Posted on 11/03/2015 6:16:44 AM PST by Cronos
When HP splits in two on Sunday after a year of planning,... on one side with be HP Inc., which will largely consist of personal computers and printers. Ont he other, HP Enterprise HPE, which will sell the servers, data storage, networking, software and consulting services... each company is expected to have annual revenue of about $50 billion and will be among America's largest public companies.
The story HPE is taking to corporate customers is HPE itself.
Need to change your business? HPE can show you how, executives say. After all, few companies have gone to greater lengths to change.
Since Oct. 6, 2014, a 500 person team has done over 300,000 tests of its systems to see if they work right, built 75,000 new ways to interface with its computers and cloned 2,800 applications to use in one company or another.
translation: HP has learned to do tough automation for big computing systems, and that experience is something it can sell to customers.
This kind of big technology upgrading will be attractive to the information technology, or I.T. departments at companies going through change, said Scott Srpadley, who led the team.
"Most people think I.T. knows when its servers are going to go down, but the reality is, they mostly rely on manual tickets," he said. "we automated everything."
Chris Hsu, HPE's Chief operating officer has built benchmarks for HPE's software and services business from models made from parts of different competitors. His financialy oriented metrics have become common standards among Ms. Whitman's top executives, who had used a wide variety of measurements to gauge the performance of their business units. In place of some research and development, HPE will invest $100 million a year in start-ups, like a venture capital firm, in search of promising technologies developed elsewhere.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
From the looks of things, HP's 'reinvention' in this segment appears to involve building things out of plastic thinner and lighter than balsa wood.
wall street still trying to squeeze more money out of poor hp. fiorina started it and now whitman. how sad.
First Agilent - then Avago, and Keysight, now this. The HP we knew and loved is being carved-up like a side of beef.
HP used to be the name on the best instrumentation equipment in the world. Even old tube models still sell ..and are not cheap.
Now, the name is on computers and servers..and software...which is of no better quality than any other of the myriad competitors.
Bye, HP....some of us remember when you were run by EEs...and had real product.
HP makes excellent middleware.
It’s a great move. HP hardware is just that, hardware. You can buy a Dell, you can buy Epson, you can buy HP, you can buy Apple. A printer or a desktop/laptop is a piece of equipment.
HPE is where the money is at. They complete for billion dollar contracts to transform the way corporations do business. And they are good at it. If you are a company looking to implement ITIL processes and infrastructure, HPE is best in breed.
Now they just need to figure out how to get rid of that green rectangle logo and get something good.
Agree. Compaq PCs and HP printers in a commodity business. Enterprise systems and software in an innovation business. This move allows both to compete in their sectors.
You guys are correct. I have a feeling that they will change the name from HPE one day. They’re doing interesting things with HP Vertica
Just a matter of a few years ago, HP couldn’t accept a bulk order for servers of what was ordered the previous time in bulk. Had to reprice everything and re-enter all the orders, which naturally led to build errors. I went to Albuquerque to try and work with them to prevent the issues. Turned out about half their operational systems were still Compaq and even some DEC. This reads as if they may have learned from that.
I work for HPE. It will be interesting to see what happens next!!
“Agree. Compaq PCs and HP printers in a commodity business. Enterprise systems and software in an innovation business. This move allows both to compete in their sectors.”
And splitting them allows shareholders the option of owning, one or the other, or both.
And the hope is the market values them as split, more highly than as currently combined. That has worked for other companies, that split.
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