EU clears HPE's $14 billion Juniper acquisition

The buy is primarily about AI technology for HPE. It stands to gain Juniper’s cloud-based Mist AI family, which includes Mist’s virtual network assistant, Marvis. Marvis can detect, describe and help fix myriad network problems, including persistently failing wired or wireless clients, bad cables, access-point coverage holes, problematic WAN links, and insufficient radio-frequency capacity.

Aside from the Juniper technology, HPE recently announced a portfolio of AI products and services jointly developed with Nvidia that it hopes will help enterprises realize the productivity benefits of generative AI, ideally by using its products on-premises or in hybrid clouds.

Juniper, too, has been enhancing its AI capabilities recently. It extended its AI platform with a package of features dubbed Operations for AI (Ops4AI). The additions enable congestion control, load-balancing and management capabilities for systems controlled by the vendor’s core Junos and Juniper Apstra data center intent-based networking software.