HPE
Corporate brand
UnclaimedAn enterprise technology company providing compute, storage, networking, high-performance computing, hybrid-cloud, and IT services.
Last updated October 6, 2026
Overview
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company (HPE) is a United States-based multinational information-technology company serving businesses, public-sector organizations, telecommunications providers, and other institutional customers. It was created on November 1, 2015, when Hewlett-Packard split into two separately listed companies. HP Inc. retained the former company’s personal-computer and printing operations, while HPE received its enterprise technology, services, software, server, storage, networking, and consulting businesses. HPE trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker HPE, separate from HP Inc.’s historical stock identity. The company’s main activities span enterprise servers, data storage, wired and wireless networking, high-performance computing, artificial intelligence infrastructure, edge computing, container and cloud-management software, consulting, technical support, and customer financing. Its portfolio includes ProLiant servers, HPE Synergy composable infrastructure, HPE Alletra and related storage systems, Aruba Networking, Cray supercomputing technologies, HPE Ezmeral software, and HPE GreenLake. GreenLake is central to HPE’s strategy: it packages infrastructure and selected software and services through a consumption-based model intended to give customers cloud-like purchasing and operating flexibility while allowing workloads to remain in customer facilities, colocation environments, or public-cloud-connected deployments. HPE’s history has been shaped by portfolio restructuring. In 2017, its Enterprise Services business was combined with Computer Sciences Corporation to create DXC Technology, while its non-core software portfolio was merged with Micro Focus. HPE also expanded its infrastructure capabilities through acquisitions including Silicon Graphics International, SimpliVity, Nimble Storage, and Cray. Aruba Networks, acquired by the former Hewlett-Packard before the 2015 separation, became an important part of HPE’s networking business. These transactions moved HPE away from the broad conglomerate inherited from Hewlett-Packard and toward infrastructure platforms, networking, high-performance computing, and recurring services. The company serves organizations across industries and regions through direct sales, channel partners, system integrators, managed-service providers, and technology alliances. Its offerings are used for conventional data-center workloads as well as artificial-intelligence computing, private and hybrid cloud, virtualization, data protection, cybersecurity, edge operations, and advanced scientific research. HPE Financial Services supports equipment acquisition and lifecycle management for customers and partners. HPE has also made sustainability and energy efficiency part of its enterprise positioning, particularly in data-center equipment and high-performance computing, where power consumption and cooling are material operating concerns. The company has reported emissions-reduction targets aligned with a 1.5-degree-Celsius climate pathway. Its public profile has nevertheless included criticism concerning the use of technology supplied by Israeli subsidiaries and institutions, as well as scrutiny of a proposed Juniper Networks acquisition and earlier reports about the examination of security-software source code by a Russian defense organization. HPE relocated its corporate headquarters from California to the Houston area in Texas. The company remains an active, publicly traded enterprise-technology vendor whose strategic emphasis is increasingly on hybrid cloud, networking, AI infrastructure, edge computing, and technology delivered as a service.
