HPE has appointed Lewis Simmonds as its new channel sales leader responsible for its Platinum, Gold and Silver partners.
Lewis Simmonds joined the original Hewlett Packard as an account director in 2004.
Simmonds said: “I’m excited to accept the role of UK channel sales leader and to further my career with this opportunity at HPE. I’m looking forward to driving our channel forward in my new role as we scope not only for today but for the channel of the future.”
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) today announced its cunning plan deliver its entire edge-to-cloud portfolio as-a-Service.
Dubbed HPE GreenLake Central the kit and kaboodle is a software platform that provides customers with a consistent cloud experience for all their applications and data, through an operational console that runs, manages and optimizes their entire hybrid IT estate.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced its Container Platform – an enterprise-grade Kubernetes-based container platform designed for both cloud-native applications and monolithic applications with persistent storage.
The big idea is that enterprise customers can accelerate application development for new and existing apps – running on bare-metal or virtualized infrastructure, on any public cloud, and at the edge.
HPE is sprucing up its partner support as part of its drive towards an aaS model.
HPE started talking about subscription models back in June, setting a 2022 deadline to offer customers a choice of subscription-based pay-as-you-go and as a Service offering on its portfolio.
HPE is sitting down with its distribution partners this week to encourage them to flog its new GreenLake offeringsand subscription model to the mid-market.
The former maker of expensive printer ink is holding its second annual distribution shindig, this week.
More than 400 partners now selling the Greenlake offerings, which makes it the fastest growing part of the vendor’s business, increasing 275 percent year-on-year.
Former maker of expensive printer ink HPE has promised to offer its entire product portfolio as a service by 2022.
The vendor said the move is part of its “transition into an as-a-service company”, in a move which will let customers buy on a consumption basis through its GreenLake offering.
Tin box shifter Michael Dell returned to his early strategy of mocking his rivals and said that HPE was not doing that well in the cloud.
Dell claimed that the vendor’s multi-cloud strategy “isn’t going so well” soon after announcing integrations between Dell EMC, VMware and Microsoft in addition to launching Dell Technologies’ Cloud Platform.
HPE and Nutanix announced a global partnership to deliver an integrated hybrid cloud as a Service (aaS) solution to the market.
This offering will use Nutanix’s Enterprise Cloud OS software including its built-in, free AHV hypervisor, delivered through HPE GreenLake to provide customers with an HPE-managed hybrid cloud that, it’s claimed, dramatically lowers total cost of ownership and accelerates time to value.
Gray tin box shifter Michael Dell has been trolling the company rivals in a front page advertisement in the Wall Street Journal.
Michael Dell tweeted the ad, which displayed figures from analyst IDC, showing the vendor’s dominance in the external enterprise storage space against rivals NetApp, HPE and IBM.
HPE has rolled out its HPE Tech Pro Community – a technical community for architects and HPE presales professionals to work as one team.
This team will offer ongoing support, and exclusive access to insider training, tools, resources and expertise for partners and HPE alike.
Tin box shifter Michael Dell took the number one position in the worldwide vendor server market for the third quarter of 2018, according to beancounters at IDC.
It had 17.5 percent of market share, followed by HPE at 16.3 percent. HPE had held top position for the same period in 2017.
Overall revenue in the global server market increased 37.7 percent year-on-year to $23.4 billion in the third quarter, marking its highest total revenue in a single quarter.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has written a cheque for the AI and big data start-up BlueData.
BlueData was founded in 2012 and has raised £30.6 million. HPE said the deal will “significantly expand” its footprint in the AI and machine-learning space and bolster its big data analytics capabilities.
Milan Shetti, SVP of HPE’s storage and big data business, said: “BlueData has developed an innovative and effective solution to address the pain points all companies face when contemplating, implementing, and deploying AI/ML and big data analytics.
Dell EMC is closing the gap on Hewlett Packard Enterprise as EMEA’s top server vendor.
Beancounters at IDC have added up some numbers and divided by their collective shoe size and claimed that Dell EMC saw its server market share in EMEA increase just over three percentage points to 22.4 percent in Q2. HPE’s numbers were disappointing, and it declined over three per cent to 28.4 percent.
