The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall examines why HPE needed to expand its alliance with Equinix to better capitalize on Equinix’s colocation ecosystem, which currently encompasses thousands of tenants including enterprises, hyperscalers, and CSPs. The HPE move fully aligns with swiftly-growing enterprise and cloud ecosystem demand for broader and more flexible multicloud interconnection, including customers who are opting to integrate their HPE GreenLake environments with their current Equinix deployments.