History
HPE was established on November 1, 2015, when Hewlett-Packard separated its enterprise technology operations from its personal-computer and printing operations. The new company inherited Hewlett-Packard's enterprise servers, storage, networking, services, financing, and software-related activities, while HP Inc. became the home of the PC and printer businesses. Meg Whitman became HPE's first chief executive, and the company began trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol HPE. The separation was part of a broader effort to give the two businesses more focused strategies and capital structures. HPE initially operated across traditional data-center hardware, technology services, consulting, software, and financing. Its early portfolio included ProLiant servers, 3PAR storage, networking, high-performance computing, and enterprise support. In 2017, HPE completed two major portfolio changes. Its Enterprise Services business combined with Computer Sciences Corporation to form DXC Technology, and much of its software business was transferred to Micro Focus. These transactions reduced HPE's exposure to lower-growth or less-integrated activities and left it more concentrated on infrastructure and related services. HPE continued to expand in specialized infrastructure. It acquired Silicon Graphics International in 2016, adding high-performance computing and data analytics capabilities, and completed the acquisition of supercomputer company Cray in 2019. The Cray business became central to HPE's high-performance computing strategy and supplied systems to national laboratories, universities, research organizations, and commercial customers. HPE also developed its networking business through Aruba, which had been acquired by the predecessor Hewlett-Packard in 2015, and through subsequent product and software integration. Antonio Neri succeeded Meg Whitman as president and chief executive officer in 2018. Under Neri, HPE placed greater strategic emphasis on hybrid cloud, edge computing, networking, and recurring consumption models. HPE GreenLake became the main expression of this direction. Rather than limiting cloud services to infrastructure in a public cloud, GreenLake was designed to provide a unified operating and commercial model across customer data centers, colocation facilities, and public-cloud environments. The platform has broadened from a consumption option for servers and storage into a multi-workload portfolio involving private cloud, data protection, networking, edge, and data and artificial-intelligence services. HPE acquired Silver Peak in 2020 and combined its software-defined wide-area networking capabilities with Aruba's networking portfolio. It also pursued further expansion in cloud-native operations and data management through additional technology investments and partnerships. The company has increasingly presented networking as a strategic complement to compute and cloud infrastructure, particularly as organizations distribute workloads across data centers, public clouds, branch locations, and edge sites. In January 2024, HPE announced an agreement to acquire Juniper Networks. The proposed transaction was intended to create a larger networking business with stronger campus, data-center, wireless, routing, security, and artificial-intelligence networking capabilities. The deal required regulatory review and other closing conditions. HPE has continued to describe its long-term model as a combination of infrastructure products, software, services, partner-led delivery, and recurring consumption through GreenLake. Its present business is centered on enterprise compute, storage, networking, high-performance computing, hybrid cloud, edge systems, and associated support and financial services.
- 2024
Juniper Networks acquisition announced
[5]HPE announces an agreement to acquire Juniper Networks, subject to regulatory and other closing conditions.
- 2020
Silver Peak acquisition completed
[11]HPE completes the acquisition of Silver Peak to expand software-defined wide-area networking within Aruba.
- 2019
Cray acquisition completed
[10]HPE completes its acquisition of Cray, reinforcing its supercomputing and high-performance computing business.
- 2018
Antonio Neri becomes chief executive
[2]Antonio Neri succeeds Meg Whitman as HPE's president and chief executive officer.
- 2017
DXC Technology separation
[8]HPE combines its Enterprise Services business with CSC to create DXC Technology as an independent company.
- 2017
Software business transferred to Micro Focus
[9]HPE completes the spin-merger of much of its software business with Micro Focus.
- 2016
HPE acquires Silicon Graphics International
[7]The acquisition expands HPE's high-performance computing, technical computing, and data analytics capabilities.
- 2015
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is created
[6]Hewlett-Packard separates into HPE, focused on enterprise technology, and HP Inc., focused on personal systems and printing.
Products and positioning
A global enterprise infrastructure and services provider positioned around hybrid cloud, networking, edge computing, high-performance computing, and consumption-based IT through HPE GreenLake.
Enterprise servers
HPE ProLiant
HPE's principal server family for general enterprise workloads, virtualization, databases, analytics, and edge deployments. The range includes rack, tower, and modular systems and is managed through HPE's infrastructure-management tools. ProLiant systems are sold both as conventional hardware and through selected consumption-based offerings.
Hybrid cloud and as-a-service platform · 2018
HPE GreenLake
HPE GreenLake provides cloud-style consumption, provisioning, monitoring, and management across infrastructure deployed in customer facilities, colocation sites, and public-cloud environments. Its portfolio covers compute, storage, data protection, networking, private cloud, edge, and data-related services.
Data storage · 2021
HPE Alletra
Alletra is HPE's cloud-operations-oriented storage portfolio. It is designed to simplify storage provisioning and lifecycle management across on-premises and hybrid environments, with systems aimed at traditional enterprise applications, virtualized workloads, and data-intensive use cases.
