About Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company (HPE) focuses on developing intelligent solutions that allow customers to capture, analyze and act upon data seamlessly from edge to cloud. The company enables customers to accelerate business outcomes by driving new business models, creating new customer and employee experiences, and increasing operational efficiency. The company's customers range from small-and-medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to large global enterprises and governmental entities. Strategy The company is seeing an immense demand shift in AI as customers realize the fundamental potential of the technology to deliver business transformation. The company has deployed an edge-to-cloud strategy that capitalizes on emergent megatrends and delivers a data-first modernization approach for customers. The company has shifted its mix of products and services, and how it delivers that mix to customers. HPE has evolved to a platform-based model, fueled by a portfolio richer in software and services. The company's HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform is a centerpiece of its strategy; it accelerates multi-generation IT transformation through a unified cloud services experience that empowers customers to access, analyze, and extract value from their data across public clouds, data centers, colocation facilities, and at the edge. The company's solutions across connectivity, cloud, and data are delivered as-a-service (aaS) through the HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform across its Intelligent Edge, Compute, High Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence (HPC & AI), and Storage business segments. Financial Services complements the company's solution offerings by helping customers unlock financial capacity. The company recognizes the AI market will be driven by computational capability, data-intensive workloads, and the need for specialized architecture; thus, it is targeting three areas: supercomputing, AI infrastructure, and AI platform software. The company's strategy is to deliver superior products, high-value technology support services, and differentiated integrated solutions that combine its infrastructure, software, and services capabilities. Similar to the compute space, the company's strategy is to deliver superior products, high-value technology support services, and differentiated integrated solutions that combine its infrastructure, software, and services capabilities. The company's strategy is to deliver superior enterprise wired and wireless local-area networking components and software, high-value technology support services, and differentiated integrated solutions that combine its infrastructure, software, and services capabilities. Business Segments, Products and Services The company operates through six business segments: Compute, HPC & AI, Storage, Intelligent Edge, Financial Services, and Corporate Investments and Other. Compute Compute portfolio consists of both general-purpose servers for multi-workload computing and workload-optimized servers to deliver the best performance and value for demanding applications. This portfolio of products includes the company's secure and versatile HPE ProLiant rack and tower servers and HPE Synergy, a composable infrastructure for traditional and cloud-native applications. HPE ProLiant servers are the compute foundation for the fastest growing workloads in the industry including AI Inferencing, hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI), virtual workspaces, and data management. Compute offerings also include operational and support services and HPE GreenLake for Compute. HPE GreenLake for Compute provides flexible Compute as-a-service IT infrastructure on a consumption basis through the HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform. HPC & AI HPC & AI business offers integrated systems consists of software and hardware designed to address High-Performance Computing (HPC), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Data Analytics, and Transaction Processing workloads for government, research institutions and commercial customers globally. The company's solutions are segmented into the following categories: HPC and Data Solutions. The HPC portfolio of products includes HPE Cray EX, HPE Cray XD, and Converged Edge Systems hardware, software, and data management appliances that are often sold as supercomputing systems, including exascale supercomputers (systems that can process 1018 floating point calculations per second), that support data-intensive simulations and large-scale AI applications. The Data Solutions portfolio includes the mission critical compute portfolio and HPE NonStop. The mission critical compute portfolio includes the HPE Superdome Flex and HPE Integrity product lines for critical applications, including large enterprise software applications and data analytics platforms. The HPE NonStop portfolio includes high-availability, fault-tolerant software and appliances that power applications, such as credit card transaction processing that require large scale and high availability. As part of its systems are aligned to the convergence of HPC and AI-at-scale across its industry, HPE offers a suite of software products, including AI-powered technologies designed to play a critical role in turning data into readily available, actionable information to fuel growth and innovation for its customers. The company's solutions are focused on enabling customers to develop and deploy AI models, such as Large Language Models (LLMs) across training, tuning, and inferencing. These include a software stack needed to prepare data for AI models and then to train those AI models using its open-source machine learning platform. HPC & AI offerings also include operational and support services, whether sold with the company's systems or as standalone services. The company also offers most of its solutions aaS through the HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform, including HPE GreenLake for LLMs. With offerings that are AI-driven and built for hybrid cloud environments with HPE GreenLake consumption models, the company provides the right workload optimized destinations for data and insights development for its customers. A portion of HPC & AI revenue is generated by sales to government entities, which are subject to the terms and rights for the convenience of the government entity. These terms and rights include in some instances a dependence on the appropriation of future funding and also termination rights contingent upon not achieving certain milestones. Storage Storage is transforming the customer experience with storage as-a-service and cloud data services through the HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform and data infrastructure to enable