Forbes July 11, 2025
It turned out that the HPE Discover 2025 keynote — held for the second year running at The Sphere in Las Vegas — took place only a couple of days before the news broke that the U.S. government would allow HPE’s acquisition of Juniper Networks to go ahead. I attended the conference in person, plus had the chance to visit CEO Antonio Neri at an HPE headquarters outside of Houston. I talked with him in depth about the conclusion of the Juniper deal and how he sees HPE helping enterprises embrace AI, bringing networking as well as compute to data-intensive hybrid settings — where HPE was early to market.
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