# NVIDIA BlueField Platform

Advanced infrastructure computing platform for powering the world’s AI data centers.

[Latest News](#news)

## Introduction

## Transform the Data Center for AI With NVIDIA BlueField

The NVIDIA® BlueField® platform ignites unprecedented performance, efficiency, and innovation—powering AI factories, the new class of purpose-built data centers for AI. With its robust compute power and integrated software-defined hardware accelerators for networking, storage, and security, BlueField creates a secure and accelerated infrastructure for any workload in any environment, ushering in a new era of accelerated computing, power efficiency, and AI.

## News

### BlueField In the News

### NVIDIA Vera BlueField-4 STX Brings Agentic AI Storage Processing With In-Silicon Security

New NVIDIA DOCA capabilities deliver zero-trust file access, 1,000x faster threat detection, and 800Gb/s network enforcement for enterprise agentic AI.

[Read the Press Release](https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-vera-bluefield-4-stx-brings-agentic-ai-storage-processing-with-in-silicon-security)

### NVIDIA BlueField-4 STX Storage Platform Launches With Broad Industry Adoption

NVIDIA STX is a modular AI storage reference design co‑developed with leading providers and built on NVIDIA accelerated compute, networking, and AI software. Learn how it powers NVIDIA BlueField‑4–based STX context memory storage that supercharges agentic AI and AI data infrastructure.

[Read the Press Release](https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-launches-bluefield-4-stx-storage-architecture-with-broad-industry-adoption)

### NVIDIA Brings AI-Powered Cybersecurity to World’s Critical Infrastructure

Akamai, Forescout, Palo Alto Networks, Siemens, and Xage Security are integrating NVIDIA accelerated computing and AI to advance OT cybersecurity, embedding real-time, zero-trust protection directly into industrial infrastructure for safer, more resilient operations.

[Read the Blog](https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/ai-cybersecurity-operational-technology-industrial-control-systems)

### NVIDIA BlueField-4 Powers AI-Native Storage Infrastructure for the Next Frontier of AI

NVIDIA BlueField-4 powers the NVIDIA Inference Context Memory Storage Platform, a new class of AI-native data storage infrastructure designed to accelerate and scale gigascale agentic inference.

[Read the Press Release](https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-bluefield-4-powers-new-class-of-ai-native-storage-infrastructure-for-the-next-frontier-of-ai)

## Portfolio

## Explore NVIDIA’s Portfolio of BlueField Platforms

### NVIDIA BlueField-4 DPU

The NVIDIA BlueField-4 is an 800Gb/s infrastructure platform for gigascale AI factories. Delivering six times the compute of its predecessor and featuring accelerations for networking, data storage, and cybersecurity, it unlocks new levels of performance, minimizes data-movement bottlenecks, improves power efficiency, and increases scale for AI infrastructure. Supported by a growing ecosystem of applications, BlueField-4 enables service providers and enterprises to deliver secure multi-tenant networking, rapid data access, real-time threat detection, and high-performance inference—powering robust, agile, and trusted AI data centers.

[Explore BlueField-4 DPUs](https://resources.nvidia.com/en-us-accelerated-networking-resource-library/bluefield-4-dpu-datasheet)

### NVIDIA BlueField-4 STX Storage Processor

A purpose-built NVIDIA Vera CPU-based storage processor that powers AI storage platforms with accelerated AI-native data movement and in-silicon security, boosting throughput, efficiency, and scalability for next-generation AI infrastructure.

[Explore BlueField-4 STX Storage Processors](https://resources.nvidia.com/en-us-ai-storage/bluefield-4-stx-storage-processor-datasheet)

### NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPU

The NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPU is a 400Gb/s infrastructure compute platform with line-rate processing of software-defined networking, storage, and cybersecurity. BlueField-3 combines powerful computing, high-speed networking, and extensive programmability to deliver software-defined, hardware-accelerated solutions for the most demanding workloads. From accelerated AI to hybrid cloud, high-performance computing to 5G wireless networks, BlueField-3 redefines the art of the possible.

[Explore BlueField-3 DPUs](https://resources.nvidia.com/en-us-accelerated-networking-resource-library/datasheet-nvidia-bluefield?lx=LbHvpR&topic=networking-cloud)

## Powering the Agentic AI Factory

Explore enterprise-ready microservices and orchestration frameworks for NVIDIA BlueField and NVIDIA® ConnectX® to accelerate, secure, and scale production AI workloads.

