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Curtis Dery, executive vice president at Xerox IT Solutions Canada Curtis Dery, executive vice president at Xerox IT Solutions Canada (doing business as Powerland), has been living the HPE GreenLake story since before most Canadian partners knew what as-a-service infrastructure meant. At HPE Discover 2026, he joined In The Channel to talk about what this week’s announcements look like from the practitioner’s desk. Dery’s team won HPE’s Canada GreenLake Partner of the Year in 2022 and has kept the streak going, but he’s clear that the barrier to adoption was never the technology. “Customers are facing constraints financially,” he says, citing tariffs and geopolitical pressure. That’s why he sees the 90/9 financing offer and 150% credit line expansion as genuine deal-closing tools. “It helps open more doors and close deals even sooner.” He also sees the channel-only expansion of Private Cloud and Zerto as a deliberate strategy his team was ready for, thanks to deep ties with HPE’s advisory councils. The real differentiator, he says, is operationalizing customer processes so they can move from 20-30 projects a year to 50-70. Where Dery gets animated is AI. He calls the current moment “the most exciting time in any of our careers” and describes AI as a “digital goldmine.” His team runs internal hackathons to build reps with large language models, work that has already helped Powerland close four of the largest infrastructure deals in the world – all out of Winnipeg. But he’s also blunt about tokenomics: “The burn is real.” On sovereignty, Dery points to the Anthropic government oversight incident as validation for private AI. “If I’m a customer and I’m all in on that model, what would happen?” He sees HPE’s network optimization and Private Cloud AI stack as the hedge. Read Full Transcript Robert Dutt: Hello and welcome to In The Channel from ChannelBuzz.ca, bringing news and information to the Canadian IT channel community for the last 16 years. I’m Robert Dutt, editor at ChannelBuzz.ca and your host for the show. We’ve been on a bit of an unscheduled hiatus, but we’re back. We’re going to get back into the swing of things right now, and we’re going to start that off by finishing our coverage of this year’s HPE Discover 2026. Today’s guest is Curtis Dery, executive vice president at Xerox IT Solutions Canada, which most of the channel still knows as Powerland. Curtis is based in Winnipeg. His team covers the country. He’s been living the HPE GreenLake story since before most Canadian partners knew what as-a-service infrastructure meant. His team won HPE Canada’s GreenLake Partner of the Year back in 2022 and has kept that streak alive. They were the first partner to sell a GreenLake deal in Canada, the first to sell VM Essentials, and the first to sell a cyber vault. But Curtis isn’t just a sales exec. He’s genuinely hands-on with emerging technology, running internal AI hackathons with his team, and has a perspective on the announcements from Discover that come from actually closing the deals, not just reading the press releases. He joined me on site at Discover to talk about what the new financing tools, the channel-only expansion, and the AI story mean for partners on the ground. Let’s get right into it. My chat with Curtis Dery. Robert Dutt: Curtis, thanks for taking the time. I appreciate it. Curtis Dery: Absolutely. Thanks for having me. Robert Dutt: Before we get into this week, I have to acknowledge – just having been in this industry a while, you’ve got Xerox and what is formerly HP at a conference here. Slightly unexpected combination on the surface. Most people’s mental model of Xerox is still copiers, but you were running Powerland as one of the leading HPE infrastructure providers in Canada long before that. What does the Xerox relationship mean in practice for the IT business? Has it changed how you go to market with HPE, or does Powerland essentially operate in its own lane? Curtis Dery: You know what, that’s a great question. The way the market’s changing, the industry is changing, businesses are needing to change. That was the reason why Xerox looked at acquiring us – to help go through the realignment and the changes that they’re making as a business. Obviously, from a print perspective, looking at the industry challenges it was going through through COVID and post-COVID and just the market shift around that, having a focus around infrastructure and technology and driving those outcomes with our customers helped them amplify the customer base that they have across North America. Robert Dutt: You were doing GreenLake before a lot of Canadian partners knew what it was. You won the Canadian GreenLake Partner of the Year back in ’22, closing deals in the as-a-service model when it was still a pretty hard sell to customers used to buying it outright. Now HPE’s on stage talking about 90/9 financing and offering 150% expansion of credit lines. For someone who’s been engineering these deals since the beginning, what do these tools mean specifically? Do they change what’s possible for you, or are you already doing – you already have your system set up and ready to go? Curtis Dery: Yeah, I mean, being fortunate to be a little bit on the front edge of GreenLake, we’re fortunate to be Partner of the Year four years in a row, and from a North American perspective, Partner of the Year to make it five. What that created was just validation that how we’re going to market and how we’re executing it is a little bit more uniquely than others, and how we’re prepared to understand the customer, the outcomes that they want, and wrap that around operationalizing it through a GreenLake model. Having flexibility in some of these announcements helps with the challenges that we’re all entering – some of it unknown, some of it shortages, all these changes, and then you wrap that around obviously the disruption of AI. So having these flexibilities of what they want to do around credit is definitely needed because customers are facing constraints financially – just with the cost of, from a geopolitical impact perspective, tariffs, all these things are real. So HP coming to the table with new offerings helps open more doors and close deals even sooner than expected sometimes. So we’re always looking at making sure, yes, we have a foundational core that we can execute on with a rinse and repeat with a proven track record, but always making sure we’re aligned with the changes that they’re making and making sure we’re enhancing our offering with them, a walk and step together. Robert Dutt: It feels like they’re acknowledging that one of the barriers to GreenLake adoption isn’t the technology, the concept, or anything like that. It’s the customer’s budget cycles. And it sounds like you’re saying that’s the right diagnosis from what you’re seeing in the Western Canada market. Curtis Dery: Yeah, and I think also people sometimes think it has to be OpEx. There’s a balance that you can still capitalize GreenLake as well too, and then do a term top-up depending on the utilization they have, but also operationalizing it from a financial [perspective]. So that flexibility is still there. I just think sometimes that message isn’t out there at the street level. So that’s where our value comes in as a partner, right? To understand where that noise and friction is and remove the friction. Robert Dutt: Three products went to channel-only at Partner Growth Summit this week: Private Cloud, PC 3000, PC 1000, and Zerto. Last year it was VM Essentials. It seems like it’s clearly a deliberate expansion of that strategy. From where you sit with that infrastructure-heavy book of business, is channel-only a meaningful strategic signal for you, or is it about filling the gaps for customers who need DR and private cloud but haven’t had a clean vehicle to buy it through you? Curtis Dery: That’s a great question. I think, fortunate to have a strategic partnership with HP, we sold the first cyber vault in the country. And so same with VME, we sold the first in the country, and same with GreenLake. So there’s a theme there, right? Being so strategically aligned with them from executive level down to technical level, I’m on their advisory council from a GreenLake perspective. My pre-sales engineer is the ambassador on the GreenLake program. Because of that exposure, we get line of sight a little bit earlier. So then we’re already preparing on how we’re going to market to augment some of these announcements that they’re doing, and then wrapping around our own little secret sauce to that to be able to expedite the sales and making sure that we’re taking down the logos together. Robert Dutt: What is that secret sauce, in whatever depth you wish to share in this forum? Curtis Dery: Well, I think sometimes getting down to the nitty-gritty of what GreenLake really does, and that’s operationalizing the customer’s process to be able to allow them to be more agile within their own business. So instead of going to a traditional market and doing a traditional way of getting quotes, going to an RFP process, all those things take time, money, and energy. And when you do that, you then don’t have time to focus on the business to drive the outcomes you can do. Now, with our customers from a GreenLake perspective, that agility of being able to streamline that process – we have our customers that are able to go from 20 to 30 projects a year to now 50 to 70 projects a year. So then they get to see the benefits of how fast we can make their business move, get the outcomes that they want so they can start to accelerate further. Robert Dutt: You heard the partner branded services announcement this week. Curious what you thought of that and how it kind of maps with what you do in terms of, are you already running that services-led model, or are you looking for opportunities to have HP back you up but still go under your brand? Just curious how it hit. Curtis Dery: For us, it definitely hit. But yes, we also do it as well that way. But again, it’s the right tool at the right place at the right time. And sometimes we may need them, they may need us, or it’s an augmentation of both. And that’s the beauty that I love about HP is the investment to the channel, always staying aligned at the street level and making sure it’s very predictable on how you can make bets jointly with them. So it’s a flexibility thing. Robert Dutt: A hundred percent. Curious what’s driving the HP business for you right now. What’s kind of hitting, what are customers talking to you about, what’s driving it forward? I have to imagine AI is part of that. Curtis Dery: Yeah. And I think AI was a little bit of paralysis in the market, right? People were frozen of like, “What do I do? Where do I start? What type of technology? Do I go to a public LLM?” Or you hear this word, “sovereign,” and what does that mean? And I think the perfect storm is brewing. But the beauty is that HP has made the right investments, right? Acquisitions to now truly be ready for what the market is going to be hitting with right now. Which is, you look at the announcement of what happened with Anthropic last week. Government oversight, they said shut down that model. Well, if I’m a customer and I’m all in on that model, what would happen? And so this created that validation of why private sovereign AI with HP wrapping around customers’ data and giving them real hardened AI outcomes within their environment, and then choosing if they need to go into the public LLM. And so getting ready for that market condition is what’s going to drive success and velocity with HP in the market. Robert Dutt: Along with the idea of tokenomics, that idea of AI projects getting stuck in, and maybe hand-in-hand with tokenomics in fact, that idea of AI projects getting stalled out in the implementation or the proof-of-concept phase and not getting to full implementation is a theme that we’re hearing from HP and from just about any vendor who’s playing in the space this year. It seems to be one of the big catches. I’m curious how you’re seeing that reflected in your customer base, if they’re kind of getting to a point of doing POCs and then starting to discover, “Well, wait a second, this could get real expensive, real fast.” Curtis Dery: I’m 1000% [there]. Right? The burn is real. We have customers that knew that they have to start getting their battle scars and learning from the AI and understanding how does it work, how do we integrate it, how do we make sure there’s no hallucinating, how do we trust it, how do we do all these different things? My analogy I like to use is, at the end of the day, we all need refrigerators. But a lot of people probably don’t remember who invented the refrigerator. They just know they needed one, right? That’s the same with the public LLMs, right? You need the refrigerator when you need to go into it. What we do with our customers is show them how to take a Coke can and put it in the fridge and bring it out of the fridge. And so we help