HPE Buys Ampool
Summary
HPE (NYSE: HPE) acquired Ampool, a Santa Clara, CA-based provider of a software platform that delivers high-performance analytics engine for data engineers and business analysts. Founded by Milind Bhandarkar, Ampool is a developer of a data platform designed to deliver a cloud-native, high-performance SQL analytics engine for data engineers and business analysts. The acquisition will be adding Ampool’s technology components and open source expertise to the Ezmeral portfolio, which will over time turn into a set of SQL acceleration services made available through the HPE GreenLake cloud platform. Ampool will join the HPE Ezmeral software organization, and will play a pivotal role in accelerating HPE Ezmeral analytics runtime for interactive SQL workloads, helping to improve quality, repeatability, throughput, and time to value for our customers’ AI/ML, analytics and data-intensive workloads. HPE GreenLake provides customers with solutions to drive digital transformation through an elastic as-a-service platform that can run on premises, at the edge, or in a colocation facility.