“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 gained’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.
Rami Rahim, previously CEO of Juniper Networks and now common supervisor of HPE’s networking enterprise.
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HPE’s acquisition of Juniper, an advanced deal
HPE’s acquisition of Juniper, price a whopping $14 billion, has not been a simple course of however reasonably 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 cut back competitors within the networking gear 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 vital voices that also exist within the US concerning this merger, Neri recalled, to begin with, that “the transaction was authorised outside the United States inside a standard interval, I might 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 achieve this 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 an alternative of three; however the actuality is that this market is seven or eight. For those who have a look at the U.S., you might have Cisco, Juniper, HPE, Cambium Networks, Ubiquity and Arista. All of them compete available in the market. And, relying on the trade, some are stronger than others; it’s additionally a special story in case you’re speaking about massive enterprises or the general public sector. The market share that a lot of you [journalists] report on helps that the market is massive and that there’s fragmentation.” Ultimately, he added, with the U.S. Division of Justice, “we went by means of a constructive course of, which in the end was finest for each of us. We demonstrated that this income house is a pro-competitive atmosphere. And I’ve to say, through 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 clients and none from opponents.”
AI and cloud within the highlight
In Barcelona, Neri additionally highlighted the technological advances made in latest months by HPE in cloud and synthetic intelligence, applied sciences that the manager sees as utterly 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 clients worldwide; there are plans so as to add AI improvements, such because the incorporation of a framework based mostly on autonomous brokers (Greenlake Intelligence), introduced 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 Personal Cloud proposition, particularly in a extremely regulated atmosphere such because the EU, and significantly in strategic sectors the place knowledge is particularly delicate such because the navy.