them navigate it so then tokenomics is not exposed as much, right? They can manage their cost, manage their environment, and choose where they want to put their data. I think the tokenomics is definitely a real thing and I think we’re going to find out significantly what that means in the next 120 days. Why? Because these companies are going IPO and you now know where the math is mathing, right? And so that’s going to show us a lot on what the true tokenomics looks like. Robert Dutt: You touched a little bit on the importance of sovereignty in customer discussions, but can you tell me a little bit more about how that’s showing up in terms of what customers are asking about and how you see that trending and evolving as an interest and a care about, both on the geopolitical front and, as you say, on an issue like Anthropic suddenly having to pull access to the latest model? Curtis Dery: Yeah, a thousand percent. I think when you hear the word sovereign, I always ask people, “What does that mean to you?” Because when you look at the World Economic Forum, for example, in February, what did they announce as the next pandemic, the cyber pandemic? Why? You’ve got scale of agents running everywhere. People don’t know what is a good agent or a bad agent, right? And if you look at the internet bandwidth since December till now, it’s increased over 12x of volume. Do you know how much traffic is now coming down? So now people are going to need to get prepared about how do you control your network, your data, your access, and sovereign that so that you’re secure so that if a bad day occurs, you don’t have the public exposure. And that’s why you hear from Antonio Neri and the focus around the network. How do you optimize that network? How do you secure that traffic and have the access to where you need to go and ensure that it can handle the scale? So that’s why this storm is brewing in front of all of us right now. Robert Dutt: Looking at your background, it’s clear that you’re not just selling infrastructure. You’re genuinely interested in AI and emerging technology. And it seems like you like to get pretty hands-on. As you’re at an event like this and you’re hearing the announcements and seeing what’s coming and what they’re talking about, what are you really excited to get your hands on and play with, and beyond that to actually get in front of your customers either now or down the road as it becomes more concrete? Curtis Dery: You know, I tell people this is probably the most exciting time in any of our careers because it’s the first time in any of our careers that it’s a level playing field, where it’s up to you to grab the baton of AI and understand how do you use it, apply it, and get the outcomes and innovation that you want to do with people. The tagline I like to use with my team internally is, we’re not underpinned by anyone anymore. We have the opportunity to dream, to build, and execute, and we can use AI technology to do that. And so I call it the digital goldmine. We get to go inside these LLMs and mine what we want out of that and be able to take advantage of what we can do with our customers. And that’s the one thing I enjoy the most is understanding, okay, what tools can I use, whether it’s from PCAI and apply our own private AI strategy around that. I’ve worked with a lot of advisory around a lot of the latest LLMs that are out there, but also some of these private ones like [Mistral AI] and understanding how it’s a puppet master to the public AI and how to optimize white space within a customer’s environment to show them where they have inefficiencies, profitability, when they can take the market in a different way. And that’s what AI does – allow customers to be agile, at edge, on time, and be able to really disrupt if they choose to. And I think it sounds a lot daunting for a lot of people, right, to understand how do I get proactive now with AI and not get disrupted by it, because you don’t know if you can wake up and all of a sudden your competitor is something that you didn’t expect. And so I think being able to just dive in and learn. A lot of people say, “Well, I don’t know much about AI.” None of us do. This is all the latest technology. So I tell people to speak to it, learn from it, and just start understanding how it works. So then at the end of the day, you can now augment it because it ain’t going away. If you think about from a generational perspective, we have kids that are going to be born in AI. They don’t even understand what that means. So it’s exciting times. And I tell people embrace it, because like I said, it’s the first time in history that nobody’s really walking in a room saying, “I got 10 years in AI.” Everyone’s like, “Hey, I’ve been working with it for six months. Cool.” Just like all of us. It’s how many people are putting in the reps with it. Robert Dutt: What are you pulling out of that goldmine so far at Powerland? What are you doing in terms of both – how’s AI changing both what you’re doing customer-facing, and internally your own operations and how you think about AI within the org? Curtis Dery: Yeah, absolutely. So I mean, we were fortunate being ahead of it from an AI perspective and understanding our domain strengths, using AI to be better prepared for our customers and think through strategies with them. And with that, we were able to build out blueprints where we were fortunate to close out four of the largest deals in the world with four different vendors out of a city called Winnipeg. And a lot of people came to me and said, “Curt, I don’t get it. We’re not doing this in New York, Toronto. You were doing this in Winnipeg. How are you doing this?” And I’m like, using AI to get better prepared to understand how do we simulate an environment to say, “This is the customer. What can we do to drive out these types of outcomes? And what does this look like from a strategy?” We get the blueprint and now we go and see the customer and go, “Does this make sense?” And they go, “Yes. Well, let’s go execute that with AI.” And so that’s the advantage that we get to do. And then from an internal perspective, I love having our own internal roundtable hackathons. What’s something we want to do? Throw it on the whiteboard. Everybody has their AI account and go, “Okay, how would you approach that?” So then our team is learning how to put those reps in to say, “Well, I would approach it this way.” And it’s a cool exercise to see how everyone thinks differently. And that’s the beauty about AI. We’re all going to prompt it differently. We’re all going to work with it differently and then take those unified approach of everyone’s pieces, put it together and go, “Okay, now we solve the puzzle together.” So I really enjoy the ability to be able to scale so rapidly with it. It’s an exciting time. I feel like we’re built for this era. Robert Dutt: And I’d imagine a lot of those ideas that are coming out in the internal hackathons are eventually going to find their way into what you’re doing with customers as well. So that’s a nice plus. Curtis Dery: Yeah, absolutely. Robert Dutt: As you point out, you’re in Winnipeg, presence across Western Canada. I’ve talked to a couple of other Canadian partners this week, and I’m getting this consistent theme that Canadian customers right now are in their moment – between sovereignty, between AI infrastructure refresh, between really starting to get AI in play rather than playing with AI. Does that map with what you’re hearing from your customers in the prairies and the West? And where do you see HPE fitting into that story for the balance of the year and beyond? Curtis Dery: Yeah, I think we touched on it lightly, right? The changes that happened with the government oversight last week, I think opened people’s eyes on what their approach is to public LLMs. And then also understanding costs, constraints, all these things that have been hitting our markets and hitting customers’ budgets and challenges. It’s a difficult time to be a CIO right now. When you’re sitting there and you have to protect them from a cybersecurity perspective, you have to have a future of understanding where AI fits into this, and never mind constraints around cost and all that stuff. It’s a tough time to be an executive for a business right now and understand how you can be profitable, scale all these things while you’re facing all these challenges in the market. So being prepared in Canada of how we’re going to our customers is understanding how to package what HP has done effectively well on the overall strategy around GreenLake and saying, “How do we now enter the customer and say, ‘You can now do on-demand AI in your environment predictably, cost-effectively, compliance and govern, and now you can choose how you want to scale that rapidly?'” I think finally, we’re starting to see that curve get around the corner where customers are jumping into wanting to do it this way. It’s just such a learning dynamic exercise right now, right? Because at first it was ChatGPT and then it was Grok and then it was Claude and it just kept going and going. People are not talking about the disruption that happened out of China too with their LLMs. So if you look at DeepSeek, Kimi and all these models, they’re doing exactly what Claude and these others can do at 75% cheaper. So when people start to realize, “Well, I can run that SDK natively inside my environment way cheaper than going to a public API Claude license,” people are going to look at that and go, “Oh, what makes sense now? Because the math ain’t math.” Robert Dutt: That theme is coming up in a lot of different places, isn’t it? Last one for me, whether it’s something we’ve already covered off or something else, what’s the one thing that’s really caught your attention here at Discover this week, the thing that you’re going to take back to the team and on Friday or Monday or whenever you’re first in there saying, “By the way, this is what I heard. This is what we got to get ready for.” Curtis Dery: Well, a few things. One is truly being prepared on the foundation of the network and understanding what does that mean to have an optimized AI network both internally and externally for the customer. I think there’s a high, high value in that. I learned that on the journey with cloud. Everybody wanted to go to cloud. Love the destination. Nobody talked about the highway to the cloud. Nobody talked about the cloud tax of egress coming out of there. So there’s a lot of lessons and best practices that came from the cloud journey that we can now reapply to the AI journey. So focusing on that is huge. And then understanding the intelligence layer and understanding [NVIDIA] Morpheus is an extremely powerful tool and understanding how does that fit into the entire reference architectural stack with PCAI and understanding how do we build on top of that. And that’s some of our secret sauce of what we’re doing, being able to do our own private SDK on top of PCAI so customers can truly control their own AI platform. And so that’s the focus that we’re going to do. And we’re super excited to get velocity going into Q4 with HP so that in 2027, I expect a big year. Robert Dutt: All right. Well, good luck on bringing that back to the team next week and good luck on that big year. And thanks again for taking the time on what I’m sure has been a very busy week. Curtis Dery: Absolutely. And I welcome the time and being able to share this conversation with you. So we look forward to doing it again. Robert Dutt: There you have it. Curtis Dery from Xerox IT Solutions Canada. I’d like to thank Curtis for his time. If you’re finding value in these interviews, I’d appreciate if you’d follow or subscribe to the show. You can find the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and most major podcast directories. Ratings and reviews are always welcome. A few things that stood out for me from this conversation. One is Curtis’s framing that the real barrier to GreenLake adoption has never been the technology, it’s the customer’s budget cycle. The 90/9 financing and expanded credit lines aren’t abstract partner program benefits. They’re deal-closing tools for partners who are already in the room with constrained CIOs. Another is his digital goldmine metaphor for AI. The idea that for the first time in our careers, the playing field is level and what matters is who’s putting in the reps. But he’s also refreshingly blunt about the burn on tokenomics and the need for partners to help customers manage costs as AI moves from proof-of-concept to production. I appreciated his point about sovereignty not being theoretical anymore. The Anthropic incident gave customers a concrete reason to ask hard questions about public LLM dependence. Finally, it’s worth noting that the company is closing some of the largest infrastructure deals in the world out of Winnipeg. The Canadian channel is not a Toronto-only story, and this is a reminder of that. Until next time, I’m Robert Dutt for ChannelBuzz.ca, and I’ll see you in the channel.

