 Live from the Sands Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada, extracting the signal from the noise. It's theCUBE, covering HP Discover 2015. Brought to you by HP. And now your hosts, John Furrier and Dave Vellante. Okay, welcome back everyone. We are here live in Las Vegas for HP Discover 2015. I'm John Furrier, Dave Vellante. We're here with a very special guest, Cube alum, Antonio Neary, who's Senior Vice President General Manager of the Enterprise Group. Really, the membership as HP tells the story. Welcome back to theCUBE. Great to see you smiling. You get the nice outfit on. You're just on stage at the keynote with Meg Whitman. How do you feel? Well, first of all, thanks for having me back. It's always great to see you guys. And I'm feeling really great. I think it was a great day today. Talking to our customers, both live and around the globe. I'm Billy in HiloPackard Enterprise, our view of the future with our strategy. And feeling really good, really good. I felt when I was watching you up on stage, one, our love for you being a Cube alumni, of course I'm biased, was with your accent and you were humble, but it was a unifying experience. I saw the groups come together, number one in security. The story was really strong. And so I want to ask you a personal question. How did that all come together? What was behind the scenes? Was it a rallying cry? Meg, obviously he wants to get the story simplified, unified, bring the company together, give us some color behind what's going on behind. I think the answer is simple. Customers are demanding it. I mean, that's the simple answer. When you think about the pace of change we're going through today and the challenge that customers are going through, they demand a partner that delivers solutions, solutions focused on business outcomes. So it's all about delivering business outcomes. What is the biggest challenge they have? It's time to value. And for us, we are in a unique position because we have all the assets to give them the solution to deliver those business outcomes so they can move with the speed, the agility, the cost that they need to serve their customers. So I will say it was customer driven, first and foremost. And second, I will say HP, as we engage so many customers, realize that we have a unique opportunity, a unique opportunity to really win in the marketplace. So I think the team came together and delivered a very compelling story today. So you have that customer driven, so I know Dave wants to jump in some questions because we have a limited time and I want to ask this one specific, because cloud and big data, I'll see your big parts of the messaging as well, converges, they're all kind of coming together. And we've talked about this kind of in the queue before, I want to get your answer on this, is where horizontally scalable is what the cloud's all about. And we've had great conversations on that, but then vertically integrated stacks are happening in the cloud as well. So you have horizontally scalable and vertically integrated. How do you manage that in a company that could be looked at as siloed product groups? There's no messaging around products, it was all solutions. So you're making that change, you're busting down the silos, at least on the messaging side. How do you manage the group as you have a horizontally scalable and vertically integrated stacks? I mean, you guys are making great change right now. What's your view on that? So I think, let's talk about cloud. Cloud is all about delivering services, that's it. I mean, to my simple view, is all about delivering services faster with the right economics and the speed that customers are looking for. Then, you know, the world is going to be dominated by workloads, new applications, new way to deliver those services, and the reality, you have to operate in a hybrid environment. Some workloads will live on the public side, in a consume way, and some, many of them will be on-prem. And I think HP has the unique view to provide the infrastructure for both building consume with the right automation and orchestration to move those workloads where it makes no sense. So I think, you know, as you see tomorrow, you're going to see another iteration of our story. So I'm not going to unveil anything. So I'm going to encourage you to pay attention to the keynote tomorrow by Martin Fak. So talk about the vision, how we're going to move in this horizontal vertical. And I think, you know, the integration of a hybrid stack management with the right orchestration in an app-driven world, infrastructure really matters. But also how you integrate that orchestration really matters. So this is why horizontally, vertically, it makes a lot of sense. And just tactically, the portfolio, you got some bright spots in it. I mean, you know, EG growing in constant currency, which is great growing nicely in constant currency. The ISS business exploding, the Gen 9 momentum, 3-par, the gift that keeps on giving, I would say, is Aruba the next 3-par? We believe so. So let me comment a little bit since you brought up our performance. I'm very proud of the results. Obviously we have more work to do. And I think a lot of opportunities in front of us. As you know, I used to run the server business. And I cannot be more proud of what our server engineering and go-to marketing have done. We grew 70% in constant currency. That's phenomenal growth. We think, you know, that people will consume more compute, not less compute. And if you think about behind us, right, you have the entire set of compute platform. We talked about before delivering the right compute for the right workloads of the right economics. We are the only vendor who can address all the right workloads in the market. I think 3-par, you know, we just make an announcement with the new family. You know, more than 40% of our 3-par today is consumed in all-flash array. So you can see customers are taking advantage of the innovation with all-flash, with the performance and the cost they're looking for. So when you move to networking, we were very focused on transforming our networking business. And networking, you know, half of the market is actually campus. And so we realized we have an incredible set of assets in our switching side, but we needed to increase our presence on the wireless side, but more on the software side. And this is why we went on and acquired Aruba Networks, which is actually an expert in transforming end-to-end user experiences. And Aruba actually bring tremendous amount of innovation with our on-prem solution, their cloud