HPE CEO Neri highlights first fruits of Juniper takeover

“Rami’s intention and mine has at all times been to create a brand new chief in networking,” the HPE CEO mentioned. Neri famous that simply 5 months after the Juniper buy, HPE is already providing connectivity options to the market that mix the expertise of its one-time rival and that of its options from Aruba, which HP acquired in 2015. “Sooner or later, you received’t discover what one another is doing. And the truth that we already help the underlying twin design is only a testomony to how briskly the groups are coming collectively and clearly additionally all of the improvements, the place HPE’s benefits are already being leveraged,” Neri added.

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HPE’s acquisition of Juniper, value a whopping $14 billion, has not been an easy course of however moderately a fancy and prolonged one. Introduced in January 2024, the acquisition was not accomplished till July 2025. Nor has it been freed from controversy, particularly in the US, the place the Division of Justice (DOJ) filed a lawsuit to dam the acquisition, alleging that the merger would scale back competitors within the networking tools market, particularly within the space of wi-fi native space networks (WLAN).

Requested by COMPUTERWORLD ESPAÑA concerning the difficulties that HPE has skilled within the approval of the operation and concerning the essential voices that also exist within the US concerning this merger, Neri recalled, initially, that “the transaction was accredited exterior the US inside a standard interval, I’d say, of six months. In the summertime of 2024, there have been solely three nations left to approve it, and two of those three would accomplish that within the subsequent three months.” What occurred within the US, he added, “is that there was an election and a change of Administration, after which we went forward with the method.”

In analyzing the case, Neri continued: “The U.S. Division of Justice felt that within the campus and department workplace market, significantly in wi-fi, there have been going to be two [players] as a substitute of three; however the actuality is that this market is seven or eight. For those who have a look at the U.S., you could have Cisco, Juniper, HPE, Cambium Networks, Ubiquity and Arista. All of them compete out there. And, relying on the trade, some are stronger than others; it’s additionally a unique story in the event you’re speaking about giant enterprises or the general public sector. The market share that a lot of you [journalists] report on helps that the market is giant and that there’s fragmentation.” Ultimately, he added, with the U.S. Division of Justice, “we went by way of a constructive course of, which finally was finest for each of us. We demonstrated that this income area is a pro-competitive surroundings. And I’ve to say, throughout the ‘two million course of,’ which is the ultimate step [to notify large mergers and acquisitions] within the U.S., we acquired no complaints from prospects and none from opponents.”

AI and cloud within the highlight

In Barcelona, Neri additionally highlighted the technological advances made in current months by HPE in cloud and synthetic intelligence, applied sciences that the manager sees as fully linked as “AI is the quintessential hybrid workload.” He defended Greenlake, the corporate’s hybrid cloud platform that was initially born as a pay-per-use mannequin and which at the moment has 46,000 prospects worldwide; there are plans so as to add AI improvements, such because the incorporation of a framework based mostly on autonomous brokers (Greenlake Intelligence), offered by HPE final June and which is designed to automate and simplify IT operations in hybrid cloud environments. “The way forward for IT operations simplification is right here,” Neri famous.

Neri additionally highlighted the relevance of HPE’s Air-gapped Non-public Cloud proposition, particularly in a extremely regulated surroundings such because the EU, and significantly in strategic sectors the place information is particularly delicate such because the navy.