Alternatives to HPE
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If you're comparing HPE with other companies in Hybrid & Multicloud, Networking and HPC & Accelerated Compute and 2 more, start here. These are the 76 other active companies Techarda tracks in the same categories, ordered by their activity score: recent stories, follows and discussion on Techarda. It shows where attention is, not which company is better or right for you.
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Hybrid & Multicloud: HPE's main category
19 companies sit alongside HPE here, busiest first.
- Amazon Web Services#8 leader in Hybrid & MulticloudCompare with HPE
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the cloud computing subsidiary of Amazon, headquartered in Seattle and launching its core services in 2006. It offers on-demand infrastructure and…
- 190 stories in the last 90 days
Also in Edge & IoT
- Google Cloud#7 leader in Hybrid & MulticloudCompare with HPE
Google Cloud is the cloud computing business of Google, a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. It offers Google Cloud Platform infrastructure and services including Compute Engine, Google…
- 82 stories in the last 90 days
- Red Hat#2 leader in Hybrid & MulticloudCompare with HPE
Red Hat is an enterprise open source software company best known for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), the Red Hat OpenShift hybrid cloud application platform and Ansible…
- 64 stories in the last 90 days
- 1 published review
- Cisco#11 leader in Hybrid & MulticloudCompare with HPE
Cisco is a US networking and security company founded in 1984 and headquartered in San Jose, California. It sells enterprise, data centre and service provider networking…
- 50 stories in the last 90 days
Also in Networking and Edge & IoT
- Dell Technologies#6 leader in Hybrid & MulticloudCompare with HPE
Dell Technologies is an American technology company headquartered in Round Rock, Texas. It sells PCs, servers, storage, networking and data protection products and services…
- 48 stories in the last 90 days
Also in HPC & Accelerated Compute, Storage & Data Protection and Edge & IoT
- Microsoft#3 leader in Hybrid & MulticloudCompare with HPE
Microsoft is a global technology company whose enterprise portfolio spans the Azure cloud platform, Microsoft 365 productivity software, Dynamics 365 business applications…
- 20 stories in the last 90 days
Also in Edge & IoT
- Lenovo#13 leader in Hybrid & MulticloudCompare with HPE
Lenovo is a multinational technology company that makes PCs, smartphones, servers, storage and IT services. Its Infrastructure Solutions Group sells ThinkSystem servers…
- 37 stories in the last 90 days
Also in HPC & Accelerated Compute and Storage & Data Protection
- SUSE#19 leader in Hybrid & MulticloudCompare with HPE
SUSE is an enterprise open source software company founded in 1992 in Nuremberg, Germany. It develops SUSE Linux Enterprise, the Rancher Prime Kubernetes management platform…
- 16 stories in the last 90 days
- Equinix#14 leader in Hybrid & MulticloudCompare with HPE
Equinix is a global digital infrastructure company founded in 1998 and headquartered in Redwood City, California. It operates International Business Exchange (IBX) colocation data…
- 20 stories in the last 90 days
- Flexera#18 leader in Hybrid & MulticloudCompare with HPE
Flexera is a US software company that helps organisations manage and optimise technology spend across software licences, SaaS and public cloud. Its Flexera One platform covers IT…
- 18 stories in the last 90 days
- Canonical#20 leader in Hybrid & MulticloudCompare with HPE
Canonical is a British software company founded in 2004 by Mark Shuttleworth and headquartered in London. It publishes Ubuntu, the open-source Linux distribution, and sells…
- 17 stories in the last 90 days
- HashiCorp#15 leader in Hybrid & MulticloudCompare with HPE
HashiCorp is a US infrastructure software company known for Terraform for infrastructure as code and Vault for secrets management, alongside Consul, Nomad, Packer, Vagrant and…
- 18 stories in the last 90 days
- Nutanix#5 leader in Hybrid & MulticloudCompare with HPE
Nutanix is a hybrid multicloud software company whose Nutanix Cloud Platform combines hyperconverged compute and storage, the AHV hypervisor, unified file and object storage…
- 25 stories in the last 90 days
Also in Storage & Data Protection
- Rackspace Technology#16 leader in Hybrid & MulticloudCompare with HPE
Rackspace Technology is a US managed cloud and IT services company headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, founded in 1998. It designs, migrates and operates workloads on AWS…
- 11 stories in the last 90 days
- Broadcom#4 leader in Hybrid & MulticloudCompare with HPE
Broadcom is a US semiconductor and infrastructure software company headquartered in Palo Alto, California, formed when Avago Technologies acquired Broadcom Corporation in 2016. It…
- 11 stories in the last 90 days
Also in Networking
- IBM#9 leader in Hybrid & MulticloudCompare with HPE
IBM is a US technology company providing hybrid cloud and AI software, infrastructure and consulting. Its portfolio includes Red Hat OpenShift, the watsonx AI and data platform…
Evidence is still building for IBM.
