“In 2017 (HPE’s fiscal year is November 1 – October 30), business rose slightly and steadily in terms of hardware and service sales. HPE remains the leading server vendor in Romania and has a strong position on the storage segment but the WiFi solutions and networking segment grew, too,” Radu Opris, managing director of HPE Romania told ZF. He did not provide details about revenue, saying he was bound not to by the global communication policy of the group, but did reveal that private sector customers drove the growth of the business.
“There is a balance between public and private sector, but the lack of public sector projects led to most projects coming from private sector customers in the past two years. HPE has very large telecom, banking, utilities and public-sector customers.”
Hewlett Packard Enterprise was formed globally in November 2015, when it broke off from the former HP company. The other company that broke off from HP is HP Inc, which sells computers and printers and operates in Romania, as well.
HPE provides IT and consultancy services, data collection and analysis tools, plus storage and network equipment to companies and the public sector, Radu Opris says. In Romania it operates as Hewlett Packard Enterprise Romania S.R.L. It handles sales directly or through partners, which cover the entire country. The company has more than 1,000 employees in Romania at the moment.
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)