http://t.ted.com/myHh8dX
Companies do fail. Its a part of capitalism. The average lifespan of a company is 18 yrs. Technically HPE is only 8, but I think that they might pack it in early.
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You need a few friends in high places and Harvard Business School terminology to land a high level position at HPE.
Intelligence, innovative ideas, ethics, good strategy, sound tactics to support that strategy will not help you with HPE. There is no one to interview you who could identify those things. It really has become that bad.
It will remain this way until the teats are ripped from the mouths of the su-klers. It is no problem for them, they are billionaires, multi-millionaires. They will be fine.
If you watch the link provided by the OP (it's not terribly coherent even by the low standards of the TED stage); in addition to the classic libertarian error of assuming without supporting arguments much less data: capital good, guv'ment bad she does make a really good point that thru the very process of creative destruction (I don't think she uses those words but that's her theme): 1) [a few] weird, smart people do some really great things, which leads to ... 2) the "progress" we can look back on (and attribute, of course, solely to "Capitalism", and of course 3) ALL CORPORATIONS (like all living things) EVENTUALLY DIE.
HPE's factories operate with outdated backend shopfloor systems from the 1990s, lacking modern shopfloor technologies. How can a company with such antiquated infrastructure build an AI platform? It appears HPE is merely presenting an overly optimistic image to mislead customers.
3 really good, thoughtful replies.
We can get into the logistics of the internal nonsense that goes on but here's an outside perspective:
Cloud giants like Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Meta. If you were a supplier for this industry, you wish you supported these accounts instead of Dell, HPE, SuperMicro. Why is that?
The latter companies mentioned do not have nearly as much volume as the first few companies mentioned. The first few companies have built an entire ecosystem where they can deploy their own SaaS environment and it's something Greenlake cannot compete with in a million years. Now that these companies have developed their own SaaS environment, they're starting to become their own hardware companies, giving less incentive for people to go with the latter companies.
This is why HPE will fail. They are not turn-key.
Don't even get me started with AI stuff Nvidia. Nvidia is going to probably make their own turn-key solution in the future and will basically sell these enterprise GPUs out of mercy.
The sooner the better. HPE has been rolling around in circles like a broken wheel chair since the HP/HPE split.
I'm pretty sure they will miss/sink the AI boat just like thay did with everything as a service. AI in HPE speak means All India!
I tend to agree with you but the company as a whole will not fail, just this poorly managed part. Agilent and Keysight the 2 core parts of the former Hewlett Packard company along with HP Inc. are still doing pretty good... It's just too bad that the one with the founders names will go down in flames.
I was late to the game coming on-board in the early 90's but it was truly a great company back then. Once the founders passed the bean counters took over to ruin a once iconic company!! HPE today is nothing like what HP was back then, not even close.