{"success":true,"data":{"pressRelease":{"id":"48245","rtpr_id":"nBwbNRGw5a","ticker":"HPE","exchange":"NYSE","all_tickers":["HPE"],"title":"HPE and Rowan University Expand Partnership to Accelerate Research and Strengthen Student Workforce Readiness","author":"Business Wire","published_at":"2026-05-28T14:00:00.222Z","article_body":"HPE and Rowan University Expand Partnership to Accelerate Research and\nStrengthen Student Workforce Readiness\n\nNew advanced learning initiative boosts research capabilities, expands\nhands-on learning with AI tools, and improves campus connectivity\n\nHPE\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hpe.com%2F&esheet=54543099&newsitemid=20260528318894&lan=en-US&anchor=HPE&index=1&md5=21cabf825f8b868bd03266f17b80fa8f)\n(NYSE: HPE) today announced an expanded partnership with Rowan University\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rowan.edu%2F&esheet=54543099&newsitemid=20260528318894&lan=en-US&anchor=Rowan+University&index=2&md5=6eb0d7c0f3c02eca6fcc5bcf34cb6177)\nto accelerate research, strengthen student training, and support the\nuniversity’s continued growth. Delivered in partnership with SHI\nInternational\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.shi.com%2F&esheet=54543099&newsitemid=20260528318894&lan=en-US&anchor=SHI+International&index=3&md5=b7c09d486b5863627ecb54d756f14601)\n, one of the world’s leading technology solution providers, the initiative\nwill enhance the performance and resilience of Rowan’s technology\nenvironment to enable faster insight, more hands-on learning, and a\nbetter-connected campus experience.\n\nRanked among the top 100 public research institutions nationally, New\nJersey-based Rowan University has expanded its research portfolio in recent\nyears with a focus on engineering, health care, biomedical sciences, and\nadvanced manufacturing. This growth is increasing demand for scalable compute\nand data services, as well as reliable connectivity across classrooms, student\nhousing, and research facilities.\n\nBuilding on a more than 25-year relationship, the collaboration will help\nRowan faculty and researchers work faster with large datasets, complex models,\nand advanced analytics, shortening time from hypothesis to result. Students\nwill get hands-on experience with powerful supercomputing systems that power\nglobal research, along with enterprise platforms and AI tools used in\ncoursework, research assistantships, internships, and class projects.\n\nIn close partnership with HPE and Rowan University, SHI worked with the\nUniversity’s Information Resources & Technology (IRT) team to implement\na colocation facility supporting a new data center, enhancing institutional\nresiliency in the event of a disaster. By aligning solutions across HPE’s\nnetworking, compute, storage, data center networking and HPC portfolios, and\nproviding warehousing and deployment services, SHI enabled two data centers\nand a high-performance computing cluster.\n\n“Rowan University is deeply grateful to HPE and SHI for this extraordinary\npartnership,” said Rowan University president Ali A. Houshmand. “This\ninitiative will accelerate innovation across disciplines and expand hands-on\nlearning opportunities that help prepare our students to lead in an AI-driven\nworld.”\n\nRowan selected HPE for the ability to deliver an integrated approach across\ninfrastructure domains, backed by expertise to deploy and operate at scale.\nThe expanded partnership is designed to deliver measurable outcomes for\nresearch productivity, teaching and learning, and campus connectivity. Rowan\nis shifting its campus networking platform to HPE Networking to support more\nconsistent connectivity for students, faculty, and researchers, and to enable\nAI-enhanced network operations and insights that can improve reliability\nacross campus.\n\nThe upgraded environment will help researchers run larger experiments and\niterate faster across modelling and simulation, artificial intelligence, data\nanalytics, and Internet of Things applications, among other areas. It is\nintended to support AI-driven research workflows, from data preparation and\nexperimentation to model training and evaluation, while providing the scalable\nperformance needed for data-intensive research.\n\n“This deployment helps Rowan move faster from ideas to results, giving\nresearchers and students the dependable performance they need for\ndata-intensive work,” said Patrick Osborne, senior vice president of\ntechnology acceleration for hybrid cloud at HPE. “By bringing together the\nright mix of infrastructure capabilities, Rowan can support more teams, more\nprojects, and more experiential learning at scale.”\n\nWith the full-stack HPE solution, Rowan will expand capacity and improve\nservice levels across storage, compute, high-performance computing, and\nnetworking.\n\n\n * HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 and HPE Zerto Software to support data\navailability and recovery\n\n * HPE ProLiant DL385 Gen11 GPU and HPE Synergy 480 Gen12 compute to support\nteaching, research, and shared services\n\n * HPE high-performance storage solution to support large-scale modeling and\nanalytics\n\n * HPE Aruba Networking to strengthen campus connectivity\n\n\"Universities demand more from their IT environments than ever before, from\nsupporting research at supercomputing scale to giving students hands-on\nexperience with the same enterprise tools they'll use after graduation,\" said\nDenise Collison, senior vice president of Public Sector at SHI. \"We have built\nan environment that works as one system, not a collection of separate\nupgrades. Rowan's researchers and students now have a technology foundation\nthat supports current and future needs.