Hewlett Packard Enterprise
In the sprawling landscape of information technology, Hewlett Packard Enterprise — or HPE — stands as a focused giant, providing critical infrastructure and services for businesses worldwide. Born from a historic split, HPE carved its own path, shedding legacy operations to sharpen its focus on the future of enterprise computing. Let's uncover how this tech titan continuously reinvents itself to power the digital age. HPE emerged from the 2015 split of Hewlett-Packard, concentrating on enterprise solutions like servers, storage, and networking, distinct from HP Inc.'s consumer focus. The company has undergone significant strategic transformations through divestitures and key acquisitions, streamlining its portfolio to focus on high-performance computing, hybrid cloud, and AI. HPE is transitioning its offerings to an 'as-a-service' model via its GreenLake platform, aiming to provide flexible, cloud-like experiences for on-premises infrastructure.
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In the sprawling landscape of information technology, Hewlett Packard Enterprise — or HPE — stands as a focused giant, providing critical infrastructure and services for businesses worldwide. Born from a historic split, HPE carved its own path, shedding legacy operations to sharpen its focus on the future of enterprise computing. Let's uncover how this tech titan continuously reinvents itself to power the digital age.
- HPE emerged from the 2015 split of Hewlett-Packard, concentrating on enterprise solutions like servers, storage, and networking, distinct from HP Inc.'s consumer focus.
- The company has undergone significant strategic transformations through divestitures and key acquisitions, streamlining its portfolio to focus on high-performance computing, hybrid cloud, and AI.
- HPE is transitioning its offerings to an 'as-a-service' model via its GreenLake platform, aiming to provide flexible, cloud-like experiences for on-premises infrastructure.
A New Enterprise Era
Hewlett Packard Enterprise, or HPE, is a multinational information technology company based in Spring, Texas. It's a business-focused powerhouse, specializing in the essential infrastructure that underpins modern organizations: servers, storage, networking, AI, and containerization software.
Its origins are quite remarkable. On November 1, 2015, the venerable Hewlett-Packard Company — a Silicon Valley pioneer — formally split into two distinct entities. This wasn't just a simple rebranding; it was a fundamental restructuring.
The Great Split
The original Hewlett-Packard Company renamed itself HP Inc., retaining the personal computer and printing businesses, along with its historical stock-price history. HPE, a brand new company, was spun off to focus entirely on enterprise-level hardware, software, and services.
The full, official name is the 'Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company,' notably dropping the hyphen that once linked 'Hewlett' and 'Packard.' This small change subtly signaled its distinct identity, though it's most commonly known as 'Hewlett Packard Enterprise' or simply 'HPE.'
Strategic Evolution
Since its inception, HPE has continuously refined its portfolio through strategic divestitures and acquisitions. In 2017, for instance, it spun off its Enterprise Services business, merging it with Computer Sciences Corporation to form DXC Technology. This move impacted approximately 100,000 employees, reshaping HPE's service offerings.
Later that same year, HPE divested its 'non-core' software business — including the HP Autonomy unit — merging it with Micro Focus. This 'spin-merge' saw HPE shareholders retain a majority stake in the combined software entity, allowing HPE to sharpen its focus even further.
The company also made significant acquisitions to bolster its core strengths. In 2016, it acquired Silicon Graphics International (SGI), renowned for its high-performance computing capabilities, for approximately $275 million, signaling a push into supercomputing.
Key infrastructure acquisitions followed, including SimpliVity in 2017 for $650 million, adding hyper-converged infrastructure, and Nimble Storage for $1.2 billion, enhancing its flash storage offerings. These moves solidified HPE's position in critical data center technologies.
In 2019, HPE made a monumental move, acquiring Cray Inc. for $1.4 billion. Cray, a legendary name in supercomputing, brought with it a $600 million US Department of Energy contract for the Frontier supercomputer, catapulting HPE to the forefront of high-performance computing.
Looking to the future, CEO Antonio Neri announced a bold vision: by 2022, all HPE products would be available 'as a service' through its HPE GreenLake platform. This hybrid cloud offering provides cloud-like flexibility and cost control for on-premises infrastructure, running across AWS and Microsoft Azure.
