Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has announced the successful completion of the previously announced acquisition of Juniper Networks. With this $13.4 billion acquisition, Juniper Networks is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of HPE. The original announcement of the transaction was made on January 9, 2024, and was approved by Juniper shareholders on April 2, 2024. The merger is intended to help HPE capitalize on the growing market opportunities in AI and hybrid cloud by creating an industry-leading, cloud-native, and AI-driven IT portfolio that includes a complete, modern network architecture. Antonio Neri, President and CEO of HPE, emphasizes that this combination not only offers an alternative for modern network architectures but also accelerates HPE’s profitable growth strategy. Rami Rahim, the former CEO of Juniper Networks, will lead the expanded HPE Networking business going forward.
The impact of this transaction on the networking market could be significant. The acquisition doubles the size of HPE’s networking business. The company aims to establish itself in the data center, firewall, and router markets, combining HPE’s strengths in security-oriented enterprise networking and SASE security with Juniper’s position in data centers, service providers, and AI-native solutions. The expanded offering will now include both Juniper and HPE Aruba networking solutions from a single source. The integration provides full network IP stack coverage, from silicon to hardware, operating systems, security, software, and services, all with a cloud-native and AI-driven approach. Increased research and development capacity will also enable faster innovation in networking systems and software.
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With the acquisition, HPE becomes one of the largest players in the networking market, competing with the established market leader, Cisco Systems. Initially, there were concerns from the U.S. Department of Justice, which feared that the merger of HPE (Aruba) and Juniper could create a dominant player that, together with Cisco, would control over 70 percent of the U.S. market for networking equipment.
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