The edge is growing, expected to hit a market valuation of over $61 billion by 2028, according to Grand View Research. The edge isn’t only made up of personal devices, either, with healthcare facilities alike serving as a growing example of critical services beginning to rely on the edge for its efficiency and easy accessibility.

With so much reliance on the edge, it’s crucial for those working behind the scenes to be prepared to act on a moment’s notice.

“That requires the movement of compute and networking and storage and fundamentally the core piece of HPE’s world,” said Robert Christiansen (pictured), vice president of strategy, office of the CTO, at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. “But in addition to that, the software necessary to take the action on that data when they detect that there’s some action that needs to be taken.”

Christiansen spoke with Lisa Martin, host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio, during the HPE Discover event. They discussed data strategies, data maturity, edge to cloud and more. (*Disclosure below.)

Help at every step

Every organization needs to deploy a business strategy, but with every business in varying stages in their data transformation journey, tech companies must be able to assist in the journey regardless of their clients’ data maturity, especially those in earlier stages, according to Christiansen.

“They’re worried about maintaining the lights on DR strategies and make sure that data doesn’t go away versus all the way through a whole cycle where they’re governing it and putting it into what I call those discoverable buckets that are made available,” Christiansen said. “We see a big opportunity here for our [Advisory and Professional Services] and other professional services organizations to help people get up that maturity curve.”

HPE is not traditionally a cloud-focused company, but with the growing acceptance and utilization of the cloud, the company is beginning to help clients with their on-prem cloud needs.

“When clients are writing that application for the edge, that matters. They are putting it into new cloud native architectures containers, microservices. They’re using solid pipelines, development pipelines. They’ve implemented what they call their DevOps or their DataOps practices in field, in country. That’s where we shine,” Christiansen concluded.

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

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