Big Shift in Data Center Networking with HPE Arista Consulting

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Hewlett Packard Enterprise's partnership with Arista Networks continues to evolve and strengthen, presenting significant opportunities for mutual benefit to both companies, with the potential of impacting the IT infrastructure market.

The relationship began in the summer of 2015 when Arista became an HPE datacenter networking reference architecture partner for converged infrastructure. It was a mutually beneficial arrangement, providing HPE with a stronger datacenter networking offering in conjunction with its in-house server, storage, and management products while providing Arista with access to converged infrastructure sales opportunities that were difficult for it to reach on its own and giving it broader access to regional and country markets.

On March 6, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise expands strategic Arista Networks partnership with the introduction of a host of comprehensive, new HPE Technology Consulting, Support Services, plus the addition of innovative new Arista switching solutions.  These new offerings help you transition to hybrid, software-defined and cloud data centers.

For cloud-centric customers, HPE believes it brings significant differentiation and value in conjunction with Arista's datacenter networking portfolio. Here, HPE points to several factors, including its Pointnext consulting services and global support services, global footprint, HPE OneView, Flexible Capacity, Azure public cloud, HPE Financial Services, HPE converged infrastructure, and HPE+Arista reference architectures.

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The HPE partnership with Arista Networks becomes increasingly important to meet our customers’ demanding requirements. HPE and Arista share a common vision around the need to deliver secure Hybrid IT solutions based on industry-leading software-defined infrastructure ensuring application availability, performance, and security. Also, helping customers to operate their workloads with speed and agility to grow their business. This partnership will provide our customers with best of breed networking solutions that are superior to legacy networking solutions and that are complementary to our HPE Data Center Infrastructure Group (DCIG) solutions including HPE compute, storage, virtualization, and cloud offerings.

Arista is HPE’s preferred networking solution for organizations moving to software-defined and cloud networks. For more information on the HPE Arista partnership, please visit here. IDC recently published the Market Note, “HPE-Arista Partnership Takes Aim at Cloud-Centric IT Infrastructure Market,” by Brad Casemore and Rohit Mehra. Key features to share:

• HPE began offering Arista products in November, and the two companies already have achieved joint customer successes in the field.
• IDC believes that the evolving partnership between HPE and Arista is a notable development, likely to result in commercial gains for both companies while stoking intensifying competition with other infrastructure leaders such as Cisco and Dell-EMC.
• For cloud-centric customers, HPE believes it brings significant differentiation and value in conjunction with Arista's datacenter networking portfolio. Here, HPE points to several factors, including its Pointnext consulting services and global support services, global footprint, HPE OneView, Flexible Capacity, Azure public cloud, HPE Financial Services, HPE converged infrastructure, and HPE+Arista reference architectures.

HPE’s full portfolio of consulting services around all Arista products includes:

• Lifecycle Services: Strategy | Assess | Design | Integrate | Optimize
• Global capabilities to integrate the Arista portfolio into customers environment
• Experts to demystify, advice and articulate the value of Arista’s Software Driven Cloud Networking

HPE IT Services deliver unmatched depth and breadth of expertise with global reach—all while leveraging your existing investments. Whether you’re an industry leader or a growing startup, we’ll help accelerate your IT transformation journey to drive business further.

Learn how HPE expands our Arista Networks partnership to help customers transform to Hybrid IT environments with consulting and data center networking solutions.

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