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Channel Post MEA
06-08-2025
- Business
- Channel Post MEA
HPE Announces New AI-driven Security And Data Protection Applications
HPE has announced a significant expansion of its cybersecurity, resiliency and compliance solutions that takes a multi-layered approach to protect enterprises through industry-leading data, network and system security. At Black Hat USA, HPE is showcasing its combined secure networking portfolio—built on HPE Aruba Networking and HPE Juniper Networking—and announcing expansive updates across its portfolio: HPE advances network security with a new SASE copilot for HPE Aruba Networking EdgeConnect that provides AI-driven insights on network activity, security gaps and more. HPE Aruba Networking Central NAC also expands zero trust policy enforcement to both HPE Juniper Networking and third-party devices. insights on network activity, security gaps and more. HPE Aruba Networking Central NAC also expands zero trust policy enforcement to both HPE Juniper Networking and devices. HPE extends its leadership in hybrid cloud data security and resiliency with the HPE Alletra Storage MP X10000 modern data protection solution. The new offering optimizes the X10000— software-defined , scale-out , all-flash object storage for AI—for modern data protection and sets a new standard with the world's fastest enterprise backup storage. , , object storage for AI—for modern data protection and sets a new standard with the world's fastest enterprise backup storage. To simplify system security and disaster recovery, HPE Zerto Software will offer a new integration hub that enables third-party applications to access HPE Zerto data. CrowdStrike is the exclusive integration launch partner further enhancing how enterprises recover from incidents with HPE Zerto. 'With the rise in both the volume and sophistication of cyber threats, organizations need advanced solutions to mitigate risk, defend against attacks and build resiliency, across their entire IT estate,' said David Hughes, SVP & GM, SASE & Security, HPE Networking. 'HPE's security solutions are designed to enable a multi-layered, zero-trust approach to protection, including AI-driven capabilities for continuous validation, anomaly detection, and automated remediation.' HPE Aruba Networking extends zero trust solutions with new security monitoring and controls Following the announcement of GreenLake Intelligence with HPE Aruba Networking Central agentic mesh at Discover 2025, HPE continues expanding agentic AI across its portfolio with a new SASE copilot for HPE Aruba Networking EdgeConnect. The new AI-powered assistant analyzes network and security conditions to deliver precise, actionable insights to investigate open ports, identify unpatched systems, pinpoint security gaps, or monitor activity on the network. The expansion of HPE Aruba Networking Central NAC now enforces security policies for HPE Juniper and third-party vendors with global identity-based, granular controls for users and IoT devices. Integration of AppEngine with HPE Aruba Networking Central for real-time app classification, enabling risk-based policy enforcement, granular visibility, and centralized control. Proactive threat defense with WebCC and URL filtering to deliver real-time threat intelligence for HPE unified SASE to block malicious sites, bad IPs, and risky content. HPE accelerates enterprise data protection and resilience with breakthrough performance HPE is strengthening enterprise data resiliency against cyber threats with the general availability of the new HPE Alletra Storage MP X10000 modern data protection solution. By increasing computing resources and optimizing for backup software performance, HPE extends its AI-ready X10000 object storage into a data protection solution that delivers ultra-fast backup and restore. The massively scalable all-flash solution is purpose-designed to enable ultra-low recovery point objectives (RPOs) and recovery time objectives (RTOs) in industries like healthcare, finance, media, and IT services—where recovering data in minutes, not days, is critical to compliance, privacy, and business continuity. The scale-out disaggregated storage architecture provides enterprises with the flexibility to increase capacity, performance, or