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HPE CEO Antonio Neri joins Bloomberg Technology following a blowout quarter that sent the stock up 21% and added $13 billion in market cap in a single session. Neri describes a business firing on all cylinders: campus and branch network orders up nearly 30%, data center switch orders up close to 20%, triple-digit growth in band storage for the sixth consecutive quarter, and a record gross margin of 36.9%. Earnings per share guidance for the full fiscal year moved up a full dollar to a $3.40 midpoint, with HPE pulling its 2028 outlook forward to 2026 based on backlog visibility and a pipeline described as multiples of that backlog.
Neri attributes margin resilience to the Juniper integration — including ahead-of-plan synergies from both the Juniper and Catalyst initiatives — which helped absorb rising DRAM and NAND costs. He is emphatic that this is not a single-customer or hyperscaler story: enterprise demand, driven by compliance requirements, data sovereignty concerns, and governance mandates, is the accelerating force. HPE itself runs 1,200 internal AI use cases with 250 in active production, using a governed mix of proprietary and open models.
When pressed on whether this represents a supercycle or something more structural, Neri argues for the latter — that agentic AI is fundamentally transforming business processes and workflows, that enterprise adoption is still early, and that the competitive pressure to move quickly is intensifying. “The future belongs to the fast” is his internal company motto, and he frames the current moment as analogous to the COVID-era digital on-ramp, only faster.
📺 Source: Bloomberg Technology · Published June 02, 2026
🏷️ Format: Interview
