Finally clear of the DoJ, HPE has announced a big update to its newly merged HPE Juniper Networking portfolio, heralding new autonomous functionality under the AIOps umbrella. Part of the GreenLake Intelligence suite, the new tools should help HPE challenge Cisco, as the company puts this merger debacle behind it. AIOps is a relatively new term, which broadly describes the application of AI-based tools in the network operations segment. As such, there is significant overlap with the Operational Support Systems (OSS) sector, and on a long enough time frame, AIOps would be subsumed by OSS, as these AI-based tools become commonplace. In the announcement, HPE says it is advancing its Juniper-derived Mist platform “to deliver agentic AIOps through more autonomous,…