\"\n\nThe expanded partnership reflects HPE’s continued commitment to helping\nhigher education institutions modernize infrastructure, accelerate discovery,\nand prepare the next generation of talent with real-world technology\nexperience.\n\nAbout HPE\n\nHPE (NYSE: HPE) is a leader in essential enterprise technology, bringing\ntogether the power of AI, cloud, and networking to help organizations achieve\nmore. As pioneers of possibility, our innovation and expertise advance the way\npeople live and work. We empower our customers across industries to optimize\noperational performance, transform data into foresight, and maximize their\nimpact. Unlock your boldest ambitions with HPE. Discover more at www.hpe.com\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hpe.com%2F&esheet=54543099&newsitemid=20260528318894&lan=en-US&anchor=www.hpe.com&index=4&md5=38ecf8533f72d046d7f54212de619ddc)\n.\n\nAbout Rowan University\n\nRowan University is a public research institution based in Glassboro, New\nJersey, with a growing portfolio of research and education programs spanning\nengineering, health care, biomedical sciences, advanced manufacturing, and\ndata-driven innovation. Through experiential learning and industry\ncollaboration, Rowan prepares students for leadership in a rapidly evolving\ntechnology landscape.\n\n\n\nView source version on businesswire.com:\nhttps://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260528318894/en/\n(https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260528318894/en/)\n\nMedia Contacts: \n\nHPE \n\nKari Curto\n\nkari.curto@hpe.com (mailto:kari.curto@hpe.com)\n\nRowan University \n\nJose Cardona\n\nCardona@rowan.edu (mailto:Cardona@rowan.edu)\n\n\nCopyright Business Wire 2026","article_body_html":"","raw_payload":{"data":{"id":"nBwbNRGw5a","title":"HPE and Rowan University Expand Partnership to Accelerate Research and Strengthen Student Workforce Readiness","author":"Business Wire","ticker":"HPE","created":"2026-05-28T14:00:00.222Z","tickers":["HPE"],"exchange":"NYSE","article_body":"HPE and Rowan University Expand Partnership to Accelerate Research and\nStrengthen Student Workforce Readiness\n\nNew advanced learning initiative boosts research capabilities, expands\nhands-on learning with AI tools, and improves campus connectivity\n\nHPE\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hpe.com%2F&esheet=54543099&newsitemid=20260528318894&lan=en-US&anchor=HPE&index=1&md5=21cabf825f8b868bd03266f17b80fa8f)\n(NYSE: HPE) today announced an expanded partnership with Rowan University\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rowan.edu%2F&esheet=54543099&newsitemid=20260528318894&lan=en-US&anchor=Rowan+University&index=2&md5=6eb0d7c0f3c02eca6fcc5bcf34cb6177)\nto accelerate research, strengthen student training, and support the\nuniversity’s continued growth. Delivered in partnership with SHI\nInternational\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.shi.com%2F&esheet=54543099&newsitemid=20260528318894&lan=en-US&anchor=SHI+International&index=3&md5=b7c09d486b5863627ecb54d756f14601)\n, one of the world’s leading technology solution providers, the initiative\nwill enhance the performance and resilience of Rowan’s technology\nenvironment to enable faster insight, more hands-on learning, and a\nbetter-connected campus experience.\n\nRanked among the top 100 public research institutions nationally, New\nJersey-based Rowan University has expanded its research portfolio in recent\nyears with a focus on engineering, health care, biomedical sciences, and\nadvanced manufacturing. This growth is increasing demand for scalable compute\nand data services, as well as reliable connectivity across classrooms, student\nhousing, and research facilities.\n\nBuilding on a more than 25-year relationship, the collaboration will help\nRowan faculty and researchers work faster with large datasets, complex models,\nand advanced analytics, shortening time from hypothesis to result. Students\nwill get hands-on experience with powerful supercomputing systems that power\nglobal research, along with enterprise platforms and AI tools used in\ncoursework, research assistantships, internships, and class projects.\n\nIn close partnership with HPE and Rowan University, SHI worked with the\nUniversity’s Information Resources & Technology (IRT) team to implement\na colocation facility supporting a new data center, enhancing institutional\nresiliency in the event of a disaster. By aligning solutions across HPE’s\nnetworking, compute, storage, data center networking and HPC portfolios, and\nproviding warehousing and deployment services, SHI enabled two data centers\nand a high-performance computing cluster.\n\n“Rowan University is deeply grateful to HPE and SHI for this extraordinary\npartnership,” said Rowan University president Ali A. Houshmand. “This\ninitiative will accelerate innovation across disciplines and expand hands-on\nlearning opportunities that help prepare our students to lead in an AI-driven\nworld.”\n\nRowan selected HPE for the ability to deliver an integrated approach across\ninfrastructure domains, backed by expertise to deploy and operate at scale.