Talk:Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Merger proposal

HP Enterprise Business page should not be merged into this article as a) it is significantly out of date - HP Enterprise Business became HP Enterprise Group more than three years ago b) HP Enterprise Group is just one of four major business units to make up Hewlett Packard Enterprise.

Agreed: In Hewlett Packard Enterprise, the Enterprise Group is one element of the company with three other areas, Enterprise Services, Software and Financial Services. Enterprise Group should be referred to in the new Hewlett Packard Enterprise page, including the four main areas of Enterprise Group. The old HP Enterprise Business page is out of date. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.149.182.123 (talk) 18:14, 27 December 2015 (UTC)

Suggest HP Enterprise Business be appropriately updated and linked to from Hewlett Packard Enterprise — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.1.197.37 (talk • contribs)

I do not think the HP Enterprise Business and Hewlett Packard Enterprise articles are strong enough to warrant two different entries. --Svgalbertian (talk) 14:32, 1 December 2015 (UTC)

Agreed. The former unit wasn't particularly independently notable in the first place and didn't really need a separate article to start with. Perpetuating the unneeded split is ill advised. oknazevad (talk) 19:37, 8 December 2015 (UTC)

Additionally, that article on the former unit, in addition to being well out of date, reads like its part of the corporate website. Seriously, it fails NPOV in every way. oknazevad (talk) 19:39, 8 December 2015 (UTC)

Soft oppose it as the new company is an independent legal entity and though they do largely overlap of what this company used to be it's not the same entity, I think that this article should be expanded on more as it evolves, but the HP Enterprise Business refers to older business of a now defunct company, compare Motorola Vs. Motorola Mobility Vs. Motorola Solutions.

Sincerely, --86.81.201.94 (talk) 20:45, 23 March 2016 (UTC)

Grammar and Punctuation

I would also suggest that the grammar and punctuation errors in the piece be corrected. It's embarrassing..... 14:01, 23 November 2015 (UTC)104.129.204.85 (talk)

Proposed merge with HP Atalla

This product is not independently notable, and so should be merged and redirected; see WP:PRODUCT. If that is not suitable, it should go to AfD. FalconK (talk) 19:59, 10 October 2016 (UTC)

Oppose merge; a better target, following the 2016 spinout, might be Micro Focus. Klbrain (talk) 20:36, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

Closing, given no support and, it seems, development independent of Micro Focus too (see this edit). Klbrain (talk) 16:56, 27 June 2018 (UTC)

Links to this page

Editors should please note that this page refers to the company created by the split of the original Hewlett-Packard on Nov 1, 2015, and should ONLY be linked to from other articles if the context refers to events AFTER the split. Any references to HP prior to the split should be linked directly to Hewlett-Packard. I would appreciate if editors could go through all the pages that link to here and HP Inc. and correct those that reference events before Nov 1, 2015: see here for an example of what I would like to be done. Thanks for your help, <<< SOME GADGET GEEK >>> (talk) 22:49, 12 December 2016 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 21 February 2018

Change "Hewlett Packard Labs – the research & development arm of HP Inc." to "Hewlett Packard Labs – the research & development arm of HPE. 15.203.233.87 (talk) 18:07, 21 February 2018 (UTC)

 Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. There is still an HP Inc. so there needs to be a reliable source clarifying whether HP Labs is a subsidiary of HP Inc. or HPE. Eggishorn (talk) (contrib) 22:31, 22 February 2018 (UTC)

 Done – BrandonXLF ^(t@lk) 18:00, 8 December 2018 (UTC)

Draft entry for Antonio Neri

Hi, I'm Andrada and I work for Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). I've made an account to suggest improvements to articles related to the company. I've saved a draft entry for the President and CEO at Draft:Antonio Neri (businessman). I'm looking for editors who can review and move the draft, presumably to Antonio Neri (businessman) since there's already a page for Antonio Neri. Thank you. AMorar HPE (talk) 19:13, 21 May 2019 (UTC)

"HP Enterprise"

It strikes me that the "Naming" section is incorrect - "HP Enterprise" is a valid abbreviation of the name. Eilidhmax (talk) 23:52, 26 July 2019 (UTC)

@Eilidhmax: It's not clear if the articles are calling the company "HP Enterprise" or if they're using it an an abbreviation, so I reworded the section.– BrandonXLF (t@lk) 23:03, 26 October 2019 (UTC)

Correction and update for Acquisitions table

Hello again, Andrada here on behalf of Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) (as disclosed above: I am an employee of the company and here in an official capacity). I noticed the Acquisitions table is outdated.

1. The BlueData acquisition was announced on November 27, 2018, but closed on December 18, 2018, per this Forbes source. This CRN article also confirms the November announcement and December close.
2. The Cray acquisition closed on September 25, 2019, per this source and this source.