In this episode, we're heading to Barcelona for HPE Discover 2024, the second HPE Discover of 2024 following Las Vegas in June. Once again we'll be breaking down HPE President and CEO Antonio Neri's multimedia keynote – networking, cooling, storage, HPC, Ops and – of course – AI all featured throughout. So what does it mean for the future of tech? Joining us to offer his thoughts is Clesmie Burden, HPE Chief of Staff for Global Sales.This is Technology Now, a weekly show from Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Every week we look at a story that's been making headlines, take a look at the technology behind it, and explain why it matters to organizations and what we can learn from it.  About this week's guest: https://www.linkedin.com/in/clesmieburden/ Sources and statistics cited in this episode: Watch Antonio's keynote on-demand: https://www.hpe.com/us/en/discover-more-network.html More from HPE Discover Barcelona 2024: https://www.hpe.com/us/en/discover/barcelona.html

In this episode, we're heading to Barcelona for HPE Discover 2024, the second HPE Discover of 2024 following Las Vegas in June. Once again we'll be breaking down HPE President and CEO Antonio Neri's multimedia keynote – networking, cooling, storage, HPC, Ops and – of course – AI all featured throughout. So what does it mean for the future of tech? Joining us to offer his thoughts is Clesmie Burden, HPE Chief of Staff for Global Sales.This is Technology Now, a weekly show from Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Every week we look at a story that's been making headlines, take a look at the technology behind it, and explain why it matters to organizations and what we can learn from it.  About this week's guest: https://www.linkedin.com/in/clesmieburden/ Sources and statistics cited in this episode: Watch Antonio's keynote on-demand: https://www.hpe.com/us/en/discover-more-network.html More from HPE Discover Barcelona 2024: https://www.hpe.com/us/en/discover/barcelona.html

In this episode, we're heading to Barcelona for HPE Discover 2024, the second HPE Discover of 2024 following Las Vegas in June. Once again we'll be breaking down HPE President and CEO Antonio Neri's multimedia keynote – networking, cooling, storage, HPC, Ops and – of course – AI all featured throughout. So what does it mean for the future of tech? Joining us to offer his thoughts is Clesmie Burden, HPE Chief of Staff for Global Sales.This is Technology Now, a weekly show from Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Every week we look at a story that's been making headlines, take a look at the technology behind it, and explain why it matters to organizations and what we can learn from it.  About this week's guest: https://www.linkedin.com/in/clesmieburden/ Sources and statistics cited in this episode: Watch Antonio's keynote on-demand: https://www.hpe.com/us/en/discover-more-network.html More from HPE Discover Barcelona 2024: https://www.hpe.com/us/en/discover/barcelona.html

It has only been a couple of months since the launch of the new Broadcom Value-Added OEM (VAO) program with key partners. Since then, Broadcom has made a tremendous amount of progress. The full line-up of Authorized VAO partners in the Broadcom Advantage Program include Dell Technologies, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE), Lenovo, Hitachi Vantara LLC, Hitachi, Ltd., Fujitsu/Fsas Technologies Inc. and NEC Corporation. Last week at Explore Las Vegas 2024, VMware By broadcom announced the following VMware co-engineered solutions from Broadcom's Value-Added OEM partners are available: VMware Cloud Foundation on Dell VxRail HPE GreenLake for VMware Cloud Foundation Lenovo ThinkAgileVX Series with VMware Cloud Foundation Hitachi Unified Compute Platform RS, powered by VMware Cloud Foundation On this episode of the Virtually Speaking Podcast we welcome GM of Global OEM Sales, Ricky Cooper, and OEM Technology Solutions Sales lead, Dave McGraw to discuss VAO program and these new co-engineered solutions. Links Mentioned VMware Co-Engineered Solutions Accelerate Customers' Path to Private Cloud VMware Cloud Foundation on Dell VxRail (read more here) HPE GreenLake for VMware Cloud Foundation (read more here) Lenovo ThinkAgileVX Series with VMware Cloud Foundation (see announcement here)  Hitachi Unified Compute Platform RS, powered by VMware Cloud Foundation (see announcement here) The Virtually Speaking Podcast The Virtually Speaking Podcast is a technical podcast dedicated to discussing VMware topics related to private and hybrid cloud. Each week Pete Flecha and John Nicholson bring in various subject matter experts from within the industry to discuss their respective areas of expertise. If you're new to the Virtually Speaking Podcast check out all episodes on vspeakingpodcast.com and follow on TwitterX @VirtSpeaking

With the generative AI gold rush continuing at speed in enterprise IT. Ranging from chatbots to AI training services, every provider is looking for that killer use case that makes it indispensable for AI.At HPE Discover 2024, the story has been no different. In collaboration with Nvidia, the company believes it has something unique to offer its enterprise customers.In this episode, recorded live at HPE Discover 2024 in Las Vegas, Jane speaks to Mohan Rajagopalan, general manager for Ezmeral Software at HPE, to explore the benefits of enterprise AI and the specific routes he sees for beneficial AI adoption.Read more:Exclusive: HPE CEO Antonio Neri says "simplicity of experience" key to AI innovationFinally, an HPE AI solution that offers something for the channelHPE's drive for enterprise AI dominance continues with new Nvidia partnershipHPE talks up AI's role in boosting server businessHPE Discover 2024 live: All the news and updates from the day-two keynoteHPE Partner Growth Summit 2024: What can we expect for the channel?Everything you need to know about HPEWhat is HPE GreenLake?

