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Bert Latamore
Alistair Winner says the public cloud approach of replacing rather than repairing failed hardware will slowly move into the enterprise market and impact it.
Bert Latamore
But that hyperscale approach to managing hardware is based on cheap hyperscale infrastructure & 100% virtualization, with data centers managed on a single pane of glass. That is not common (to say the least) in enterprises today.
Bert Latamore
HP appears to have a very strong story in software-defined networking, both in product & internal experience moving their own huge corporate network to SDN. Is it enough for HP to take market share from Cisco?
John Furrier
#SDDC is a huge opportunity and providing the services to that fast evolving market is a big deal imho
Bert Latamore
Totally agree. And if HP can capitalize it will do a lot for the company. And it could move HP up as a converged systems provider. Those two areas -- network and converged systems -- can feed off each others' growth.
Bert Latamore
Alistair Winner just said his #1 focus in hyperscale. Does HP plan to compete in the big service provider hardware market -- Amazon, Google, etc. -- against the white box makers?
Bert Latamore
Or is it expecting hyperscale to start moving into HP's traditional enterprise market short term?