This has been a meaningful season for WEI, as we were recently named HPE’s 2026 North America Partner of the Year for Hybrid Cloud Solutions. This award, which was announced at HPE Discover in Las Vegas, comes off our recent designation as an HPE Triple Platinum Plus Partner. I’m proud to have helped contribute to both accomplishments, but not for the reasons most people might assume.
Awards are the outcome, although the more interesting story is what made them possible.
When I look at the customers we’re working with today, I see organizations trying to connect hybrid cloud, AI, networking, security, and data into a cohesive strategy. The recognitions from HPE are really a reflection of the work our teams have been doing for years to help customers navigate that reality.
What Actually Earned These Honors?
When I think about what earned these recognitions, I don’t think about awards programs, partner metrics, or certifications. Above all, I think about our people.
I think about the engineers, architects, project managers, and support teams who spend every day helping customers solve difficult technology challenges. The people who take ownership of outcomes, ask the extra questions, and stay engaged long after a project goes live.
What has always impressed me about our team is the depth of expertise they bring to every engagement. They understand how infrastructure, networking, cloud, security, and data work together to support broader business objectives. That perspective comes from years of hands-on experience designing, implementing, and supporting solutions in some of the most demanding enterprise environments across healthcare, financial services, higher education, and manufacturing.
One example that comes to mind is a financial services customer that reduced its data center footprint by 10X, achieved approximately $1 million in cost savings, and improved database performance by as much as 91 percent across several operations. The outcome wasn’t the result of a predefined playbook. It came from thoughtful architecture, close collaboration with HPE, and a team that took the time to understand the customer’s environment, objectives, and long-term strategy.
That’s what these recognitions represent to me. Not a single project or achievement, but the collective expertise, commitment, and customer focus of the people behind them.
What I’m Hearing Across the Industry
Organizations aren’t shopping for individual products anymore. They’re trying to build environments where AI, hybrid cloud, networking, security, and data all work together rather than operate as separate investments. This means many organizations have invested heavily in AI initiatives. The use cases are there as well as the business interests. The challenge is that the underlying infrastructure wasn’t always built for what comes next.
It’s whether the data is accessible. Whether the network can support new workloads. Whether storage, compute, security, and governance are aligned with the organization’s long-term goals.
This is an incredible gap a lot of organizations are working through right now. A partner who understands a client’s full environment, not just one layer of it, can make a meaningful difference in how successfully that gap gets closed.
And this brings us back to the HPE Partner of the Year distinction for Hybrid Cloud Solutions. the honor, which is the third of its kind for WEI, reflects the work our teams have been doing with customers for years. Helping organizations connect infrastructure, cloud, networking, and emerging technologies into environments that operate as a cohesive system rather than a collection of individual solutions.
Twenty-Five Years Builds Something You Can’t Shortcut
An award-winning partnership spanning well over two decades means something. We’ve worked through every major shift in enterprise IT together. Virtualization. Converged infrastructure. Cloud adoption. Hybrid cloud connectivity. And now the early, unglamorous, critically important work of building infrastructure that can support AI in production, not just in a pilot.
WEI turned 37 in July 2026. Belisario Rosas founded this company around a belief I still come back to regularly: technology decisions should be driven by technical expertise and customer outcomes, not by what’s easiest to sell. Both the Triple Platinum Plus designation and the Partner of the Year honor each trace back to that same starting point.
We’re proud of where we landed and we’re more focused than ever on what comes next.
If your organization is working through AI readiness, hybrid cloud strategy, network modernization, or something that cuts across all of them, reach out. We’d welcome the conversation.