In this episode, we're heading to Las Vegas for HPE Discover 2024, for a breakdown of the multimedia keynote by HPE President and CEO Antonio Neri.​​The AI-focused keynote covered everything from new product announcements and a new partnership with NVIDIA, to the challenges of AI and its transformative possibilities. To delve deeper into these topics, we're joined by HPE Chief Technologist for AI, Matt Armstrong Barnes.​​This is Technology Now, a weekly show from Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Every week we look at a story that's been making headlines, take a look at the technology behind it, and explain why it matters to organizations and what we can learn from it.Do you have a question for the expert? Ask it here using this Google form: https://forms.gle/8vzFNnPa94awARHMAAbout this week's guest: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattarmstrongbarnes/?originalSubdomain=uk Sources and statistics cited in this episode:Listen to our previous episode on Spaceborne computer: https://share.transistor.fm/s/693c9349 Carnegie clean energy on HPE's Technology Untangled podcast: https://www.technologyuntangled.fm/episodes/keeping-the-lights-on-part-1-how-do-we-make-more-energy Watch Antonio's keynote on-demand: https://www.hpe.com/us/en/discover.html More from HPE Discover Las Vegas 2024: https://www.hpe.com/us/en/discover.html

In this episode, we're heading to Las Vegas for HPE Discover 2024, for a breakdown of the multimedia keynote by HPE President and CEO Antonio Neri.​​The AI-focused keynote covered everything from new product announcements and a new partnership with NVIDIA, to the challenges of AI and its transformative possibilities. To delve deeper into these topics, we're joined by HPE Chief Technologist for AI, Matt Armstrong Barnes.​​This is Technology Now, a weekly show from Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Every week we look at a story that's been making headlines, take a look at the technology behind it, and explain why it matters to organizations and what we can learn from it.Do you have a question for the expert? Ask it here using this Google form: https://forms.gle/8vzFNnPa94awARHMAAbout this week's guest: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattarmstrongbarnes/?originalSubdomain=uk Sources and statistics cited in this episode:Listen to our previous episode on Spaceborne computer: https://share.transistor.fm/s/693c9349 Carnegie clean energy on HPE's Technology Untangled podcast: https://www.technologyuntangled.fm/episodes/keeping-the-lights-on-part-1-how-do-we-make-more-energy Watch Antonio's keynote on-demand: https://www.hpe.com/us/en/discover.html More from HPE Discover Las Vegas 2024: https://www.hpe.com/us/en/discover.html

In this episode, we're heading to Las Vegas for HPE Discover 2024, for a breakdown of the multimedia keynote by HPE President and CEO Antonio Neri.​​The AI-focused keynote covered everything from new product announcements and a new partnership with NVIDIA, to the challenges of AI and its transformative possibilities. To delve deeper into these topics, we're joined by HPE Chief Technologist for AI, Matt Armstrong Barnes.​​This is Technology Now, a weekly show from Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Every week we look at a story that's been making headlines, take a look at the technology behind it, and explain why it matters to organizations and what we can learn from it.Do you have a question for the expert? Ask it here using this Google form: https://forms.gle/8vzFNnPa94awARHMAAbout this week's guest: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattarmstrongbarnes/?originalSubdomain=uk Sources and statistics cited in this episode:Listen to our previous episode on Spaceborne computer: https://share.transistor.fm/s/693c9349 Carnegie clean energy on HPE's Technology Untangled podcast: https://www.technologyuntangled.fm/episodes/keeping-the-lights-on-part-1-how-do-we-make-more-energy Watch Antonio's keynote on-demand: https://www.hpe.com/us/en/discover.html More from HPE Discover Las Vegas 2024: https://www.hpe.com/us/en/discover.html

Auxilion, a leading provider of digitally transformative IT managed services and solutions, has announced that it has secured €8 million in new deals after launching its enhanced service management platform. This business consists of four new contracts, including several HPE GreenLake cloud solutions and the provision of service management support over the next three years. Auxilion has invested €1.5 million in its new service management capabilities which is part of a broader Managed Services Continuous Improvement Programme (MSCIP). The offering, soft launched in July 2023, significantly enhances the company's service delivery and support capabilities for its clients. It also addresses the rising demand in the market to enhance user experiences, digitise processes and collate data sources, with service management creating a single model that unifies digital operations and simplifies IT management for organisations. Auxilion's new offering allows companies to orchestrate and collate company data which is often captured in disparate locations or stored on legacy systems and spread across various channels or formats. As well as streamlining the storage and management of such information, it improves communication and collaboration throughout and across organisations. Furthermore, by enhancing the user experience and digitising processes, the ecosystem - which is underpinned by technologies including ServiceNow TPSM (Technology Provider Service Management), ScienceLogic and N-Able - can boost productivity among staff and improve service delivery for customers. Auxilion's enhanced service management platform will also simplify the management of companies' technology infrastructure, while providing a unified platform which delivers greater visibility and efficiency. This will result in reduced downtime and ensure peak performance across IT tools and systems. The platform also delivers new Artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities which will further boost productivity, ensure operational continuity and support business growth for organisations. Donal Sullivan, CTO, Auxilion, said: "The nature of IT is fundamentally changing across modern organisations, and IT itself needs to profoundly change how it supports business functions and, indeed, where its perceived value lies. As opposed to IT leading with IT projects, we see the need to empower business leaders by giving them the platforms and tools to drive their own projects, with technologies supporting them. "Every business function - whether it be in operations, finance or HR - needs to understand how technology can be used to empower leadership, while aligning with and driving business performance. The processes, technology, people, knowledge and governance that ensure strategic initiatives are set-up for success need to be underscored by cohesive service management capabilities." Philip Maguire, CEO, Auxilion, added: "The IT managed services sector is primed to experience a disruptive change on the same magnitude as the impact of the internet - a total gamechanger. This is happening within the context of struggling IT departments which are battling against increased demand for security monitoring, threat protection and outages. With the growing prominence, or soon to be dominance, of AI, businesses will need more proactive and innovative service management capabilities. "Our investment in tooling and training to enhance our capabilities firmly puts us at the forefront of crossing this chasm of IT disruption, supporting customers on their transformation and innovation journeys. We've been quietly showcasing our proposition to the market and the appetite is there for an offering that optimises how companies support users, manage data and deliver for customers." See more stories here. More about Irish Tech News Irish Tech News are Ireland's No. 1 Online Tech Publication and often Ireland's No.1 Tech Podcast too. You can find hundreds of fantastic previous episodes and subscribe u...

An Assessment of Key 5G-IoT Ecosystem Developments with a Focus on the HPE $14 Billion Acquisition of Juniper and Its Ecosystem-wide Impact In this episode of The 5G Factor, our series that focuses on all things 5G, the IoT, and the ecosystem as a whole, The Futurum Group's Ron Westfall is joined by colleague and fellow analyst, Steven Dickens, for a look at the top 5G developments and what's going on that caught our eye with a laser focus on HPE's game changing $14 billion acquisition of Juniper and why it represents an important inflection point in the industry that can redefine how the 5G ecosystem connects, protects, and analyzes data. Their conversation focused on: Overall 5G Ecosystem Impact. The Juniper acquisition is expected to double HPE's networking business, creating a new more formidable networking player with a broader, diversified portfolio that can present customers and partners with a compelling choice to drive business value. The explosion of AI and hybrid cloud-driven business is accelerating demand for secure, unified technology solutions that connect, protect, and analyze the data of organizations from edge to cloud. They assess why they see that combining HPE and Juniper's complementary portfolios can further energize HPE's edge-to-cloud strategy with an ability to lead in an AI-native environment based on a foundational cloud-native architecture. Together, HPE and Juniper can provide customers of all sizes with a complete, secure portfolio that enables the networking architecture necessary to manage and simplify their expanding and increasingly intricate connectivity needs, including certainly 5G.  5G CSP Impact. With the deal, HPE and Juniper anticipate that the benefits extend equally to both communication service provider (CSP) and cloud provide customers, which are very core to Juniper's existing business. Across the CSP ecosystem organizations are building data centers – distributed data centers, centralized data centers. As a result, HPE can build comprehensive data center solutions with complete automation and AI capabilities, extending throughout the CSP segment. For example, we examine how Juniper's RIC and HPE RAN Automation software can bring intelligence and programmability to RAN by enabling third-party applications that can improve service experience, reduce costs, and deliver new business models, especially AI-infused ones. Also, they review how HPE GreenLake and the Juniper Cloud Metro multiservice architecture can deliver assured user experiences across distributed cloud services. Using network slicing, service-aware technologies, and cloud-scale capabilities, CSPs can become better able fulfill user expectations for every service while eliminating the costs and complexity of siloed metro operations.  5G Enterprise Impact: The HPE Aruba and Juniper's Juniper Access Points alongside Juniper Mist Cloud and Mist AI are already widely deployed throughout global Wi-Fi implementations. Plus, with Athonet private wireless assets, HPE and Juniper are strongly positioned to bring private 5G and Wi-Fi together to augment and innovate enterprise connectivity including using HPE GreenLake's edge compute and security/SASE portfolio assets. They explore why HPE attains the portfolio foundation to strongly influence 5G enterprise evolution, including driving private 5G and WiFi services and capabilities, as well as mixed network scenarios, according to enterprise customer priorities.

