India, July 3 -- The silence surrounding the announcement was almost misleading. No celebratory splash. No dramatic shift in tone. But for those watching closely, the completion of the HPE Juniper acquisition was a thunderclap. This wasn't just another tech merger. It was a quiet, calculated move that positions Hewlett-Packard Enterprise at the very heart of AI-native networking and hybrid cloud transformation.

For the better part of the last decade, HPE has been steadily building its presence in next-generation infrastructure. And with Juniper Networks in the fold, the company has now leapt into a different league altogether. With a complete, modern networking stack from silicon to services, this acquisition is more than a portfolio pla...