Enterprise networking
HPE Aruba Networking
HPE Aruba Networking supplies wired and wireless campus networking, data-center networking, secure access, edge connectivity, and software-defined wide-area networking. The portfolio serves offices, campuses, branches, industrial sites, and distributed enterprise environments.
High-performance computing · 2019
HPE Cray
HPE Cray provides supercomputers, high-performance computing systems, interconnects, software, and related services for scientific research, national laboratories, engineering, weather modeling, artificial intelligence, and other computationally intensive workloads.
Composable infrastructure · 2015
HPE Synergy
HPE Synergy is a composable infrastructure platform that pools compute, storage, and fabric resources and allows administrators to configure them programmatically for different workloads. It is managed through HPE OneView and is intended to support private-cloud and software-defined data-center operations.
Infrastructure management software
HPE OneView
HPE OneView provides centralized management and automation for supported HPE servers, storage, networking, and composable infrastructure. It uses templates and software-defined profiles to standardize deployment, configuration, monitoring, and lifecycle administration.
Data and workload software · 2020
HPE Ezmeral
HPE Ezmeral is a software portfolio associated with data management, containerized applications, analytics, and artificial-intelligence workloads. It is intended to help organizations operate data and applications across distributed and hybrid environments.
Controversies
2025
HPE faces scrutiny over Juniper Networks acquisition
The proposed Juniper transaction attracted antitrust scrutiny, including legal action by the U.S. Department of Justice as described in the reference material.
2025
Antitrust controversy surrounding proposed Juniper acquisition
HPE’s proposed acquisition of Juniper Networks drew antitrust scrutiny over possible effects on enterprise-networking competition, pricing, and innovation. The reference material describes legal and political controversy around the review and proposed remedies. Details of the transaction’s final status should be independently verified against current regulatory and company filings.
2023
Criticism concerning Israeli subsidiaries and public-sector technology
HPE and related HP entities faced criticism from advocacy groups over technology supplied through Israeli operations to institutions including the Israel Police, Israel Prison Service, and population authorities. The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement called for boycotts, while critics argued that corporate structures made the division of responsibilities between HP Inc. and HPE difficult to assess.
2017
Reported review of security-software source code by a Russian defense organization
Reports alleged that a Russian defense organization was allowed to examine source code connected with a cyber-defense system used by the Pentagon. Former officials and security specialists expressed concern that such access could reveal weaknesses useful to attackers. The reference material describes the matter as a reported controversy rather than establishing a final legal finding.
Brand decisions
2024
Propose acquisition of Juniper NetworksM&ABackground
HPE identified networking as a key growth area and sought to broaden its campus, routing, security, data-center, and artificial-intelligence networking capabilities.
Action taken
HPE announced an agreement to acquire Juniper Networks, subject to regulatory review and other customary closing conditions.
Aftermath
The proposed transaction increased regulatory scrutiny of the enterprise networking market and remained dependent on completion conditions.
announced transaction value. (2024 announcement)
2018
Make hybrid cloud and consumption-based IT central to the portfolioStrategyBackground
Customers increasingly wanted public-cloud-like flexibility while retaining control over selected workloads and infrastructure.
Action taken
HPE expanded and promoted GreenLake as a unified as-a-service model spanning on-premises, colocation, edge, and public-cloud environments.
Aftermath
GreenLake became a central platform in HPE's commercial and product strategy.
2017
Divest enterprise services and much of the software portfolioStrategyBackground
HPE reassessed businesses that were less closely aligned with its infrastructure and hybrid-cloud strategy.
Action taken
It separated Enterprise Services into DXC Technology and transferred much of its software business to Micro Focus.
Aftermath
HPE became more concentrated on servers, storage, networking, high-performance computing, and related services.
2015
Separate enterprise technology from PCs and printingStrategyBackground
Hewlett-Packard sought to give its enterprise and personal-systems businesses separate strategies, management structures, and investment priorities.
Action taken
The company created HPE for enterprise technology and HP Inc. for personal systems and printing.
