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I work at HPE. To try and add some clarity here are some insights. Hewlett-Packard, prior to the spit, was a massive company with hundreds of thousands of empl
by mfer 10y ago
I work at HPE. To try and add some clarity here are some insights.
Hewlett-Packard, prior to the spit, was a massive company with hundreds of thousands of employees and a portfolio that ranged from home printers and personal computers to enterprise software and hardware and more. It was huge.
HP, Inc - which went out in the split - does PCs and Printers. These are used by both home users and in companies. Did you know some printers get their ink from tanker trucks or are the size of a semi trailer?
Hewlett Packard Enterprise took the other parts which were targeted at big business (sometimes referred to as the global 2000).
HPE is now spinning out the Enterprise Services (ES) division and merging it with CSC. This was previously announced. ES is IT outsourcing. As part of that they write a lot of software. They are IT (bodies) for hire rather than product builders.
This latest announcement is the Software division. Software is written all over HPE. The Software division focuses on software for enterprises, such as Vertica, that is typically divorced from infrastructure.
The remaining part that's HPE is still pretty large and has servers, storage, networking, and a lot more wrapped up in it. All of which has massive amounts of software.
Hope this helps folks who are trying to navigate all the names and their meanings. I'll let others speculate on what all of this means and the motivations behind it.
- kev009 10y agoWhat are some examples of software that are getting spun out? I would assume stuff like HP-UX will stay at HPE?
- jonbaer 10y agoI think the gem in all of this is HavenOnDemand but absolutely NO ONE has even heard of it ... https://www.havenondemand.com https://www.havenondemand.com ... it can clearly compete w/ Bluemix ...
- jacques_chester 10y agoWith the Watson stuff, yes. With the Cloud Foundry stuff, maybe not. HP have two Cloud Foundry distributions, if I am counting correctly -- HP Helion and Stackato (which was a an early fork). Disclosure: I work for Pivotal, we are the majority donor of engineering to Cloud Foundry.
- mugsie 10y agoHPE Helion == Suite of cloud products HPE Helion Stackato == Cloud Foundry There has been some branding changes, but things are settling down. Afaik Stackato is not too much of a fork anymore - but we have always had a single CF distros.
- jacques_chester 10y agoThanks. Branding is hard.
- mfer 10y agoAccording to the info graphic on the HPE website this includes things like IDOL and AppPulse. You can see more at https://www.hpe.com/us/en/newsroom/news-archive/featured-article/2016/09/INFOGRAPHIC-HPEs-Spin-Merge-of-Non-Core-Software-Assets-with-Micro-Focus.html https://www.hpe.com/us/en/newsroom/news-archive/featured-art...
- nowbacktowork 10y agoEucalyptus is one example that is getting spun off.
- mugsie 10y agoAre you sure? I thought that was going with the Enterprise Services spin off merger.
- nowbacktowork 10y agoRight, that is being spun off and no longer with HPE. Figured the example being sought was software that will no longer be with HPE and not just this specific spin off.
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- hodwik 10y agoAny idea where HP TRIM, HP Records Manager, Autonomy, Autonomy IDOL & Autonomy Records Manager/CA are landing?
- drondin 10y agoDon't know about TRIM but all the others seem to go to the merge with Micro Focus
- TenOhms 10y agoWhere is ArcSight going to end up?
- ScottBurson 10y agoIt appears that all of the Enterprise Security Products division, including ArcSight, Fortify, Voltage, and Atalla, are being spun out.