Proxy Statement 2016 Annual Report Proxy Statement 2017 Annual Report Hewlett Packard Proxy Statement Hewlett Packard Proxy Statement Page 1 Enterprise 2017 Annual Report Enterprise 2017 Annual Report Dear Stockholders, Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Phasellus hendrerit. Pellentesque aliquet nibh nec urna. In nisi neque, aliquet vel, dapibus id, mattis vel, nisi. Sed pretium, ligula sollicitudin laoreet viverra, tortor libero sodales leo, eget blandit nunc tortor eu nibh. Nullam mollis. Ut justo. Suspendisse potenti. Pellentesque fermentum dolor. Aliquam quam lectus, facilisis auctor, ultrices ut, elementum vulputate, nunc. Sed egestas, ante et vulputate volutpat, eros pede semper est, vitae luctus metus libero eu augue. Morbi purus libero, faucibus adipiscing, commodo quis, gravida id, est. Sed lectus. Praesent elementum hendrerit tortor. Sed semper lorem at felis. 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Nam nulla quam, gravida non, commodo a, sodales sit amet, nisi. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Phasellus hendrerit. Pellentesque aliquet nibh nec urna. In nisi neque, aliquet vel, dapibus id, mattis vel, nisi. Sed pretium, ligula sollicitudin laoreet viverra, tortor libero sodales leo, eget blandit nunc tortor eu nibh. Nullam mollis. Ut justo. Suspendisse potenti. Morbi interdum mollis sapien. Sed ac risus. Phasellus lacinia, magna a ullamcorper laoreet, lectus arcu pulvinar risus, vitae facilisis libero dolor a purus. Sed vel lacus. Mauris nibh felis, adipiscing varius, adipiscing in, lacinia vel, tellus. Suspendisse ac urna. [1] Footnote example Hewlett Packard Proxy Statement Page 1 Enterprise 2017 Annual Report Dear Stockholders, I am honored to write my first letter to you as CEO of Hewlett Packard Enterprise. As a 22-year Hewlett Packard veteran, I have a lot of pride in our company and people. I fundamentally believe HPE’s innovation will improve the world for our customers, partners, and employees. Transformation of HPE Our company’s strong position today was made possible by the work we did during the last several years. That work was led by my predecessor, Meg Whitman, who set up HPE for great success by strengthening our leadership team, reinvigorating our culture, and reigniting our innovation. During this time, we created tremendous shareholder value and put our long-term strategy in place. Without Meg’s vision and courage, HPE would not be where it is today—poised for a bright future. In 2017, we accelerated our progress by completing a number of strategic actions, including the spin- mergers of our Enterprise Services business with CSC and our Software business with Micro Focus. These transactions created new industry-leading companies and delivered more than $20 billion of value to HPE. At the same time, we continued to strengthen our portfolio in key growth areas through acquisitions like these: • SGI, bolstering our industry-leading high-performance compute business • Nimble Storage, solidifying our leadership in all-flash storage • SimpliVity, making us a leader in the fast growing hyper-converged market • Cloud Technology Partners, making us a global leader in cloud services Now, we have embarked on the next phase of our journey with a program we call HPE Next. This program will help us simplify the way we work, drive execution, and invest in innovation that will differentiate our solutions. Through HPE Next, we will create a purpose-built company for today and tomorrow’s competitive environment that will continue to lead in our markets for years to come. Our strategy and vision I believe HPE has the strongest portfolio in the industry today. We enable our customers to harvest, analyze, and store the critical data that improves customer experiences, drives new business models, and increases productivity. These capabilities are creating a new breed of data-driven enterprises. Our strategy is laser focused on enabling this enterprise transformation by helping our customers connect their data from the core, to the cloud, to the edge through three strategic pillars. First, as each customer embraces the unique mix of private and public cloud environments that best meet their needs, we are seeing an increasingly “hybrid” IT landscape—and we make Hybrid IT simple. We do that through offerings that help customers optimize their core IT environments with secure software-defined technologies that seamlessly integrate across traditional IT and multiple public and Hewlett Packard Proxy Statement Enterprise 2017 Annual Report private clouds. Our solutions provide transparency and manageability for all of their applications and data, wherever they live. We continue to launch ground-breaking innovation in support of this vision. For example, in December we introduced Infosight, which is our new predictive AI technology across our storage portfolio, enabling the systems to predict and prevent problems before they happen. Leveraging advanced machine learning, this technology is an important step toward our vision for an autonomous data center. We also introduced OneSphere, a software management platform that lets customers deploy, operate, and optimize on-premises private cloud environments and public cloud capabilities through a simple, unified experience. I believe that no one else in the market can match the platform we have created. The second pillar of our strategy is to power the Intelligent Edge. The “edge” is the world outside the data center. It is where enterprises interact with their customers, where employees congregate, and where companies manufacture their products. We are seeing a data-powered revolution happening at the edge as customers capture and analyze the unprecedented amount of data being created to drive their businesses. With Aruba, we have highly differentiated offerings in this area that allow customers to securely connect edge environments and drive new experiences and new revenue streams. Our Edgeline converged systems bring storage and compute directly to the source of the data that needs to be analyzed in a form factor optimized for the edge environments. And, our Universal IoT software platform seamlessly integrates data from disparate IoT systems at massive scale. These are all areas where we are well ahead of the market. And, the industry has taken notice. Late last year, Aruba was named a leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for wired and wireless networking, and placed first for vision. That was the first time Cisco was displaced from this position. Third, services are more critical than ever. Increasingly, our business is driven by services expertise that helps customers navigate these incredible transformations, and our Pointnext services organization provides just that. We are also seeing growing interest in alternative consumption models that give customers financial flexibility through pay-per-use options. Our offering in this area, Flexible Capacity, is unique in the marketplace. The time is now I am confident in our future. I truly believe we have built the best portfolio in the industry. We are a more focused and nimble company. And we have momentum. With all this in place, I believe we will continue to deliver significant shareholder value. It is such a great time to be a part of Hewlett Packard Enterprise. I could not be more proud and excited to lead this company. Thank you for your continued support. Best, Hewlett Packard Proxy Statement Page 3 Enterprise 2017 Annual Report Board of Directors* Dan Ammann Antonio F. Neri Marc L. Andreessen Raymond E. Ozzie Michael J. Angelakis Gary M. Reiner Leslie A. Brun Patricia F. Russo Pamela Carter Lip-Bu Tan Raymond J. Lane Margaret