Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)

The company operates a diversified enterprise technology model built around infrastructure platforms and related services. It designs, manufactures and sells compute, storage, networking and hyperconverged systems as standard and configured hardware. On top of this it offers software platforms for hybrid cloud management, data fabric, analytics and AI workloads, as well as enterprise storage software. These products are paired with support, professional services, managed services and financing to create long-term customer relationships. Value is created by enabling large organisations to run hybrid and edge-to-cloud IT architectures, consolidate infrastructure, and operate data and analytics workloads under unified management with predictable performance and governance. The business model increasingly shifts traditional capital expenditure hardware sales into recurring, consumption and subscription revenue streams tied to platform usage and software access.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is a United States–based enterprise IT infrastructure, cloud and services vendor formed in 2015 via the spin-off from HP Inc. It provides servers, storage, networking, hyperconverged systems and related software platforms, alongside a consumption-based hybrid cloud platform and data/analytics software. The company competes with large enterprise hardware and services vendors such as Dell Technologies, Cisco and IBM.

HPE generates revenue primarily from sales of hardware systems, software subscriptions and licences, and associated support, managed services and financing. Offerings such as its pay-per-use hybrid cloud platform and data/analytics software suites are targeted at enterprise IT, data centre operators and service providers that need hybrid infrastructure, storage and analytics across on-premises, edge and public cloud environments.