both as data backup volumes increase. HPE achieves up to 1.2 petabyte per hour data backup speeds—nearly twice as fast as its closest competitors. HPE StoreOnce Catalyst Software optimizes storage efficiency with up to 60:1 data reduction and works in tandem with a customer's preferred enterprise data protection software provider. Commvault Cloud, Cohesity NetBackup, and Veeam Data Platform—with an upcoming release—are the first data protection partners validated for the X10000 solution. HPE Zerto Software strengthens cyber resiliency with new integration hub HPE Zerto Software is introducing a new integration hub for third-party cybersecurity solutions, with CrowdStrike as the exclusive launch partner. The integration hub can connect HPE Zerto with everything from cybersecurity software to enterprise networking—including upcoming support for HPE Networking devices—to generate insights, automate workflows and simplify data protection and disaster recovery. The integration between CrowdStrike and HPE Zerto delivers a powerful combination of industry-leading threat detection and cyber recovery—enabling organizations to minimize the impact of ransomware and other advanced threats. With the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform, security teams can detect malicious activity targeting critical workloads in real time. When a threat is identified, the Falcon platform enables HPE Zerto to restore applications and virtual machines to clean recovery points from just seconds before the attack. The new integration also accelerates recovery within the HPE Cyber Resilience Vault, which combines HPE Zerto, HPE Alletra Storage MP, HPE ProLiant, and HPE Aruba to deliver a fully air-gapped, zero-trust environment for ransomware protection and recovery. 'Our partnership with HPE reflects CrowdStrike's commitment to delivering integrated, outcome-driven solutions that keep customers ahead of today's adversaries,' said Daniel Bernard, chief business officer, CrowdStrike. 'By combining the power of the AI-native Falcon platform with HPE Zerto's recovery capabilities, we're enabling organizations to stop breaches, minimize downtime, and maintain business continuity—even in the face of ransomware and other disruptive threats.' The CrowdStrike and Zerto integrations build upon the ongoing strategic partnership between HPE and CrowdStrike, which also includes GreenLake, HPE OpsRamp Software, and HPE Aruba Networking solutions. Additionally, HPE is validating and certifying HPE Zerto for the latest guidelines and requirements from United States governmental agencies, specifically CISA (Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency), STIG (Security Technical Implementation Guides) and FIPS (Federal Information Process Standards). To advance system security at the storage infrastructure layer, HPE also created a new cybersecurity Center of Excellence focused on detecting and validating storage systems against ransomware and emerging cyber threats. HPE has validated the HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000's built-in ransomware and threat detection against the top 25 ransomware strains. HPE to showcase unified networking portfolio and advanced data protection solutions at Black Hat USA For the first time since the close of HPE's acquisition of Juniper Networks, HPE is showcasing its powerful, unified portfolio of network security innovations—along with the latest data protection and cyber resiliency solutions—at Black Hat USA, August 5–7, 2025, at booth #2261. This debut marks a major milestone—highlighting how HPE is bringing together AI-native networking and advanced data protection solutions to secure hybrid cloud environments with exceptional precision, scale, and operational simplicity. HPE will spotlight innovations across its networking and hybrid cloud portfolios, including the HPE Juniper Networking Next-Generation Firewalls. The Juniper SRX 4700 boasts the industry's highest firewall throughput per rack unit (up to 1.4 Tbps)3 and helps enterprises, telcos and cloud providers implement true zero trust architectures and mesh firewall capabilities that deliver uncompromising performance, industry-leading efficacy, and simplified operations. The new solutions will be available immediately or in the fourth quarter of 2025.
