Needing an effective computing platform in today’s evolving IT environment can be budget-straining for many organizations.

But for companies that have stuck with their decades-old technology equipment, there’s no reason to continue doing so, according to Krista Satterthwaite (pictured), senior vice president and general manager of HPE Mainstream Compute at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. AI and supercomputing are here to help businesses be more efficient without breaking the bank. 

“There’s so many use cases at the edge, and customers are trying to do more at the edge than ever before,” Satterthwaite said. “The truth is that [the old] server is no longer serving them the way that it should, because it’s taken way too much power for the performance that it’s delivering. A lot of customers don’t realize that … if it’s been a long time, you’re probably not getting the most out of the server, nevermind the features .. and the security innovations that you’re missing out on.”

Satterthwaite recently spoke with theCUBE industry analysts Dave Vellante and Rob Strechay at HPE Discover, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s live streaming studio. They discussed large language model processing through on-demand supercomputing services, as well as raising the bar on data security. (* Disclosure below.)

Trusted by design

Evolving tech tools and platforms have been game-changers in the enterprise, according to Satterthwaite, who is seeing firmware enhancements provide vast improvements, especially for organizations with many locations. They are also completing tasks in record time, she added.

“Basically, you can easily onboard thousands of devices wherever they are into one console and see everything,” Satterthwaite explained. “Amazing innovation, and we have to look at things differently because we’re no longer just managing the data center anymore.”

Security is a concern for every company, and HPE has expanded its protection platform to better assist organizations on a global level. The company’s Silicon Root of Trust solution — firmware technology that integrates security directly into the hardware level of HPE servers — tackles this challenge head on and has been expanding since it’s introduction about six years ago.

“With ProLiant Gen11, we expanded this to include protection for the cards that plug into the servers — so storage controllers, networking controllers that have [Security Protocol and Data Model] are protected now as well,” Satterthwaite said. “We also have secure Trusted Supply Chain, and it’s available in more use cases … worldwide now. We keep raising the bar when it comes to server security.”

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

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

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