Also in HPC & Accelerated Compute and Storage & Data Protection
- Kyndryl#17 leader in Hybrid & MulticloudCompare with HPE
Kyndryl is an IT infrastructure services company that designs, runs and modernises mission-critical systems for large enterprises, covering cloud, applications, data and AI…
Evidence is still building for Kyndryl.
- NetApp#12 leader in Hybrid & MulticloudCompare with HPE
NetApp is a data infrastructure company that sells unified storage systems, data management software and cloud storage services. Its ONTAP operating system powers AFF and FAS…
Evidence is still building for NetApp.
Also in Storage & Data Protection
- Oracle#10 leader in Hybrid & MulticloudCompare with HPE
Oracle is an enterprise software and cloud company known for Oracle Database, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications, NetSuite, MySQL and Java. It…
Evidence is still building for Oracle.
Networking
17 companies sit alongside HPE here, busiest first. 2 others are listed in an earlier section.
- Cloudflare#11 leader in NetworkingCompare with HPE
Cloudflare is a US connectivity cloud company founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Francisco. It operates a global network providing CDN, DNS, DDoS protection, web application…
- 85 stories in the last 90 days
- NVIDIA#18 leader in NetworkingCompare with HPE
NVIDIA is a semiconductor and computing platform company that designs GPUs, CPUs, networking and software for AI, data centres, gaming, professional visualisation and automotive…
- 55 stories in the last 90 days
Also in HPC & Accelerated Compute and Edge & IoT
- Akamai#12 leader in NetworkingCompare with HPE
Akamai Technologies is a US content delivery, cybersecurity and cloud computing company founded in 1998 and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It operates one of the…
- 37 stories in the last 90 days
- Megaport#17 leader in NetworkingCompare with HPE
Megaport is a Network as a Service (NaaS) provider that offers on-demand, software-defined connectivity between data centres, public clouds and enterprise locations. Its portfolio…
- 23 stories in the last 90 days
- Infoblox#15 leader in NetworkingCompare with HPE
Infoblox is a US networking and security company specialising in DDI, the combination of DNS, DHCP and IP address management, and DNS-based security. Its products include NIOS…
- 16 stories in the last 90 days
- F5#9 leader in NetworkingCompare with HPE
F5 is an American application delivery and security company founded in 1996 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington. It provides load balancing, web application and API…
- 6 stories in the last 90 days
- Cato Networks#13 leader in NetworkingCompare with HPE
Cato Networks is an Israeli networking and security company founded in 2015 by Shlomo Kramer and Gur Shatz and headquartered in Tel Aviv. It sells the Cato SASE Cloud platform…
- 7 stories in the last 90 days
- Arista Networks#3 leader in NetworkingCompare with HPE
Arista Networks is a US networking company founded in 2004 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California. It sells high-speed Ethernet switches and routers running its EOS…
Evidence is still building for Arista Networks.
- Aviatrix#16 leader in NetworkingCompare with HPE
Aviatrix is a US cloud networking and network security company founded in 2014. Its platform provides multicloud networking, cloud firewalling and egress security, and network…
Evidence is still building for Aviatrix.
- Ciena#8 leader in NetworkingCompare with HPE
Ciena is a US networking systems and software company founded in 1992 and headquartered in Hanover, Maryland. It sells optical networking equipment including WaveLogic coherent…
Evidence is still building for Ciena.
- Ericsson#5 leader in NetworkingCompare with HPE
Ericsson is a Swedish telecommunications equipment and services company founded in 1876 by Lars Magnus Ericsson and headquartered in Stockholm. It supplies mobile network…
Evidence is still building for Ericsson.
