When is HP not HP? When it’s HPE, of course.

After Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. split off from the parent Hewlett-Packard Inc. it focused on building an expansive ecosystem. Add some strategic acquisitions, such as BlueData and MapR, and the company is poised to capitalize on the new superpowers of big data, artificial intelligence, and, of course, cloud computing.

“It’s part of an entire workflow,” stated Patrick Osborne (pictured), vice president and general manager of big data, analytics and scale-out data platforms at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. “You start off with business intelligence, analytics, big data … and then add things like AI, machine learning, [and] deep learning into that analytics workflow.”

Osborne joined theCUBE host and SiliconANGLE co-founder Dave Vellante (@dvellante) at theCUBE’s studio in Boston, Massachusetts, for an in-depth CUBE Conversation that covered how AI, big data and cloud are driving innovation in the technology business, as well as the growth in the hyperconverged infrastructure and intelligent storage market from HPE’s perspective.

During the conversation, Vellante also examined estimated total return data from the HCI and software-defined storage markets using HPE SimpliVity hyperconverged infrastructure and Nimble storage as proxies, and he reviewed spending data from the HPE ecosystem. (* Disclosure below.)

HPE aims for a full stack solution

“We want to be an edge to core to cloud company, helping customers navigate this digital transformation in hybrid information technology,” Osborne stated. “We’ve been pretty public about that.”

One of the keys to accomplishing this goal is to offer intelligent products. Businesses know that static data is worthless data. By embedding AI, machine-learning, and deep-learning abilities in its core storage and infrastructure, HPE is making it easier for customers to access and analyze data, bringing the insights essential to be competitive in the digital marketplace.

“Whether it’s things like InfoSight, GreenLake, even Aruba Central … all that is being powered by AI at the end of the day, “Osborne stated.

Containers are another area where HPE is making a strong play. “We made a huge announcement at KubeCon around the HPE container platform,” Osborne said.

In line with HPE’s commitment to hybrid cloud, the container platform is created to work in a hybrid environment. “We’re seeing a lot of fuel for not only just servicing some of the storage and data needs for containers, but also being able to provide an InfoSight-like experience for this new generation of application development and workloads,” Osborne added.

HPE is known for the diversity of its portfolio, and unifying it has been a challenge. The HPE Intelligent Data Platform is bringing it all together, according to Osborne. “We have a number of platforms that can help address a number of different workloads, whether it’s HCI, disaggregated HCI, whether it’s all-flash, whether it’s container workloads and container orchestration, but we want to provide a very good experience that you can consume as a service,” he said. “For us it’s all about a strategy around this intelligent data platform, not just individual products.”

For more in-depth information on these subjects, plus Vellante’s analysis of the HCI and software-defined storage markets using HPE SimpliVity and Nimble as proxies, watch the complete video conversation below. You can also check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s CUBE Conversations here and here.  (* Disclosure: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither HPE nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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