On this episode of The Six Five – On The Road, hosts Daniel Newman and Patrick Moorhead share their analysis and insights on some of the announcements from HPE during AWS re:Invent 2023, in Las Vegas. Their discussion covers: Hot topics discussed at AWS re:Invent  Announcements & innovations from HPE  The changes in technology that excited them the most The biggest news from last week, along with their analysis on what it means for work, life, and the world  

On this episode of The Six Five – On The Road, hosts Daniel Newman and Patrick Moorhead welcome Rob Miller, GreenLake Cloud Services Sales for HPE, for a conversation on HPE's robust partnership with AWS and HPE's hybrid by design strategy. Their discussion covers: An introduction of Rob and his role at HPE HPE's powerful partnership with AWS The depth of HPE's GreenLake hybrid cloud offerings  HPE's hybrid by design strategy

On today's Packet Pusher's Tech Bytes podcast, sponsored by VMware, the conversation delves into HPE's partnership with VMware, particularly around HPE Greenlake for VMware Cloud Foundation. HPE was recently recognized as VMware's 2023 partner of the year. Today's podcast features an interview with Frances Guida, Director, Compute Workload Solutions Product Management at HPE. The podcast... Read more »

VMware and HPE are partnering on HPE Greenlake for VMware Cloud Foundation. On today's episode we discuss how the HPE and VMware partnership benefits customers' multi-cloud initiatives and how VMware and HPE Greenlake can help customers take advantage of AI by providing scalable hardware and software infrastructure for training and inference. VMware is our sponsor. The post Tech Bytes: How VMware And HPE Greenlake Tackle AI And Multi-Cloud For Customers (Sponsored) appeared first on Packet Pushers.

On today's Packet Pusher's Tech Bytes podcast, sponsored by VMware, the conversation delves into HPE's partnership with VMware, particularly around HPE Greenlake for VMware Cloud Foundation. HPE was recently recognized as VMware's 2023 partner of the year. Today's podcast features an interview with Frances Guida, Director, Compute Workload Solutions Product Management at HPE. The podcast... Read more »

VMware and HPE are partnering on HPE Greenlake for VMware Cloud Foundation. On today's episode we discuss how the HPE and VMware partnership benefits customers' multi-cloud initiatives and how VMware and HPE Greenlake can help customers take advantage of AI by providing scalable hardware and software infrastructure for training and inference. VMware is our sponsor. The post Tech Bytes: How VMware And HPE Greenlake Tackle AI And Multi-Cloud For Customers (Sponsored) appeared first on Packet Pushers.

On today's Packet Pusher's Tech Bytes podcast, sponsored by VMware, the conversation delves into HPE's partnership with VMware, particularly around HPE Greenlake for VMware Cloud Foundation. HPE was recently recognized as VMware's 2023 partner of the year. Today's podcast features an interview with Frances Guida, Director, Compute Workload Solutions Product Management at HPE. The podcast... Read more »

VMware and HPE are partnering on HPE Greenlake for VMware Cloud Foundation. On today's episode we discuss how the HPE and VMware partnership benefits customers' multi-cloud initiatives and how VMware and HPE Greenlake can help customers take advantage of AI by providing scalable hardware and software infrastructure for training and inference. VMware is our sponsor. The post Tech Bytes: How VMware And HPE Greenlake Tackle AI And Multi-Cloud For Customers (Sponsored) appeared first on Packet Pushers.

CTO Advisor podcast host, Keith Townsend has been a long time follower of Zerto data protection. Zerto has traditionally provided data protection via replication for hardware agnostic environments. In this sponsored podcast, Verma Deepak, VP of Product at Zerto, an HPE Company discusses the idea of Zerto as an HPE GreenLake product. Does HPE GreenLake [...]

CTO Advisor podcast host, Keith Townsend has been a long time follower of Zerto data protection. Zerto has traditionally provided data protection via replication for hardware agnostic environments. In this sponsored podcast, Verma Deepak, VP of Product at Zerto, an HPE Company discusses the idea of Zerto as an HPE GreenLake product. Does HPE GreenLake [...]

On this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast – Interview Series, host Daniel Newman welcomes HPE's Bryan Thompson, GreenLake Product Management and Equinix's Lisa Miller, SVP Platform Alliances for a conversation on how HPE GreenLake for Private Cloud Enterprise is helping businesses solve their multi-cloud and multi-workload challenges.  Their discussion covers: What challenges HPE's customers face in their multi-cloud environments and with multi-workload performance needs How HPE and Equinix are helping customer address those challenges More on the expanded partnership between HPE and Equinix and the metro-areas where pre-deployed HPE GreenLake capacity will be available  The benefits of HPE GreenLake for Private Cloud Enterprise in helping to increase efficiency, security, sustainability while optimizing cost and performance Watch the video below, and be sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel, so you never miss an episode.

On this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast – Interview Series, host Daniel Newman welcomes HPE's Bryan Thompson, GreenLake Product Management and Dave Shore, North American Sales Director, Edge to Cloud Services for a conversation on how the evolution of AI and hybrid cloud impacts IT investments and the need for private cloud in every IT Leader's cloud strategy. As the public cloud operating model has set a new standard for automation, self-service, scalability, and pay-per-use– now being replicated on-premises. With so many choices, how do you find the right cloud operating model to fit your economics? Their discussion covers: The current macroeconomic environment and its impact on IT strategy and spending What to look for in a hybrid cloud operating model, both on- and off-prem How to ensure your private cloud is modern and optimized for a data-first, AI strategy Advice for IT Leaders as they look for effective ways to leverage AI Watch the video below, and be sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel, so you never miss an episode.