\nThe expanded partnership is designed to deliver measurable outcomes for\nresearch productivity, teaching and learning, and campus connectivity. Rowan\nis shifting its campus networking platform to HPE Networking to support more\nconsistent connectivity for students, faculty, and researchers, and to enable\nAI-enhanced network operations and insights that can improve reliability\nacross campus.\n\nThe upgraded environment will help researchers run larger experiments and\niterate faster across modelling and simulation, artificial intelligence, data\nanalytics, and Internet of Things applications, among other areas. It is\nintended to support AI-driven research workflows, from data preparation and\nexperimentation to model training and evaluation, while providing the scalable\nperformance needed for data-intensive research.\n\n“This deployment helps Rowan move faster from ideas to results, giving\nresearchers and students the dependable performance they need for\ndata-intensive work,” said Patrick Osborne, senior vice president of\ntechnology acceleration for hybrid cloud at HPE. “By bringing together the\nright mix of infrastructure capabilities, Rowan can support more teams, more\nprojects, and more experiential learning at scale.”\n\nWith the full-stack HPE solution, Rowan will expand capacity and improve\nservice levels across storage, compute, high-performance computing, and\nnetworking.\n\n\n * HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 and HPE Zerto Software to support data\navailability and recovery\n\n * HPE ProLiant DL385 Gen11 GPU and HPE Synergy 480 Gen12 compute to support\nteaching, research, and shared services\n\n * HPE high-performance storage solution to support large-scale modeling and\nanalytics\n\n * HPE Aruba Networking to strengthen campus connectivity\n\n\"Universities demand more from their IT environments than ever before, from\nsupporting research at supercomputing scale to giving students hands-on\nexperience with the same enterprise tools they'll use after graduation,\" said\nDenise Collison, senior vice president of Public Sector at SHI. \"We have built\nan environment that works as one system, not a collection of separate\nupgrades. Rowan's researchers and students now have a technology foundation\nthat supports current and future needs.\"\n\nThe expanded partnership reflects HPE’s continued commitment to helping\nhigher education institutions modernize infrastructure, accelerate discovery,\nand prepare the next generation of talent with real-world technology\nexperience.\n\nAbout HPE\n\nHPE (NYSE: HPE) is a leader in essential enterprise technology, bringing\ntogether the power of AI, cloud, and networking to help organizations achieve\nmore. As pioneers of possibility, our innovation and expertise advance the way\npeople live and work. We empower our customers across industries to optimize\noperational performance, transform data into foresight, and maximize their\nimpact. Unlock your boldest ambitions with HPE. Discover more at www.hpe.com\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hpe.com%2F&esheet=54543099&newsitemid=20260528318894&lan=en-US&anchor=www.hpe.com&index=4&md5=38ecf8533f72d046d7f54212de619ddc)\n.\n\nAbout Rowan University\n\nRowan University is a public research institution based in Glassboro, New\nJersey, with a growing portfolio of research and education programs spanning\nengineering, health care, biomedical sciences, advanced manufacturing, and\ndata-driven innovation. Through experiential learning and industry\ncollaboration, Rowan prepares students for leadership in a rapidly evolving\ntechnology landscape.\n\n\n\nView source version on businesswire.com:\nhttps://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260528318894/en/\n(https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260528318894/en/)\n\nMedia Contacts: \n\nHPE \n\nKari Curto\n\nkari.curto@hpe.com (mailto:kari.curto@hpe.com)\n\nRowan University \n\nJose Cardona\n\nCardona@rowan.edu (mailto:Cardona@rowan.edu)\n\n\nCopyright Business Wire 2026"},"type":"article","timestamp":"2026-05-28T14:00:00.275981073Z","server_sent_at_ms":1779976800275},"received_at":"2026-05-28T14:00:00.346Z","source_url":"https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260528318894/en/"},"analysis":{"id":"37681","press_release_id":"48245","analysis_json":{"industry":{"label":"Technology Hardware, Storage & Peripherals","sector":"Information Technology"},"redFlags":[],"eventType":"partnership","narrative":"HPE announced an expanded partnership with Rowan University to modernize the institution's IT infrastructure, including data centers and high-performance computing clusters.\n\nThe initiative, implemented with integrator SHI International, deploys HPE’s full-stack portfolio including ProLiant servers, Alletra storage, and Aruba networking to support AI-driven research and student workforce readiness.\n\nThis is a standard channel win in the higher education sector, reinforcing HPE’s presence in academic research environments but lacking material financial impact for the filer.","sentiment":"neutral","agentHooks":{"shouldPost":false,"suggestedAngle":"Routine higher-ed partnership win; low signal for equity markets."},"keyFigures":{},"quotedText":"This deployment helps Rowan move faster from ideas to results, giving researchers and students the dependable performance they need for data-intensive work","namedEntities":{"people":[{"name":"Ali A. 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