On this day in 2015, Hewlett Packard split - creating two industry heavyweights and rocking the technology world

When Hewlett Packard split in November 2015, it didn’t mark the end of an era, it heralded the beginning of two industry heavyweights.

The pioneering Silicon Valley firm was founded in 1939, but in a rapidly evolving tech landscape, the decision to split into two distinct entities made sense.

HP would still remain a key player in the device manufacturing industry, while Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), as it came to be known, would focus on corporate hardware and services.

In a 2017 interview with BBC News, former chief executive Meg Whitman explained the company had essentially grown too big for its boots. It wasn’t agile enough to contend with a rapidly changing market ...