{"id":90903,"date":"2019-05-17T15:03:21","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T22:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/hp-enterprise-is-acquiring-supercomputing-giant-cray"},"modified":"2019-05-17T15:03:21","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T22:03:21","slug":"hp-enterprise-is-acquiring-supercomputing-giant-cray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/hp-enterprise-is-acquiring-supercomputing-giant-cray","title":{"rendered":"HP Enterprise is acquiring supercomputing giant Cray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hp-enterprise-is-acquiring-supercomputing-giant-cray2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has a shiny new toy. The information technology firm <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hpe.com\/us\/en\/newsroom\/press-release\/2019\/05\/hpe-to-acquire-supercomputing-leader-cray.html\">announced<\/a> today that is spending $1.3 billion to acquire supercomputer manufacturer Cray. HPE, which is a business-facing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2014\/10\/05\/hp-reportedly-splitting-up\/\">spin-off<\/a> of the Hewlett Packard company, will instantly become a bigger presence in the world of academia and the federal government, where Cray has a number of significant contracts. It will also enable HPE to start selling supercomputer components to corporate clients and others.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2019\/05\/17\/hewlett-packard-enterprise-acquires-cray-1-3-billion\/?sr_source=Facebook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has a shiny new toy. The information technology firm announced today that is spending $1.3 billion to acquire supercomputer manufacturer Cray. HPE, which is a business-facing spin-off of the Hewlett Packard company, will instantly become a bigger presence in the world of academia and the federal government, where Cray has a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1490,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-government","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}