Arista And Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)

In November, HPE partners could, for the first time, buy Arista's network switching products directly from HPE, giving Arista a new, broader reach in the market and giving HPE a complete competitive answer to Cisco. As part of the partnership, Arista’s networking technology will become the data center infrastructure foundation for HPE’s software-defined infrastructure offerings. As HPE enterprise executive Antonio Neri said in a CRN interview: "This will put significant pressure on Cisco. We already see what Arista is doing today. You can see the numbers for yourself. They have gained share for multiple quarters in a row. Now, together, we are going to accelerate the taking of share in the cloud … This is definitely a significant threat for Cisco."