By Light Reading
Publication Date: 2026-03-11 08:30:00
Eight months after completing his $14 billion acquisition of Juniper Networks, HPE boss Antonio Neri can feel a sense of vindication. Large mergers do not usually go smoothly. Some analysts were concerned about awkward overlaps in the product portfolio. Juniper telecommunications fans feared that the combined company might place less importance on serving telecom companies. And when Neri visited Catalonia for MWC 2025, the US Department of Justice (DoJ) was still trying to block the agreement for dubious reasons. A year later, Neri was back in Barcelona at the head of a much larger company, wielding some evidence that the skeptics were mostly wrong.
After a shameful fall of the Department of JusticeNeri today presides over an expanded networking business that is much more profitable than his traditional IT business. That prepares HPE for a stronger attack on the territory of Cisco, its main American rival, and gives it the strength to fight Huawei in countries where the Chinese company still has permission to operate, Neri told Light Reading. “One of…