Aftermath
HPE began operating as an independent public company focused on enterprise infrastructure, services, software, and financing.
Recent events
- 2024
HPE announces acquisition of Juniper Networks[5]
M&A
HPE announced an agreement to acquire Juniper Networks, subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory review, in a transaction intended to expand HPE's networking capabilities.
- 2024
UK competition authority opens Juniper merger inquiry[12]
Regulation · M&A
The UK Competition and Markets Authority began examining HPE’s proposed acquisition of Juniper Networks for possible competition concerns.
- 2020
HPE announces headquarters relocation to Texas[12]
Other
HPE disclosed plans to move its corporate headquarters from California to the Houston-area community of Spring, Texas.
- 2019
HPE completes acquisition of Cray[10]
M&A
HPE completed its acquisition of Cray, strengthening its high-performance computing and supercomputing portfolio.
- 2019
HPE announces acquisition of Cray[12]
M&A
HPE agreed to acquire Cray to expand its supercomputing and advanced-computing business.
- 2018
HPE launches GreenLake hybrid-cloud service[12]
Product launch · Campaign
HPE introduced a GreenLake service designed to provide cloud-style management, consumption, cost control, and compliance across hybrid environments.
- 2018
Antonio Neri succeeds Meg Whitman as CEO[12]
Leadership change
Antonio Neri became HPE’s president and chief executive after Whitman announced her departure from the role.
- 2017
HPE separates its enterprise services business as DXC Technology[8]
M&A
HPE completed the separation of its Enterprise Services business and its combination with CSC, creating DXC Technology as an independent company.
- 2017
HPE completes sale of software business to Micro Focus[9]
M&A
HPE completed the transaction transferring much of its software business to Micro Focus in exchange for cash and a stake in the combined company.
- 2017
HPE completes SimpliVity acquisition[12]
M&A
The acquisition added SimpliVity’s hyperconverged infrastructure and data-management technology to HPE’s portfolio.
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- 1HPE company overviewhpe.com
- 2HPE managementinvestors.hpe.com
- 3HPE annual reports and filingsinvestors.hpe.com
- 4HPE GreenLakehpe.com
- 5HPE to acquire Juniper Networkshpe.com
- 6Hewlett Packard Enterprise is createdinvestors.hpe.com
- 7HPE acquires Silicon Graphics Internationalinvestors.hpe.com
- 8DXC Technology separationinvestors.hpe.com
- 9Software business transferred to Micro Focusinvestors.hpe.com
- 10Cray acquisition completedinvestors.hpe.com
- 11Silver Peak acquisition completedinvestors.hpe.com
- 12HPE faces scrutiny over Juniper Networks acquisitionen.wikipedia.org
- 13HPE Announces Middle East AI Collaboration With Ingram Micromiddleeastevents.com
- 14HPE debuts container platform for hybrid cloud implementationstechspot.com
- 15HPE introduces new platform for bare-metal and edge to cloud deployments - TechCentral.ietechcentral.ie
- 16HPE introduces ProLiant Gen13geekzone.co.nz
- 17HPE launches Greenlake Central, hub of its as-a-service efforts - ZDNETzdnet.com
- 18HPE launches ProLiant Gen13 servers for AI workloadsitbrief.co.nz
- 19HPE partners with NREL for data center power and cooling predictive analyticsdatacenterdynamics.com
- 20HPE supercharges ProLiant servers with AMD’s EPYC 9006 processorsnetworkworld.com
- 21HPE收购零信任认证初创公司Scytale以增强安全实力net.zhiding.cn
- 22HPE推出新世代服務型平台，提供不受空間限制的雲端體驗ithome.com.tw
- 23HPE推出K8s容器平臺，可同時支援非雲端原生應用系統部署ithome.com.tw
- 24Nvidia releases software platform to stop AI agents from misbehavingcnbc.com
- 25Nvidia发布Azure云超级计算机、Magnum IO和Arm服务器架构参考平台server.zhiding.cn
- 26OrbitsEdge partners with HPE on orbital data center computing and analytics | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com
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