Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. is currently in a transitional phase for both its storage portfolio and its chief executive officer role. Looking to explore these shifts, SiliconANGLE is at HPE Discover, currently underway in Madrid, Spain, with exclusive commentary and interviews from our roving news desk, theCUBE. (* Disclosure below.)

HPE Discover EU will be the last conference with CEO Meg Whitman at the helm after the announcement last week that Antonio Neri, president of HPE, will replace her on Feb. 1, an announcement that overshadowed the company’s mixed fourth-quarter results. Wikibon Chief Analyst David Vellante says the biggest question for HPE under Neri will be, “how do they compete as essentially a reseller of other companies’ technologies?”

HPE’s acquisition of Nimble Storage Inc. earlier this year is already paying off for the company. Despite only a 5 percent growth in storage revenue to $871 million, HPE did see Nimble revenue increase by 80 percent. The disappointing overall storage growth was due to weak performance in the company’s mainstream 3Par storage line in the U.S.

HPE has been neck and neck with Dell Technologies Inc. but managed to inch ahead in the total enterprise storage systems market for the second quarter, according to International Data Corp. The overall market was only up slightly by 2.9 percent, but HPE managed to capture 20.1 percent of the market, with Dell in the second position with 18.4 percent. While HPE and Dell continue to dominate the two top spots, NetApp Inc., in the third position, has enjoyed its fifth straight quarter of revenue growth. NetApp’s revenue was up 16.7 percent year over year, but unfortunately, its overall market share was down to 6.4 percent.  

HPE Discover in Madrid will also likely focus on the company’s recent endeavors in the artificial intelligence market. HPE entered the AI market last month with the announcement of new services and platforms that will enable companies to more easily adopt AI technologies, specifically focused on deep learning. While the AI engine that the company unveiled last week will harness the power of AI to prevent data center outages.  

Keynote and guest speakers at HPE Discover include various HPE executives, including Whitman; Neri; Alain Andreoli, senior vice president and general manager of hybrid IT group; Ana Pinczuk, senior vice president and general manager of HPE Pointnext; Irv Rothman, president and chief executive officer of HPE financial services; and Martina Trucco, senior manager of innovation and brand integration.

Other guest speakers include Peter McKay, president and chief operating officer at Veeam Software Inc.; Matt Cadieux, chief information officer at Red Bull Racing Ltd.; Christian Renaud, research director for internet of things at 451 Research LLC; and Kate Swanborg, senior vice president of technology communications and strategic alliances at DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc.

How to watch theCUBE interviews

We offer you various ways to watch all of theCUBE interviews that will be taking place at HPE Discover, including theCUBE’s dedicated website and YouTube. You can also get all the coverage from this year’s event on SiliconANGLE.

TheCUBE’s dedicated website and Ustream

All of theCUBE’s exclusive interviews from HPE Discover will be available on theCUBE’s dedicated website. The list of guests who will be interviewed on theCUBE is still being finalized, but you can stay updated on theCUBE’s dedicated event page.

You can also watch all the interviews from HPE Discover on the dedicated Ustream channel.

Watch on the SiliconANGLE YouTube channel

All of theCUBE interviews from HPE Discover, which runs until Nov. 30, will also be loaded onto SiliconANGLE’s dedicated YouTube channel.

Cubecasts

SiliconANGLE also has podcasts available of archived interview sessions, available on both SoundCloud and iTunes, which you can enjoy while on the go.

Live stream of HPE Discover

If you are unable to attend HPE Discover in Madrid, you can still catch a live stream of the event, including the Discover General Session with presentations from Meg Whitman and Antonio Neri, from the comfort of your home or office.

The live stream starts on Tuesday, Nov. 28 at 8:45 a.m. CET with Whitman and Neri’s keynote taking place at 1:50 p.m. CET. You can watch all the action from HPE Discover on the official event page.  

(* Disclosure: Some segments on SiliconANGLE Media’s theCUBE are sponsored. Sponsors have no editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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