Wi-Fi solution, vertical focus, and we have an incredible amount of use cases. And you're going to see tremendous traction within 90 days of the closure, which was just a week and a half ago. And you're injecting some new management talent into the group. Oh, Tom, it's unbelievable. You saw on the stage today, the passion, the focus that he has, the innovation that he brings, the Aruba team is fantastic. I can just tell you. We had a great chat with him here in the queue, but it's going to be released tonight or tomorrow because we didn't want to spill his speed beans. But yeah, the wireless is the new thing and their implementation at Levi Stadium is impressive. I have been there at the opening game and I was blown away with the experience. You know, you get there, you'd allow the 49ers up and you get a unique experience because the way they're up to the infrastructure was optimized was all around the Aruba. Aruba solution, right? They can personalize, basically it's a context-aware access. They're delivering a context-aware. They're delivering replays six seconds after a touchdown from every camera angle to the phone. You can't miss. That is just mind-blowing. Well, you want about a beer without moving, it's just, yeah, I mean, yeah, I know. That, I mean, that's the personalized experience people have demanded today. So tell about the story now. The HP story is really hangs together. I love the messaging, okay? You got hybrid cloud, software-defined infrastructure, great. Protect your digital assets, data-driven enterprise, workplace productivity, solutions have been not the product. What's the common threads across them? You got some big data that's going to travel because we've heard that security is a big data problem, an opportunity. I think it's simple. It's all about the app and the data. At the end of the day, it's all about the application and the data. And so this is when we talk about the customers, they are going to embark on those of four major transformation journeys we work on stage. Transform it to a hybrid infrastructure, operate what they have today as best as they can while they build the bridge for the future. And, you know, there's going to be a ton of legacy applications. They're not going to move to the cloud, but they need a more effective way to manage those operations in their IT environments. Then you have protecting your digital enterprise, right? So, and that's very important. Everything is being digitized. So how you protect the interaction with that data is not about security infrastructure, but is securing those interaction with your data, which is your intellectual property. Then obviously, you know, empower a data-driven organization. How I take that data and make something out of it? So whether it is to prevent issues in my own environment or whether to generate new profits of all revenue opportunities for my company. And last but not least, you know, is enable workplace productivity. Everybody here, right? It's connected to whatever they are doing. And the workplace is now digital. There's no boundaries. But at the end of the day, you have to provide an end-to-end experience from the foundation, on the infrastructure, to the security, to the application, in a way that's seamlessly integrated. So those are the four transformation journeys customers have go through. And our focus is to bring those solutions to the customers in a way they can deliver the business outcome they're looking for. But at the end, it's all about the application and the data. So I got to ask you about services. You brought up services, women, cloud services, which is the real value. We see that as well. Let's talk about professional services. You have the TC organization, you know this business, you've seen it, right? A lot of profit. But customers need this right now. So the common thing that Dave and I hear when talking to customers on theCUBE across the world is, I need someone to carry me and build that bridge to the future with me. And I don't want to get out ahead of my skis or snowboard. In this case, for a year, I hear a snowboarder. They don't want to fall down, this risk. Open source has got innovation. So what's your vision on how that's going to evolve for HP because obviously great opportunity. And what's the top three customer conversations that you're in? Yeah. How's HP going to do it? Top three conversations. So I will say, advisory services, core foundational, very strategic for HP. You're going to see a significant amount of investments being placed there. We already have a huge presence, both with our TS consulting, the technology service consulting, our enterprise services, but as well as our software professional services. We're going to bring them closer together and focus on unique business practices around those fourth key transformation areas where how you implement hybrid infrastructure, how you implement the right orchestration for your infrastructure so you can move workloads, depending on where they are most effective for you. How we can protect your digital enterprise with the right security advisory practices. How we can transform your enterprise mobility first type of approach, both from the infrastructure on the way to the application. And how we can make sure they use your data in the most effective way. And Robert Taco Stage focuses on Hadoop and user are heaven platform as a way to enhance the Hadoop implementation. And advisory services are at the core because the reality customers need help. Not everybody knows how to embark on that journey. Some customers have a large staff, they have made their minds, they understand the strategy, but most of the customer need help in defining what that journey needs to be. And that's why our HP consulting team, advisory services team plays a huge role for us. Okay, internal theory. Thanks for coming on, I know you're super busy and I know you've got a lot of things going on. And for you to take your time out to visit us in theCUBE, really appreciate it. I think I speak for Dave and thanks so much for coming on theCUBE. Always a pleasure to be here talking to you and I'm looking forward to see you in the next couple of days. Okay, thank you. Thank you. Senior vice vice general manager, enterprise group. A lot of great change, a lot of great stuff happening. This is theCUBE bringing you that signal and sharing it here. Join the conversation, go to hpdiscover.social where we have all the social experience happening right there. CrowdChat and also hashtag HP Discover. 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