Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co (NYSE: HPE) is an enterprise technology company that sells servers, networking equipment, storage, and cloud infrastructure solutions to businesses and governments worldwide. Revenue comes from hardware sales, technology services, financing arrangements, and an as-a-service model called HPE GreenLake, which generates annualized recurring revenue tracked as ARR and includes cloud services, software-as-a-service, and consumption-based offerings. HPE traces its origins to a partnership founded in 1939 by William R. Hewlett and David Packard, and was established as a standalone company when Hewlett-Packard split its enterprise and personal systems businesses. The company competes directly with Dell Technologies, Super Micro Computer, Cisco Systems, Lenovo, Fujitsu, and Atos in data center infrastructure and high-performance computing. Customers range from small and medium businesses to large global enterprises and governmental entities. HPE operates facilities across the Americas, Europe, Middle East, Africa, and Asia Pacific, reflecting a worldwide product and services footprint as disclosed in its FY2025 10-K filed December 18, 2025.
- Revenue model
- HPE generates revenue through hardware product sales (servers, networking, storage), technology support services, and as-a-service offerings under the HPE GreenLake platform. The GreenLake ARR metric captures annualized revenue from cloud services, related financial services (rental income from operating leases and interest income from finance leases), software-as-a-service, software consumption revenue, and other aaS arrangements. Financing revenue is also a component through operating and finance lease structures.
- Products and services
- HPE's portfolio includes enterprise servers (including AI-optimized and high-performance computing systems with GPU and accelerated processing units), networking equipment, storage solutions, and the HPE GreenLake cloud services platform. The company also offers a software platform for AI model development and deployment, and financial services tied to its infrastructure products. High-performance and exascale compute solutions serve data-intensive supercomputing workloads.
- Customers and end markets
- Customers include small and medium businesses, large global enterprises, and governmental entities. Key end markets are AI infrastructure, enterprise data centers, hybrid multi-cloud environments, high-performance and supercomputing, and edge computing. Demand is driven by AI adoption, hybrid multi-cloud build-out, and exponential growth in edge data, as described in the FY2025 10-K.
- Value-chain role
- HPE is an original equipment manufacturer and infrastructure solutions provider sitting between component suppliers (including GPU vendors) and enterprise end customers. It integrates hardware, software, and services into sold or consumption-based infrastructure packages. It also acts as a financing entity through operating and finance lease arrangements. The company licenses intellectual property from third parties and maintains its own patent portfolio, including cross-license arrangements.
- Geographic exposure
- HPE products and services are available worldwide. The company maintains facilities in the United States (Alpharetta, Andover, Chippewa Falls, Colorado Springs, Fort Collins, Herndon, Houston, Milpitas, Roseville, San Jose, Spring, Sunnyvale, Westford, and Puerto Rico/Aguadilla), the Netherlands (Amsterdam), the United Kingdom (Erskine), India (Bangalore), Singapore, and Taiwan (Taipei), as disclosed in the FY2025 10-K filed December 18, 2025.
- Competitors
- Dell Technologies Inc., Super Micro Computer, Inc., Cisco Systems, Inc., Lenovo Group Ltd., Fujitsu Network Communications, Inc., Atos Information Technology Incorporated