[Learn More](https://www.nvidia.com/en-eu/networking/products/software/doca.md)

Platform Technologies

## BlueField Platform for AI Networking

### NVIDIA Context Memory Storage Platform

NVIDIA CMX is an AI‑native context tier for long‑context, multi‑turn, and agentic AI inference that is powered by NVIDIA BlueField‑4 and NVIDIA Spectrum‑X™ Ethernet, to extend GPU memory with a shared, pod‑level context tier optimized for ephemeral KV cache.

[Learn More](https://www.nvidia.com/en-eu/data-center/ai-storage/cmx.md)

### Advancing the Enterprise AI Factory with NVIDIA BlueField

BlueField-powered cybersecurity and acceleration solutions are now part of the AI Factory Validated Design.

[Learn More](https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/bluefield-cybersecurity-acceleration-enterprise-ai-factory-validated-design)

## Resources

## Dig Into BlueField

Explore datasheets, whitepapers, solution briefs, partner content, and more covering BlueField networking, security, and storage acceleration—all in one place.

[Explore Library](https://resources.nvidia.com/l/en-us-accelerated-networking-resource-library-explore)

## Benefits

## Explore the Benefits of NVIDIA BlueField

### High-Performance AI Networking

BlueField delivers up to 800Gb/s connectivity with purpose-built accelerations for software-defined networking and distributed routing—freeing CPU cores while simplifying operations with integrated overlay and L3 underlay networking.

### AI Runtime Security

BlueField enforces zero-trust security with real-time threat detection and runtime protection—delivering pervasive security across every node, from infrastructure to workloads and applications, extending beyond the perimeter while isolating workloads and streamlining operations.

### Accelerated Storage for AI

BlueField accelerates data storage for AI with NVMe-oF, GPUDirect® Storage, and support for block, file, and object—delivering elastic performance that makes networked storage behave like direct-attached—boosting workload efficiency and streamlining management.

### Elastic AI Infrastructure

BlueField acts as an infrastructure controller with multi-service architecture and built-in service function chaining—enabling elastic, rapid provisioning with Kubernetes integration and extending seamlessly across diverse cloud environments.

## Technology Environments

## Featured BlueField Technology Environments

### BlueField-Enhanced Servers Supercharge AI and Industrial Workloads for Enterprises

NVIDIA RTX PRO™ Servers, built by global partners, combine NVIDIA Blackwell performance with BlueField acceleration—empowering enterprises to build AI factories and drive diverse workloads with breakthrough speed, scale, and energy savings.

[Learn More](https://www.nvidia.com/en-eu/data-center/products/rtx-pro-server.md)

### Validated Designs for Enterprise AI Factories

Discover NVIDIA-validated AI factory designs that integrate BlueField networking acceleration—delivering high-performance, secure, and scalable infrastructure to streamline deployment and accelerate enterprise AI workloads with confidence.

[Learn More](https://www.nvidia.com/en-eu/solutions/ai-factories/validated-design.md)

### AI Cybersecurity Powered by NVIDIA BlueField

Build accelerated, AI-driven defenses with NVIDIA BlueField—enhancing threat detection, strengthening zero-trust security, and protecting sensitive data with scalable, secure infrastructure for modern AI data centers.

[Learn More](https://www.nvidia.com/en-eu/solutions/ai/cybersecurity.md)

### NVIDIA and Industry Leaders Unveil Enterprise Infrastructure for AI

The NVIDIA AI Data Platform revolutionizes enterprise storage, empowering industry leaders to build distributed agentic systems with accelerated AI data processing, enabling businesses to unlock the full value of their data.

[Learn More](https://www.nvidia.com/en-eu/data-center/ai-data-platform.md)

### Transform HPC Data Centers With NVIDIA BlueField

Providing powerful computing, high-speed InfiniBand networking, and highly programmable engines, the NVIDIA BlueField networking platform ignites unprecedented innovation and performance for modern scientific computing applications.

[Learn More](https://www.nvidia.com/en-eu/networking/products/data-processing-unit/hpc.md)

### Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Chooses NVIDIA BlueField Networking

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is advancing sustainability goals by using BlueField DPUs to offload data center tasks from CPUs, achieving greater performance, efficiency, and security.

[Learn More](https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/oracle-cloud-infrastructure-chooses-nvidia-bluefield-data-center-acceleration-platform)

## Ecosystem

## Meet the Solutions Ecosystem

1. Systems
2. Cloud
3. Infrastructure
4. Cybersecurity
5. Storage
6. Services