Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. has achieved significant milestones in areas such as edge computing, hybrid cloud and artificial intelligence.

Antonio Neri (pictured), president and chief executive officer of HPE, spearheaded the company’s transformation and positioned it at the forefront of technological innovation. With a focus on customer satisfaction, sustainability and differentiated offerings, HPE continues to shape the future of the technology landscape.

“If you recall, in 2018 I stated that the edge will be the next frontier and it was gonna be a massive opportunity for all of us,” Neri said. “We made a bet, and the bet paid off. And you see that in the results. Since you ask what metrics really matter, in the end is, are we growing? Are we growing profitably? Are we gaining share and delivering value to our shareholders? And the edge business has done that.”

Neri spoke with theCUBE industry analysts Dave Vellante and Lisa Martin at HPE Discover, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed Neri’s insights, shedding light on HPE’s differentiated strategy, commitment to AI and cultural transformation. (* Disclosure below.)

HPE’s visionary approach

As a result of HPE’s commitment to driving innovation and meeting customer needs, the company’s edge business has tripled, demonstrating its success in this domain. Additionally, its focus on hybrid cloud has been vindicated by partnerships with industry leaders, including VMware Inc. and Amazon Web Services Inc., affirming the value of its strategy.

HPE’s differentiated strategy centers on providing a unified cloud operating experience for customers, according to Neri. Its GreenLake platform covers a spectrum of solutions and services, enabling organizations to operate efficiently in today’s cloud-native world. HPE’s focus on connectivity, both in terms of wireless and wired solutions, underscores its commitment to connecting people with data. By treating every aspect of its infrastructure as a cloud instance, HPE delivers a consistent and seamless experience across different deployment models.

It is important that HPE balance its approach to innovation, combining organic development with mergers and acquisitions and partnerships, according to Neri. While the company excels in organic innovation, evident in the success of GreenLake, it also recognizes the value of external innovation and talent. Strategic acquisitions, such as Aruba, and recent additions, such as OpsRamp and Determined AI, have enhanced HPE’s portfolio and complemented its in-house capabilities.

“We cannot innovate everything, but to me, innovation is a three-legged stool. Number one is our organic innovation,” Neri said. “The other piece of this is that you have to complement your own innovation with external innovation. Then the third piece of this is the broader partner ecosystem, and part of the partner ecosystem is to make strategic bets in small startup companies.”

AI and HPC driving profitability

AI is also a massive inflection point, poised to disrupt every industry, Neri pointed out. HPE’s unique opportunity lies in its hybrid-AI strategy, spanning the AI lifecycle’s training, tuning and inference stages. By leveraging its expertise in AI models, infrastructure scalability and optimized software, HPE is well-positioned to boost profitability in the HPC and AI businesses.

“If you think about how public clouds are being architected, [it] is a traditional network architecture at massive scale. When you go to this architecture, which is an AI-native architecture, the network is completely different,” Neri said. “We have that proprietary network … ours opens up multiple ecosystems, and we can support any of them.”

Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of HPE Discover:

(* Disclosure: HPE. and Intel Corp. sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither HPE and Intel nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

Photo: SiliconANGLE