Data Center Frontier editors Matt Vincent and David Chernicoff recently caught up with Cyxtera's Field CTO Holland Barry on the occasion of Cyxtera and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announcing a new collaboration to help simplify customers' hybrid IT strategies. Cyxtera is now leveraging HPE's GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform to support an enterprise bare metal platform. The podcast discussion extends to how Cyxtera is presently focused on supporting AI workloads in data centers and collaborating with HPE to offer a multi-hybrid cloud strategy. Barry revealed during the podcast that Cyxtera already supports 70 kilowatt racks in 18 markets, and is discussing expanded deployments with its customers and partners. Barry added that many present customers are considering moving to private cloud platforms, due to rising public cloud costs and unexpected fees. Barry said, "My function here at Cyxtera deals largely with the technologies that we both implement internally and also that we deploy within the data centers themselves to make sure that experience of being in the data center colo facility is seamless, feels as much like cloud as it can in terms of the provisioning of services, how we bill for things, things like that." He added, "Generally speaking, I'm a technologist at heart and I just want to make sure that what we're building is what's useful for the market to consume." Here's a list of key points discussed on the podcast: 2:01 - Barry talks about Cyxtera's vision for supporting AI workloads in data centers, including cooling technologies, network speed, power designs, and accommodating adjacencies with edge and public cloud platforms. 4:18 - DCF's Chernicoff asks if Cyxtera will offer 70 kilowatt racks a la Digital Realty. Barry explains that Cyxtera already supports this capacity in 18 of its markets, and is in active discussions with customers and partners over an expansion. 5:40 - Barry discusses how Cyxtera's collaboration with HPE addresses rising cloud costs and furthers a multi-hybrid cloud strategy, including Cyxtera's new enterprise bare metal platform and options for opex financing models. 7:53 - Use cases for customers moving to the HPE GreenLake solution via Cyxtera are discussed, including repatriating cloud workloads and tech refreshes. 15:03 - Asked about the convergence of cloud and hybrid IT strategies, Barry says that Cyxtera views themselves as part of such transformations and says the provider is up front with its customers about what workloads are best suited for their platform. The trend of recalibrating workloads from the public cloud to data centers for better cost management is also discussed. 18:22 - Barry expounds on how egress fees and other unexpected costs can lead to a "death by 1000 cuts" situation for public cloud users, driving them to consider private cloud options 19:57 - Barry observes that many customers are realizing the costs of the public cloud and considering moving to a private cloud solution, and emphasizes the importance of Cyxtera making this transition as easy as possible through technology choices and partnerships. 21:57 - Barry comments on the new Cyxtera partnership with HPE in the context of providing choices and solutions to make moving customer workloads to their venue as easy as possible, with the goal of building a multi-hybrid cloud reality in the future. Background on Cyxtera Cyxtera Technologies operates a global network of 60 data centers, supports 2,300 customers, and had $746 million in revenue in 2022. The company was formed in 2016 when Medina Capital, led by former Terremark CEO Manuel Medina, teamed with investors including BC Partners to buy the data center portfolio of CenturyLink for $2.15 billion. It was at that time one of several data center players seeking to build a colocation business atop a portfolio of data centers spun off by telecom companies. This April, Data Center Frontier's Rich Miller reported that Cyxtera Technologies was reportedly fielding interest from suitors as it sought to reduce its debt load. Data Center Dynamics at that time shared that Cyxtera was exploring options for a sale or capital raise, citing a Bloomberg story that said private equity suitors were studying the company's operations. Shares of Cyxtera had fallen sharply in value during that timeframe and were trading at 31 cents a share at one point, giving the company a market capitalization of about $55 million, a far cry from the $3.4 billion valuation placed on the company when it went public in 2021 through a merger with Starboard Value Acquisition Corp. In May, as shares of Cyxtera fell to new lows, DCF reported lenders for the company said they would provide the colocation provider with $50 million in new funding, allowing it more time to arrange a sale or line up new capital. In June, the colocation provider filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. After working for months to find a buyer or reduce its debt load, the company decided it would now restructure through a pre-packaged bankruptcy. The Chapter 11 filing was part of an arrangement with its lenders, who retained the right to gain a controlling equity interest in the company under terms of a restructuring agreement. At the time of the bankruptcy filing, some of the company's lenders committed to provide $200 million in financing to enable Cyxtera to continue operating as it restructures. "Cyxtera expects to use the Chapter 11 process to strengthen the company's financial position, meaningfully deleverage its balance sheet and facilitate the business's long-term success," the company said in a press release." More details have been made available on Cyxtera's restructuring web site. Cyxtera subsidiaries in the United Kingdom, Germany and Singapore are not included in the bankruptcy case, which was filed in New Jersey. Dgtl Infra's Mary Zhang has done significant recent reporting over the summer on the story of Cyxtera's existing lease rejections in wake of the bankruptcy filing, as well as charting the company's timeline extension for its bankruptcy-led sale process into late September. In his June reporting on Cyxtera's bankruptcy filing, DCF's Miller noted that: "Since Cyxtera leases many of its data centers, Cyxtera's Chapter 11 filing creates a potential challenge for its landlords. Cyxtera leases space in 15 facilities operated by Digital Realty, representing $61.5 million in annual revenue, or about 1.7 percent of Digital's annual revenue. It also leases space in 6 data centers owned by Digital Core REIT, a Singapore-based public company sponsored by Digital Realty. That includes two sites in Los Angeles, three in Silicon Valley and one in Frankfurt. The $16.3 million in annual rent from Cyxtera represents 22.3 percent of revenue for Digital Core REIT. A bankruptcy filing provides debtors with the opportunity to reject leases to reduce their real estate costs. In its press release, Cyxtera noted that it "is continuing to evaluate its data center footprint, consistent with its commitment to optimizing operations." An August report from Bloomberg stated that Cyxtera had drawn interest for its assets from multiple parties, including Brookfield Infrastructure Partners and Digital Realty Trust Inc., according to people with knowledge of the situation. as reported by Bloomberg's Reshmi Basu. In a recent email to this editor regarding Cyxtera, DCF's Miller opined further: "The key questions for Cyxtera are really all about the bankruptcy outcome, and where that stands. The future could be very different for Cyxtera depending who the winning bidder is and whether they would reject leases. For example, Digital Realty is reported to be one of the bidders. That makes sense, as Cyxtera leases 12 facilities from them and DLR has a vested interest in protecting that income. But if Digital wins the auction, do they keep leasing space in Cyxtera's many non-Digital sites? Or do they reject those leases and consolidate? The auction winner will guide future strategy for Cyxtera. And it could be very different if it's a private equity firm vs. a strategic buyer like Digital Realty." On August 7, concurrent with its business update for Q2, Cyxtera announced that it had reached a key milestone in its Chapter 11 process by filing a proposed plan of reorganization with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey, and said it had reached an agreement with its lenders to optimize the company's capital structure and reduce its pre-filing funded debt by more than $950 million. In its Q2 update, the company said it had delivered solid growth in total revenue, recurring revenue, core revenue and transaction adjusted EBITDA. Cyxtera's August 7 press release added that negotiations around the company's sale alternative remained active. According to a press release, the proposed reorganization plan is supported by certain of Cyxtera's lenders who collectively hold over two-thirds of the company's outstanding first lien debt, and are parties to Cyxtera's previously announced restructuring support agreement. The company said the proposed plan provides flexibility for the company to pursue a balance sheet recapitalization or a sale of the business. Cyxtera noted that if the plan is approved and a recapitalization is consummated, the lenders have committed to support a holistic restructuring of the company's balance sheet. Such a restructuring would eliminate more than $950 million of Cyxtera's pre-filing debt and provide the company with enhanced financial flexibility to invest in its business for the benefit of its customers and partners. For Q2 of 2023, Cyxtera said its total revenue increased by $14.9 million, or 8.1% YoY, to $199.0 million in the second quarter of 2023. On a constant currency basis, the company's total revenue increased by $15.1 million, or 8.2% YoY. Recurring revenue increased by $15.8 million, or 9.1% YoY, to $190.0 million in the second quarter. Cyxtera added that its core revenue increased by $17.4 million, or 10.3% YoY, to $186.2 million in the second quarter. Finally, the company said its transaction Adjusted EBITDA increased by $6.4 million, or 10.7%, to $66.4 million and increased by $6.5 million, or 10.9% YoY, on a constant currency basis, in the second quarter. Carlos Sagasta, Cyxtera's Chief Financial Officer, said, “We are pleased to have delivered another quarter of solid growth across the business, underscoring the strength of our offering and the value we create for our global customers. We expect to continue building on this momentum as we successfully complete the process to strengthen our financial position for the long term.” The press release added that in either a recapitalization or sale scenario, the company remains on track to emerge from the court-supervised process no later than the fall of this year. The company said it had received multiple qualified bids to date. Final bids from interested parties in the sale process were originally due on August 18, a deadline which came and went. An auction slated for August 30 was also cancelled. Nelson Fonseca, Cyxtera's Chief Executive Officer, commented, “We continue to make important progress in our court-supervised process, while demonstrating solid performance across our business. Filing this plan with the support of our lenders provides us a path to emerge in a significantly stronger financial position.” Here are links to some recent DCF articles on Cyxtera: Colocation Provider Cyxtera Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Cyxtera Gets $50 Million Funding, More Time to Seek a Buyer As Stock Price Slumps, Cyxtera Reportedly Mulling Capital Raise or Sale Cyxtera Goes Public as Starboard SPAC Acquisition Closes Cyxtera to Go Public Through $3.4 Billion Merger With Starboard SPAC

The world's energy supply is in a state of flux. Australian coal is being bought up by China faster than it can be mined, Europe is coming to terms with Russian gas being shut off, and the US is grappling with how to produce more energy whilst meeting green targets and keeping people in mining areas employed.   It's a tough balancing act. In the last episode we looked at how to produce more energy. But how do we make the most of the energy we already have? This time, we'll be talking to experts and organizations using tech to reduce our consumption and get us all a little greener without resorting to drastic societal change - and save our organizations money at the same time. The focus, for this episode, is on how we transform the IT industry, and how we transform domestic usage.  We start off by meeting HPE's John Frey, Chief Technologist for Sustainable Transformation. He explains that, in terms of the IT industry, there's sometimes a disconnect or lack of awareness from customers around the power-saving technologies that are put into the devices we use, from laptops to servers. There's a habit in large organizations of overriding or deleting manufacturer-built controls which could save tens of thousands of kilowatt-hours per year, and the first step in transforming our energy usage as an industry is simply to turn them back on. He also argues that the way we code could be a game changer - with more efficient languages and processes drastically reducing the amount of compute required to run them - by up to 90% in some cases.  Joe Baguely agrees. He's the Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for Europe, the Middle Eastern Africa at VMware, a provider of (among other things) virtualisation solutions (in a siilar manner to HPE Greenlake) which allow for far more data and functionality to be run on less hardware, drastically increasing energy efficiency. VMWare is also leading the charge in local power generation and sourcing their electricity from renewable or green suppliers.  Joe and John also argue that it's imperative that IT departments actually understand the cost of their energy usage, which has traditionally been the responsibility of buildings management or operations teams. Only with the advent of Cloud computing have IT departments become responsible for their own budgets, and that has drastically improved awareness of just how energy-intensive our organizations' IT infrastructure can be.  Finally, on the domestic side, we meet Devrim Celal, CEO of KrakenFlex, part of the Octopus Energy Group. Devrim points out that in a world of renewables, it's becoming increasingly difficult to make energy when we want it, so a new era of smart co-operation is needed to balance the grid and avoid wasting energy – or causing shortages at peak times. They are pioneering smart technology which pairs our energy-intensive devices, generators, and storage facilities (think electric vehicles and wind turbines) to ensure that the hungriest consumers aren't using electricity at the most inefficient time, spreading the load through the day by telling the EV, for example, when to charge.They are also pioneering ‘gamifying' our energy use, to encourage consumers to care about how much they use, and their role in the wider, national picture. 