Channel Post MEA
14-07-2025
- Business
- Channel Post MEA
HPE Reimagines Hybrid IT Operations with GreenLake Intelligence
HPE announced a transformational vision for hybrid IT operations with ultimate simplicity through GreenLake Intelligence, a new agentic AI framework for hybrid operations. Through a unified infusion of agentic AIOps across almost every infrastructure layer, HPE is transforming GreenLake cloud into an agentic-AI-powered hybrid cloud. The enterprise is entering a new AI-native era. Every organization wants to innovate faster—but most are constrained by legacy infrastructure, growing technical debt, and the complexity of managing sprawling hybrid environments. The intersection of AIOps and agentic AI presents an opportunity for organizations to overcome these legacy challenges and transform their operations and enterprises. 'HPE is reimagining hybrid IT as only we can do, catapulting organizations from the era of hybrid complexity to the era of agentic-AI-powered cloud operations,' said Antonio Neri, president and CEO, at HPE. 'HPE's new vision for hybrid IT is fueled by agentic intelligence at every layer of infrastructure, so enterprises can realize their boldest ambitions and achieve previously impossible levels of IT operations performance and efficiency.' HPE sets vision for ultimate hybrid simplicity through agentic AIOps with GreenLake Intelligence: The new GreenLake Intelligence agentic AI framework sets a bold vision for transforming hybrid IT through a unified hybrid cloud operating model powered by agentic AIOps. Built from the ground up and tightly integrated across HPE's comprehensive hybrid cloud technology stack, GreenLake Intelligence solves siloed and manual workflows, troubleshooting delays and underutilized IT resources, and reduces the burden on overextended IT teams. Accessed through GreenLake Copilot, GreenLake Intelligence will deploy AI agents that communicate and reason with context in real-time across storage, networking, compute and virtualized resources, as well as hybrid cloud cost operations, observability, sustainability and business services. HPE Aruba Networking transforms AI-powered network operations with new agentic mesh and networking copilot: Built on the GreenLake Intelligence framework, HPE is incorporating new agentic mesh technology into its cloud-scale network management system, HPE Aruba Networking Central . Accessed through the new multi-modal, conversational networking copilot, HPE Aruba Networking Central can provide precise root-cause analysis and guided or automated remediation for complex network and security issues. HPE's latest networking advancement is powered by an array of network-specific reasoning agents leveraging a collection of models context-tuned for security-first, AI-powered networking. HPE OpsRamp Software expands agentic operations copilot: Launched in 2024, the OpsRamp operations copilot now enables agentic automation for IT operations across full-stack infrastructure with a goal of faster detection and remediation. While maintaining human in the loop oversight, OpsRamp will enable key agentic capabilities including conversational product help and agentic command center that enables AI/ML based alerts, incident management and root-cause assistance. Through GreenLake Intelligence, the OpsRamp operations copilot is a multi-domain agentic system that will enable use cases like root-cause analysis, explainability, capacity planning, and more by coordinating systems such compute, network, storage, virtualization, and other software layers. HPE Alletra Storage MP X10000 offers agentic AI-powered storage with upcoming support for Model Context Protocol servers (MCP): At HPE Discover Las Vegas 2025, HPE is previewing Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers natively built into the X10000, showcasing agentic-AI powered storage. By connecting GreenLake Intelligence with the X10000 through MCP servers, HPE can enable developers and admins to orchestrate data management and operations through GreenLake Copilot or natural-language interfaces. Additionally, connecting the built-in data intelligence layer of X10000 with internal and external AI agents ensures AI workflows are fed with unstructured data and metadata-based intelligence. New GreenLake cloud capabilities build on agentic AI foundation HPE is enhancing GreenLake cloud services for FinOps and sustainability and adding new capabilities for workload planning and capacity management. These services will be integrated into GreenLake Intelligence. New workload and capacity optimizer provides a unified solution to manage workloads and hardware assets for best cost, resilience and sustainability, spanning HPE compute, storage and networking technologies, virtual machines and multivendor third-party IT infrastructure. provides a unified solution to manage workloads and hardware assets for best cost, resilience and sustainability, spanning HPE compute, storage and networking technologies, virtual machines and multivendor third-party IT infrastructure. Consumption analytics have been extended to further help enterprises control costs. New features provide proactive spend anomaly alerts, FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification (FOCUS) exports that enable chargeback, and recommendations for cost-focused infrastructure changes including downsizing and decommissioning virtual machines. have been extended to further help enterprises control costs. New features provide proactive spend anomaly alerts, FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification (FOCUS) exports that enable