HPE announced an expanded collaboration with Oracle to deploy HPE Juniper Networking across Oracle’s AI data centres globally.
The agreement builds on more than a decade of engineering collaboration between Oracle and Juniper Networks and includes a potential multi-year deployment of HPE Juniper Networking routing and switching platforms, along with networking support services and financing capabilities.
Under the expanded collaboration, Oracle plans to deploy HPE Juniper Networking PTX and MX routing platforms and QFX and EX switching platforms across its data centres. The companies will also work on intelligent telemetry to provide greater visibility into network and fabric behaviour, including queue buildup, packet loss, traffic imbalances and component degradation.
“Oracle is building AI infrastructure at extraordinary scale, and HPE is uniquely positioned to support OCI with one of the industry’s most comprehensive networking portfolios for AI data centers,” said Rami Rahim, executive vice president, president and general manager, Networking, HPE. “Together, we are advancing a high-performance networking architecture that helps Oracle address the traffic management, power, space, and operational requirements of increasingly large AI environments.”
“Building AI infrastructure at Oracle’s scale requires an integrated ecosystem where every layer of the stack works together,” said Mahesh Thiagarajan, executive vice president, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. “HPE Juniper Networking has been an important part of our cloud architecture and now plays a key role in our AI clusters, regional data centers, and edge networks with the scale, performance, and reliability our customers expect.”
“Every microsecond matters to AI models and agents,” said Praveen Jain, senior vice president and general manager, data center and AI networking, HPE. “Through high-performance networking and our work with Oracle on deeper fabric visibility, we are helping OCI detect bottlenecks faster, maintain network availability, and improve the efficiency of AI infrastructure.”
As part of the agreement, HPE has issued Oracle warrants to purchase shares of HPE common stock.