- Extreme Networks#7 leader in NetworkingCompare with HPE
Extreme Networks is an American networking company founded in 1996 and headquartered in Morrisville, North Carolina. It provides enterprise wired and wireless networking…
Evidence is still building for Extreme Networks.
- Fortinet#10 leader in NetworkingCompare with HPE
Fortinet is a US cybersecurity company known for its FortiGate next-generation firewalls, built on its FortiOS operating system and custom security processors. Its Fortinet…
Evidence is still building for Fortinet.
- Huawei#6 leader in NetworkingCompare with HPE
Huawei is a Chinese technology company that makes telecommunications and enterprise networking equipment, consumer devices, cloud services, data storage and AI processors. Its…
Evidence is still building for Huawei.
Also in Storage & Data Protection
- Nokia#4 leader in NetworkingCompare with HPE
Nokia is a Finnish telecommunications equipment and technology company that supplies mobile, IP, optical and fixed network infrastructure to communications service providers and…
Evidence is still building for Nokia.
- Ubiquiti#14 leader in NetworkingCompare with HPE
Ubiquiti is a US networking technology company founded in 2003 by Robert Pera and headquartered in New York City. It designs networking hardware and software under the UniFi brand…
Evidence is still building for Ubiquiti.
- Versa Networks#20 leader in NetworkingCompare with HPE
Versa Networks is a US networking and security company founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Jose, California. It sells VersaONE, a universal SASE platform that combines…
Evidence is still building for Versa Networks.
HPC & Accelerated Compute
15 companies sit alongside HPE here, busiest first. 4 others are listed in an earlier section.
- CoreWeave#15 leader in HPC & Accelerated ComputeCompare with HPE
CoreWeave is an American AI cloud provider headquartered in Livingston, New Jersey. It operates data centres offering GPU-accelerated compute, storage and networking for training…
- 46 stories in the last 90 days
- Arm#17 leader in HPC & Accelerated ComputeCompare with HPE
Arm is a British semiconductor IP company founded in 1990 and headquartered in Cambridge, England. It designs the Arm instruction set architecture and licenses CPU cores (Cortex…
- 15 stories in the last 90 days
- Lambda#16 leader in HPC & Accelerated ComputeCompare with HPE
Lambda is an AI infrastructure company that provides GPU cloud computing for training and running AI models, including on-demand instances, reserved clusters and private cloud…
- 15 stories in the last 90 days
- AMD#2 leader in HPC & Accelerated ComputeCompare with HPE
AMD (Advanced Micro Devices) is a US semiconductor company founded in 1969 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California. It designs EPYC server CPUs, Ryzen client processors…
- 7 stories in the last 90 days
- Intel#3 leader in HPC & Accelerated ComputeCompare with HPE
Intel is a US semiconductor company that designs and manufactures x86 processors, including Xeon data centre CPUs and Core client processors, along with Gaudi AI accelerators…
Evidence is still building for Intel.
Also in Edge & IoT
- Bull#10 leader in HPC & Accelerated ComputeCompare with HPE
Bull is a French advanced computing company specialising in high-performance computing, AI infrastructure and quantum computing. It designs and manufactures BullSequana…
Evidence is still building for Bull.
- Cerebras#12 leader in HPC & Accelerated ComputeCompare with HPE
Cerebras Systems is a US AI computing company founded in 2015 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. It builds the Wafer-Scale Engine, a processor made from an entire silicon…
Evidence is still building for Cerebras.
- Fujitsu#9 leader in HPC & Accelerated ComputeCompare with HPE
Fujitsu is a Japanese information and communications technology company providing IT services, consulting, servers, storage and advanced computing. It co-developed the Fugaku…
Evidence is still building for Fujitsu.
- Graphcore#20 leader in HPC & Accelerated ComputeCompare with HPE
Graphcore is a British semiconductor company that designs the Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU), a processor architecture for machine learning, together with the Poplar software…
Evidence is still building for Graphcore.
- Groq#13 leader in HPC & Accelerated ComputeCompare with HPE
Groq is a US AI chip and inference company that designed the Language Processing Unit (LPU), a deterministic processor built for fast, low-latency inference of large language…
Evidence is still building for Groq.
