HPE Is Betting That Cloud Computing Still Requires Help From IT
Tarek Robbiati, the company’s CFO, says data still needs to be gathered, analyzed, and processed before heading to the internet, highlighting the need for firms like his.
Cloud computing—storing data, software, and even business functions on the internet—has been taking over tech. But Tarek Robbiati, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.’s chief financial officer, says companies will still need IT services firms.
HPE has been aggressively moving beyond hardware to a services model. How has that changed the company?
It’s a fundamental business model change. Customers no longer want to be managing their IT infrastructure. And our service solutions are there to create a transparent relationship between them and the infrastructure. They don’t care about where the infrastructure is; they just want the outcome the infrastructure can deliver.