HPE restructured it’s pure R&D organization and placed it in the products group – presumably to accelerate the release of major new technologies that can bring the company back to prominence in the industry. John Obeto joins me for a virtual RideCast to talk about what HPE has done and what the impact could be, not only on HPE, but the whole tech industry.
Good timing Bocce Bro and King John! I just posted a blog about an hour ago with an interview I did with a Hewlett Packard Labs researcher talking about Neuromorphic Computing: https://community.hpe.com/t5/Around-the-Storage-Block/Neuromorphic-Computing-Labs-Research-Revealed-at-Discover/ba-p/6873511 Fascinating stuff but if you aren’t familiar with The Machine, I had done a post about that from Discover London that I referenced in this latest blog.
I also like that Labs is moving under “Enterprise Group” that is managed by Antonio Neri. This is the group that has all of the infrastructure (servers, storage, hyper-converged, composable infrastructure and OneView). I think most of the research in labs that gets turned into product has been in EG though I don’t have data to back that up. Before the announcement that Martin Fink will retire later this year and Labs would move under Antonio, Labs reported to Meg. There will be a replacement for Martin and that person will report to Antonio. So while the change isn’t a huge one, I like the close tie-in to EG. And clearly, when elements of the Machine come to market, my guess is that it will be through EG products. In fact, HPE Synergy is already designed for photonics, a part of the Machine.