chargeback, and recommendations for cost-focused infrastructure changes including downsizing and decommissioning virtual machines. HPE Sustainability Insight Center now offers predictive sustainability forecasting and a managed service provider mode that includes tailored sustainability metrics to monitor and reduce hardware-related carbon footprints. HPE delivers fast path to unified hybrid cloud operations with HPE CloudOps Software HPE simplifies the creation of a unified hybrid cloud operating model with the new HPE CloudOps Software suite, bringing together OpsRamp, HPE Morpheus Enterprise Software and HPE Zerto Software. Available standalone or as part of the suite, these software applications provide automation, orchestration, governance, data mobility, data protection and cyber resiliency across multivendor, multicloud, multi-workload infrastructure. HPE Services now offers enhanced services to accelerate the adoption of CloudOps. The HPE Service portfolio operates across the full customer lifecycle from Day -1 consulting through Day 0 planning, Day 1 implementation and integration to Day 2 operation. Additionally, CloudOps is available as a service managed by HPE for customers. Combined with comprehensive professional services designed to simplify adoption of cloud operations technologies, customers can effortlessly optimize resources across multiple cloud providers. New tools and programs deliver a strategic, streamlined approach to hybrid IT modernization The new HPE CloudPhysics Plus assessment tool offers a comprehensive approach to hybrid IT modernization with automated analysis and recommendations for workload placement, asset utilization and infrastructure modernization. CloudPhysics Plus builds on the virtualization analysis capabilities of the CloudPhysics and now extends to multiple runtimes across on-premises, multicloud, and cloud-native environments – including Hyper-V, bare metal, Kubernetes and public cloud environments. The new assessment tool is available with a free assessment from channel partners and HPE sales. GreenLake launches the new HPE Cloud Commit program, a flexible purchasing model that provides GreenLake customers with the opportunity to make long-term, predictable commitments to their investments and to unlock discounts and value-add services and software. HPE Financial Services simplifies hybrid modernization with flexible financing HPE Financial Services (HPEFS) supports enterprises from day one with a new zero percent financing program for CloudOps, and standalone Morpheus, OpsRamp and Zerto, allowing customers to spread the costs over the license term, annually, up to 3 years, at no additional cost. HPEFS is also introducing a new financing program for the HPE Alletra Storage portfolio—including HPE Alletra Storage MP X10000—that provides up to 10 percent savings versus traditional purchasing and includes no payments for the first two months. HPEFS also has a broad set of financing and IT lifecycle services to help accelerate hybrid modernization with HPE GreenLake and services for sustainably decommissioning technology.
TECHx
07-07-2025
- Business
- TECHx
Al-Nassr Transforms with HPE Aruba Networking
Home » Tech Value Chain » Global Brands » Al-Nassr Transforms with HPE Aruba Networking Al-Nassr Club Company has announced a strategic collaboration with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to digitally transform its operations. The move supports the football club's ambition to enhance its infrastructure and fan experience. The project is powered by HPE Aruba Networking. It covers Al-Nassr's stadium, training grounds, medical and media facilities, and fan engagement platforms. Al-Nassr is one of Saudi Arabia's leading football clubs. Over the past few years, it has become the most-followed Saudi team internationally. More than 60 million fans watch their games worldwide. The club reported that the transformation includes building a digital sports campus. This creates a wireless-first environment, supporting fans both inside and outside the stadium. Faisal Khan, director of IT at Al-Nassr, revealed that on quiet days, the network sees 300–400 users. On match days, that number jumps to over 10,000. The club films content throughout the week across departments. It plans to provide more behind-the-scenes access and exclusive footage. The deployed solution combines multiple HPE Aruba technologies. These include: HPE Aruba Networking Central HPE Aruba Networking CX switches HPE Aruba Networking EdgeConnect SD-WAN HPE Aruba Networking Wi-Fi 7 access points This infrastructure enables Al-Nassr's IT team to manage fan engagement points efficiently. It also secures player biometric data and extends connectivity across the sports campus. Currently, Al-Nassr manages connectivity for 20 buildings, including warehouses and retail outlets. With expansion underway, more stores and branch offices are expected. By leveraging HPE Aruba Networking EdgeConnect SD-WAN, the club uses multiple connections to ensure high availability and performance. This is critical for applications like live video streaming of matches. Jamil Ahmad, Country Business Lead for Saudi Arabia at HPE Aruba Networking, stated that the new infrastructure unifies operations and supports content generation. It also simplifies deployment of game-changing IoT technologies. The club's new capabilities allow fans to stream live games, interviews, and exclusive content from anywhere in the world including on smartphones within the stadium. This partnership marks a key milestone in Al-Nassr's digital journey, driven by HPE Aruba Networking.
