairing SambaNova's RDU hardware with its serving software, deployed in a customer's own data centre.

Hardware

SambaNova RDUHardware

Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit accelerators designed to run large models at low latency.

SambaRackHardware

Air-cooled, rack-scale AI inference hardware system integrating 16 SN50 RDU chips per rack (scalable across multiple racks); accessed via on-premises deployment, SambaCloud, or contact-sales for enterprise/government deployments.

No counterpart

Hewlett Packard Enterprise sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for SambaNova yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.

Application

HPE Aruba Networking CentralApplication

Cloud-native network management and AIOps for HPE Aruba Networking wired, wireless and SD-WAN devices, with AI-driven insights, self-driving automation and a GreenLake copilot, deployable as a cloud service, on-premises, as-a-service or in a virtual private cloud.

HPE Marvis AIApplication

AI network assistant that answers network questions in natural language and, when permitted, resolves WLAN, LAN, WAN and data-centre issues autonomously.

HPE OpsRamp SoftwareApplication

Hybrid cloud observability and AIOps software that unifies monitoring of on-premises, multicloud and AI workloads, uses an AI-powered Operations Copilot to cut alert noise and guide resolution, and automates routine fixes.

Mist AIApplication

Cloud AI-native networking platform from Juniper (now HPE) that applies AI models to network telemetry for proactive insights, recommendations and automated resolutions across wireless, wired and WAN, with the Marvis AI assistant on top.

Platform

GreenLake IntelligencePlatform

An agentic AIOps system HPE sells to its GreenLake subscription customers to automate and operate IT/network infrastructure.

SambaNova sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for Hewlett Packard Enterprise yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.

Model API

SambaCloudModel API

Hosted inference service serving open-weight models on SambaNova's own RDU hardware, billed per token.

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