In June, after a year and a half of poking and prodding, the US Department of Justice finally gave the OK for the $14 billion acquisition of Juniper Networks by Hewlett Packard Enterprise. …
Pendulums are always swinging back and forth in the datacenter, with functions being offloaded from one thing and onloaded to another cheaper thing that is often more flexible or faster. …
It looks like Hewlett Packard Enterprise might be having a datacenter networking revival. …
The rapid movement of data to the cloud, the sharp rise in the amount of east-west traffic and the broadening adoption of modern applications like artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning are putting stress on traditional networking infrastructures that were designed for a different era and are struggling to meet the demands for better performance, more bandwidth and less latency. …
Given its checkered history with acquisitions like the deal to buy the ill-fated Autonomy for its data analytics software, there was a bit of apprehension in 2015 when the pre-breakup Hewlett-Packard announced it was buying wireless networking vendor Aruba Networks for $3 billion. …
The business of business is continuing to move out of the traditional datacenter. …
When pre-split Hewlett-Packard bought Aruba Networks three years ago for $3 billion, the goal was to create a stronger and larger networking business that combined both wired and wireless networking capabilities and could challenge market leader Cisco Systems at a time when enterprises were more fully embracing mobile computing and public clouds. …
There is a new sheriff in town at Hewlett Packard Enterprise – that would be chief executive officer Antonio Neri – and that means a new way of looking at the books and therefore steering the business. …
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