HPE CEO Reveals Strategic Road Map of ‘Sustainability, Data and Hybrid’
Public cloud takes a bashing at HPE Discover 2022, as HPE gives huge push to GreenLake platform.
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Neri reflected on how the last few years have been testing to all of us. He cited the pandemic, supply chain disruptions, the war in Ukraine, energy shortages and inflation. He said collaboration was key to overcoming such obstacles.
“Working together is the only way we will continue to move forward and accelerate positive change in Europe. The private and public sectors increasingly look for ways to collaborate to move humanity forward,” he said.
The CEO said over the next few years, we will see major advancements in fusion energy, quantum computing and artificial intelligence (AI). These will all introduce new possibilities.
“It is critical we apply these breakthroughs in ways that will benefit us we want to unlock new technologies, the promise of these new technologies in the future. We also have the obligation today to drive transformations that have a positive impact,” he said.
Neri reflected on how the last few years gave been testing to all of us. He cited the pandemic, supply chain disruptions, the war in Ukraine, energy shortages and inflation. He said collaboration was key to overcoming such obstacles.
“Working together is the only way we will continue to move forward and accelerate positive change in Europe. The private and public sectors increasingly look for ways to collaborate to move humanity forward,” he said.
On that note, the topic of sustainability is a massive talking point in Europe. The region is leading the rest of the world on adopting sustainability initiatives.
“Sustainability must be a priority from the start, not an afterthought,” said Neri. “The numbers don’t lie. The effects on the climate change are overwhelming and happening right now. More frequent extreme events like coastal flooding, wildfires, crop failure and violent weather events are signs we must act with urgency right now.”
Neri said HPE’s approach to sustainability is rooted in its own strategy and commitment to be a net zero enterprise across our entire value chain by 2040. In fact, HP Discover 2022 was certified a zero-waste event, he said, which is now HPE’s goal for every event it hosts.
He added that the biggest opportunity to make a positive impact on the planet is by customers transforming sustainably through more efficient technology, cloud consumption models and a commitment to renew, recycle and reuse assets through the circular economy.
“But the work ahead of us is not trivial,” he said. “We all need to work together to solve the pressing issues before us.”
The CEO went on to say that organizations must put data at the center of their transformations.
“Three years ago, I said that we were entering the age of insight. Focus on deriving valuable insights from data that could elevate every human being on this planet. Today, data volume is growing an exponential rate. An organization must acquire the tools and skills to quickly extract insights and value. Putting data at the core of an organization’s value engine is an opportunity across all industries.”
He said firms must start to think of data as a strategic asset. “As I have said many times, I think data will be one day recorded, tracked in the corporate balance sheets in the enterprise.”
He also noted that the European Commission has declared a vision for data “that will be the lifeblood of economic development. Governments across Europe are investing in data technologies and data sharing architectures and adopting measures to strengthen data sovereignty and user privacy.”
Neri said a data-first approach should empower organizations to collaborate, innovate and generate data network effects without sacrificing privacy or control over the data driven business models.
One example of data network effects is swarm learning, he said. This is a decentralized machine learning technique leveraging blockchain. “Through swarm learning we can train models locally, across a swarm of edge or distributed systems, which can share their insights.”
On cutting-edge technologies, Neri gave a shout out to HPE’s work on the world’s first exascale supercomputer, Frontier. HPE has collaborated with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and AMD on the powerful discovery tool.
“In May, Frontier officially became the world’s fastest supercomputer on the top 500 list. It also became the top Green 500 supercomputer in the world. Frontier is not just a little bit faster than the other system. We achieved something our researchers have been waiting on for decades. Frontier was the first in the world to cross the threshold of exascale computing. This means the system now can process one quintillion transactions per second. It’s just an amazing innovation that we’re able to do in a partnership.
A recurring theme at HPE Discover was the challenge of using the public cloud – particularly around costs.
“The public cloud has been the primary transformational force in our industry. Within its highly centralized model, many applications gain speed and agility by running inside the public cloud. However, many were left behind. It was easy to put the data in, but very expensive to take out.
“Because of this massive volume and losses of data … I believe the next wave of data driven digital transformation will require a hybrid edge to cloud architecture. [This is] where the cloud comes to the data, not the other way around.”
To capitalize on the next phase of a data driven digital transformation organizations must be hybrid by design, said Neri.
“To be successful, enterprises must deliver a consistent cloud experience to all teams and applications with the ability to access and gain value from data anywhere. This is what inspired us to invent HPE GreenLake, the industry’s first edge for cloud platform.”
Much of HPE Discover was focused on promoting the merits of HPE GreenLake.
“HPE GreenLake is engineered to support workloads that do not make sense in the public cloud,” said Neri. It overcomes a variety of data related challenges, like “data gravity, sovereignty, compliance, performance, and expensive ingress costs.”
Neri said GreenLake has 65,000 customers transforming their environments and operating models “without having to move data and rearchitect their workloads.” It also has 900 channel partners worldwide delivering the platform to customers.
HPE GreenLake also help customers improve utilization levels and avoid over provisioning, he said. As a result, the platform can help customers realize 30% energy cost savings over a five-year lifecycle.
“GreenLake is designed to complement your public cloud deployments and complete your hybrid cloud transformation with a consistent experience delivered anywhere,” he said.
Much of HPE Discover was focused on promoting the merits of HPE GreenLake.
“HPE GreenLake is engineered to support workloads that do not make sense in the public cloud,” said Neri. It overcomes a variety of data related challenges, like “data gravity, sovereignty, compliance, performance, and expensive ingress costs.”
Neri said GreenLake has 65,000 customers transforming their environments and operating models “without having to move data and rearchitect their workloads.” It also has 900 channel partners worldwide delivering the platform to customers.
HPE GreenLake also help customers improve utilization levels and avoid over provisioning, he said. As a result, the platform can help customers realize 30% energy cost savings over a five-year lifecycle.
“GreenLake is designed to complement your public cloud deployments and complete your hybrid cloud transformation with a consistent experience delivered anywhere,” he said.
HPE’s Antonio Neri
HPE DISCOVER FRANKFURT 2022 — Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) CEO Antonio Neri has laid out three pillars upon which the vendor is creating its strategic road map. He has announced the company’s focus is on sustainability, data-first and hybrid-by-design.
He was addressing more than 2000 customers and partners this week at HPE Discover 2022 in Frankfurt, Germany.
The three talking points aligned with HPE’s messaging during the event. Sustainability is a huge deal in Europe, where it straddles both the environment and business goals.
Data-first aligns with HPE’s research released this week which shows a lack of data maturity is preventing organizations from achieving their goals.
Hybrid-by-design, meanwhile, reinforces HPE’s anti-public cloud stance, in evidence at the event. One exec referred to organizations having a “cloud hangover.” At the same time, HPE was pushing the benefits of its ‘edge to cloud’ platform GreenLake hard at the event.
Click on the slideshow above to see the CEO’s take on what channel partners can expect from HPE in 2023.
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