HP Z Workstations & Solutions at IBC 2025

HP — HP Anywhere & Z Workstations at IBC 2025

At IBC 2025, HP’s showcase was centered on their HP Z Workstations & Solutions line-up, with a spotlight on its role in media, post and creative workflows. While HP Anywhere (or equivalent remote/anywhere workflows) wasn’t the headline of HP’s public IBC messaging, HP strongly positioned its workstation hardware and connectivity ecosystem as the backbone that enables remote, hybrid, scalable media production. (alteredimages.com)

Here’s what HP focused on and what that means for you as a customer or user.

What HP Emphasised at IBC

• HP Z Workstations & Solutions at IBC 2025
   HP arrived on the IBC floor with their Z Workstations and media-friendly hardware solutions on display, in concert with partner technologies (AMD, Intel, NVIDIA). Their stand (7.B24) was dedicated to showing how these workstations power demanding media workflows — from editing to visual effects, to real-time playback in high resolution. (alteredimages.com)

• Creative & AI-Accelerated Workflows
   In presentations at IBC, HP highlighted how its Z machines enable hybrid creative + AI workflows, especially for media production. One talk (through the CGPro / HP speaker track) included demos of AI tools inside DaVinci Resolve running on HP hardware, showing how compute-heavy tasks (such as denoising, encoding, effects) can be accelerated locally without offloading everything to cloud. (becomecgpro.com)

• Digital Material Capture / HP Z Captis & Substance
   Another area HP pointed to is bridging the gap between capture and post: tools like HP Z Captis (for scanning, capturing physical assets / photogrammetry / texture capture) were tied into their workstation pipeline, especially when paired with software like Adobe Substance. This shows HP positioning itself not just in editing, but upstream in asset creation workflows. (alteredimages.com)

• Partnerships & Ecosystem Integration
   HP didn’t try to go it alone. At IBC, they emphasized their relationships with AMD, Intel, NVIDIA — showing certified configurations, optimized GPU / CPU / memory stacks, validated drivers and software stacks for media tools. That helps reduce integration risk for users. (alteredimages.com)

What Matters to You

• Reliable, certified performance for media workloads
   If you’re doing heavy editing, effects, motion graphics, rendering, or color grading, HP’s Z workstations assure you that the hardware is validated for those loads. Less tweaking, more consistency in your pipeline.

• Local acceleration — less dependence on cloud
   Showing AI tools running on local workstations means you don’t have to send everything up to the cloud — lower latency, better security, fewer transfer bottlenecks. For many post or media houses, that hybrid balance is vital.

• Upstream capture-to-post continuity
   With tools like Z Captis and integration into texture / asset creation workflows, you can simplify your asset pipeline. You capture, scan, texture, and bring assets into post without jumping across disjointed platforms.

• Reduced integration friction
   Because HP works closely with hardware and software partners, you get a more seamless experience: drivers, expansions, memory, GPU upgrades, and software compatibility — fewer surprises when you scale or upgrade.

• Future resilience for remote / hybrid workflows
   Even if HP didn’t flag “HP Anywhere” explicitly at IBC, the improved hardware, compute capacity, and ecosystem investment sets you up to support distributed teams, remote grading, or hybrid operations. The better your compute layer, the more your remote workflows depend on fewer weak links.