# Hewlett Packard Enterprise An enterprise IT company headquartered in Spring, TX that manufactures servers, networking equipment, storage systems, and supercomputers. Spun off from HP Inc. in November 2015 as the enterprise-focused half of the original Hewlett-Packard. CEO: Antonio Neri. Stock: HPE (NYSE). HPE is one of the largest suppliers of AI server infrastructure, building ProLiant GPU-accelerated servers and Cray-branded supercomputers powered by [[NVIDIA]] GPUs. The company built several of the world's fastest supercomputers, including Frontier at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) — the first system to break the exascale barrier — and El Capitan at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). ## Juniper Networks Acquisition In 2024, HPE announced a $14B acquisition of Juniper Networks, which closed in July 2025. The deal adds enterprise and data center networking to HPE's portfolio, positioning the combined company to compete with Cisco and Arista in AI-scale network infrastructure. At HPE Discover 2026, the company showcased Juniper-based QFX switches supporting the open-standard UALink interconnect as an alternative to NVIDIA's proprietary NVLink — a notable move toward open AI networking standards. The acquisition drove triple-digit growth in HPE's networking business. In Q1 FY2026 (ended January 2026), HPE reported $9.3B in revenue, an 18% year-over-year increase fueled by AI networking demand and the Juniper addition. ## GreenLake and AI Strategy HPE's GreenLake platform delivers on-premises cloud services, including AI-as-a-service, allowing enterprises to run AI workloads without sending data to public clouds. CEO Neri has framed HPE's strategy around the "agentic enterprise" — building the infrastructure layer (compute, networking, storage) required for organizations to deploy AI agents at scale. HPE also claims an "unfair advantage" in liquid cooling, drawing on decades of supercomputing experience to address the thermal challenges of dense GPU clusters. ## KB Relevance HPE occupies a different layer of the AI stack than chip companies like [[NVIDIA]]: it's the system integrator that assembles GPUs, networking, and cooling into rack-scale and building-scale AI infrastructure. As [[Artificial Intelligence]] workloads push data center power demands toward the levels described in [[The Quest for 90 Gigawatts]], HPE's supercomputing heritage and liquid cooling expertise become increasingly relevant. The Juniper acquisition also signals that networking — not just compute — is becoming a strategic bottleneck in AI infrastructure. ## See Also - [[NVIDIA]] - [[Artificial Intelligence]] - [[The Quest for 90 Gigawatts]]