Last year, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. announced several upcoming HPE GreenLake innovations, some of which were specifically designed to assist businesses with data-driven modernization solutions.

This step led HPE toward its goal of delivering everything the company does through HPE GreenLake, offering a centralized, modern platform for its hybrid cloud solution, including bringing capabilities to the edge.

“The edge is where we all live and work,” said Neil MacDonald (pictured), executive vice president and general manager for compute at HPE. “We’ve all seen, over the last couple of years, enormous change in how that work experience and how the shape of businesses has changed, and that creates some challenges for infrastructure.”

MacDonald spoke with theCUBE industry analysts Dave Vellante and Lisa Martin at the HPE Discover 2022 event, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed HPE GreenLake compute innovations, Gen11, helping customers make decisions and more. (* Disclosure below.)

Functional computing

Last year, HPE announced its partnership with various chip makers to provide silicon-based solutions, including the Ampere Computing LLC-supported HPE ProLiant RL300 Gen11 server.

“We’re looking forward to building out the rest of our Gen11 portfolio broadly with all of our industry partners in the coming quarters,” MacDonald said. “We’re thrilled about the feedback that we’re starting to get from some of our customers about the gains in power efficiency that they’re getting from using this new server line that we’ve developed with Ampere.“

With the HPE GreenLake cloud Platform,  the power of bringing together connectivity with compute, storage and other capabilities gives HPE the ability to serve the combined needs at the edge, according to MacDonald. Examples include datacenters using more software-defined capabilities with more hybrid offerings running on compute substrate, some delivering more storage services, analytics or other services.

“It’s going to be very fun over the next few years to see that diversification and a much more opinionated set of offers for particular use cases and workloads,” MacDonald said. “And our job and value is going to be simplifying that complexity, because choice is great.”

Here’s the complete video interview, part 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 of theCUBE’s event coverage, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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