Antonio Neri: Why HPE Is Beating Cisco, Dell At Edge HPE CEO Antonio Neri says rivals Cisco and Dell simply do not have the assets to go head-to-head with HPE at the intelligent edge. By Steven Burke March 03, 2021, 11:33 AM EST HPE’s Big Intelligent Edge Bet is ‘Paying Off’ In Share Gains Hewlett Packard Enterprise CEO Antonio Neri said the company’s big bet on edge-to-cloud platform as a service is “paying off” with 11 percent growth in the intelligent edge business in the most recent quarter and networking share gains expected in both wireless LAN and campus switching. “This was the best performance of any networking vendor out there,” said Neri in an interview with CRN Tuesday after HPE posted better-than-expected results for its first fiscal quarter, ended Jan. 31. “I think it is because we have something very special. We have a cloud-native solution with a subscription model that allows you to get access to any kind of connectivity you need to deliver this edge-to-cloud vision. That momentum will continue throughout the year. And remember, 95 percent of that business goes through the channel partners.”