- Penguin Solutions#11 leader in HPC & Accelerated ComputeCompare with HPE
Penguin Solutions is a technology company that designs, builds, deploys and manages high-performance computing and AI infrastructure, and also sells specialty memory and LED…
Evidence is still building for Penguin Solutions.
- Qualcomm#18 leader in HPC & Accelerated ComputeCompare with HPE
Qualcomm is a US semiconductor and wireless technology company headquartered in San Diego, California, founded in 1985. It designs Snapdragon system-on-chips, 5G modems and RF…
Evidence is still building for Qualcomm.
Also in Edge & IoT
- SambaNova#14 leader in HPC & Accelerated ComputeCompare with HPE
SambaNova, formally SambaNova Systems, is an AI computing company headquartered in Palo Alto, California, founded in 2017. It designs Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit (RDU)…
- 1 story in the last 90 days
- Supermicro#7 leader in HPC & Accelerated ComputeCompare with HPE
Supermicro (Super Micro Computer, Inc.) is a US maker of servers, storage systems and data centre infrastructure, founded in 1993 by Charles Liang and headquartered in San Jose…
Evidence is still building for Supermicro.
- Tenstorrent#19 leader in HPC & Accelerated ComputeCompare with HPE
Tenstorrent is an AI and RISC-V computing company founded in 2016 in Toronto, Canada, and led by chief executive Jim Keller. It designs AI accelerators based on its Tensix cores…
Evidence is still building for Tenstorrent.
Storage & Data Protection
13 companies sit alongside HPE here, busiest first. 6 others are listed in an earlier section.
- Everpure#3 leader in Storage & Data ProtectionCompare with HPE
Everpure (formerly Pure Storage) is a data storage company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, founded in 2009. It sells all-flash storage systems and software, including…
- 37 stories in the last 90 days
- Cohesity#12 leader in Storage & Data ProtectionCompare with HPE
Cohesity is a data security and data management company founded in 2013 by Mohit Aron and headquartered in San Jose, California. Its portfolio covers backup and recovery, cyber…
- 12 stories in the last 90 days
- Backblaze#18 leader in Storage & Data ProtectionCompare with HPE
Backblaze is a US cloud storage company founded in 2007 and headquartered in San Mateo, California. It offers B2 Cloud Storage, an S3-compatible object storage service, and…
- 11 stories in the last 90 days
- Commvault#10 leader in Storage & Data ProtectionCompare with HPE
Commvault is an American data protection and cyber-resilience software company headquartered in Tinton Falls, New Jersey. Its Commvault Cloud platform provides backup, recovery…
Evidence is still building for Commvault.
- DDN#16 leader in Storage & Data ProtectionCompare with HPE
DDN (DataDirect Networks) is a data storage company founded in 1998 by Alex Bouzari and Paul Bloch and headquartered in Chatsworth, California. It builds high-performance storage…
Evidence is still building for DDN.
- Hitachi Vantara#6 leader in Storage & Data ProtectionCompare with HPE
Hitachi Vantara is the data storage, infrastructure and hybrid cloud subsidiary of Japan's Hitachi, Ltd. It sells the Virtual Storage Platform (VSP One) family of block, file and…
Evidence is still building for Hitachi Vantara.
- MinIO#19 leader in Storage & Data ProtectionCompare with HPE
MinIO is a software company that develops high-performance, S3-compatible object storage designed for private cloud, hybrid cloud and AI data workloads. Its commercial product…
Evidence is still building for MinIO.
- Qumulo#14 leader in Storage & Data ProtectionCompare with HPE
Qumulo is a data storage software company headquartered in Seattle, Washington, founded in 2012. It develops a scale-out file and data platform for large volumes of unstructured…
Evidence is still building for Qumulo.
- Rubrik#13 leader in Storage & Data ProtectionCompare with HPE
Rubrik is a cybersecurity and data protection company headquartered in Palo Alto, California, founded in 2014. Its Rubrik Security Cloud combines backup and recovery, immutable…
Evidence is still building for Rubrik.
- VAST Data#15 leader in Storage & Data ProtectionCompare with HPE
VAST Data is a US data infrastructure company founded in 2016 by Renen Hallak, Shachar Fienblit and Jeff Denworth, and headquartered in New York City. Its VAST Data Platform…
Evidence is still building for VAST Data.
