As HPE Discover 2015 – London entered its final day, John Furrier and Dave Vellante, cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, begin the day reviewing Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.’s (HPE’s) inaugural standalone show.

Pumped up and competitive

Furrier described the event as a coming out party for the new entity. He believes the new team is “pumped up” and competitive. There is also a sense that the company has a new swagger and feels relief to have a new start. The enterprise group has been on task over the years, but Furrier feels they are now in a strong position.

Vellante gave credit to Meg Whitman, CEO of HPE, who has had to deal with a legacy of partial integrations, years of cost cutting and R&D squeeze along with some misplaced acquisitions and autonomy. Vellante noted that she said it was going to take five years to clean it all up, and he sees the light at the end of the tunnel. Vellante said the reason for the split was focus, and now HPE’s solely focused on the enterprise.

Furrier’s advice for IoT

The show has also sparked a great deal of conversation around Internet of Things (IoT). Vellante said that people are salivating around the ability to capture and analyze data.

However, Furrier explained that there is tangible value in IoT along with a great deal of fantasy.  “There is a fatal flaw right now in IoT execution, and the action item for practitioners is don’t buy into the hype that everything is going to be instrumented,” he said.

He noted that eventually that may be the case. However, he said, “If you try to push your network beyond its true edge, to devices that are far away, remote places like sensors, if there is a network connection and batteries involved, until those two things are solved, IoT on the far edge of the network is an absolute fantasy.”

Additionally the benefit of wiring all these sensors at the edge of the network really comes down to cost and the ability to get the data. Real-time data is the value.

Furrier’s action item for IoT

Furrier’s action item: Establish the edge of the network where you have power and connectivity that is either wireless or wired. Understand your true edge of your network and then you get the data.

Watch the full interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE and theCUBE’s coverage of HPE Discover 2015 — London. And join in on the conversation by CrowdChatting live with theCUBE hosts during the event.

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