IT giant Hewlett Packard Enterprise has moved to new offices in Bristol. The site at Lake View in Stoke Gifford will be home to more than 200 staff working across storage, super-computing, hybrid cloud and cybersecurity.
The technology company has been in the region for more than four decades and was previously based in Filton. Starting off as an assembly facility for storage drives, the site evolved into a centre for R&D.
The move brings together the HPE storage, hybrid cloud and Hewlett Packard Labs engineering teams and the HPE Cray supercomputing teams under one roof for the first time. The teams previously operated out of separate sites.
Cray supercomputing, whose European HQ was located in Bristol city centre, was acquired by HPE in 2019. The HPE Cray team in Bristol have contributed to some of the world’s largest supercomputers including the fastest, Frontier, and the University of Bristol’s Isambard-AI.
“Now is the perfect time to bring our storage, cloud, labs and supercomputing R&D teams together under one roof as we accelerate into the AI era,” said Matt Harris, senior vice president and managing director for Ƶ, Ireland, Middle East and Africa at HPE.
“I am very proud of HPE’s legacy of over 40 years operating in Bristol, training thousands of high-tech workers and contributing to the region’s tech ecosystem. Bristol has served as the ideal home for our R&D teams and I’m excited to see our teams coming together at Lake View to foster the innovation and growth that is needed to keep the Ƶ at the forefront of research and development.”
The new site, which also operates as a sales base for the South West, includes a range of working environments, including labs, collaboration spaces, and focus areas designed to maximise flexibility and wellness, the firm said.
There is also an on-site gym and squash court, as well as bespoke art from local Bristol-based graffiti artists that reflect the city’s heritage.