Corporate Affairs
HPE's operating segments reflect its core business, with Compute (servers) and Storage being its largest revenue drivers. Other segments include Intelligent Edge for network security, HPC & MCS for high-performance computing, and Financial Services to support customer investments.
Year Revenue in million USD Net income in million USD Assets in million USD Employees 2015 31,077 2,461 79,916 2016 30,280 3,161 79,629 2017 28,871 344 61,406 66,000 2018 30,852 1,908 55,493 60,000 2019 29,135 1,049 51,803 61,000 2020 26,982 (322) 54,015 59,400 2021 27,784 3,427 57,699 60,400 2022 28,496 868 57,123 60,200 2023 29,135 2,025 57,153 62,000 2024 30,127 2,554 71,262 61,000
The company's financial performance shows fluctuations in revenue and net income, reflecting its ongoing transformation and market dynamics. By mid-2025, institutional investors, including Vanguard Group and Blackrock, held around 88% of HPE's shares.
In December 2020, HPE announced the relocation of its corporate headquarters from San Jose, California, to Spring, Texas, a suburb of Houston. The move, completed in early 2022, was partly influenced by concerns about major flooding at its former Compaq complex during Hurricane Harvey.
A Contested Merger
One of HPE's most significant recent endeavors was the proposed $14 billion acquisition of Juniper Networks in 2024, a deal that faced intense scrutiny from antitrust regulators in the UK and the US. The US Department of Justice filed a lawsuit, alleging the merger would harm competition and innovation.
The acquisition was eventually completed in July 2025, following a settlement with the DOJ. HPE agreed to divest its Instant On wireless division and license source code for Juniper's Mist AI to address competition concerns. Reports later suggested that the U.S. Intelligence Community had intervened, arguing the merger was critical for national security against Chinese competitors like Huawei.
However, controversy surrounded the deal. According to sworn deposition, HPE hired a conservative lobbyist who reportedly threatened a top official at the Justice Department's antitrust division to secure approval. This official and her deputies were later forced out, leading to further questions about the merger's approval process.
Social Responsibility & Culture
HPE is committed to environmental stewardship, with a science-based target to reduce CO2e emissions by 55% by 2025 from a 2016 baseline, aligning with the Paris Agreement's 1.5°C goal. Total emissions have steadily decreased, showing progress toward this commitment.
The company culture emphasizes career development and inclusion, providing competitive benefits. HPE has earned accolades such as being named one of Fortune's '100 Best Companies to Work For' and 'PEOPLE Companies That Care,' highlighting its focus on employee well-being and growth.
Challenges and Criticism
HPE has faced criticism regarding its Israeli subsidiaries, particularly in connection with the ongoing Gaza genocide. Organizations like the BDS movement have called for boycotts, citing Hewlett-Packard Israel's provision of products to the Israel Police, Prison Service, and Population and Immigration Authority.
A 2025 UN report further identified Hewlett Packard Enterprise as a company facilitating the occupation of Palestine, noting its role in maintaining databases and supplying technology to Israeli authorities, with complex subsidiary structures obscuring specific responsibilities since the 2015 split.
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise
The Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company (HPE) is an American multinational information technology company based in Spring, Texas. It is a business-focused organization which works in servers, storage, networking, AI, containerization software and consulting and support. HPE was ranked No. 107 in the 2018 Fortune 500 list of the largest United States corporations by total revenue.
HPE was founded on November 1, 2015, in Palo Alto, California, as part of the splitting of the Hewlett-Packard company. The split was structured so that the former Hewlett-Packard Company would change its name to HP Inc. and spin off Hewlett Packard Enterprise as a newly created company. HP Inc. retained the old HP's personal computer and printing business, as well as its stock-price history and original NYSE ticker symbol for Hewlett-Packard; Enterprise trades under its own ticker symbol: HPE. At the time of the spin-off, HPE's revenue was slightly less than that of HP Inc. The company relocated to Texas in 2020.
