3 categories · RankedHPE
Standing by category
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Enterprise storage systems | Cloud and infrastructure | 0% | 34 of 167 | 8% | 25 | accepted challenger | |
| Data center networking | Network and edge | 0% | 39 of 165 | 25% | 8 | under 10 labels · led by Arista Networks at 27% | |
| Microsegmentation | Network and edge | 0% | 66 of 94 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by ColorTokens Xshield at 25% |
Movement
By model
How each model treated HPE across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 5 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
By framing
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“Prefer: Established vendors with proven management tools and robust support (currently HPE and Dell show highest satisfaction scores)” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Enterprise storage · negative prompt · first choice
“Choose HPE if you want a highly modular system where you can scale processing power separately from storage capacity” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Enterprise storage · comparative prompt · alternative
“HPE aggregates telemetry data from millions of arrays globally to predict failures before they happen.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Enterprise storage · comparative prompt · alternative
“HPE Alletra and NetApp AFF A-series are strong alternatives and both are Gartner Leaders.” Muse Glimmer 30B · Enterprise storage · direct prompt · alternative
And against it
Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.
“End of support October 2026” Kimi K2 · Data center networking · negative prompt · hard negative
“HPE's older 3PAR lines are being pushed toward Primera/Alletra... HPE's Primera (successor to 3PAR) was largely a rebrand of 3PAR” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Enterprise storage · negative prompt · soft negative
“Legacy/Hybrid Arrays (IBM, HPE Nimble/DH, Hitachi Vantara) ... Slower Modernization” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Enterprise storage · negative prompt · soft negative
“the integration process introduces near-term uncertainty” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Data center networking · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as HPE, over the 75 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and HPE was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
What carried it into the answer
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 66 of the 75 answers that named HPE and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
183 of the 209 domain citations in answers naming HPE came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
hpe.com ranks 4 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, HPE takes 0% of first choices and Dell PowerStore takes 16%.ShowHide
Search and answers
In search
Google, US estimates- Searches for its name, Google
- 27,100 a month (“hpe”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 5,522 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 1,000,636 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 92,272 · 7,154 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 52,267
- Paid Google search
- 13 searches its ads show for, about 296 clicks and $3,018 a month (estimate)
In answers
This edition- First choices
- 2 across its categories
- Named in
- 75 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 66 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHide| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-11 to 2026-10 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Comparison | 68 | undated | |||
| Glossary or explainer | 26 | undated | |||
| Webinar or virtual event | 6 | undated | |||
| Report or ebook | 5 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 4 | undated | |||
| Case study | 3 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 3 | undated |
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page hpe.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read October 5, 2026.
Names read as HPE
Follow HPE
An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.
Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.
The company
HPE is its own company.ShowHide
The company
In its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- HPE is a leader in essential enterprise technology, bringing together the power of AI, cloud, and networking to help organizations unlock their boldest ambitions.
- For
- organizations
- Customers named
- Inter Miami CFSiemens EnergyVultr
- Not stated on the pages read
- Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting
What HPE's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: hpe.com. A claimed page can correct any of them.
Claim this page
Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when HPE's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as HPE, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for HPE by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where HPE is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
- the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
- its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
- who was chosen in the answers that did not name HPE, and every reason the record gives;
- a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
- one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.