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Enterprise technology company making servers, storage, networking (Aruba) and high-performance computing systems for data centers and AI workloads.
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HPE booked a $1.2 billion Vultr order, its first for AMD's Helios platform, and raised its fiscal 2027 networking growth outlook. Executives say supply now limits sales, so the test is whether HPE can turn backlog into revenue at the higher margins it promises after the Juniper deal.
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HPE now expects networking revenue to grow in the high teens to low 20s percent in fiscal 2027, up from the 14% to 17% it guided on its last earnings call. For enterprise buyers, the plan leans on AI data center racks sold whole and reaches campus accounts through a sales force that sells the full catalog.
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CVE-2026-73749 lets an unauthenticated attacker run privileged code on HPE Aruba switches by sending malformed packets to a daemon the bulletin never names. The oldest affected branch is already out of maintenance.
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Vinod Bijlani argues in Forbes that a token price measures only what an application consumed, while the idle accelerators and rising power draw behind it never reach the invoice a CIO reviews. He works for HPE.
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Both companies beat estimates and raised full-year guidance on AI demand. Both fell after the bell anyway. HPE turned $12.2 billion of revenue into $1 billion of free cash flow. NetApp's free cash flow dropped 35%.
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Adoption is near universal while production scaling stays in single digits, which an HPE practice leader reads as evidence that boards are measuring the one AI bill that is falling and absorbing the other two.
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QuEra had Claude work through hundreds of laser faults on a testbed and emit an ordinary control program, which is why engineers can read the thing that now touches live hardware. The ordering is the transferable part.
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The Trusted Computing Group's baseline is PTP 1.07, with two readiness labels and a certification tier still to come. Until that lands, verification means reading a vendor's evidence packet.
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The trapped-ion company signed a joint development deal with contract manufacturer Quanta Computer for hardware infrastructure. No new processor, no volumes, no timetable, and that is the tell.
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