In 2017, HPE spun off its Enterprise Services business and merged it with Computer Sciences Corporation to become DXC Technology. Also in 2017, it spun off its software business segment and merged it with Micro Focus. Also in 2024, as part of the change in strategy, HPE's telecommunications business unit, the Communication Technology Group (CTG), was acquired by HCLTech for $225 million. In 2026, HPE worked with a conservative fixer to have anti-trust regulators in the US Department of Justice fired for not giving approval to a controversial $14 billion merger with Juniper.
Naming
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HPE campus in San Jose, California
The full name for the company is "Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company", which drops the hyphen that previously existed between the "Hewlett" and "Packard" of the former Hewlett-Packard Company. The company is commonly referred to as "Hewlett Packard Enterprise" or by its initials "HPE".
The company has also been referred to as "HP Enterprise" by some media outlets and has even been incorrectly referred to as "HP Enterprises".
History
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Logo used from November 2015 to June 2025
IT service management employees hold up the new company's logo rectangle in 2015.
In May 2016, the company announced it would sell its enterprise services division to one of its competitors, Computer Sciences Corporation in a deal valued at US$8.5 billion. The merger of HPE Enterprise Services with CSC, to form a new company DXC Technology, was completed on March 10, 2017. Approximately 100,000 current HPE employees were affected. More than 30,000 services employees from other areas of the HPE business remained at HPE including technology services support and consulting as well as software professional services.
In August 2016, the company announced plans to acquire Silicon Graphics International (SGI), known for their capabilities in high performance computing. On November 1, 2016, HPE announced it completed the acquisition, for US$7.75 per share in cash, a transaction valued at approximately US$275 million, net of cash and debt.
On September 7, 2016, HPE announced a "spin-merge" with Micro Focus, who would acquire HPE's "non-core" software (which included the HP Autonomy unit), and HPE shareholders would own 50.1 percent of the merged company, which would retain its current name. The merger concluded on September 1, 2017.
High-performance processor test bed built by HPE for the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility in 2018
In September 2016, Hewlett Packard Enterprise transferred two patents to Texas-based wholly owned shell company Plectrum LLC. These two patents were originated at 3Com Corporation, which was bought by HP in 2010, along with about 1,400 patents.
On April 11, 2017, it was reported that Synack had raised US$21 million in a round of funding that included Hewlett Packard Enterprise.
In January 2017, the company acquired data management platform SimpliVity, the developer of the OmniCube hyper-converged infrastructure appliance, for US$650M.
In April 2017, Hewlett Packard Enterprise completed its acquisition of hybrid flash and all flash manufacturer, Nimble Storage Inc, for US$1.2 billion or US$12.50 per share. In October, Reuters reported that the company had allowed a Russian defense agency to examine a cyber-defense system used by The Pentagon. The report noted: "Six former U.S. intelligence officials, as well as former ArcSight [Hewlett Packard Enterprise] employees and independent security experts, said the source code review could help Moscow discover weaknesses in the software, potentially helping attackers to blind the U.S. military to a cyber attack."
Antonio Neri, President and CEO as of 2018
In November 2017, Meg Whitman announced that she would be stepping down as CEO, after six years at the helm of HP and HPE, stating that, on February 1, 2018, Antonio Neri would officially become HPE's president and chief executive officer. The announcement created controversy leading to a 6% drop in stock price, which quickly recovered during the next few days.
In June 2018, Hewlett Packard Enterprise launched a hybrid cloud service called GreenLake Hybrid Cloud, built on top of HPE's OneSphere cloud management SaaS console, offered under its brand HPE GreenLake. GreenLake is designed to provide cloud management, cost control, and compliance control capabilities, and will run on AWS and Microsoft Azure. GreenLake includes cloud data services for containers, machine learning, storage, compute, data protection and networking through a management portal called GreenLake Central.
In February 2019, Meg Whitman announced she would not be seeking re-election to the board of directors, ending her professional involvement in HPE.
