Antonio Neri: HPE Is 'Becoming A Networking Company At Its Core,' Something 'Cisco Has Forgotten'
Hello, and welcome back. In this edition, we take a look at Hewlett Packard Enterprise CEO Antonio Neri and Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins' remarks regarding each other's networking strategies and more highlights from XChange Best of Breed 2024, mass layoffs at Intel, the solution providers recognized on our 2024 IoT Innovators list and more.
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Antonio Neri: HPE Is 'Becoming A Networking Company At Its Core,' Something 'Cisco Has Forgotten'
Hewlett Packard Enterprise CEO Antonio Neri said networking is becoming the core of HPE thanks to its pending $14 billion acquisition of Juniper Networks and its new Aruba Networking global sales offensive, as HPE seeks to win more market share from rival Cisco.
Neri's comments were made in an interview with CRN Executive Editor Jennifer Follett and Executive Editor, News, Steven Burke at this week's XChange Best of Breed conference, hosted by CRN's parent company, The Channel Company , in Atlanta.
In response to Neri's comment that "we are becoming a networking company at the core—something that probably Cisco has forgotten now for a little bit," Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins said, with a smirk, "Well, we forgot more about networking than they'll probably know about networking."
In addition to Neri and Robbins, Jen and Steve also interviewed CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz and Cohesity CEO Sanjay Poonen at the event.
Jen and Steve discuss their takeaways from those interviews in today's episode of CRN In Depth. You can watch it here.
You can find all of CRN's news coverage from XChange Best of Breed, including partners' reactions to Neri's and Robbins' sparring, here.
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