Hewlett Packard: The Composable Future
December 5, 2015
I know that many folks are really excited about the new Hewlett Packard Enterprise outfit. I think the winners may be the lawyers and investment people, but that’s just my opinion. The “new” HPE entity is moving forward with innovations focused on composable infrastructure. I assume that within the composable infrastructure, Autonomy’s technology chugs along.
I read the enthusiastic “Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s First Big Moves As an Independent Company: Composable Infrastructure, Partnerships with Microsoft, and Cloud Brokering Top the List.”
I learned:
the company is focusing on helping customers maximize their internal data center operations.
But the headline emphasized cloud brokering. What’s the internal thing?
I noted this passage:
HPE says it’s the next-generation advancement beyond hyperconverged infrastructure, which has compute, network and storage components packaged together in a single appliance, but those resources are not as flexibly composable as HPE says Synergy is.
Okay. HPE uses a single application programming interface. HPE’s software magic assembles “the necessary infrastructure for the applications.”
The brokering thing involves the cloud. I thought Amazon and a couple of other outfits were dominating the cloud. HPE is a partner with Microsoft. Isn’t Microsoft the outfit unable to update Windows 10 in a coherent manner? Isn’t Microsoft the outfit which bought Nokia?
From my vantage point in Harrod’s Creek, I am not exactly sure how HPE will generate sustainable revenue with these announcements. Fortunately it is not my job to make these “innovations” generate high margin revenue.
The inclusion of the word “hope” in the article is about as far as the news story will go to cast doubt on the uptake for these services. I did like the last line too:
Stay tuned to see if it works.
My thought is that there is no “it.” HPE is trying a bunch of stuff in the hopes that one of the products starts cranking out the cash. I will be “tuned” and I hope my spelling checker does not change “composable” to “compostable.”
Stephen E Arnold, December 5, 2015
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