In May 2019, Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced plans to acquire Cray Inc for US$35 per share. The announcement came soon after Cray had landed a US$600 million US Department of Energy contract to supply the Frontier supercomputer to Oak Ridge National Laboratory in 2021. The acquisition was completed in September 2019 in a transaction valued at approximately US$1.4 billion.
In December 2020, Hewlett Packard Enterprise disclosed it is relocating its corporate headquarters from San Jose, California, to Spring, Texas, a northern suburb of Houston. From December 2021 to April 2022, HPE headquarters was located at the former HP property and headquarters campus of Compaq in northwest Harris County near SH 249 and Louetta. Construction of the new Springwoods Village campus in Spring was completed in early 2022. Concerns about major flooding at the Compaq complex were a contributing factor for HPE CEO Antonio Neri to have the new campus built. The old campus had previously been flooded by Hurricane Harvey in 2017. In April 2022, HPE relocated from the Compaq complex to its recently finished Spring campus, coinciding with the sale of the former complex to Mexican beverage distributor Mexcor that month.
HPE's proposed $14 billion acquisition of Juniper Networks was subjected to an investigation by the UK's antitrust watchdog, the Competition and Markets Authority. On June 19, 2024, the Competition and Markets Authority announced that it had initiated a merger inquiry to assess potential competition concerns arising from the deal, setting an August 14, 2024 deadline to decide whether to conduct a full investigation. At the time the deal was announced, HPE had agreed to pay $40 per share in cash for Juniper. In January 2025, the US Department of Justice Antitrust Division filed an antitrust lawsuit against HPE to block its acquisition of Juniper Networks, alleging that the proposed deal would raise prices, harm competition, and reduce innovation. Following a settlement with the DOJ, in which HPE agreed to divest their Instant On wireless division and license the source code for Juniper's Mist AI (a key component of Juniper's WLAN products), the acquisition was completed on July 2, 2025. Later that month, Axios reported that the U.S. Intelligence Community had earlier directly intervened to persuade DOJ to allow the acquisition, arguing that blocking the merger would have harmed U.S. companies and strengthened Chinese competitors—particularly Huawei—framing the decision as critical to national security. In September 2025, attorneys general from 20 states voiced support of further investigation in a letter to the courts. The letter proposed that the acquisition may not be in the best interest of the public.
To help HPE with the Juniper merger, HPE hired conservative lobbyist Mike Davis to receive a favorable decision by the second Donald Trump administration. Davis had helped Trump to staff key figures in anti-trust roles in the administration, including Gail Slater, the head of the US Department of Justice Antitrust Division. According to sworn deposition by Roger Alford, a deputy in the Justice Department’s antitrust division, Davis threatened Slater unless she approved a settlement deal related to HPE’s $14 billion bid to acquire rival Juniper. Slater and her team were resistant to approving the settlement, as the proposed settlement did not alleviate anti-competition concerns. Shortly thereafter, Slater and her deputies were forced out of the Justice Department.
Corporate affairs
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
The company's headquarters is in Houston, in a limited purpose annexation area.
Operating segments
• Intelligent Edge (10% of FY20 revenue) – offers platforms designed for network security, including Aruba Networks and Silver Peak Systems • HPC & MCS (11% of FY20 revenue) – High Performance Compute and Mission Critical Systems. Also includes Hewlett Packard Labs • Compute (44% of FY20 revenue) – the core server business • Storage (17% of FY20 revenue) – the core storage business, including recent acquisition Zerto • HPE Financial Services (12% of FY20 revenue) – provides financing services for HPE customers and partners • A&PS (4% of FY20 revenue) – Advisory and Professional Services through 'HPE Pointnext'. • Corporate Investments (2% of FY20 revenue) – includes 'HPE Pathfinder' (HPE's venture capital arm) and the Communications Technology Group
CEO Antonio Neri announced in 2019 that he expects all products to be sold 'as a service' by 2022 via HPE Greenlake.
