Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. announced today the launch of HPE Aruba Networking Enterprise Private 5G, an offering designed to assist customers in expediting and streamlining the deployment and management of private 5G networks. The company said the offering will deliver reliable wireless coverage across enterprises, resulting in previously unimagined applications. I had the opportunity to receive a pre-briefing with several HPE executives, including Stuart Strickland, HPE Fellow and wireless chief technology officer, and producdt marketing lead Gayle Levin.

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HPE looks to speed up enterprise private cellular deployments with new Aruba Networking offering

The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute has a history of hosting Republican presidential debates at the Reagan Library. However, for the most recent Republican presidential debate on Sept. 27, 2023, the foundation faced the unique challenge of doubling its wireless network capacity.

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Reagan foundation turns to HPE Aruba for its next-generation network

After the closing bell sounded on Monday, the Wall Street Journal ran a story stating that Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. was nearing a deal to acquire Juniper Networks Inc. for $13 billion. When the story ran, Juniper’s market cap was roughly $10 billion, meaning the purchase price of $13 billion represents a 30% premium on where the stock was trading.

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How HPE acquiring Juniper does – and does not – make sense

The 2023 Ryder Cup is being held through Oct. 1 at the Marco Simone Golf and Country Club in Rome, and the event is expected to take in 250,000 spectators — most of whom will be looking to text, tweet, Instagram and Facebook.

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Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.’s just-reported financial results were certainly interesting and show continued progress, but that wasn’t the most interesting announcement HPE made Thursday.

Aruba, the networking division of HPE, announced its intent to acquire Israel-based Axis Security Ltd., which is one of many providers of secure service edge, or SSE, on the market today. Axis came to market with zero-trust network access as a service but since then has added other core components of SSE, including cloud access security broker, or CASB, and secure web gateway, or SWG. It also has digital experience management or DEM, which isn’t typically associated with security, but I believe an important part of SSE.

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HPE gets SASE with the acquisition of Axis Security