HPE Discover 2024

CRN is live in Las Vegas for HPE Discover 2024. Bookmark this page for the latest news and exclusive interviews with top executives and channel partners.

HPE CEO Antonio Neri: AI Opens Up ‘Opportunity To Bring More Infrastructure On Premise Than Ever Before’
HPE CEO Antonio Neri told partners that the AI revolution is leading to a renaissance for on-premise computing.

CEO Antonio Neri On Nvidia Integration Differences Between HPE’s Private Cloud AI And Dell’s AI Factory
“Depending on the use case, you buy small, medium, large and extra-large versus the Dell AI factory, which is a bunch of widgets that you have to bring together,” said Neri in an interview with CRN at HPE Discover. “And then we actually build this in our factory right away. So we ship it exactly as you decide.”

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang: HPE-Nvidia Is A ‘Massive Partnership,’ Exits Sphere Stage With A ‘Go HPE!’
Nvidia and HPE introduced new co-developed, co-branded AI offerings that, ‘with a giant go to market’ can ‘bring AI to the world’s enterprises for the very first time,’ said Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang onstage at HPE Discover.

HPE’s Ulrich Seibold: HPE Is Building A ‘New Market’ With AI As A Service
Seibold expects the Nvidia AI Computing By HPE offering including the HPE Private Cloud AI to expand the total addressable market for the Powered by HPE GreenLake service provider business alone by $1.5 billion to $2 billion.

HPE’s Neil MacDonald: Running AI In Public Cloud Will ‘Crush’ IT Budgets
“The target customers for this [HPE Private Cloud for AI] are very firmly enterprise customers who are seeking to embrace generative AI and who recognize that running AI workloads at scale in the public cloud will crush their IT budgets,” said MacDonald, the general manager of Compute, HPC (High Performance Compute) and AI for HPE.

‘Nvidia AI Computing By HPE’ And HPE Private Cloud AI: Details Of The Blockbuster AI Partnership
HPE has launched a comprehensive generative AI solutions portfolio co-developed and co-branded by AI kingpin Nvidia including a breakthrough HPE Private Cloud AI offering.

Partners See Nvidia AI Computing By HPE As A GenAI Infrastructure ‘Game-Changer’
HPE partners say the Nvidia AI Computing By HPE collaboration raises the bar in the battle to develop the deepest enterprise generative AI integration and go-to-market model with AI superstar Nvidia.

CTO Fidelma Russo On Customer Choice, Trust And Why HPE Now Has Its Own Virtualization Capability
HPE CTO Fidelma Russo said HPE decided to enter the hypervisor market with its own open-source KVM hypervisor in the wake of the response from customers and partners to changes in licensing, pricing and product after Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware.

Partners Cheer New HPE Virtualization Capability Being Showcased At HPE Discover
Partners say HPE’s entry into the virtualization market gives customers a new “choice” for those grappling with changes in pricing in the wake of Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware.

HPE Aruba Is Recruiting Networking Data Center And Security Partners Ahead Of HPE’s $14B Acquisition of Juniper Networks
'We are working closely with our distribution partners to try to recruit new partners especially in the security area and also around data center networking,' says HPE Aruba Worldwide Channel Chief Lene Skov.

Champions of Change Sees HPE GreenLake For Private Cloud Business Edition As Cloud Service Game Changer
'What HPE has done with Private Cloud Business Edition is make it attainable and it has opened customer’s eyes to the HPE ecosystem,' says Champions of Change CEO Xara Tran.