HPE’s Big Everything As A Service Bet
Hewlett Packard Enterprise CEO Antonio Neri said HPE is defining the “next chapter” in the IT industry with its massive pivot to deliver everything as a service by 2022.
“I am committing today to you that in the next three years HPE will be a consumption driven company and everything we deliver to you will be available as a service,” Neri told customers in his HPE Discover keynote address.
The first phase of the sales blitz is a version of GreenLake for the midmarket and a new Network-as-a-Service version of GreenLake from Aruba.
The new midmarket offering will target a sweet spot of $300,000 but can stretch down to $100,000 depending on configurations and customer need.
“HPE GreenLake for the midmarket delivers purpose built solutions such as virtualization and container as a service, storage as a service, database as a service, backup as a service, private cloud as a service and way more- all in your data center,’ Neri told customers.
The new Aruba Network as a Service version of GreenLake, meanwhile, for the first time combines the Aruba Central SaaS model with network hardware including campus core network switches and wireless access points in a monthly pay per use offering.
Here are Neri's 10 most provocative statements from his HPE Discover keynote
