Tag: HPE

HPE spends £11 billion on Juniper

Posted on January 11, 2024 by - News

Former maker of expensive printer ink HPE is buying Juniper Networks in a £11 billion deal that sets up a fight for network supremacy in the AI era between HPE Aruba Networking and market leader Cisco Systems.

HPE said the deal to buy California-based Juniper gives it more AI networking power and doubles its networking business, making what it called in a statement a “new networking leader with a huge portfolio that gives customers and partners a tempting new choice to drive business value.”

HPE is paying £31 per share in a cash deal that expects to boost its non-GAAP EPS and free cash flow in the first year after the deal closes.

On a pro forma basis, the new networking segment will go up from about 18 per cent of total HPE revenue as of fiscal year 2023 to about 31 per cent and make more than 56 per cent of HPE’s total operating income.

HPE to snap up Juniper for £10 billion

Posted on January 10, 2024 by - News

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is close to sealing a £10 billion deal to buy Juniper Networks, the US firm behind the world’s smartest network.

According to the Wall Street Journal, the deal could be announced this week unless the talks go pear-shaped.

A spokesHPE indignantly said the company doesn’t comment on gossip or hearsay and Juniper Networks did not say anything either.

Juniper Networks, based in Sunnyvale, California, used to make most of its money from service providers, but has now shifted to selling more to businesses, with its intelligent software and AI gear. It is now the leader in AI-powered networks, with its Juniper Mist platform, which rivals Cisco Meraki and HPE Aruba’s ESP.

HPE updates partner programme

Posted on November 2, 2023 by - News

Hewlett Packard Enterprise has updated its HPE Partner Ready Vantage programme.

For those not in the know, Partner Ready Vantage is designed for channel partners who want to deliver as-a-service solutions.

HPE said the improvements include comprehensive Centres of Expertise, new competencies and an evolved competency framework, and tools and offerings that drive repeatable profitability and foster long-standing customer relationships for partners.

HPE Vice President of Worldwide Channel & Partner Ecosystem Simon Ewington said the HPE Partner Ready Vantage helps unlock margin-rich opportunities across professional services, managed services, and customer success.

HPE restructures for cloudy day sales

Posted on September 21, 2023 by - News

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is restructuring to accelerate its hybrid cloud sales offensive.

The former maker of expensive printer ink wants to create a new hybrid cloud organisation that includes a storage business unit, and this will require a shake-up, including executive departures and reassignments.

The new hybrid cloud business unit will be led by HPE CTO Fidelma Russo, who will be responsible for a business that includes HPE Storage, HPE GreenLake Cloud Services Solutions and the current Office of the CTO, all under the umbrella of the HPE GreenLake platform.

After the restructuring, HPE executive vice president and general manager of the storage business unit, Tom Black, will report to Russo.

HPE busy among its channel parters

Posted on September 4, 2023 by - News

Canalys Forum EuropeHewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has reported a positive third quarter and busy market activity among its channel partners.

Overall revenue was up a per cent to $7 billion, from the prior year, and up 3.5 per cent in constant currency.

Annualised revenue run-rate (ARR) saw an increase of 48 per cent to $1.3 billion. At the same time, gross margins were 35.8 per cent for GAAP – up 130 basis points from the prior year and down 20 basis points sequentially.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise pours on AI sauce

Posted on June 22, 2023 by - News

Hewlett Packard Enterprise CEO Antonio Neri has sworn that partners will be included in the edge-to-cloud platform powerhouse’s “bold” AI future.

He said that HPE would be making some bold moves but will include partners in that journey because  not everybody will be capable or in a position to be part of it.

Neri told partners that his name started with an A and ended with an I and the thought that was “inspiring!”

He said that HPE’s AI moves will demonstrate that the company has thought about solving problems with AI in an “ethical and sustainable way” that can benefit society.

“I believe we can use data in a different way, at a pace we haven’t seen before,” he told partners in the audience. “But also [we will] bring the partners along that journey. Because obviously supercomputers have not been something many people in the room have solved. The question is how do we make it more consumable for everyone.”

 

HPE names 11:11 Systems global provider of the year

Posted on June 21, 2023 by - News

Managed infrastructure solutions provider 11:11 Systems has been named Global Service Provider of the Year by Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE).

The HPE Partner of the Year Award recognises HPE partners who exemplify commitment and success in delivering value to their customers on their digital transformation journey.

This recognition has been given to HPE partners who have achieved exceptional results in financial performance, innovative solutions and meeting meaningful business milestones. The award was announced at HPE Discover 2023, HPE’s annual edge-to-cloud conference.

HPE said 11:11 won the award this year for its Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) solutions. 11:11 Systems and HPE combine industry-leading technology and customised and flexible solutions that offer customers the peace of mind that comes from knowing that their data is protected from unplanned events like cybercrime, hardware failure and natural disasters.

Ethernet switch market grows

Posted on June 13, 2023 by - News

The worldwide Ethernet switch market grew revenues 31.5 per cent year over year in the first quarter of 2023 to $10 billion.