Finances
The key trends for Hewlett Packard Enterprise are (as of the financial year ending December 31):
<table><thead><tr><th>Year</th><th>Revenue in million USD</th><th>Net income in million USD</th><th>Assets in million USD</th><th>Employees</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>2015</td><td>31,077</td><td>2,461</td><td>79,916</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>2016</td><td>30,280</td><td>3,161</td><td>79,629</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>2017</td><td>28,871</td><td>344</td><td>61,406</td><td>66,000</td></tr><tr><td>2018</td><td>30,852</td><td>1,908</td><td>55,493</td><td>60,000</td></tr><tr><td>2019</td><td>29,135</td><td>1,049</td><td>51,803</td><td>61,000</td></tr><tr><td>2020</td><td>26,982</td><td>(322)</td><td>54,015</td><td>59,400</td></tr><tr><td>2021</td><td>27,784</td><td>3,427</td><td>57,699</td><td>60,400</td></tr><tr><td>2022</td><td>28,496</td><td>868</td><td>57,123</td><td>60,200</td></tr><tr><td>2023</td><td>29,135</td><td>2,025</td><td>57,153</td><td>62,000</td></tr><tr><td>2024</td><td>30,127</td><td>2,554</td><td>71,262</td><td>61,000</td></tr></tbody></table>
Ownership
HPE is mainly owned by institutional investors, who hold around 88% of all shares. The 5 largest shareholders in mid-2025 were:
• Vanguard Group Inc (169,804,055 shares held) • Blackrock Inc. (137,553,957 shares held) • Capital World Investors (73,552,085 shares held) • Bank of America (51,846,776 shares held) • JPMorgan Chase (47,124,039 shares held)
Products
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• Intelligent Edge: Aruba Networks, Silver Peak Systems, FlexFabric • HPC & MCS: Apollo (High-Performance Computing), Cray • Compute: HP XP, HPE GreenLake Hybrid Cloud, Edgeline, Cloudline, Synergy, OneView, OneSphere, ProLiant, Synergy, Cloudline, Edgeline, HPE Integrity Servers, NonStop, HPE Superdome, Apollo (High-Performance Computing), Simplivity (HyperConvergence) • Storage: HPE 3PAR, StoreOnce, StoreEver, HP XP, HPE GreenLake Hybrid Cloud, HPE Alletra, HPE Primera, MSA, Nimble & Alletra dHCI • Communications Technology Group: OpenCall and Service Activator
Criticism
Israeli subsidiaries
In 2023, during the ongoing Gaza genocide, HP and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) were criticised because products from Hewlett-Packard Israel were provided to the Israel Police, the Israel Prison Service and the Israel Population and Immigration Authority. The BDS movement called on consumers and organisations to boycott all HPE IT services and products, as well as the printers, computers and printer cartridges of HP Inc. In 2025, Hewlett Packard Enterprise was identified in a report by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights that listed companies facilitating the occupation of Palestine — it states:
"Before IBM, Hewlett Packard Enterprises (HPE) maintained the database and its Israeli subsidiary is still providing servers. Hewlett Packard (HP) has long enabled the apartheid systems of Israel, supplying technology to the Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), the prison service and police. Since the 2015 split of the company into Hewlett Packard Enterprises and HP Inc., opaque business structures have obscured the roles of their seven remaining Israeli subsidiaries."
