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Composable infrastructure helping IT support and innovating the enterprise | #HPEdiscover

At the last year’s Discover event, Hewlett Packard announced its vision and point of view about composable infrastructures. And in November it launched Synergy, designed from the ground up to deliver on the vision and promise. This year’s events have shown that it is really resonating with customers and helping them solve their business problems.

Neil MacDonald, VP and GM of at Synergy at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. (HPE), joined John Furrier (@furrier) and Dave Vellante (@dvellante), cohosts on theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, at HPE Discover 2016 in Las Vegas to provide an update about the company’s composable product in the marketplace.

The IT departmental  transformation

In order to understand the demand for composable, it is necessary to look at the ever-changing role of IT in today’s enterprise. According to MacDonald, the traditional IT department was a support function. “It built some back-office systems to underpin some business process — we would craft then carefully stand them up and try never to mess with them,” he said.

More recently, the role of IT in the enterprise has undergone a dramatic change from a support function to being  a core part of the business. MacDonald believes that IT now encompasses responsibilities, such as attracting new customers, delivering new services and products, and expanding the margins drive the cost structure.

“It’s much more of a partnership role in which lines of business are demanding from IT,  a much more rapid rate of innovation and change so there’s a huge amount of pressure,” MacDonald said. “Competitively in all kinds of industries, the ability of the IT function in the company to support lines of businesses, they innovate and deliver these new products and services to become incredibly critical to the competitiveness of the business. And in that world you cannot think about managing infrastructure the way IT managed infrastructure [in the past],” he explained.

The value of composable

MacDonald laid out the four key value propositions of HPE Synergy and composable infrastructure delivered to the customer.

  • A reduction of investment in the infrastructure by not over provisioning
  • Deploying infrastructure on-prem at cloud-like speed
  • Simplifying life cycle operations by taking advantage of the limitless pools of resources
  • Enabling the developers to move much more quickly and helping IT get out of the developer’s way

The definition of composable

“A composable infrastructure is an infrastructure that can give you one experience across both traditional and idea economy IT,” noted MacDonald.

He added that there are three architectural principles that include treating infrastructure as fluid pools of resources then wrapping that in a software-defined intelligence that lets you manage at a higher level, and making it all visible through unified API that can integrate your existing data center infrastructure.

Watch the full video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE and theCUBE’s coverage of HPE Discover 2016.

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