The commitment to providing intentional hybrid solutions, end-to-end AI offerings and sustainable practices has positioned Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. as a leader in the ever-evolving technology landscape.

As the world continues to embrace hybrid cloud and AI technologies, HPE’s innovations and strategic approach are poised to make a significant impact on the future of IT, according to Hang Tan (pictured, right), chief operating officer of hybrid cloud at HPE.

“We have a very deliberate strategy,” Tan said. “Anything that’s in our portfolio is hybrid by design. We’re providing the customer with a unified control plane, unified data plane, so that it’s really seamless for them. And we’re abstracting all that complexity of the infrastructure, from the IT operators. That’s how we orchestrate our roadmap and how we think about innovation going forward.”

Tan and Jason Newton (left), vice president of hybrid cloud marketing at HPE, spoke with theCUBE industry analysts Rob Strechay and Rebecca Knight at the HPE Discover Barcelona event, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They shed light on HPE’s vision for hybrid cloud adoption, AI integration and sustainability. (* Disclosure below.)

Hybrid cloud by design

One of the standout discussions revolved around the concept of “hybrid cloud by design.” HPE believes that many companies have become hybrid by accident, with workloads distributed across various environments without a strategic plan. To address this, HPE aims to make hybrid cloud adoption intentional and deliberate, according to Tan.

“Couple that with the massive opportunity that’s coming to us with the massive hybrid cloud adoption and AI, which is the ultimate hybrid workload, we felt like now is the right time,” he said. “The beauty of creating a business unit is that now you have a leadership team that all they think about day and night is how do you develop the product roadmap, how do you innovate, how do you increase the value prop to the customers. That was the thinking behind creating the hybrid cloud business unit.”

HPE aims to provide a unified platform that offers a consistent experience across multi-vendor and multicloud environments. The integration of OpsRamp into the HPE GreenLake platform is a crucial step in achieving this, offering enhanced visibility and management capabilities, according to Newton.

“I think the biggest thing is OpsRamp,” he said. “We see enormous potential there. OpsRamp, with all the integrations that we’re doing across the modern cloud-native tool set, opens a world of visibility.”

The birth of the hybrid cloud business unit

The recent formation of the Hybrid Cloud business unit was a strategic move years in the making and aligns with HPE’s prediction that the world is becoming increasingly hybrid. The unit focuses on delivering a true hybrid cloud operating model, emphasizing scalability, go-to-market transformation and value proposition enhancement, according to Tan.

“Fifty percent of companies are having and deploying applications on-premise or at the edge,” he said. “I think these are new applications. What we’re seeing is a lot of how people are bringing it together.”

AI is a game-changing technology. HPE aims to provide end-to-end AI solutions, from model development to inference, within the enterprise environment. The company recognizes that many organizations are data-rich but insight-poor and seeks to help them derive actionable insights from their data, Tan explained.

“That’s further underpinned by cloud optimized infrastructure and a data plane that is highly tuned for AI workloads because AI is very data-intensive,” he said. “We’re offering an end-to-end solution that is also a full stack solution, that is multi-vendor and hybrid by design.”

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

(* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for the HPE Discover Barcelona event. Neither Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co., the main sponsors of theCUBE’s event coverage, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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