customers to simplify IT and unlock greater levels of agility with a cloud operational experience. The customer experience transformation also includes AI and data-driven intelligence with HPE InfoSight and HPE CloudPhysics. Customers can store and serve their data with speed and high availability to applications, further secure and protect their data across hybrid clouds from ransomware and cyber threats, and gain data mobility across private cloud, public cloud, and multi-cloud environments. Storage provides data storage and data management offerings, which include cloud-native primary storage with the HPE Alletra Storage portfolio, self-service private cloud on-demand with HPE GreenLake for Private Cloud Business Edition; data storage and data management services with HPE GreenLake for Block Storage, and HPE GreenLake for File Storage; disaster recovery and ransomware recovery with Zerto; data protection services with HPE GreenLake for Backup and Recovery; and big data solutions running on the family of HPE Alletra 4000 Data Storage Servers. Storage also provides solutions for unstructured data and analytics workloads, along with traditional tape, disk products, and storage networking. Storage also provides data-driven intelligence with HPE InfoSight and HPE CloudPhysics, along with operational and support services and data management solutions delivered through the HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform. Intelligent Edge The Intelligent Edge business consists of a portfolio of secure edge-to-cloud solutions operating under the Aruba brand that includes wired and wireless local area network (LAN), campus, branch, and data center switching, software-defined wide-area networking, network security, and associated services that enable secure connectivity for businesses of any size. The primary business drivers for Intelligent Edge solutions are work from anywhere environments, mobility, and connectivity for internet-of-things (IoT) devices. The insights from data generated at the edge are key to driving new business outcomes and experiences. The HPE Aruba Networking product portfolio includes hardware products, such as Wi-Fi access points, switches, and gateways. The HPE Aruba Networking software and services portfolio includes cloud-based management, network management, network access control, software-defined wide-area networking, network security, analytics and assurance, location services software, and professional and support services, as well as aaS and consumption models through the HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform for the Intelligent Edge portfolio of products. The company also offers Aruba ESP (or Edge Services Platform), which takes a cloud-native approach to helping customers meet their connectivity, security, and financial requirements across campus, branch, data center, and remote worker environments, covering all aspects of wired, wireless LAN, and wide-area networking. Financial Services Financial Services (FS) provides flexible investment solutions, such as leasing, financing, information technology (IT) consumption, utility programs, and asset management services for customers that facilitate unique technology deployment models and the acquisition of complete IT solutions, including hardware, software, and services from Hewlett Packard Enterprise and others. FS also supports financial solutions for on-premise flexible consumption models, such as its HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform. In order to provide flexible services and capabilities that support the entire IT life cycle, FS partners with customers globally to help build investment strategies that enhance their business agility and support their business transformation. FS offers a wide selection of investment solution capabilities for large enterprise customers and channel partners, along with an array of financial options to SMBs and educational and governmental entities. Corporate Investments and Other Corporate Investments and Other includes the Advisory and Professional Services (A & PS) business, which primarily offers consultative-led services, HPE and partner technology expertise and advice, implementation services, as well as complex solution engagement capabilities; the Communications and Media Solutions business (CMS), which primarily offers software and related services to the telecommunications industry and includes Athonet, which provides private mobile core networks to enterprises and communication services providers; the HPE Software business, which offers the HPE Ezmeral Software Container Platform and HPE Ezmeral Software Data Fabric; OpsRamp, which provides a software-as-a-service platform for managed service providers and enterprise IT teams to monitor and manage their cloud and on-premises (hybrid) infrastructure; and Hewlett Packard Labs, which is responsible for research and development. International The company's products and services are available worldwide. Research and Development The company's expenditures for R&D were $2.3 billion in fiscal 2023 (year ended October 31, 2023). Patents As of October 31, 2023, the company's worldwide patent portfolio included approximately 13,000 issued and pending patents. Patents generally have a term of up to 20 years from the date they are filed. As its patent portfolio has been built over time, the remaining terms of the individual patents across the company's patent portfolio vary. Seasonality From time to time, the markets in which the company sells its products, services, and solutions experience weak economic conditions. The company experiences some seasonal trends in the sale of its products and services. Competition Compute and Storage: The company's primary competitors are technology vendors, such as Dell Technologies Inc., Super Micro Computer, Inc., Cisco Systems, Inc., Lenovo Group Ltd., International Business Machines Corporation (IBM), and NetApp Inc. HPC & AI: The company's primary competitors are compute technology vendors that can design and build solutions that deliver performance scalability and connectivity necessary to handle super-compute and AI workloads, including Dell Technologies Inc., Super Micro Computer, Inc, Lenovo Group Ltd., IBM, Fujitsu Network Communications, Inc., and Atos Information Technology Incorporated. Intelligent Edge: The company's primary competitors are technology vendors, such as Cisco Systems, Inc., Extreme Networks, Inc., Arista Networks Inc, Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet, and Juniper Networks, Inc. Financial Services: The company's primary IT Asset Disposition (ITAD) competitors are ERI, Ingram Micro, Sage Sustainable Electronics, and Sims Recycling Solutions. History Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company was founded in 1939. The company was incorporated in 2015.