
The acquisition is designed to give HPE a stronger competitive advantage in the hyper-converged IT space. as an example of a strategy to focus on a programmable infrastructure that can be supported by storage offerings. Philbin pointed to HPE’s recent acquisition of SimpliVity Inc. “Conventional backup does not protect data.” “The rules of data protection are also changing,” Philbin said. The HPE executive mentioned that he recently worked with a financial services company that had petabytes of unsecured data stored on its Hadoop-based servers. “I was in the middle of the Indian Ocean using Google Voice over satellite IP on the boat, talking to San Jose, and it worked,” he said. He also described a personal cruise experience to emphasize the point. Nimble fits with today’s reality where access to data and communications channels must be always-on, Philbin explained.

In addition to Nimble’s all-flash array technology, the company also brings predictive cloud-based analytics to HPE’s storage lineup. earlier this year is part of the company’s research and development strategy. Nimble bolsters HPE portfolio with all-flash “With Amazon or Azure, you swipe your credit card and that’s the last time you have to think about it,” Philbin said. The rise of cloud computing has forced storage to be both programmable and invisible at the same time, Philbin pointed out. They discussed trends in storage technology, the impact of recent HPE acquisitions and changing rules for data protection. Philbin visited theCUBE, SiliconANGLE’s mobile live-streaming studio, to answer questions from hosts John Furrier ( and Dave Vellante ( during HPE Discover US 2017 in Las Vegas, Nevada. “HPE is uniquely focused on serving enterprise customers.”

“It’s all about choice,” said Bill Philbin (pictured), senior vice president and general manager of storage and big data solutions at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. For HPE’s executives, this means shaping industry trends in storage, data protection and cloud computing into a message that their company can deliver what enterprise clients want. as the company that was formed near the end of 2015, after HP split in two, seeks to establish itself as a key player in hybrid information technology. There are a lot of moving parts right now with Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.