According to Beancounters at IDC the entire worldwide enterprise and service provider (SP) router market recorded $4.1 billion in revenue in 1Q23, a 14.1 per cent annual increase.

The Ethernet switch market’s growth of 31.5 per cent in 1Q23 builds on annualised growth of 3.3 per cent in 4Q22 and 19.4 per cent for the full year 2022. In 1Q23, the Ethernet switch market strengthened across the data and non-data centre segments. Revenues in the non-datacentre/enterprise campus and branch segment grew 38.7 per cent yearly, while port shipments rose 14.1 per cent. Revenues in the data center portion of the market rose 23.2 per cent year over year in the first quarter of 2023, while port shipments increased 19.7 per cent.

White leaves HPE

Posted on April 18, 2023 by - News

The bloke behind HPE Greenlake as-a-service, Keith White, is stepping aside at the end of April to pursue other opportunities.

HPE CEO Antonio Neri told employees of White’s imminent departure in an email describing White as “an exceptional colleague, friend, customer advocate, and team champion.”

“Through the last several years, Keith was instrumental in accelerating the development of HPE GreenLake,” said Neri.

HPE will snap up OpsRamp

Posted on March 21, 2023 by - News

HPE wants to acquire OpsRamp in a move to further expand HPE GreenLake into IT operations management (ITOM).

OpsRamp bills monitors, observes, automates and manages IT infrastructure, cloud resources, workloads and applications for hybrid and multi-cloud environments, including the leading hyperscalers.

According to HPE, Integrating OpsRamp’s hybrid digital operations management solution with the HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform will reduce the operational complexity of multi-vendor and multi-cloud IT environments that are in the public cloud, collocations, and on-premises.

The number of partners transacting HPE GreenLake grew 58 per cent last year.

HPE surprises with good results

Posted on March 6, 2023 by - News

The former maker of expensive printer ink HPE surprised everyone with some rather good results.

HPE showed off a 12 per cent annual revenue hike for its fiscal 2023 First Quarter ending 31 January 2023.

HPE reached the high end of its First Quarter revenue outlook by recording revenues of $7.8 billion, a 12 per cent rise on the previous year and the highest best it recorded since 2016.

Intelligent Edge and High Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence grew 25 and 34 per cent to $1.1billion respectively.

Compute revenue grew 14 per cent to $3.5 billion, while storage revenue rose five per cent to $1.2 billion.

HPE launches new Irish partner programme

Posted on February 3, 2023 by - News

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has launched a fresh Ireland partner programme.

The outfit said the programme aims to “reinvigorate” its partnerships in Ireland and is centred on strategic investment to support partner growth.

The move will be led by Heather Walls who is HPE’s as new Ireland channel leader after working at the former maker of expensive printer ink for more than ten years.

She will join the local Irish leadership team whilst continuing to report into the UK & Ireland channel director, Lewis Simmonds.

HPE comes up with more cloudy options

Posted on December 9, 2022 by - News

HPE has spruced up its GreenLake as-a-service portfolio with an option for customers wanting a private cloud environment.

Dubbed GreenLake for Private Cloud Enterprise, HPE says that the product will give users the same container run-times they would gain if they chose public cloud and support for those customers looking for DevOps environments.

The vendor has continued to expand the ecosystem for GreenLake and has added support for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform just a few weeks after it cut the ribbon on HPE GreenLake for VMware.

HPE has high hopes for Greenlake

Posted on October 14, 2022 by - News

HPE CEO Antonio Neri claims GreenLake is now a $7.7 billion business and is growing at 86 percent annually.

For those who came in late, GreenLake is the vendor’s as-a-service offering and Neri thinks it will be a  “North Star” for HPE customers, with the “entire company inside GreenLake”.

In HPE’s 2021 full-year results, the vendor revealed that it had added $1.5 billion of GreenLake total contract value in the preceding year, bringing the total to more than $5.7 billion. More than 900 partners sold HPE GreenLake, making it “one of the largest partner of ecosystems selling as-a-Service offerings in the industry”.

Channel does not need to fear price rises

Posted on October 13, 2022 by - News

HPE CEO Antonio Neri has told the Channel that there is nothing wrong with raising product prices, in fact his company has been doing it for years.

Speaking to the gathered throngs at The Channel Company’s XChange Best of Breed event in Atlanta, Neri said channel partners should take HPE’s lead and raise prices amid soaring inflation and demand for digital transformation.

He said: “One of the reasons why HPE has delivered at this level of performance and profitability…is because we have raised prices consistently. We are always the first to raise prices. Look at Dell. They follow just like that. But they’re never the first movers—never.”

“We are the market leader of raising prices. And you have to. There’s no way around it,” he added, as he expanded on a topic already discussed at the same conference by his IBM counterpart Arvind Krishna.

Neri said that the outlook for IT spending in 2023 isn’t as bad as the wider economy.