In this episode of the Infrastructure Matters Webcast we review the latest conferences including HPE Discover, Pure Storage Accelerate and MongoDB .local NYC. Plus, we explore the impact of generative AI on the industry– it is more than hype and it is here to stay. The Futurum Group's Steven Dickens, VP and Practice Lead, Hybrid IT and Camberley Bates, VP and Practice Lead, Data Infrastructure give their views on how this market is evolving and what to expect in the coming months.  Topics include:  HPE Discover 2023 highlighted new GreenLake offerings for private cloud and large language models. Pure//Accelerate 2023 showcased new FlashArray//X and FlashArray//C models with performance and capacity improvements, as well as a new ransomware recovery SLA. MongoDB Local 2023 highlighted the company's growing traction in the cloud native database market and its focus on AI. Enterprise AI is the next frontier for enterprises: Enterprise AI and generative AI have the potential to deliver significant value to all enterprises, raising this topic to the top of the list Many vendors are launching new products and services, with much more to come in the next six months. Recent entries in the market include Dell's Project Helix and HPE Greenlake for Large Language Models The challenge for enterprises will be to choose the right AI solutions for their specific needs and to mitigate the risks of bias and misuse They agree that the C-suite will need to be involved in the decision-making process around AI adoption You can watch the video of our conversation here. Be sure to visit our YouTube Channel and subscribe so you don't miss an episode.

In this vignette of The 5G Factor, Ron Westfall and Steve Dickens provide their perspective on HPE completing its acquisition of private wireless specialist Athonet and its impact on the private 5G market segment and the overall 5G ecosystem. The conversation focused on: HPE Completes Acquisition of Private 5G Specialist Athonet. With the acquisition of Athonet, HPE sets the company's sights on bringing private 5G and WiFi together to augment and innovate enterprise connectivity including using HPE GreenLeke's edge compute and security/SASE portfolio assets. HPE's Aruba portfolio is already widely deployed throughout global WiFi implementations putting HPE in a strong position to drive private 5G and WiFi services and capabilities, including mixed network scenarios, according to customer needs. HPE also gains 450 more deployments across major verticals such as healthcare, transportation, utilities, and government. We assess what the completion of the acquisitions means for the private 5G market and the overall 5G ecosystem.

In this episode of The 5G Factor, our series that focuses on all things 5G, the IoT, and the ecosystem as a whole, I'm joined by my colleague and fellow analyst, Steven Dickens for a look at 5G news and what's going on that caught our attention. Our conversation focused on: Red Hat Becomes the Primary Infrastructure Platform for Nokia's Core Network Applications. Nokia and Red Hat reached an agreement to integrate Nokia's core network applications with Red Hat OpenStack Platform and RedHat OpenShift. 350 personnel at Nokia will be transferring to Red Hat as Nokia moves on from developing the platforms that host its software. The duo will jointly support and evolve existing Nokia Container Services (NCS) and Nokia CloudBand Infrastructure Software (CBIS) customers while developing a path for customers to migrate to Red Hat's platforms. We delve into the implications for the 5G ecosystem and telco cloud journeys. Azure for Operators: Build 5G Modern Connected Apps at the Edge. Azure for Operators (AfO) is targeting the advancement of 5G modern connected apps across cloud computing fabrics, especially the edge. AfO brings Azure Public MEC, which leverages the mobile operator's public 5G network connectivity, and Azure Private MEC, which brings the power of the cloud to the enterprise's own infrastructure, as key solution offerings. We explore why AfO can move the needle in driving 5G modern connected apps across 5G environments. HPE Completes Acquisition of Private 5G Specialist Athonet. With the acquisition of Athonet, HPE sets the company's sights on bringing private 5G and WiFi together to augment and innovate enterprise connectivity, including using HPE GreenLake's edge compute and security/SASE portfolio assets. HPE's Aruba portfolio is already widely deployed throughout global WiFi implementations putting HPE in a strong position to drive private 5G and WiFi services and capabilities, including mixed network scenarios, according to customer needs. HPE also gains 450 more deployments across major verticals such as healthcare, transportation, utilities, and government. We assess what the completion of the acquisitions means for the private 5G market and the overall 5G ecosystem.

Cisco announces AI Networking versions of SIlicon One ASICs and buys another DEM business. HPE Greenlake adds AI LLM. FTC talks bandwidth caps. Google accusing Microsoft of monopolistic behaviour. We laughed.

Cisco announces AI Networking versions of SIlicon One ASICs and buys another DEM business. HPE Greenlake adds AI LLM. FTC talks bandwidth caps. Google accusing Microsoft of monopolistic behaviour. We laughed. The post NB436: Cisco AI Silicon, DEM. HPE Greenlake AI LLM. FTC Talks Bandwidth Caps. appeared first on Packet Pushers.

Cisco announces AI Networking versions of SIlicon One ASICs and buys another DEM business. HPE Greenlake adds AI LLM. FTC talks bandwidth caps. Google accusing Microsoft of monopolistic behaviour. We laughed.

Cisco announces AI Networking versions of SIlicon One ASICs and buys another DEM business. HPE Greenlake adds AI LLM. FTC talks bandwidth caps. Google accusing Microsoft of monopolistic behaviour. We laughed. The post NB436: Cisco AI Silicon, DEM. HPE Greenlake AI LLM. FTC Talks Bandwidth Caps. appeared first on Packet Pushers.

Cisco announces AI Networking versions of SIlicon One ASICs and buys another DEM business. HPE Greenlake adds AI LLM. FTC talks bandwidth caps. Google accusing Microsoft of monopolistic behaviour. We laughed. The post NB436: Cisco AI Silicon, DEM. HPE Greenlake AI LLM. FTC Talks Bandwidth Caps. appeared first on Packet Pushers.

Cisco announces AI Networking versions of SIlicon One ASICs and buys another DEM business. HPE Greenlake adds AI LLM. FTC talks bandwidth caps. Google accusing Microsoft of monopolistic behaviour. We laughed.

Aruba Atmosphere was the talk of the town and we're here to cover the exciting announcements from the event. There was a lot of discussion about the integration of Aruba, now known as HPE Aruba Networking, into the wider HPE company portfolio. The wireless fans had lots to cheer about with a new update to Aruba Central that offers better visibility as well as integration with HPE GreenLake. Security experts loved seeing how the acquisition of Axis Security is providing new edge security capabilities. Of course, the Athonet acquisition to extend Private 5G capabilities was also on the tip of everyone's tongue. This and more on the Rundown. Time Stamps: 0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown 0:34 - Infoblox Uncovers Decoy Dog 3:19 - Nutanix Disaggregating Nodes? 6:30 - MSI Leaks BootGuard Key 10:09 - Pure Says Hard Drives Done after 2028 14:10 - Cisco vEdge Certificate Expires 17:35 - Aruba Atmosphere Announcements Abound 29:35 - The Weeks Ahead 32:18 - Thanks for Watching Follow our hosts on Social MediaTom Hollingsworth: https://www.twitter.com/NetworkingNerdStephen Foskett: https://www.twitter.com/SFoskett Follow Gestalt ITWebsite: https://www.GestaltIT.com/Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/GestaltITLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/1789 Tags: #Rundown, #ArubaAtmosphere, #FlashStorage, #vEdge, #BootGuard, #Storage, #ATM23, #TFDx, @Nutanix, @Intel, @IntelBusiness, @PureStorage, @Cisco, @ArubaNetworks, @HPE

In this episode, Chris catches up with Omer Asad (SVP & GM) from HPE and Phil Manez (Director of Channel Sales) from VAST Data to discuss the recent announcement of HPE GreenLake for File Storage, powered by VAST Data's Universal Storage platform.

Antonio Neri, President and CEO of Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE), is marking his fifth year helming the 60,000-employee company offering enterprise and cloud services and solutions. As both an engineer and an artist, Antonio's career has taken him across the globe, from call center to CEO. He explains how HPE is continuing the purpose-driven ambitions that founders Bill Hewlett and David Packard instilled in HP's DNA.  Antonio also shared his ambitions for HPE GreenLake to lead the edge-to-cloud sector by partnering with customers to meet future needs, from AI to supercomputing. 

