Hewlett Packard Enterprise Inc. has an advantage when it comes to competing against the hyperscalers in the growing hybrid cloud market. It may not have a massive public cloud behind it, but it has decades of relationships and trust built up from providing on-premises hardware.

“[HPE] brings a lot of credibility saying, ‘We understand the world you live in now, but we want to take you to that as-a-service future,’” said Dion Hinchcliffe (pictured, right), vice president and principal analyst at Constellation Research Inc.

Hinchcliffe and Holger Mueller (pictured, left), vice president and principal analyst at Constellation, spoke with Dave Vellante, host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio, during the HPE GreenLake Announcement event. They discussed how the GreenLake announcements affect HPE’s strengths and weaknesses as it pivots from on-prem hardware to a software-as-a-service provider. (* Disclosure below.)

HPE understands its customer’s journey to hybrid cloud

GreenLake has “really grown up,” according to Hinchcliffe. With Tuesday’s GreenLake announcement,he said, “a lot of key pieces have fallen into place to make it a very compelling hybrid cloud option for the enterprise.”

One standout for Hinchcliffe was the announcement of HPE Ezmeral Unified Analytics, which supports data processing initiatives across the hybrid environment. This takes a step toward fulfilling the “Holy Grail” of digital transformation, according to Hinchcliffe.

With the announcement, HPE is articulating that GreenLake “is a hybrid cloud platform, and it has all the pieces that you would expect, especially the things like being able to bring your data from wherever it is to wherever people needed to be,” Hinchcliffe said.

The announcement of an Edge-to-Cloud Adoption framework is a statement to HPE customers that the company understands “all the steps and all the components” for the journey “from this parochial world of servers that you have into a cloud native hybrid world and then eventually get you to a public cloud,” Hinchcliffe said.

Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the HPE GreenLake Announcement event. (* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for the An HPE GreenLake Announcement event. Neither HPE, the sponsor for theCUBE’s event coverage, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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