What did the acquisition of SGI add to the HPE portfolio?

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• Auser and entity and behavior analytics
• BInfoSight predictive analytics
• Chigh-performance computing for real-time analytics
• Dmetering of IT resource usage

• A
  2% (1)
• B
  4% (2)
• C
  94% (48)

Explanation

HPE's 2016 acquisition of SGI (Silicon Graphics International) brought world-class high-performance computing (HPC) capabilities into the HPE portfolio, specifically enabling real-time, large-scale data analytics workloads that SGI had long been known for in scientific and government computing environments.

Why the distractors are wrong:

• A (user and entity behavior analytics) is a cybersecurity/SIEM concept unrelated to SGI's core business.
• B (InfoSight predictive analytics) came from HPE's acquisition of Nimble Storage, not SGI - a common mix-up since both were HPE acquisitions around the same era.
• D (metering of IT resource usage) relates to cloud management and billing tooling, which has no connection to what SGI provided.

Memory tip: SGI = Scale + Graphics + Intense compute → think "Super Giant Iron" for high-performance computing. If an HPE question mentions HPC or real-time analytics at scale, think SGI. If it mentions predictive storage analytics, think Nimble/InfoSight.

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