John Furrier52
CEO Meg Whitman disclosed Microsoft Azure will become a preferred public cloud partner" for HPE, which will be detailed next week. HPE will "serve as a preferred provider of Microsoft infrastructure & services for its hybrid cloud
John Furrier
thoughts from @bgracely @stu @dfloyer @dvellante on this topic. I see this as huge deal for HP; WinTel for the cloud is something HP is familiar with from old days
Brian Gracely
good to see HP defining its new public cloud strategy after the announcements over the last few months. will be interesting to see if their focus is on-prem Azure on servers or moving applications to Azure public cloud.
John Furrier
@GeorgeO just commented that HP is surrendering not sure if he's referring to in general or just the public cloud game
John Furrier
@bgracely What does this mean for VMware HP relationship?
Brian Gracely
as you noted when talking with Dave Donatelli, if vendors don't own/operate your own public cloud, they'll end up being a reseller of other services. changes their business model.
John Furrier
. @bgracely yes partnering with Azure changes HP business model so they need to create value with software which isn't their core competency to add to the hardware business
Brian Gracely
HPE is still a huge distributor of VMware via their servers, even with the Helion/OpenStack offerings. will be interesting to hear the HPE Public vs. Private Cloud messaging next week.
John Furrier
I'll get the scoop in London next week
Brian Gracely
the WinTel analogy is convenient, but the world is moving to non-Windows OS (Linux, iOS, Android) on many more devices. it's a different world going forward.
Crowd Captain
Timothy Jones @timbeejones commented
Timothy Jones "Critical for HP will be selling to new SaaS verticals, and not depending on telecom to pull through server revenue."
Timothy Jones "Critical for HP will be selling to new SaaS verticals, and not depending on telecom to pull through server revenue."
John Furrier
@bgracely WinTel is what they have installed in the base and familiar with the new world is cloud/mobile/data with both horizontal and vertical scaled opensource software models. Developer-led products is the new scale point for revenue
John Furrier
Rob Enderle wrote a scathing post on HP and Yahoo board http://www.itbusines...
Phil Dunn
And the question is how will HP's partnership with Azure be any different than Dell's? My guess its going to be down to who can survive on less margin http://www.enterpris...
John Furrier
@Phil_Dunn1 great point on the Dell Microsoft deal. HP is comfortable with Microsoft with years of experience partnering. Can HPE adjust its' business model to be cloud native in this new era or style of IT
Bert Latamore
@bgracely What does the Azure deal mean for Helion in hybrid deals? Will HP be using it or Microsoft cloud tools?
Bert Latamore
@bgracely Also, what about HP and AWS? last year it bought Eucalyptus & integrated it into Helion. But not much since re hybrid cloud with AWS.
Phil Dunn
I see a lot of challenges for HPE going forward. Once VMWare owned by Dell, how will HPE continue to be focused/sell a key competitors product?
Phil Dunn
@dvellante How will HPE make money once they’ve sold Azure Public cloud to their customers & migrated them? Game over? From the pot into frying pan?