I'm trying to get the article updated, but I won't be editing directly because of my conflict of interest. Can someone please review and update the page for me? Thank you. AMorar HPE (talk) 02:17, 9 October 2019 (UTC)

@Guy Harris and Mikepegg: I see you've both updated this article before, including changes to the Acquisitions table. Are you available to review this update request? Thank you. AMorar HPE (talk) 22:32, 14 October 2019 (UTC)

@BrandonXLF: Hello. I'm trying to get the Acquisitions table updated, and saw you helped with an edit request above. Might you be able to help here as well? I'd update the page myself but I have a conflict of interest, so I'm asking other editors to make updates on my behalf. Thank you. AMorar HPE (talk) 18:22, 23 October 2019 (UTC)

Reply 24-OCT-2019

• If the listed date is incorrect — for example, it says May 15 when it should say March 15 — then this can be considered an error in grammar, since the correct spelling of March is M-A-R-C-H and not M-A-Y. This simple type of fix is permissable for you to make on your own, per WP:COIU.

Regards,  Spintendo  09:29, 24 October 2019 (UTC)

Reply 26-OCT-2019

•  Done (I don't know why we're using headings for replies, but here we are.) @AMorar HPE: I completed both the edits and added some of the sources to the article. For the second one it was clearly a spelling mistake and you should have been able to do it yourself, but better safe than sorry.– BrandonXLF (t@lk) 22:39, 26 October 2019 (UTC)

Hello again. Thanks to User:BrandonXLF for replying above and updating the article. Upon further thought, I think there's a better way to make the article more complete, informative, and helpful to readers, and less redundant. Currently some of HPE's acquisitions and divestitures are mentioned in the 'History' section, then there's a somewhat redundant 'Acquisitions' section and table further down. I propose creating an 'Acquisitions and divestitures' subsection within the 'History' section, and removing the duplicate 'Acquisitions' section/table. I've proposed subsection text below for editors to review, which describes:

• (1) how some of HPE's subsidiaries were formed by HP acquisitions
• (2) HPE's purchases and divestitures as a standalone company, with correct dates, dollar amounts, and the impacts had within HPE or the industry as a whole
• (3) other intellectual property acquired by HPE

The proposed section includes a simpler table of acquisitions to help readers at a glance. This is intended to replicate the current Acquisitions table with less detail.

Proposed 'Acquisitions and divestitures' sub-section for 'History'

Acquisitions and divestitures See also: List of acquisitions by Hewlett-Packard Company acquired Year Silicon Graphics International 2016 SimpliVity 2017 Niara 2017 Nimble Storage 2017 Cloud Technology Partners 2017 Cape Networks 2018 RedPixie 2018 Plexxi 2018 BlueData 2018 Cray 2019 HPE's subsidiaries include 3Com, 3Par, and Aruba. 3Com was acquired by HP in 2009 for approximately $2.7 billion, and HP completed the $2.35 billion purchase of 3Par in 2010. Aruba was formed when HP acquired Aruba Networks in May 2015 for $2.7 billion. HPE's enterprise services division was sold to Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) in May 2016 for approximately $8.5 billion. Part of the division's management and outsourcing services were acquired by HP with the purchase of Electronic Data Systems in 2008 for approximately $14 billion. The division generated approximately one-third of HPE's overall revenue and had close to 100,000 employees at the time. The merger with CSC was completed in April 2017, forming the new company DXC Technology. HPE acquired Silicon Graphics International (SGI), which manufactures supercomputer hardware and software, in August 2016 for $275 million. In September 2016, HPE announced plans to spin-off and combine its "non-core" software services with Micro Focus in a deal worth approximately $8.8 billion. HPE received $2.5 billion in cash, and the company's shareholders owned 50.1 percent of the new business. The reverse takeover, completed almost one year later, was the largest acquisition of a foreign technology business by a British company to date, and made Micro Focus the nation's largest public technology company. HPE sold its Cloud Foundry and OpenStack assets to SUSE in November 2016. HPE announced the acquisition of data management platform SimpliVity, the developer of the OmniCube hyper-converged infrastructure appliance, in January 2017 for US$650 million. In February, HPE acquired the security company Niara, which analyzes big data and uses machine learning to prevent cyberattacks, for an undisclosed amount. The acquisition increased HPE's user behavior analytics portfolio, and the company announced plans to merge Niara's behavioral analytics technologies into Aruba's Network Access Control platform. HPE agreed to acquire Nimble Storage, a producer of computer data storage and flash memory products, in March 2017 for approximately $1 billion. The deal was completed in April, and Nimble became a wholly owned subsidiary of HPE after being removed from the New York Stock Exchange. HPE acquired 10,000 customers, and Nimble's predictive analytics is being used for storage products. In September, HPE announced the purchase of Cloud Technology Partners (CTP), a Boston-based cloud computing company, for an undisclosed amount. CTP was merged into HPE's Pointnext division, which focuses on information technology consulting and deployment services, and the addition of CTP's 200 employees raised HPE's total number of employees to approximately 52,000. HPE acquired five companies during the first year of Neri's tenure as CEO, including the data center management and software company QuattroLabs. In March 2018, the company's Aruba subsidiary announced the purchase of Cape Networks for an undisclosed amount. The purchase expanded Aruba's portfolio of artificial intelligence and networking products, including analytics and reliability services. HPE purchased the British cloud consulting and mobile app development company RedPixie in April for an undisclosed amount, further expanding HPE's Pointnext division. HPE confirmed the purchase of data center services company Plexxi in May, expanding HPE's hyperconverged services business as well as HPE Synergy's composable infrastructure offerings. HPE further expanded its artificial intelligence and analytics services by purchasing the big data and hardware virtualization firm BlueData in November 2018. HPE announced plans to acquire Cray in May 2019 for approximately US$1.3 billion, soon after Cray landed a US$600 million United States Department of Energy contract to supply the Frontier supercomputer to Oak Ridge National Laboratory in 2021. The acquisition was completed in September 2019 for approximately US$1.4 billion. HPE has acquired the intellectual property of other data storage companies, including AppQ, IBrix, Lefthand Networks, PolyServe, StorageApps, and TransSoft. References

