Cloud Services Attack: HPE Revolutionizes On-Premise Storage With Data Services Salvo
‘We have a whole Rolling Thunder of cloud native and cloud-centric storage and data services coming over the next year plus,’ says HPE Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Storage Business Tom Black. ‘This is the opening round. This is a very different company moving forward. This is a tremendous opportunity for partners.’ By Steven Burke May 04, 2021, 11:00 AM EDT
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Tuesday turned the heat up on storage competitors with a breakthrough data-services, software-as-a-service (SaaS) makeover that delivers a unified cloud native, software defined public cloud experience on premise.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Tuesday added a breakthrough AI-based hybrid cloud assessment tool to its arsenal with the acquisition of CloudPhysics.
The deal provides HPE with a SaaS-based tool that analyses on-premises IT environments and provides quick return on investment recommendations for cloud migrations, application modernisation and infrastructure.
The acquisition of the 10-year-old venture-backed company provides HPE with “highly strategic” software that will “speed up” HPE’s partner-led “go to market” sales engine, said Tom Black (pictured), senior vice president and general manager of HPE’s storage business.
“CloudPhysics is a market-leading platform to do on-premises assessments of a customer’s environment,” said Black, the driving force behind the deal. “It’s all done in software literally in seconds or minutes back to the customer. Some of the largest brands in the industry have been working with CloudPhysics. I like to say that we snagged a
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Channel Blockbuster: HPE’s New AI Opportunity Engine Takes Sales Proposals From 45 Days To 45 Seconds
‘We help you increase the velocity of your growth and increase your customer relevancy in a way that our competitors currently do not have the ability to do,’ says HPE Storage Senior Vice President and General Manager Tom Black. ‘Sales productivity goes up substantially with the Software Defined Opportunity Engine. What used to take 45 days can now be done in 45 seconds.’ By Steven Burke February 23, 2021, 05:00 PM EST
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Tuesday unveiled a breakthrough cloud-based machine learning platform that slashes the time it takes to do custom sales proposals from 45 days to just 45 seconds, said HPE Storage Senior Vice President and General Manager Tom Black.