Summary

• At its recent Discover event in Las Vegas, HPE’s message was clear: the future opportunity for differentiation and value in enterprise environments with hybrid AI architectures is through networking and everything that it enables.
• This was the first Discover event where the company’s Juniper acquisition was fully complete, and that company’s influence on the overall message and direction of HPE was clearer at this event than it’s ever been.
• One of the biggest themes from the show was the company’s focus on what it called truly autonomous, self-driving networks that can not only predict and warn about potential network issues but also leverage AI to perform any necessary fixes automatically.

Taking an established company in a new direction is always a challenging task. Doing so in the midst of one of the biggest technological evolutions the tech industry has ever witnessed, even more so.