Mid East Info
07-07-2025
- Business
- Mid East Info
Al-Nassr Club Company Redefines Fan Engagement with Hewlett Packard Enterprise - Middle East Business News and Information
Al-Nassr Club Company Redefines Fan Engagement with Hewlett Packard Enterprise Being at the forefront of Saudi Arabia's footballing ambitions, Al-Nassr Club Company, one of the leading football clubs in the Kingdom, is working with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to transform its stadium, training, medical, media, and fan facilities – and thereby the way fans engage with football. Key to this experience is a comprehensive end-to-end solution, built on HPE Aruba Networking, that establishes a coherent, performance-focused and secure network infrastructure. Throughout the past few years, Al-Nassr has become the most-followed team by football fans outside Saudi Arabia. Aware that not everyone who watches an Al-Nassr match will be able to travel to Saudi Arabia to attend games, and that more than 60 million fans follow their games, Al-Nassr wants to redefine the fan experience with more content, more behind-the-scenes footage, and greater access to star players. To drive digital content, Al-Nassr is creating a digital sports campus, creating a wireless-first environment engaging both fans within and outside the stadium. 'We always have a minimum of 300–400 people connecting to the network on quiet days, however the number jumps to more than 10,000 on match days,' said Faisal Khan, director of IT at Al-Nassr. 'Simultaneously, we are filming throughout the week, across all parts of the organization. The fan engagement and content we provide goes beyond the match-day experience and with HPE Aruba Networking we are now able to scale and allocate different bandwidth, manage access rights for different user groups, and troubleshoot connectivity issues easily, all from the office.' The solution deployed at the sports campus combines the capabilities of HPE Aruba Networking Central, HPE Aruba Networking CX switches, HPE Aruba Networking EdgeConnect SD-WAN, and HPE Aruba Networking Wi-Fi 7 wireless access points. This allows the club's IT team to closely manage the various fan engagement points, keep sensitive biometric data of players secure, and quickly provide connectivity to new parts of the campus. The club manages connectivity for 20 buildings, including warehousing and retail outlets, with more stores and branch offices expected as the club expands its operations. By using HPE Aruba Networking EdgeConnect SD-WAN, the club can use multiple connections to provide high availability and resilience, even in times of high use. This increases performance by link-binding and maximizing the use of available bandwidth, making it particularly valuable to the football club for critical applications, such as video live streaming matches. 'As Al-Nassr continues to realise and enhance its vision for fan engagement and data commercialization, it needs a robust and performance-focused networking infrastructure', said Jamil Ahmad, Country Business lead for Saudi Arabia at HPE Aruba Networking. 'By building a smart sports campus upon HPE Aruba Networking, Al-Nassr has unified and streamlined its networking operations, maximizing opportunities for content generation and simplifying the deployment of game-changing IoT. This includes the club's media streaming capabilities, that allow fans to not only watch video streams of games and player interviews from different parts of the world but also stream exclusive content on their smartphone within the stadium – creating a one-of-a-kind experience.'
