HPE Canada loses country management status, but it still has a general manager, and a seat at the table in decisions. Decision-making authority has not been moved to the U.S.
The HPE CEO says the company has been fundamentally transformed in her tenure, not just by selling off non-core areas and increasing focus, but by making more changes in sales and channel organization and corporate culture.
In contrast with Aruba, where the program was deliberately kept separate from HPE Partner Ready, the plan with the many new acquisitions is to bring everything together quickly as part of an integrated strategy.
The two companies announced a broad range of Docker ready HP servers, which will be available in Q4, and a broad range of Docker integrations and other solutions for HPE, which are available now.
At the last HP Discover before the HP/HPE split, Meg Whitman presents Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s logo, brand, and target markets.
All the news from HP’s Global Partner Conference general sessions as it happens in our liveblog from the event.
Partners say HP’s split can be a positive move, but the vendor must carefully communicate with partners and customers to avoid market confusion.
HP announces plans to separate its Enterprise and PPS groups, but says this time around is different from the last time a potential split was discussed.
The Surface 3 tablet-laptop hybrid went on sale over the weekend, marking Microsoft’s entry into competitor status with its OEM and reseller partners.
A new report confirms growing demand for Google Chromebooks, and says the Web-based devices on track to take a significant share from Microsoft and Apple.
Customers are educated on what software-defined networking (SDN) is, but still need help to understand what it can do for them, HP says.
“Instability is not our friend,” says HP boss Meg Whitman. But she’s hoping that her company can gain ground as Dell and IBM face their own changes.
HP clings to the momentum with another mixed bag of financial results that will keep the turnaround on track a while longer.
Drysdale and Eppich, HP Canada’s two channel chiefs, join the podcast to offer a look back at 2013, and a look ahead to HP Canada’s business in 2014.
HP CEO Meg Whitman details memristor and Photonics technologies in development at HP Labs that she says will lead to a new technology architecture.
HP and Cisco once again plan their partner confabs for the same time. In 2014, both will descend on Las Vegas for a busy week of channel news.
Uneven results among HP’s business units give the channel pause over HP, which may be steering the right course but is far from fully righting the ship.
HP continues to shoot for the moon with its power- and space-thrifty Moonshot servers, this week rolling out a line based on Opteron processors from AMD.
Phil Sorgen says the reason the Surface tablet isn’t broadly available to solution providers for resale is because Microsoft lacked a distribution strategy.
As other big vendors show signs of slowing sales and transitional challenges, HP is emerging from its reorganization appearing a little more confident.
