I have something of a checkered past with HPE, the enterprise business that was created when Hewlett-Packard split itself into two units a year or so ago. I first engaged with the business formerly known as HP half a dozen years ago. Back then the company was very much still in the business of selling hardware — be it servers, printers or laptops — and had not yet focused on its transformation into a business that could compete in the modern world.

I spent a few years in the HP orbit, attending a number of their global user conferences and generally saying things as I saw them. Unfortunately, I didn’t see things in a particularly good light — HP introduced (and reintroduced a handful of times) a public cloud service that they told us, with a straight face no less, would be competitive with Amazon Web Services (AWS) the king of the public cloud.

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Ben Kepes

Ben Kepes is a technology evangelist, an investor, a commentator and a business adviser. Ben covers the convergence of technology, mobile, ubiquity and agility, all enabled by the Cloud. His areas of interest extend to enterprise software, software integration, financial/accounting software, platforms and infrastructure as well as articulating technology simply for everyday users.

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