HPE surprises Wall Street with strong first-quarter results on storage and networking growth

(Source: GeekWire) It’s been a rough few years for old-school IT companies, but HPE easily outpaced Wall Street expectations for its first fiscal quarter thanks to growth in demand for its IT hardware. Revenue for the quarter, which ended on Jan. 31st, was $7.7 billion, up 11 percent compared to the same period last year and well ahead of …