Acquisitions
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<table><thead><tr><th>Company acquired</th><th>Date of acquisition</th><th>Business</th><th>Country</th><th>Price</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Aruba Networks</td><td>March 2, 2015</td><td>Network hardware</td><td>US</td><td>$3B</td></tr><tr><td>Rasa Networks</td><td>May 6, 2016</td><td>Wireless network analytics</td><td>US</td><td>N/A</td></tr><tr><td>Silicon Graphics International (SGI)</td><td>August 11, 2016</td><td>Hardware and software</td><td>US</td><td>$275M</td></tr><tr><td>SimpliVity</td><td>January 17, 2017</td><td>Hyperconverged infrastructure</td><td>US</td><td>$650M</td></tr><tr><td>Cloud Cruiser</td><td>January 23, 2017</td><td>Cloud consumption analytics</td><td>US</td><td>N/A</td></tr><tr><td>Niara</td><td>February 1, 2017</td><td>Network security</td><td>US</td><td>N/A</td></tr><tr><td>Nimble Storage</td><td>April 17, 2017</td><td>Storage</td><td>US</td><td>$1.2B</td></tr><tr><td>Cloud Technology Partners</td><td>September 5, 2017</td><td>Cloud services</td><td>US</td><td>N/A</td></tr><tr><td>Cape Networks</td><td>March 27, 2018</td><td>Network security</td><td>South Africa</td><td>N/A</td></tr><tr><td>RedPixie</td><td>April 10, 2018</td><td>Cloud consulting</td><td>UK</td><td>N/A</td></tr><tr><td>Plexxi</td><td>May 15, 2018</td><td>Software-defined networking</td><td>US</td><td>N/A</td></tr><tr><td>BlueData</td><td>December 18, 2018</td><td>Software</td><td>US</td><td>N/A</td></tr><tr><td>MapR</td><td>August 5, 2019</td><td>Software</td><td>US</td><td>N/A</td></tr><tr><td>Cray</td><td>September 25, 2019</td><td>Hardware and software for supercomputers</td><td>US</td><td>$1.4B</td></tr><tr><td>Scytale</td><td>February 3, 2020</td><td>Web Security</td><td>US</td><td>N/A</td></tr><tr><td>Silver Peak Systems</td><td>September 21, 2020</td><td>SD-WAN</td><td>US</td><td>$925 million</td></tr><tr><td>Cloud Physics</td><td>February 24, 2021</td><td>Infrastructure assessment</td><td>US</td><td>N/A</td></tr><tr><td>Determined AI</td><td>June 21, 2021</td><td>Software</td><td>US</td><td>N/A</td></tr><tr><td>Zerto</td><td>July 1, 2021</td><td>Software</td><td>Israel</td><td>$374 million</td></tr><tr><td>Ampool</td><td>July 7, 2021</td><td>Software</td><td>US</td><td>N/A</td></tr><tr><td>Pachyderm</td><td>January 12, 2023</td><td>Data Versioning and Pipelines</td><td>US</td><td>N/A</td></tr><tr><td>Athonet</td><td>February 24, 2023</td><td>Private 5G</td><td>Italian</td><td>N/A</td></tr><tr><td>Axis Security</td><td>March 2, 2023</td><td>Cloud based Security Software(SSE, SASE)</td><td>Israel</td><td>$500 million</td></tr><tr><td>Opsramp</td><td>March 20, 2023</td><td>IT operations management</td><td>US</td><td>N/A</td></tr><tr><td>Morpheus Data</td><td>August 30, 2024</td><td>Cloud management Software</td><td>US</td><td>N/A</td></tr><tr><td>Juniper Networks</td><td>July 2, 2025</td><td>Network hardware, AI network operations, Cloud Management</td><td>US</td><td>$14B</td></tr></tbody></table>
Note: Aruba Networks was acquired by the Hewlett-Packard Company before demerger and was inducted into Hewlett Packard Enterprise while demerging.
Carbon footprint
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HPE reported Total CO2e emissions (Direct + Indirect) for the twelve months ending 30 September 2020 at 343 Kt (-48 /-12.4% y-o-y). The company commits to reduce emissions by 55% by 2025 from 2016 base year, and this science-based target is aligned with the Paris Agreement to limit global warming to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels.
<table><thead><tr><th>Sep 2015</th><th>Sep 2016</th><th>Sep 2017</th><th>Sep 2018</th><th>Sep 2019</th><th>Sep 2020</th><th>Sept 2021</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>580</td><td>642</td><td>412</td><td>448</td><td>391</td><td>343</td><td>306</td></tr></tbody></table>
Company culture
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The company culture at HPE focuses heavily on career development and internal mobility, while providing competitive benefits and ensuring unconditional inclusion. HPE has received many employer awards, such as 2025 Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For and 2025 PEOPLE Companies That Care. HPE manages industry-leading career development programs such as global intern and graduate cohorts, Technical Career Path, Professional Career Path, Leadership Development, and Executive Advantage.