By Jeffrey Burt
Publication Date: 2025-12-03 20:45:00
In June, after a year and a half of insistence and pressure, the United States Department of Justice finally gave the go-ahead to Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s $14 billion acquisition of Juniper Networks. And naturally, attention turned to the question of how the IT giant would fit Juniper into its newly created HPE networking business and manage the integration with its Aruba networking unit and the rest of its data center portfolio.
As we mentioned at the timeRami Rahim, former CEO of Juniper who now heads HPE Networking, had some decisions to make when looking at HPE, Aruba and Juniper’s hardware and software assets. In HPE Discover Barcelona 2025 This week, Rahim shows the direction the company is going and revolves around “cross-pollinating” the Aruba Central and Juniper Mist AIOps platforms to help take HPE deeper into AI data centers. Just having Juniper on the books helped boost HPE’s third quarter financial numbers. Now comes the…