- Veeam#11 leader in Storage & Data ProtectionCompare with HPE
Veeam is a data protection and data resilience software company founded in 2006 by Ratmir Timashev and Andrei Baronov. It sells the Veeam Data Platform, including Veeam Backup &…
Evidence is still building for Veeam.
- Wasabi#17 leader in Storage & Data ProtectionCompare with HPE
Wasabi is a US cloud object storage company, Wasabi Technologies, founded in 2015 by David Friend and Jeff Flowers, co-founders of Carbonite, and headquartered in Boston…
Evidence is still building for Wasabi.
- WEKA#20 leader in Storage & Data ProtectionCompare with HPE
WEKA (WekaIO) is a data platform and storage software company founded in 2013, with headquarters in Campbell, California and research and development in Israel. Its…
Evidence is still building for WEKA.
Edge & IoT
12 companies sit alongside HPE here, busiest first. 7 others are listed in an earlier section.
- Siemens#1 leader in Edge & IoTCompare with HPE
Siemens is a German technology company, Siemens AG, headquartered in Munich and founded in 1847. Its Digital Industries business sells SIMATIC automation and Industrial Edge…
- 66 stories in the last 90 days
- Digi International#19 leader in Edge & IoTCompare with HPE
Digi International is an American Internet of Things company founded in 1985 and headquartered in Hopkins, Minnesota. It provides IoT connectivity hardware, including cellular…
- 8 stories in the last 90 days
- ABB#17 leader in Edge & IoTCompare with HPE
ABB is a Swiss-Swedish electrification and automation company formed in 1988 by the merger of ASEA and Brown, Boveri & Cie. Headquartered in Zurich, it supplies electrification…
Evidence is still building for ABB.
- Advantech#18 leader in Edge & IoTCompare with HPE
Advantech is a Taiwanese industrial computing company founded in 1983 and headquartered in Taipei. It makes embedded boards and systems, industrial PCs, edge computers, IoT…
Evidence is still building for Advantech.
- Bosch#14 leader in Edge & IoTCompare with HPE
Bosch (Robert Bosch GmbH) is a German engineering and technology group founded in 1886 by Robert Bosch and headquartered in Gerlingen near Stuttgart. It operates in mobility…
Evidence is still building for Bosch.
- Emerson#20 leader in Edge & IoTCompare with HPE
Emerson is an American industrial automation technology company founded in 1890 and headquartered in the St. Louis, Missouri, area. It provides control systems, measurement…
Evidence is still building for Emerson.
- Honeywell Technologies#13 leader in Edge & IoTCompare with HPE
Honeywell Technologies is the name under which Honeywell operates as a pure-play automation company following the June 2026 spin-off of Honeywell Aerospace. Its industrial IoT and…
Evidence is still building for Honeywell Technologies.
- Particle#16 leader in Edge & IoTCompare with HPE
Particle is an IoT platform company that provides connected hardware modules, cellular connectivity and cloud software for building, deploying and managing fleets of connected…
Evidence is still building for Particle.
- PTC#2 leader in Edge & IoTCompare with HPE
PTC is a US industrial software company headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, founded in 1985 as Parametric Technology Corporation. It sells product lifecycle and engineering…
Evidence is still building for PTC.
- Rockwell Automation#12 leader in Edge & IoTCompare with HPE
Rockwell Automation is a US industrial automation and digital transformation company headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with roots in the Allen-Bradley company founded in…
Evidence is still building for Rockwell Automation.
- Samsara#15 leader in Edge & IoTCompare with HPE
Samsara is a US industrial IoT company headquartered in San Francisco, California, founded in 2015 by Sanjit Biswas and John Bicket. Its Connected Operations Platform combines…
Evidence is still building for Samsara.
- Schneider Electric#11 leader in Edge & IoTCompare with HPE
Schneider Electric is a French multinational energy management and industrial automation company, Schneider Electric SE, headquartered in Rueil-Malmaison, France, with origins in…
Evidence is still building for Schneider Electric.
How this list is put together
Every company here shares at least one category with HPE. Each one appears once, under the first shared category, with HPE's main category first. The counts are published, moderated material anyone can read on Techarda: published solutions, stories from the last 90 days, community threads that name the company and published reviews. A count of zero is left out rather than shown.
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