In July 2025, Hewlett Packard Enterprise closed its $13.4 billion acquisition of Juniper Networks, integrating Juniper’s high-performance routing, switching and SD-WAN capabilities into HPE’s Aruba and AI-native networking portfolio. The deal bolsters HPE’s position in quantum-safe and zero-trust architectures by combining Juniper’s SRX firewalls and Contrail SD-WAN with HPE’s Mist AIOps and Aruba CX switching. Management expects cross-sell opportunities to accelerate revenue growth in enterprise and service-provider segments, targeting a 10 percent uplift in networking ARR by 2027 through deeper penetration in financial services, telecommunications and government verticals.

At NRF 2026: Retail’s Big Show, HPE introduced an expanded retail-ready portfolio that meshes Aruba Networking CX switching at the edge with Mist AIOps for self-driving network operations. Sujai Hajela, EVP & GM of Campus & Branch at HPE, highlighted how the integration of real-time AI insights and fault-tolerant core compute supports continuous transactions and data availability across back office, point of sale and curbside operations. Retail customers can leverage unified visibility and automation to reduce incident resolution times by up to 40 percent and improve in-store uptime during peak shopping periods.

The new CX 6000 Switch Series adds compact 8-port PoE and non-PoE models designed for checkout lanes, overhead crawl spaces and IoT device connectivity. These switches deliver up to 90 W of total PoE capacity per device—50 percent more than legacy models—enabling digital signage, wireless access points and smart sensors without costly infrastructure overhauls. Advanced telemetry and IoT probing feed into Mist’s Marvis virtual assistant, supporting proactive health checks that can identify and remediate 85 percent of connectivity anomalies before they impact store operations.

HPE’s Nonstop Compute NS9 X5 and NS5 X5 platforms now offer linear scale to 4,000 nodes and deliver up to 15 percent more performance capacity compared to the previous NS8 X4 generation, based on internal benchmarks. Transparent Data Encryption has been added to protect sensitive transaction data and meet evolving compliance standards. Both CX 6000 switches and Nonstop Compute solutions are available as a service through HPE GreenLake, providing subscription-based consumption models that align IT spend with variable retail workloads and support rapid roll-out of new omnichannel applications.