When Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. introduced its multicloud management service called OneSphere last month, the company went to great lengths to describe it as a unified approach for public and on-premises private clouds. This flexibility is central to HPE’s strategy of tailoring its information technology portfolio to meet the varied needs of a diverse customer base while confronting a rapidly-changing enterprise computing landscape.

“Our motto is one size doesn’t fit all. Seventy-four percent of our customers are going for the hybrid IT [model]. We help them make it work, and this is why it’s a service-led journey,” said Alain Andreoli (pictured), senior vice president and general manager of the hybrid IT group at HPE.

Andreoli visited the set of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, and spoke with co-hosts Dave Vellante (@dvellante) and Peter Burris (@plburris) during the HPE Discover EU event in Madrid, Spain. They discussed the role of OneSphere in supporting hybrid IT, how HPE’s products will handle edge computing, and the integration of cloud analytics. (* Disclosure below.)

Providing single view management

OneSphere’s open application program interface is designed to facilitate easier connection with the public cloud and still enable ways to build private infrastructure as needed. “The problem if you go to the public cloud is you don’t really know how much it’s going to cost you, and you don’t have a single pane of glass to have all of your data be managed across the ecosystem,” said Andreoli, who pointed out that interest in flash storage, high-performance computing and x86 system architectures remains robust. “The market we are addressing on-prem is not shrinking.”

One of the key elements behind HPE’s hybrid strategy involves compute needs at the edge. As more data is ingested and processed by connected edge devices, the IT infrastructure will increasingly require a recirculating data pipeline from edge to core to cloud.

“What is going to make a huge difference, if you look at a five-year horizon, is the growth of the edge and the fact that 70 percent of the data will come from the edge,” Andreoli said. “We will enable our customers to have their data moving seamlessly across this journey.”

Another component of HPE’s hybrid IT approach involves the integration of its cloud analytics product — InfoSight — within the infrastructure. The company recently announced InfoSight support for 3PAR storage and has plans to integrate the tool soon with its hyperconverged SimpliVity offering, according to Andreoli.

“Anything that is deviant will be flagged as a potential problem and resolved before you even know about it,” Andreoli said. “It’s a revolution in the way to do service.”

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the HPE Discover EU event. (* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for the HPE Discover EU event. Neither Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co., the event sponsor, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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