Forbes
30-06-2025
- Business
- Forbes
HPE Ramps Up Networking, Automation And Observability At Discover 2025
CEO Antonio Neri delivers the keynote at HPE Discover 2025 at The Sphere in Las Vegas. Hewlett Packard Enterprise celebrates its tenth anniversary this year, and the company's recent Discover annual user and partner conference in Las Vegas served as a showcase for its past decade of accomplishments, as well as the ten-year anniversary of its acquisition of Aruba in 2015. The event also served as the debut for HPE's new brand mark, refreshing a stodgy and text-heavy logo by incorporating a variation on Hewlett Packard's iconic green badge that is meant to appear open to the future. HPE'S new corporate logo HPE's future is decidedly agentic in its focus, as evidenced by Discover's overall theme and the race for the company and other IT infrastructure providers to capitalize on the already lucrative and potentially transformative opportunity in enabling modern AI for enterprises at scale. A handful of the company's AI-infused announcements at the event were especially noteworthy. And while I like what HPE is doing, I believe that it can improve upon some of its efforts to further its AI-for-networking and networking-for-AI ambitions. With that context set, let's dive in. (Note: HPE is an advisory client of my firm, Moor Insights & Strategy.) The Promise Of HPE Aruba Networking's Agentic AI Mesh Enterprises are faced with daunting networking challenges today, as outlined by Aruba's chief product officer David Hughes in his technical keynote on day three of the conference. Hughes pointed to the simultaneous needs to support demanding users who expect zero downtime, to enable IT teams to do more with less, to protect organizations from escalating cyber threats, to mitigate ongoing geopolitical risks that threaten business continuity and data protection, and to ease management tied to multi-vendor and multi-domain operations. The company aims to address these needs with its new Agentic AI Mesh offering from HPE Aruba Networking. At preview, it includes a pool of fifteen purpose-built agents and an orchestration super-agent, complemented by a networking copilot. The networking agentic AI functionality integrated into HPE Aruba Networking's Central control console is designed to broadly automate network functionality. Over time, this should facilitate easier root cause analysis, help remediate issues quickly and ultimately deliver a self-healing capability. On the surface, Agentic AI Mesh offers a robust set of capabilities that can address enterprises' networking and security challenges, building upon the company's historic leadership in AIOps and anchored by its Edge Services Platform launched five years ago. I believe that when HPE Aruba Networking's agentic AI framework becomes generally available in the third calendar quarter of this year, it will have the potential to scale automation, bolster network assurance and improve security outcomes. At the conference, I also had the opportunity to speak with Hughes in a Six Five in the Booth fireside chat, during which he highlighted what the company believes it can accomplish with the new offering. GreenLake Intelligence: A Cross-Portfolio Vison For Automation At Scale Aruba's Agentic AI Mesh is part of a broader HPE vision — called GreenLake Intelligence — to bring the power of agentic AI to its entire infrastructure stack within its hybrid cloud services portfolio. From my perspective, HPE has been a trailblazer in offering its complete set of networking, security, compute and storage solutions as consumptive services. The benefits to enterprises include highly flexible — and fast — deployment, the ability to treat infrastructure as an operational expense to reap balance-sheet benefits and a continuous delivery mechanism to bring organizations the latest features and capabilities on a steady cadence. HPE believes that its GreenLake Intelligence agentic AI framework has the potential to solve siloed and manual workflows, enable troubleshooting issues across its entire infrastructure expanse (including multi-vendor equipment) through its OpsRamp observability platform, identify underutilized resources and reduce operational burdens. It is a bold vision — one whose success will lie in flawless execution across a broad and deep set of IT and OT solution offerings. Deeper Portfolio And AI Ecosystem Capabilities Announced At HPE Discover In addition to HPE Aruba Networking's Agentic AI Mesh and the GreenLake Intelligence framework, the company made three other noteworthy announcements. First, HPE is deepening its network and data observability capabilities with further integrations of its OpsRamp acquisition from two years ago. The company aims to leverage OpsRamp to enable new conversational assistance to manage fault detection, capacity planning and more through an agentic command center. I like OpsRamp's ability to provide visibility across multi-vendor infrastructure, as well as the promise of improved network assurance and security posture through a single pane of glass. The effort also allows HPE to better compete with Cisco's more mature full-stack observability platform, which leverages both Cisco's organic roadmap