Text removals in 'History'

If the proposed sub-section were added, some text could be removed from the current 'History' section to eliminate redundancy, including:

Redundant text to remove from 'History' section

In May 2016, the company announced it would sell its enterprise services division to one of its competitors, Computer Sciences Corporation in a deal valued at US$8.5 billion. The merger of HPE Enterprise Services with CSC, to form a new company DXC Technology, was completed on 10 March 2017. Approximately 100,000 current HPE employees are affected. More than 30,000 services employees from other areas of the HPE business will remain at HPE including technology services support and consulting as well as software professional services. This text is not entirely accurate and the latter part is unsourced. Computer Sciences Corporation and DXC Technology are mentioned in the text proposed above, and removing this red-colored text would eliminate a "citation needed" tag from the article. In August 2016, the company announced plans to acquire Silicon Graphics International (SGI), known for their capabilities in high performance computing. On 1 November 2016, HPE announced it completed the acquisition, for US$7.75 per share in cash, a transaction valued at approximately US$275 million, net of cash and debt. On 7 September 2016, HPE announced a "spin-merge" with Micro Focus, where Micro Focus would acquire its "non-core" software, and HPE shareholders would own 50.1 percent of the merged company, which would retain its current name. The merger concluded on 1 September 2017. Micro Focus is covered in the proposed sub-section text. Silicon Graphics International is covered in the propose sub-section text. In January 2017, the company acquired data management platform SimpliVity, the developer of the OmniCube hyper-converged infrastructure appliance, for US$ 650M. SimpliVity is covered in the proposed sub-section text. In April 2017, Hewlett Packard Enterprise completed its acquisition of hybrid flash and all flash manufacturer, Nimble Storage Inc, for US$1.2 billion or US$12.50 per share. This text is unsourced, and Nimble Storage is covered in the proposed sub-section text. In May 2019, Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced plans to acquire Cray for nearly US$1.3 billion or US$35 per share, soon after Cray landed a US$600 million US Department of Energy contract to supply the Frontier supercomputer to Oak Ridge National Laboratory in 2021. Cray and Oak Ridge National Laboratory are covered in the proposed sub-section text. In September 2019, Hewlett Packard Enterprise completed the acquisition of Cray for US$1.4 billion. Again, Cray is covered in the proposed sub-section text.

How to preview proposed changes

Here's the best way to review my proposed edits:

• (1) copy the markup for the 'Acquisitions and divestitures' sub-section proposed above, and paste within current 'History'
• (2) remove the 7 pieces of red-colored text in the 'History' section bulleted above
• (3) remove the current (duplicate) 'Acquisitions' section and table, then click on "Show preview"

I know I'm suggesting substantial changes here, but my goals are to make the article more accurate and complete, eliminate redundancy, and improve flow by grouping all acquisition and divestitures text within a single sub-section, rather than being scattered throughout the company's general history and then being duplicated in a table further down. I'm trying to get the article updated, but I won't be editing directly because of my conflict of interest. @BrandonXLF: Can you or another editor please review and update the page for me? I'm happy to discuss further or answer questions. Thanks! AMorar HPE (talk) 22:17, 30 October 2019 (UTC)