By Light Reading
Publication Date: 2026-10-27 13:03:00
“Self-driving network” is a term that executives at Juniper Networks were throwing around long before the dawn of agentic AI to describe a fully autonomous system, capable of making decisions and executing tasks without any human involvement. Now, about 16 months since the company was acquired by HPE in a $14 billion deal, and with agents mushrooming across the planet, it suddenly appears a lot closer.
Among other things, the Juniper acquisition in July 2025 came with an AI called Marvis, attached back then to Juniper’s Mist portfolio of network technologies. The goal was to use Marvis across other products, as well, said Rami Rahim, the president of HPE Networking (and former Juniper CEO), during a press conference at the Winter Olympics in Milan, where HPE was flaunting some of its expertise earlier this year. “Marvis now is not exclusive to Mist,” he told reporters. “Marvis is the AIOps engine that will operate across all of HPE networking technology.”
To an outsider, Marvis is…