On Tuesday, April 4, HPE invited a number of industry analysts to participate in HPE GreenLake Storage Day. Notably, HPE declared 2023 the year of storage. While the company made several storage-related announcements, perhaps even more interesting was what the event tells us about HPE's culture, its strategy and the future direction of the company.In this Breaking Analysis we'll share our takeaways from HPE's event, held in Houston, Texas, which included attendance at Antonio Neri's quarterly all-hands meeting. We'll try to emphasize areas that have not necessarily been the focus of most press and industry analyst write ups to date. We'll also take a look at the latest ETR survey data to put HPE's market position in context across several of its major segments.Best articles:Nice analysis by Steve McDowell on Forbes:https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevemcdowell/2023/04/06/hpe-kicks-off-its-year-of-storage-with-help-from-vast-data/?sh=6a548ee45b3bChris Mellor's summary has all the newshttps://blocksandfiles.com/2023/04/04/hpe-greenlake-vast-data/CRN's channel perspective emphasizing the consumption model:https://www.crn.com/news/storage/alletra-storage-mp-puts-hpe-far-ahead-of-competitors-in-hybrid-cloud-storage-management-battle?itc=refreshSiliconANGLE writeup by Paul Gillin:https://siliconangle.com/2023/04/04/hpe-greenlake-gets-hybrid-block-file-storage-expanded-data-protection/TechTarget article w/ quotes from Marc Staimer, Ray Luchessi & Scott Sinclair w/ an emphasis on how well Vast is doing:https://www.techtarget.com/searchstorage/news/365534832/Vast-dips-into-HPE-GreenLake-with-new-file-storage-serviceVast Data press release that emphasizes AI workloads:https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230404005358/en/VAST-Data-Announces-Strategic-Partnership-with-Hewlett-Packard-Enterprise-to-Provide-Software-for-HPE-GreenLake-for-File-Storage

This week we discuss Docker's Business Model, the Stack Overflow's Sentiment Survey and ChatGPT use cases. Plus, some predictions about VR/AR headsets. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 406 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxvIBIzlmbM) Runner-up Titles Free isn't good enough I'm not that disconnected It's a presentation with yourself We still hate this Open Source Continuity Founder Magic Syntactic Sugar How cool do you feel, Tim Cook? 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On this special episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast – Interview Series, part of the HPE Executive Insights Series, I am joined by Daniel Frye, Vice President, Enterprise CISO for HPE. In this conversation we dive into what exactly is an edge-to-cloud security strategy and why it's crucial in today's marketplace. In our conversation, we discussed the following: The security implications of edge-to-cloud How cybersecurity pros can proactively address the challenges they are facing Why organizations need a Security Share Responsibility Model A look at Zero Trust security strategies HPE's priority for the future Security has never been more important than it is today and this is one conversation you don't want to miss. If you want to learn more about HPE and edge-to-cloud, download a copy of our latest research brief Why Edge-to-Cloud Platform? Why HPE?.

Bryan Thompson (VP  Product Management of @HPE_GreenLake Cloud Services) talks about managing private and hybrid cloud services and bringing the Cloud to data.SHOW: 677CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:FujiFilm. Your archival and backup data strategy, built on tape. Fujifilm tape is helping businesses get a handle on their vast amounts of data in the most secure, scalable and efficient way. Find out more at builtontape.fujifilmusa.comAWS Insiders is an edgy, entertaining podcast about the services and future of cloud computing at AWS. Listen to AWS Insiders in your favorite podcast player. Cloudfix HomepageEaton HomepageEaton and Tripp Lite have joined forces to bring more sanity to IT pros days, every day. Visit www.eaton.com/audio to learn more!SHOW NOTES:HPE GreenLake for Private Cloud Enterprise–Take a test driveHPE GreenLake adds new capabilities for Hybrid Cloud (Dec.22)HPE Discover (2022)Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Let's talk about your background, and what you focus on at HPE.Topic 2 - HPE is one of the most iconic brands in all of computing history. A lot has evolved over the years. Where does Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) fit into the picture with HP, and what is the HPE focus these days?Topic 3 - For the last 10 years, we've seen a huge growth in the usage of public cloud, but we also heard many industry leaders claim that we're still only around 10% in public cloud. That means we have behavioral expectations changing (on-demand, scalable, etc.) but not necessarily actions changing. How does HPE view their role in the evolution and intersection of IT and the Cloud?  Topic 4 - Give us an overview of HPE GreenLake, both in terms of technology and delivery/operations. Topic 5 - HPE GreenLake has a “bring the Cloud to IT” approach. What does that mean in terms of evolving that 90% that hasn't moved to the cloud yet? And will they ever move to the cloud?  Topic 6 - What surprises people the most when they start to understand what's possible with HPE GreenLake that wasn't there a few years ago? FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

In this episode of the Futurum Tech Podcast – Interview Series, part of the HPE Executive Insights Series, I am joined by Darren Perks, Global Hosting Infrastructure Operations Leader at PwC, and Vishal Lall, SVP & GM at HPE GreenLake Cloud Services Solutions, for a conversation focusing on modernization and business model challenges in the industry. In our conversation we discussed the following: Key objectives for the coming year for data centers and modernization Drivers for PwC's data center consolidation A look into PwC's modernization journey and how it reflects HPE's own journey Challenges of upgrading business models & expected outcomes Best practices from the modernization experience. This was an interesting conversation and one you don't want to miss. To learn more about HPE, check out their website here, and to learn more about PwC, check their website, here. Want to listen to the other HPE Executive Insights Series episodes? Tune in below. The Evolution of On-Premises Cloud Services with HPE GreenLake's Scott Ramsay – Futurum Tech Webcast Interview Series Capitalizing on Data to Drive Healthcare Insights – An HPE Executive Insights Series with Ashok Kurian, Texas Children's Hospital – Futurum Tech Webcast Interview Series

More and more end users want the cloud-like experience of HPE; however, not all workloads can move out into the public cloud space.   To solve this, HPE has created GreenLake: A solution that offers the flexibility and billing of the cloud while allowing customers to keep their equipment on premises — Providing the physical and virtual security that the end user needs.   Hosts Devaughn Bittle and Patrick Cash chat with Russell Fenton , Solutions Specialist at Ingram Micro , and Brian Koch , HPE GreenLake Program Manager at Ingram Micro , about:  - What HPE GreenLake is & how it relates to the SMB market - The best opportunity for small businesses to jump into the cloud space - Where technology is going in the next year  Contact your dedicated account manager for more information.  To join the discussion, follow us on Twitter @IngramTechSol #B2BTechTalk  Listen to this episode and more like it by subscribing to B2B Tech Talk on Spotify , Apple Podcasts , or Stitcher. Or, tune in on our website .

Today's Network Break discusses Aruba Networks moving closer to HPE GreenLake with a new reseller-focused way to sell network gear, how data center design hampered fire fighting at an OVHcloud facility, Okta's response to a January security incident, Intel's request for US government dollars, and more IT news.

Today's Network Break discusses Aruba Networks moving closer to HPE GreenLake with a new reseller-focused way to sell network gear, how data center design hampered fire fighting at an OVHcloud facility, Okta's response to a January security incident, Intel's request for US government dollars, and more IT news. The post Network Break 375: Aruba Networks Dives Into GreenLake; Okta Pins Incident On Outsourcer appeared first on Packet Pushers.

Today's Network Break discusses Aruba Networks moving closer to HPE GreenLake with a new reseller-focused way to sell network gear, how data center design hampered fire fighting at an OVHcloud facility, Okta's response to a January security incident, Intel's request for US government dollars, and more IT news.

Today's Network Break discusses Aruba Networks moving closer to HPE GreenLake with a new reseller-focused way to sell network gear, how data center design hampered fire fighting at an OVHcloud facility, Okta's response to a January security incident, Intel's request for US government dollars, and more IT news. The post Network Break 375: Aruba Networks Dives Into GreenLake; Okta Pins Incident On Outsourcer appeared first on Packet Pushers.

Today's Network Break discusses Aruba Networks moving closer to HPE GreenLake with a new reseller-focused way to sell network gear, how data center design hampered fire fighting at an OVHcloud facility, Okta's response to a January security incident, Intel's request for US government dollars, and more IT news.

Today's Network Break discusses Aruba Networks moving closer to HPE GreenLake with a new reseller-focused way to sell network gear, how data center design hampered fire fighting at an OVHcloud facility, Okta's response to a January security incident, Intel's request for US government dollars, and more IT news. The post Network Break 375: Aruba Networks Dives Into GreenLake; Okta Pins Incident On Outsourcer appeared first on Packet Pushers.