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Axis Security sold a smaller door into the network
A grocery chain needed to let people work without letting them wander. Axis turned that problem into a cloud security business that HPE acquired in 2023.
HPE SimpliVity and the art of doing less
Seven minutes saved at the racetrack. Fewer copies in the data center. HPE SimpliVity makes a business of removing the work that gets between a question and its answer.
Silver Peak made cheap connections worth trusting
The internet was cheaper than a private network. The awkward part was making it behave. Silver Peak turned that problem into EdgeConnect - and a $925 million acquisition by HPE.
Gabie Boko Learned Marketing in the Wild
The NetApp CMO grew up in Alaska, almost became a lawyer, and now runs marketing for a company that stores the world's data. Her rule: find the moments that matter, then bet big on them.
Pandian Gnanaprakasam
Pandian Gnanaprakasam is the CEO and co-founder of ORDR, a Santa Clara-based cybersecurity company specializing in IoT, OT, and IoMT security with $94M in funding. A serial entrepreneur with 20+ years in networking and security, he previously co-founded Aruba Networks — acquired by HPE for $3 billion in 2015 — and led engineering at Cisco's multi-billion-dollar Wi-Fi business. At ORDR, he returned as CEO in March 2025 to spearhead the evolution of the ORDR AI Protect platform, which provides agentless device discovery, AI-driven risk scoring, and automated zero-trust policy enforcement across millions of connected devices in healthcare, manufacturing, and critical infrastructure.