Our next era as HPE Networking

I’m excited to share that Juniper is now officially in its next era, as part of HPE. The combination of our companies offers customers an industry-leading comprehensive, secure IT portfolio including a complete, modern networking stack. For more on our bold vision, see HPE CEO Antonio Neri’s blog post.

I’m honored to lead the HPE Networking team, made up of technologists, strategists, and businesspeople from both Juniper Networks and HPE Aruba Networks. Together we’re going to build the best networking business on the planet.

What HPE Networking means for customers

Customers will now have access to both HPE Juniper Networking and HPE Aruba Networking products – all from one company. As separate companies, we’ve delivered differentiated network solutions to customers around the world. And now we’re even better together, offering the secure, AI-native networks that address the biggest opportunities across all customer segments: enterprise, cloud provider, and service provider.

Better together in the age of AI

AI is changing how everyone works, lives and plays. And it’s changing how organizations across the world connect their employees, reach their customers, deliver goods and services, and succeed. With the combination of HPE Juniper Networking and HPE Aruba Networking technologies, we are uniquely positioned to help our customers in two key opportunities: AI for networks, and networks for AI. HPE Networking delivers on both fronts. Let’s start with AI for networks.

• The power of AI is essential to deliver excellent user experiences. And AI thrives on data. With more customers, more networks, and more devices deployed around the world, our already market-leading AI engine will become even smarter and even more effective at assuring superior end-to-end user and operator experiences.
• End users demand greater flexibility. With a broader and more comprehensive portfolio across LAN and WAN, we will be able to satisfy more use cases and more deployment options, for more customers around the globe.
• Security and resiliency are beyond business critical. With the full breadth of security solutions across physical and virtual, on-premise and cloud, our customers can have even greater confidence that the secure networking solutions they deploy will help protect users, data and infrastructure from bad actors.

As cloud organizations build AI models and expand their capabilities, the need for a high-performance and highly reliable networking fabric within and between data centers will only increase. HPE Networking delivers networks for AI solutions to meet these needs.

• AI requires greater innovation agility. As HPE Networking, our augmented R&D scale and investment let us rapidly innovate across networking silicon, systems and software. Our objective isn’t just to participate in the AI data center space but to lead it.
• A full networking and IT stack means simplicity. Starting today, HPE is the only IT technology provider with the full breadth of solution components across networking, compute, and storage with integrated visibility and full stack management in HPE GreenLake. This makes learning, tuning, and inference simple and viable for all our customers—enterprises, cloud operators and service providers.

Mist and the future of AI-native networking

And integral to the future of AI for networks and networks for AI is the Mist platform. As part of HPE’s full-stack offering, the AI-native Mist platform will continue to receive strong support and investment from HPE. Customers can expect ongoing innovation, simplicity, and world-class user experiences. While HPE will comply with the DOJ settlement regarding licensing Mist AIOps for WLAN, there is no divestiture of any Juniper or Mist products or technologies. Mist stands as the industry’s leading AI-native platform, trusted across the healthcare, retail, education, manufacturing, transportation, financial services, and service provider sectors. The Juniper-HPE combination only strengthens its future.

AIOps is foundational to the Mist platform, combining rich data, a microservices cloud, and integrated security to deliver exceptional experiences. It’s a key reason Gartner_^® ranked Juniper highest in “Ability to Execute” and furthest in “Completeness of Vision” in the 2025 Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise Wired and Wireless LAN Infrastructure—for the fourth year running. As we move forward, AIOps will remain a critical pillar of our broader AI-native platform.

Building the best networking business on the planet

I’m excited about what HPE Networking means for our customers, our partners, our employees, and the industry.  And we’re just getting started. Thanks for joining us on the journey.