Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.
Public
Traded as NYSE: HPE
S&P 500 component
Industry Information Technology
Predecessor Hewlett-Packard
Founded November 1, 2015 (2015-11-01)
Headquarters Palo Alto, California, United States
Area served
 Worldwide
Key people
 Patricia Russo
(Chairwoman)
Meg Whitman
(President and CEO)
Revenue US$ 52.107 billion (2015)
Number of employees
 240,000 (2015)
Slogan Accelerating Next
Website www.hpe.com

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is an enterprise-focused organization with four divisions: Enterprise Group (servers, storage, networking, consulting and support), Enterprise Services, Software, and Financial Services.

HPE is one of two new publicly listed, Fortune 500 companies created from a split of the original Hewlett-Packard dating back from 1939. The split was completed on November 1, 2015, at which point HP's personal computer and printing business became known as HP Inc.

Naming

The full name for the company is Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co., dropping the hyphen that previously existed between the "Hewlett" and "Packard" of the former Hewlett-Packard Company. During and since the separation many media outlets have incorrectly named the new organization, notably using "HP Enterprises"[1] or "HP Enterprise"[2][3] as abbreviations. The correct abbreviation of Hewlett Packard Enterprise is HPE. The company name has received criticism due to the sudden dropping of the hyphen and the otherwise lack of recognizable brand name differentiation from the former Hewlett-Packard or new HP Inc, which was one of the stated goals of the separation.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "HP to Cut Up to 30,000 Jobs - Al Jazeera America".
  2. ↑ Larry Dignan. "HP Inc., HPE launch: Questions abound for both". ZDNet.
  3. ↑ "Hewlett-Packard becomes HP Inc. and Hewlett Packard Enterprise".


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