IDC senior research analyst Kamil Gregor said total spend for the quarter was up 28.9 percent year on year to $4.1 billion with HPE making up over a quarter of these sales. The number of shipments, however, declined 3.7 percent to 515,000 units shipped.
Some of the largest markets in Europe experienced shipment declines, with Germany seeing a drop of 14 percent and the UK a decline of 8.7 percent. These two regions, however, experienced revenue growth of 23.2 percent and 29.9 percent respectively as the average order of shipments rose.
Cloud channel members should be rubbing their paws with glee at the news that cloud spending is on the increase
IDC has increased its forecasts for the amount of cloud infrastructure sales that will be sold globally this year on the back of a solid showing in the second quarter.
The analyst house has charted a 48.4 percent increase in the sale of infrastructure products, including servers, storage and Ethernet switches, sold by vendors and fulfilled by the channel in Q2. As a result, the forecasts for the full year are now coming in a $62.2 billion, an increase of 31.1 percent on last year.
Spending is increasing in public and private cloud areas, up by 58.9 percent and 28.2 percent in Q2 respectively, with the combined investments in cloud infrastructure now accounting for almost half of all the infrastructure spending globally.
IDC is forecasting that spending in cloud environments is going to grow by double digits this year.
Non-cloud IT is dying, and it still accounted for just over half of the total infrastructure market in Q2 and came in with 21.1 percent growth, but it is markedly lower than cloud-related spending.
Natalya Yezhkova, research director, IT Infrastructure and Platforms at IDC said that as the share of cloud environments in the overall spending on IT infrastructure continues to climb and approaches 50 percent, it is evident that cloud, which once used to be an emerging sector of the IT infrastructure industry, is now the norm.
“One of the tasks for enterprises now is not only to decide on what cloud resources to use but how to manage multiple cloud resources. End users’ ability to use multi-cloud resources is an essential driver of further proliferation for both public and private cloud environments”, she added.
The top three regarding market share were Dell, HPE and Cisco. But the shining star regarding revenue growth year on year in Q2 was Lenovo, which delivered a 223.5 percent increase putting it in fourth place.
The former maker of expensive printer ink, HPE, is doing rather well on the back of its shiny new hybrid services cunning plan which is channel dependent.
With its PointnextHPE services business, the vendor has stated an ambition to make it an area that delivers revenue through the channel.
The plan, which emerged in March last year, was to give the channel the services support that they can scale to meet customer needs, with a large amount of flexibility built into the offering.
Pointnext was supposed to give users the support needed to accelerate their digital transformation. It rolled out Greenlake Flex Capacity, which was designed to make life easier for partners with pre-packaged options that would speed up quote times.
HPE also made a couple of acquisitions, with RedPixie this April and Cloud Technology Partners last September, to add more support for those customers looking at moving to the cloud.
During the outfit’s third-quarter announcement CEO Antonio Neri said that Pointext delivered a per cent decline in revenue year-on-year, although orders grew by four per cent.
“We continue to strengthen our HPE Pointnext services business, and we see significant opportunity as we execute our services-led go-to-market strategy”, he said.
The firm is looking to put the focus of the services business on the most profitable areas and in that space, revenue increased by one percent in Q3 and orders improved by eight per cent.
“This growth is largely due to the strong improvement of services intensity as we shift our focus in more value-added offerings, high-growth in HPE GreenLake and some larger deals. Advisory and professional services revenue was down 10 per cent, largely due to our intentional exit of more than 40 companies as part of our HPE Next plan,” said Neri.
He signalled that the current focus was on hybrid cloud solutions and it had been investing in that area.
“Overall, our Hybrid IT portfolio of products and services is stronger than it has ever been, and continues to help our customers manage and simplify their IT in a hybrid world,” he said.
HPE reported a fairly flat quarter revenue wise with Q3 turnover up just a per cent year-on-year to $7.8 billion. The vendor also continues to deliver on Meg Whitman’s last big plan before she stepped down, the Next initiative, which is right-sizing the business for the future.
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