efforts and its acquisitions of ThousandEyes, AppDynamics, Accedian and other observability and monitoring solutions. Second, HPE Aruba Networking announced a private 5G competency program to accelerate the adoption of its cellular connectivity offering. The program is designed to provide channel partners with expertise in developing and deploying solutions that streamline private cellular deployments in what I judge to be OT environments. It also positions the company to support deterministic use-case needs such as manufacturing automation, logistics and, more broadly, cost-effective connectivity solutions for indoor and outdoor deployments. HPE has shifted its focus on serving the broader telecom mobile network operators to enabling private LTE and 5G enterprise networks since its acquisition of cellular core provider Athonet two years ago. This has been a smart move for the company, given the growing adoption of private networks and the obvious sales adjacencies for HPE to extend its reach beyond Wi-Fi and wired deployments. From my perspective, it also represents deeper margin opportunities for the company relative to the poorer economics tied to public cellular deployments. I also like HPE's full-stack offering, which includes HPE core and radio access network infrastructure, as well as its strengths in orchestration software rooted in its prior carrier-grade development efforts. Third, HPE announced an extension of its Unleash AI ecosystem that adds more than two dozen new partners and identifies over seventy-five new use cases designed to accelerate enterprise adoption of modern AI applications and workloads. AI ecosystem efforts by the likes of Nvidia are making it easier for organizations to accelerate time-to-value with generative and agentic AI features, and HPE's focus here could pay big dividends with the adoption of its complete AI infrastructure stack. At HPE Discover, I also sat down with the Six Five Live team to share my hot takes on HPE's announcements, providing further insights on the company's AI ambitions. HPE's Opportunities For Improvement From my perspective, there is a lot to like about the announcements at HPE Discover. However, details about what customers will be expected to pay for new functionality such as the Agentic AI Mesh were vague. To be fair, this may be because the offering is only in preview now; even so, setting an expectation for licensing costs could have strengthened its appeal. Additionally, HPE partner sales enablement could be a tricky endeavor — especially when we consider that Cisco's AI Canvas and Deep Network LLM, announced just a few weeks ago, compete with HPE Aruba Networking's latest offering. I would have liked to see more details related to HPE's channel education efforts, highlighting what is unique to its approach for sellers beyond the perceived strengths that Hughes communicated in his technical keynote. Is It Time To Call A Winner? It is tough to call an immediate winner in this competition, given the newness of both Cisco's and HPE's agentic AI offerings for networking. However, the late-breaking news, on the heels of Discover, that HPE is successfully closing its contested acquisition of Juniper Networks and avoiding an antitrust trial in July ends the unnecessary distractions. It also paves the way for a strengthened HPE Aruba Networking portfolio thanks to the depth provided by Juniper's Mist AI software; this is true despite the DOJ's requirement that HPE divest its Instant On small business products and license the source code for Mist AI. On that last point, I highly doubt that other enterprise networking infrastructure providers will pay to license the software, considering how far HPE's competitors are along their own AI development paths. However, a handful of smaller consumer Wi-Fi solution providers may take advantage of the licensing opportunity. From the day that HPE and Juniper announced their deal, I have held the position that the tie-up will do more to foster competition and innovation than thwart it. Ultimately, customers will win by having a stronger second choice for AI-enabled network infrastructure after Cisco. Tenth anniversaries are often symbolized by tin or aluminum — connoting strength and flexibility. HPE Discover 2025 went far to demonstrate the company's strengths in networking, cross-portfolio automation and observability as it addresses the complex challenges that organizations face today. The event also clearly demonstrated HPE's flexibility through broad industry collaboration, evidenced by the company's growing partnership with Nvidia and HPE's Unleash AI ecosystem. Both have the potential to accelerate enterprise adoption of modern AI applications and the management of AI workloads at scale with highly performant networking infrastructure and consumptive hybrid cloud services. HPE's success will depend on its ability to execute against its agentic AI vision, quickly leverage and integrate Juniper's intellectual property and convince its channel partners to lead with its solutions. The bedrock to accomplish all of these is firmly laid, and it will be interesting to watch what the company can unlock in terms of both technical innovation and effective sales execution.
